Sentences with phrase «national gains over»

Falling in line with short term trends, the West made the largest contribution to national gains over the last year, posting annual price advances of 4.1 percent.

Not exact matches

The issue of mandatory arbitration for harassment cases gained national attention last year when former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson sued network president Roger Ailes over alleged sexual misconduct.

Gas prices at the pump skyrocket, with the national average rising 7 cents per gallon, and more gains expected over the Labor Day weekend.

While that does signal a cooling trend, it's still higher than the company's national outlook (for a 2.6 % price gain over the next 12 months).

His focus now is on ensuring National provides a strong Opposition that holds the Government to account and ensures the gains made by hardworking New Zealanders over the past few years are not frittered away.

Healthcare hiring rebounded in April with 19,500 jobs added to the industry, a big lift over March in concert with a solid national jobs gain for the month.The healthcare industry again was among the top national jobs generators in a month that saw the U.S. economy create 211,000 jobs.That drove the national unemployment rate to a 10 - year low of 4.4 %, a figure that represents full employment.

Imagine if Jesus was in our world right now and he headed right over to someone who cooperated with and benefitted from oppression, someone who had traded integrity for political power, someone we distrust, someone who we feel is dangerous, someone who stole from people in a socially acceptable and governmentally blessed way, someone who took the very religious or national identity that we cherished and basically stomped all over it for his own gain.

We feel this is an amazing and cost effective event that will allow companies the opportunity to introduce and sell products to attendees over the course of the weekend plus gain national recognition.

With over 25 years working in the coffee industry, Anne has gained extensive experience in many areas of the coffee industry as barista, café owner / manager, national barista trainer & assessor, head roaster & roasting production manager at both a national & international level.

apping off perhaps the worst week of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, a new wave of national polls show Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton gaining a significantly wider lead over her Republican rival.

The moderate Republican gained national attention this year when he became the only GOP member of Congress to publicly say he would vote for Hillary Clinton for president over Donald Trump.

Party insiders have questioned the flagbearer Nana Akufo - Addo over what good he has gained from the illegal suspension of the party's National Chairman Paul Afoko.

The controversy over the seal has gained national attention for the small upstate New York village and some unwanted ridicule from outlets like Comedy Central's The Daily Show in the process.

The lawyer said, «Over the years, successive governments have sold off some of the national heritage in the name of privatisation by alleging that same will bring more economic gain to the nation, however the reverse has been the case.

This work can build on the experience of the 2010 target seats campaign, which delivered a net gain of 23 Tory seats over and above what would have been achieved with a uniform national swing.

President Mahama and the National Democratic Congress had earlier rubbished claims by the opposition NPP that they are in a commanding lead gaining over 54 percent votes in the polls held on December 7, 2016 though the EC was yet to make a declaration.

Establishment GOP candidates across the country backed by the National Republican Senatorial Committee are struggling to gain grassroots traction over their primary challengers, with conservative darlings like Marco Rubio surging.

«The lifesaving gains made through national investment in acute cardiovascular care over more than a decade now need to be complemented by a modern and integrated approach to cardiovascular prevention,» they conclude.

Bethesda, Md., Thurs., Sept. 29, 2011 — Over the next five years, National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded researchers will extensively test and generate data about mice with disrupted genes to gain clues about human diseases.

After growing her business and gaining recognition in national publications such as Professional Photographers Magazine, The Knot, Southern Living Weddings, Southern Weddings and Eco Weddings, she began teaching and coaching photographers from all over the country and internationally.

The National Literacy Trust has also been commissioned by Oxfordshire County Council to work with a cluster of secondary schools over two years, as the «Oxfordshire Gaining Momentum Campaign».

Moreover, DCPS students show impressive gains over the last decade, not only on district tests but also on National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math assessments.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — An analysis of a new report by a committee of the National Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 tNational Research Council (NRC), the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 tNational Academy of Sciences, shows that average student gains from the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) test - based accountability measures would yield, over the next 80 years, a national economic benefit of approximately $ 14 tnational economic benefit of approximately $ 14 trillion.

If one calculates these percentage increases as national income projections over an 80 - year period (providing for a 20 - year delay before any school reform is completed and the newly proficient students begin their working careers), a back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests gains of nothing less than $ 75 trillion over the period.

Over the course of this grant, FOI: (1) is producing professional development materials to help staff representing multiple state agencies better understand the basic science of child development generally and the promotion of executive function and self - regulation skills more specifically; (2) is supporting the creation of small learning communities, building on existing relationships at the site and policy level and connecting to other learning communities across North America; (3) is supporting the Washington cross-agency working group to sustain its current gains and momentum during the upcoming executive branch transition in January and to share lessons learned with the broader national FOI community of states and Canadian provinces; and (4) is beginning conversations with stakeholders at the community level to explore mutual interests and is beginning to chart a path toward enhanced collaboration within the state.

Only 48.6 percent of New York City students read above the national average, but students have made gains over the past decade, according to standardized test scores.

The stars of the film are Geoffrey Canada, the CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, which provides a broad variety of social services to families and children and runs two charter schools; Michelle Rhee, chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public school system, who closed schools, fired teachers and principals, and gained a national reputation for her tough policies; David Levin and Michael Feinberg, who have built a network of nearly one hundred high - performing KIPP charter schools over the past sixteen years; and Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, who is cast in the role of chief villain.

Assemblywoman Polly Williams, the Wisconsin lawmaker who gained national prominence for her sponsorship of Milwaukee's school - choice program, is engaged in a bruising political battle over legislative redistricting.

But perhaps the strongest objection to national standards that we have repeated at JPGB (here, here, and here) is that even if the current set of proposed national standards is an improvement for some states (and less good than others), there is strong reason to fear that people opposed to sensible, rigorous standards will gain control over the newly created national standards infrastructure and be in a position to impose their nonsense on everyone.

If implemented faithfully (a big if), I predict we'll see significant gains on national and international exams (at least in math and literacy) and, over time, a decline in the number of students in remedial education at college.

Over time they will gain control of the machinery of national standards even if they do not control it now.

Over the past two decades, gains of 1.6 percent of a standard deviation have been garnered annually by 4th - and 8th - grade students on the math, science, and reading tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card.

Only students who read 15 minutes or more a day saw accelerated reading gains — that is, gains higher than the national average — and students who read just over a half - hour to an hour per day saw the greatest gains of all.

According to NAEP results, released by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale National Center for Education Statistics, Alabama is one of four states to show significant gains in fourth - grade reading, and over the past eight years has shown a greater increase in scale than any other state, moving from 207 in 2003 to the national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale national average of 220 on a 500 - point scale in 2011.

In the second year of implementation — the 2013 - 2014 academic year — gains among TTO students were almost 47 % above national norms (effect size = 0.35 SD), a sizable improvement over the first implementation year.»

Over the coming years, NESLI will enable educational leaders to benefit from world standard leadership development and gain access to an exclusive national network of school leaders.

BPS has gained a national reputation for its ability to make continuous improvements and to sustain a focused reform effort over time.

Summary: As national conversations over race and discipline gain steam, schools have a variety of choices.

«It will be the largest piece of legislation regarding education that has passed in over a decade,» said Erin Tuttle, an Indiana mom who has gained national attention for fighting Common Core standards and has established herself as an effective advocate on the matter.

Voucher and charter schools have gained steady traction as alternatives to traditional public schools over the last two decades, on both the state and national level.

Research from across the country confirms that students taught by nationally certified teachers gain one to two months of instruction over students taught by those who do not have national certification.

With the likelihood that the Clinton acolytes currently in control of the Democratic National Committee will lose control in the coming months, and the battle to come between centrists and progressives over the future of the party, NEA and AFT are poorly positioned to gain a stronger role within in.

But many states consistently at the bottom of score rankings also show gains in performance over time at rates higher than national averages.

Despite confusion over how much New York students are improving, New York City's small gains in proficiency (almost 5 percentage points in math and 1 percentage point in reading) appear to be real progress, experts say, because they mirror similar improvements on national tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEnational tests (specifically the Trial Urban District Assessment portion of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAENational Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)-RRB-.

A national evaluation found that over 40 percent of students attending 21st Century Community Learning Center programs improved their reading and math grades, and that those who attended more regularly were more likely to make gains (Naftzger et.

Over the past 5 years, the district has lost 216 white students, but gained 37 black students, 117 Hispanic students, and 9 Asian students (National Center for Education Statistics, 2016).

Green also adds that Rhee «remains embroiled in controversy over test score gains under her leadership, even as StudentsFirst, the national group she founded two years ago, plays an increasingly prominent role around the country.»

That trend was confirmed by the latest Teranet - national Bank composite house index, which showed overall prices increasing 0.8 per cent in May over April, with gains in Hamilton, Ont., Quebec City and Toronto, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and Halifax.

New regulations included federal measures to tighten mortgage insurance rules, expand stress tests, and improve tax fairness around capital gains exemptions as well as changes to the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation's securitization programs; B.C.'s new 15 % land transfer tax on foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver and introduction of the Home Owner Mortgage and Equity program to provide interest - free loans to first - time buyers, along with Vancouver's introduction of a tax on vacant homes; and Ontario's doubling of the land - transfer tax rebate for first - time buyers, combined with a tax increase on homes over $ 2,000,000.

Home sales figures improved in 2012 by 9.5 percent over 2011, and the National Association of Realtors expects further gains for the rest of 2013, heading into 2014.