Sentences with phrase «narrowing the gap before»

Thirdly, if we can narrow the gap before the game against Barcelona, it will put the pressure back on to Vilanova's men.

«I think a proper focus on narrowing the gap before [age] five will have a real impact on social mobility,» she said.

Not exact matches

The gap between Bradley Chubb and Harold Landry was already smalled than most people thought it was before the Combine — afterward, it's only narrowed.

However, the journey appears to have had many more twists and turns than anticipated following a damaging 2 - 1 «El Clasico» defeat at the hands of Real Madrid which closed the gap at the top, before Real Sociedad heaped more misery taking all three points in a narrow 1 - 0 victory in April.

If the Labour leader has a single task to achieve before the next election, he must to narrow the gap with David Cameron on who the voters prefer as prime minister.

An eight - point gap, narrowing to a six - point gap, narrowing to a four - point gap just hours before the only poll that counts gets underway.

Liberal groups hoping to narrow the «enthusiasm gap» with the Tea Party and other conservative organizations before Election Day are mobilizing for a big rally in Washington D.C. on Saturday.

That sampling rate was fast enough to discern that there were two flickers before and after the main occultation, or blockage of light — evidence of two dense, narrow rings with a small but distinct gap between them.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

A new study from the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University is just the latest to suggest that preschool, when it's high - quality, can narrow achievement gaps before they grow too wide.

Expanding access to high - quality preschool within the reauthorization of ESEA will narrow achievement gaps, and reflect the real, scientific understanding that learning begins long before a child enters kindergarten.»

Hanna Skandera, New Mexico's secretary - designate of education, said federal officials wanted more information about the state's plans to help schools implement the Common Core State Standards and narrow achievement gaps before providing the NCLB waiver.

Given this, the fact that during the 90s the gap in achievement measured by NAEP increased only slightly in math and increased in reading but began to narrow again BEFORE NCLB should be celebrated as an achievement of hard working schools facing deteriorating conditions within their communities.

And while the gap in scores between white and black students has narrowed, Koretz says that much of that progress started — and ended — before test - based accountability became widespread.

When another driver suddenly jumped into the narrow gap in front of me, the CT6 braked strongly but smoothly, keeping me a safe distance behind before accelerating back up to speed (for now, Super Cruise is just a tad slow on regaining the throttle, so other drivers are quick to pounce in front before you're back to cruising speed — but it's a minor issue).

Lately we've seen more first & business class fare sales than ever before, as the airlines largely narrow the gap between discounted premium fares and economy fares.

With the latest (and second - to - last) round of negotiations before COP15 just finished in Bangkok, the gap between rich and poor nations on each other's responsibilities, by many accounts, has not narrowed.

The paper is titled Teaching a lay theory before college narrows achievement gaps at scale and isn't behind a paywall.

Background Higher quality childcare in the years before school may help narrow developmental gaps between the richest and poorest children in our societies, but specific evidence is limited and inconsistent.

Thank you for your June 1st blog post that highlighted a research paper that I co-authored with Stanford professor Greg Walton and several other researchers titled, Teaching a Lay Theory Before College Narrows Achievement Gaps at Scale, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).