Sentences with phrase «number of other countries»

While the United States has been fiddling with the implementation of poorly designed accountability systems constructed in anger at our teachers, a large and swiftly growing number of other countries have succeeded in redesigning their education systems to greatly improve student achievement, provide much more equity for vulnerable students and do all this at much lower cost.

For external recognition Taiwan would need to formally recognized (with an exchange of ambassadors) by a large number of other countries.

In the case of the U.S. dollar, it's because dollars are accepted for goods and services produced in the U.S., are accepted and preferred in a great number of other countries, and because U.S. taxes are paid exclusively in dollars.

«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student,» says Marc.

In a comparison of secondary - school completion rates in 1999, the United States trailed a large number of other countries and fell just slightly below the OECD average completion rate.

The Google Doodle depicting the actress is available Sunday for users in the United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Argentina, Peru, Colombia and a number of other countries.

KnowRoaming also offers service in other a number of other countries, although I haven't had a chance to test that yet.

Google is putting more effort into its online store of late with several expansions, including a move into Canada with its music portion plus a deal with PayPal across a number of other countries.

Nationalities were awarded points based on the number of other countries their citizens could travel to without a visa, as of January 1.

BlackBerry fans don't have much longer to wait now — the Q10 is officially launching in Canada and a number of other countries on May 1, with the U.S. release coming just a few weeks later.

Sweden certainly seems to be in the lead when it comes to cashlessness, but a number of other countries are seeing similar trends.

Putting all this together, the Australian corporate bond market is relatively small in size and is less well developed than corporate bond markets in a number of other countries.

It is true that the improvements in the US economic outlook are smaller than those in Europe and in a number of other countries.

With the US military reaching out to establish a better military - to - military dialogue with China, for example by including China in the well - established semi-annual RIMPAC naval exercises (in which Canada and a number of other countries also participate), Canada's initiatives should have a positive impact on US - China military relations.

As in a number of other countries, bond issuance in Australia in recent years has shifted away from the public sector toward the private sector.

However, the strength of the Australian banking system relative to those in a number of other countries, particularly the US, and the strength of the domestic economy more generally, has meant that the impact of the global turmoil has been relatively muted.

Debt - to - asset ratios are generally preferable (and are used when examining a corporate balance sheet), and on this metric, Australian debt levels are broadly similar to a number of other countries (Graph 10).

Although downward sloping yield curves have dominated the landscape in Australia in the deregulated era, positive sloped yield curves have been the norm in a number of other countries, particularly those with relatively low inflation (see table).

Like a number of other countries, Australia has benefited from the rapid growth in China's trade, with its merchandise exports to China more than doubling over the past four years.

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.

ISEWs have been prepared for a number of other countries with similar results.

In a number of other countries, there are «approved name» lists — it's entirely normal.

England are, of course, not the only national side with players in the Premier League, and a number of other countries will benefit as well.

A number of other countries offer extended maternity care because they know that's what's BEST for the baby and it is not possible for MOST families today to live on one salary!

There are a number of other countries which have stopped short of allowing gay marriage but have introduced civil unions or registered partnerships for same - sex couples.

Ignoring them would encourage a number of other countries to start a nuclear military industry.

The OECD has argued for the introduction of a property tax in the UK (as well as in a number of other countries) to lessen the attractiveness of housing as an investment and discourage people from leaving properties empty.

This is more important in the diplomatic aspect as countries need to be recognised by a number of other countries in order to be a member of the United Nations.

Hundreds of similar events occurred simultaneously in other state, and a number of other countries.

On board is a product of earlier collaboration between the United States, China and a number of other countries — the AMS.

«We've received inquiries from a number of other countries,» Novotny says.

After a number of other countries have done likewise, the agreement will «take force.»

Through comparisons with a number of other countries, though, independent researcher Daniel Goodkind suggests that the number may, in fact, have merit.

It has since grown to 21 members, plus a number of other countries and organizations, many of them non-European.

The data suggests that the age at which we begin cervical screening in the United States might be raised soon to age 25 as is already done in a number of other countries.

But a number of other countries, including Great Britain, objected to the ban on research cloning and wanted to suspend all debate on cloning until 2005.

Although the workhouse system in Britain became the most well developed of any in the world, a number of other countries had New York Visitors Network is a guide for tourism, travel, campgrounds, lodging, attractions and more, organized by topic, region, towns, counties and

«The Office» (Netflix, Hulu) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's original version of the mockumentary series «The Office» ran for just two seasons, but the show has since been adapted in a number of other countries, including a long - running and hugely successful NBC adaptation starring Steve Carell.

These declines are occurring at a time when literacy levels in a number of other countries are improving and when Australia requires a more literate citizenry.

We can not paper over the fact that a large number of other countries have shown that it is possible to develop considerably higher skills in their youth than we are doing

At the same time, performances in a number of other countries have improved.

A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with much more equity, and they are doing it at a lower cost per student.

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«A growing number of other countries are turning out entire high school graduating classes that are much better educated than ours, with...

Over the past decade, we have reviewed the content standards from states throughout the United States and from educational agencies in a number of other countries.

It was published in Britain, France, Italy, Poland, Australia and a number of other countries.

They represent authors in the U.S. as well as Canada and a number of other countries.

Today, if I lived in Russia, Indonesia, Japan or any number of other countries, I could have a commercial service scan my books for me.