Sentences with phrase «on measures like»

And in fact, what distinguishes Singapore and Finland (generally considered to be the best countries on measures like the PISA and the TIMSS) are the Professionalization of Teachers, and the Egalitarian nature of the system (that is, great efforts are made to insure education of equal quality across the whole student population).

What has happened in Gadsden shows how the push to rank schools based on measures like graduation rates — codified by the No Child Left Behind Act and still very much a fact of life in American public education — has transformed the country's approach to secondary education, as scores of districts have outsourced core instruction to computers and downgraded the role of the traditional teacher.

On measures like poverty, access to health care, homelessness, teenage pregnancy, and nutrition, the condition of America's children differs little from that of a third - world country.

On Wednesday, the Democrat - led Assembly aligned itself with Cuomo, a second - term Democrat, on measures like voting and campaign finance reform, while separating on other items related to transparency and budget control.

It turns out that he is still right, and the effect of being right is that equities are far more overvalued than may be evident even on measures like the Shiller CAPE (see An Open Letter to the FOMC: Recognizing the Valuation Bubble in Equities).

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I didn't think that much about downside risk, examine all the ways I could fail, or create a Plan B. Now, I understand it wasn't naivety, it was creative confidence, the reassuring knowledge that even if I don't know what the end - solution looks like from day one, I have the agility to test, measure, learn, and adjust on the fly.

The rising trend for taxes on sweetened drinks has prompted beverage industry giants like PepsiCo and Coca - Cola to spend billions of dollars on advertising and lobbying campaigns against the measures.

With free analytics tracking tools like Google Analytics and URL Builder making it relatively easy, fast and efficient to measure social media ROI on your own, there really isn't a need to outsource the task, Kelly says.

They do not include statutory measures such as the two provisions Trump said he would consider, or others like the inability of insurers to place lifetime limits on plans.

Coaches are a lot like entrepreneurs: both are in the business of talent acquisition, performance is measured on a scoreboard every quarter and job security is contingent on the ability to deliver great results.

We measure the impact social media has on e-commerce by looking at metrics such as conversion rates, average order value, and revenue generated by shares, likes, and tweets.

In addition, much like their product packaging — pink bubble wrap adorned with emoji - like stickers — Glossier stores are perfect fodder for Instagram and Snapchat (which the startup routinely mines, so its data analytics tools can measure how popular each product is on social media.

Nevertheless, while British union workers and students took to the streets to express anger over jobs reductions and tuition hikes, the general reaction to Osborne's measures was nothing like what has been taking place on the Continent.

When you measure the success of your MVP, focusing on generic vanity metrics (things like time on site, conversion rate, revenue per user, etc.) will get you nowhere.

But with services like Google AdWords, now you can apply a tiny budget — measured in dollars, not thousands of dollars — for online ads you create yourself, buy on a pay - as - you - go basis and continually tweak based on response rates.

Responding to public outrage, the government has recently introduced a series of measures like making public the level of air pollution in Beijing and also plans to impose emission restrictions on the steel, coal and petrochemicals industries, among others.

Of course, it is best to measure on - platform metrics like follower growth, engagement and distribution.

That information — augmented by advocacy efforts from such Addyi supporters as the National Organization for Women and National Consumers League — turned the tide, and the FDA's joint meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee voted 18 to 6 to support approval for HSDD treatment, contingent on Sprout consenting to risk - mitigation measures like warnings and restrictions to prevent misuse.

And because Lululemon doesn't rely on wholesale partners, it has avoided the channel conflict and third - party discounting issues being experienced by large brands like Nike, Coach and Michael Kors — all of which are taking aggressive corrective measures.

Gold bugs like Sprott have long warned about the impact of inflation, central bank policy measures and government spending on the value of fiat national currencies.

When you put on a pair of smart glasses, like what Magic Leap is proposing, you're handing over a certain measure of control of your senses to a computer.

The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.

The White House report on the epidemic says that 142 Americans die of drug overdoses every day, and urges measures like federal legislation that would boost widespread adoption of naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote.

«Measure your impact on humanity not in likes but in the lives you touch, not in popularity but the people you serve,» Cook said during his commencement speech.

Investors in the PFC will now prepare to negotiate a restructuring plan — they will likely push for the government to take on austerity measures like cutting costs and raising taxes.

Before hiring a PR firm, you need to know how it will measure success, says Joan Stewart, founder of the Publicity Hound, a publicity firm in Port Washington, Wis. «Likes» on your Facebook page and print media placements are common metrics for success in the PR business.

In the past, his team has relied on organic measures like referrals (the company amassed 200,000 - plus Facebook fans mostly by word of mouth), but it has tried more targeted efforts recently, including a small campaign using Yahoo's native ads platform.

Yet it is impossible to even guess with authority about where this headed because few before have seen a politician like Tsipras, who led his Syriza party to victory in January on a promise to undo all the austerity measures that had been implemented since Greece's profligacy caught up with it in 2010.

Most media organizations, she said, don't really listen to readers but instead «watch and analyze them, like fish in a bowl... measuring how many millions of unique users clicked on content last month, or watched a video, or came to the site.»

The official poverty measure is based on Census money income, which includes cash assistance but does not count non-cash assistance like SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) and rental vouchers.

Nationally, the American Hotel and Lodging Association has opposed the panic button measure, calling it a «fig leaf» for other regulations unions want to push, like higher minimum wages and caps on workloads.

The President - elect bashed Big Pharma, and failed to provide clarity on the details or timing of policies like infrastructure spending, tax reform and other measures dear to traders» hearts.

Nationally, the American Hotel and Lodging Association has opposed the panic button measure, calling it a «fig leaf» for other regulations unions want to push, like higher minimum wages and caps on workloads, according to documents acquired by HuffPost.

Anti-trade measures could put pressures on EM assets, particularly in places like Mexico that are considerably exposed to U.S. trade.

It's a powerful tool for measuring performance on pervious posts with stats on: reactions, link clicks, shares, likes on shares, page unlikes, hide posts, and much more.

Accountability should be judged on tangible industrial measures like start - up tech company survival rates after three and five years, number of new products and services brought to market annually by companies that IRAP supported, and overall ROI after three or five years.

Providence's investment comes on the heels of Oracle's acquisition of Moat, a digital measurement company known for its role as an independent third party hired to measure ads across platforms like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat.

But no decisions have been made on those measures or even more aggressive steps, like sending C.I.A. officers into Syria itself, they said.

A person familiar with the company's finances says Birchbox has been profitable on an Ebitda basis — a measure of operating profit that excludes items like interest and taxes — in 2017.

In the summer of 2017, a person familiar with the company's finances told Recode that Birchbox was profitable on an Ebitda basis — a measure of operating profit that excludes items like taxes.

In other words, quality content is now measured in part by how often it's liked and shared on social media.

Using a combination of tools, like a marketing - automation platform and an Instagram analytics tool, marketers can measure the impact Instagram has on generating new leads and on nurturing existing leads down the marketing funnel.

1) Coaching on Content Marketing: Focused on teaching you the fundamentals of storytelling as a discipline or a specific aspect of content marketing like content syndication, blogging, measuring the success of content and more.

Zuckerberg mentioned the use of cookies to measure ads and for security purposes but avoided providing detail about the company's pervasive use of plugins on third - party sites (such as the Like button), ad pixels, and programs like offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the interLike button), ad pixels, and programs like offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the interlike offline conversion (businesses uploading to Facebook offline information about customers) to track and target users wherever they are on the internet.

The system processes 500,000,000 data points each day on indoor environmental quality, including comfort measures of temperature, humidity, noise, and light, and air pollutants like carbon dioxide and particulate matter.

Physical pleasure is fleeting, but even a lifetime of cheesecakes and other pleasures don't measure up to the long - term, rich and complex emotional reward of something I work for, like muscle definition on my abs, or being able to swim across the Hudson River on a whim, or to come in second in a footrace for the fun of it.

(Peter Surda): you can not design a synthetic commodity whose supply mirrors macroeconomic aggregates, because these aggregate variables are exogenous to the network (whereas the hashing parameter of networks like Bitcoin only depends on time and the number of blocks in the blockchain, which from a perspective of the network are endogenous), so they can not be unambigiously measured.

Your FICO score, which is used by credit reporting agencies like Equifax to measure consumer risk, puts the most weight on a borrower's payment history.

That alternative, which Market Monetarists like David Beckworth, Lars Christensen, and Scott Sumner have been pushing ever since the Great Recession started, is for the FOMC to keep its collective eye, not on the inflation rate, but on the level and growth rate of nominal GNP — a measure of the flow of spending on goods and services in the economy.

Lawmakers like Representative Carlos Guillermo Smith, a Democrat from Orlando, voted against the bill because it did not include a ban on assault weapons or other broad measures sought by survivors of all the shootings.