Sentences with phrase «on broader improvements»

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Another improvement on the Nimitz design, the AAG on the Ford class will help accommodate a broader range of aircraft and offer a less jarring landing than the Navy's current Mk - 7 Mod 3 and Mk - 7 Mod 4 designs.

I had a chance to sit down with Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt for a lengthy chat on Thursday, wherein we covered some upcoming improvements to the service — which I'm not allowed to talk about just yet — but also a range of broader topics, from the future of television to the fate of HBO, which I am able to write about.

While not all improvements on a property require a permit, such as painting, replacing light fixtures or adding window coverings etc., permit activity is a broad indicator of whether investors are improving properties or merely holding out for price gains.

That leaves us dependent on an improvement in broader trend conditions.

A broad improvement in market internals on our measures would not relieve the obscene overvaluation of the equity market, but it would suggest a return to speculative investor preferences and would reduce the immediacy of our downside concerns.

Through a new Education Center, Museum renovations, and campus improvements, the Campaign for the Concord Museum builds on the Museum's strengths to engage new and broader audiences with Concord's history.

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

Since the overall cohort and each tested subgroup were on average quite large, these schools could only escape a Low - Performing rating through broad improvement in test performance.

Within the classroom, this can lead to improvements in behaviour, communication skills and academic performance, whilst on a broader level, it also helps to establish a solid foundation for good psychological health and wellbeing in later life.

Of course, we used improvements on NAPLAN scores compared to all schools and compared to similar schools but we also had access to other evidence where schools had a broad range of goals and we asked schools for evidence that those goals had been achieved.

He suggests that schools can have only a limited influence on closing the achievement gap between students who live in poverty and their more affluent peers unless school improvement is combined with broader social and economic reforms.

TNTP also reviewed the broader research literature and commented on findings from the most rigorous studies that had been done by the Institute of Education Sciences: «teachers who received the best of the best [professional development] were no more likely to see large, lasting improvements in their practice, knowledge, or student learning.

My Hamilton Project proposal explains how ESSA's new SNS language has the potential to unlock Title I funds for struggling students, allowing districts to spend Title I on broader school improvement strategies — such as improving a school's core curriculum, or implementing common planning time for teachers — rather than working around the edges.

Flexibility, Transparency While many of the comments focused on the broader school improvement issues entangled in the Race to the Top program, common themes on some of the finer points of the criteria emerged, too.

Posted on October 22, 2012 · HISD is a finalist for the broad prize — an award for overall performance and improvements in urban school districts.

After four months, students» conversations, class participation, time on - task, and even whole - group discussions showed significant improvement and broader language use.

An A-G task force also produced a comprehensive report in the fall that calls on detailed and wide - ranging improvements the district needs to make to improve A-G completion, but much of it is also broader and long - term without much immediate help for the class of 2016.

Fiske and Ladd argue that North Carolina's letter grades fail to account for the impact that poverty has on academic achievement, and that wrap - around services, like summer enrichment programs and health clinics, are critical to seeing broad - scale improvement in students» learning gains.

Re: the US News article on top about ESSA: Chairwoman Foxx is right about the role of the federal government in America's K - 12 education system; and families can continue to pressure educrats like Mr Botel by opting out, wherever and whenever possible, from their local state schools until the federal government gives up on the continuing mistake of its annual testing requirement in two subjects only, which has produced no significant improvement in American education for 15 years now, but has cost us in lost opportunities, including time and energy that might have been devoted to non-tested subjects, including those in the broader curricula represented by the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme, which requires assessment — including but not limited to external final exams — in six subjects distributed over at least five fields, an assessment approach that has been imitated by the world's leading educational jurisdictions, but is being discouraged by the ignorant Luddites in the the U.S. ED.

Such behavior in the realm of absence hardly sounds conducive to school improvement, and it underscores broader concern with trust in the research literature on school improvement and in practical matters such as states» applications for competitive federal grants under the Race to the Top program.

The report suggests that when districts commit to their partnerships through a shared vision, agree on a broad agenda to orient goals, develop structures that support relationship - building, generate access to external resources, and contain internal and external feedback loops, they can engage in a productive process of continuous improvement.

Our consultants began by presenting workshops on teamwork and continuous improvement, pointing out that broad - based worker participation in decision making is part of a new global trend toward collaboration.

They draw on the expertise and vision of teacher educators, employers of teachers, those in the teaching profession, in schools and early childhood settings and the broader education community, and embody the ongoing sector - wide commitment to driving improvement in teacher education.

Broad Ripple is in the unique position of having more than 73 percent of its students pass the English 10 and Algebra 1 ECAs, yet still be labeled on probation because the percentage of improvement was 2 percent versus the mandated 3 percent.

The high school gains reflected broader improvements in kindergarten - through - 12th - grade achievement this year on the Academic Performance Index.

Further, charter schooling may produce improvements in the broader education system by creating an environment where schools must compete for students; to attract students, schools must maintain a high level of quality.2 And though results vary among schools, states, and student subgroups, on average charter schools achieve positive results relative to traditional public schools, particularly with traditionally underserved student groups.

Eligible students also experienced an increase in their rate of on - time high school graduation, but falsification tests show that this result is not due to the program, but rather due to broader secular improvement in graduation rates for disadvantaged youth.

DOT is also working on a broader effort to educate and engage project sponsors on the innovative financing tools available to them, including TIFIA, but also Private Activity Bonds, and the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement program (RRIF).

There are no flat spots in the engine's torque curve and the clutch has a broad take - up band that's not too high above the floor... again, an improvement on the older car.

The Chase Freedom ® has a broader array of opportunities for 5 % cash back, including Starbucks, movie theaters, home improvement stores, etc., along a seasonal theme and depending on the quarter.

The Chase Freedom ® has a broader array of opportunities for 5 % cash back, including Starbucks, movie theaters, home improvement stores, etc., along a seasonal theme and depending on the quarter.

We're looking for continuous improvement, which in practice means we tend to have more generalists rather than specialists in teams, as handovers often waste time, so our designers have a broad understanding of the whole process and hands - on working relationships with other disciplines.

MarketingSherpa speculates that the reason for broader testing is that «tweaking» elements based on testing can produce dramatic improvements in campaign results and has proven to be well worth the time and effort required.

According to Michael Bryant, Co-Founder and CEO of nSource, «With a focus on driving more profits to the bottom line and the need to streamline efforts to focus on delivering the highest levels of service to clients, law firms have historically studied their back / middle office operations for one of two reasons: 1) As part of a broad - based cost savings / optimization effort or 2) Attorney - driven demand for service improvement due to dissatisfaction with quality, availability of services.

Click here to get started on the Driving University Broad Run Virginia driver improvement program.

She works with a broad cross-section of partners at the state and national level focused on the development and implementation of quality rating and improvement systems (QRIS).

In the light of broader human rights principles, the report assesses the outcomes of government policies, including the focus on improvements in targeted areas including health and housing reform.

A Hedge g effect size estimate was used in the power analysis because it includes a correction for sample size and is therefore more appropriate to use with small samples.26 The interpretation of g is similar to the interpretation of the Cohen d: 0.80 or greater is considered large, 0.50 to 0.79 is considered medium, and 0.20 to 0.49 is considered small.27 A minimum effect size of g = 1.0 was expected based on prior uncontrolled studies of CBCT and the broader psychotherapy research for PTSD.28 An effect size of g = 1.0 represents an approximately 25 - point improvement in total CAPS scores.

To make these engaging, age - appropriate programs a reality, each of the states relies on common overarching strategies: establishing standards for quality and systems that incentivize improvement; investing in knowledgeable and skilled educators; coordinating and aligning early education programs; seeking sufficient funding sources and mechanisms; and building broad - based support for their programs.

By supporting continuous program improvement efforts, focusing on teacher training, coordinating the administration of early education programs, creatively combining funding sources, and building a broad - based coalition of support, these four states are advancing high - quality early education opportunities for their youngest citizens.

However, improvements in child mental health are likely to have broad societal (health and non-health related) and long - lasting impacts on the child, including reducing the risk of poor physical health, problems with substance abuse, suicide or other mental health risks, involvement in crime.1 2 29 39 42 43

New products based on this operating system offer real estate professionals such improvements as a simplified user interface for easier navigation through applications; enhanced password - protected security features; broader support for wireless networking standards such as 802.11 B for LANs and Bluetooth; support for wireless web access and instant messaging; wireless data and schedule synchronization the field.

«NAR remains concerned that the overall structure of the tax reform bill poses problems for homeowners and the broader housing market, but the conference committee has made some important improvements to the House and Senate legislation outlined below that ultimately will benefit some homeowners and communities,» according to NAR in a statement on its Tax Reform page.

The First Quarter 2012 assessments show that the largest servicers continue to demonstrate broad improvement in implementation of the Making Home Affordable Program, and have focused attention on remediating past areas of need identified by Treasury through ongoing program reviews.

«The broad affordability picture has been somewhat stationary over the last two years, alternating between periods of improvement and deterioration, resulting in an affordability trend that is, on net, essentially flat,» RBC chief economist Craig Wright said in a statement.

«That, in turn, has an impact on the broader economy, because housing construction impacts a lot of segments such as banking, construction workers, home - improvement businesses and more.»