Sentences with phrase «other advanced countries»

Students here and in other advanced countries must move up the value chain and lead a new era of global cooperation as twenty - first - century learners.
That's the sort of policy that other advanced countries take for granted, and that help to explain their superior student performance.
The commercial bar of China looks like that of other advanced countries, with large multi-office partnerships engaged in sophisticated transactions (although the numbers are surprisingly small — it is estimated that there are about 350,000 lawyers in China, which has a population of 1.4 billion, compared to about 120,000 lawyers in Canada).
People from other advanced countries like Canada, Australia, UK, Italy and other major countries in Asia are joining with such websites in order to meet their life partner or to engage in a dating relationship casually.
Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — high quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.
Our country is woefully behind other advanced countries in supporting parents through parental leave both financially and emotionally.
How Japan got into this bind is a story other advanced countries (like Canada) should study as they run large deficits to stimulate their economies.
He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.
On matters of transparency, Beijing's handling of the tragic sinking of a cruise ship on the Yangtze River shows how far it still has to go to catch up with other advanced countries.
«Tucker and his colleagues challenge us to ask why the U.S. is pursuing a reform agenda that differs markedly from what other advanced countries have found essential for creating good schools — hig quality teachers, fair funding, and coherence in the system of education.
In the early 1980s, this anxiety was fueled by reports like A Nation at Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform, by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which argued that the U.S. educational system was eroding and the nation was falling behind other advanced countries.
As it is, Americans pay vastly more for health insurance than citizens of all other advanced countries in exchange for inferior results.
Now, other advanced countries, the U.S. especially, are readying to sustain the next cycle to repair its aging and uncompetitive infrastructure.
'' We need to encourage our people to go into science and technology so that we have entrepreneurs like they do in other advanced country.
It became increasingly important to me to foster these ideas, so it was frustrating to learn that my dream of combining work in clinical medicine and bioethics was not supported by the German system of academic medicine — in contrast to the Anglo - American system and that in other advanced countries.
Only 22.5 % of all full - time faculty positions at the nation's universities were held by women in 2014, a rate far below that in other advanced countries.
If these overall estimates are reliable they indicate that the total annual health costs in this country are more than $ 2 trillion, $ 1 trillion higher than the cost for a comparable number of people in other advanced countries.
Other advanced countries are also seeing a decline in marriage, suggesting the trend has little to do with policies specific to the U.S. And opportunities for women that enable them to support themselves and establish identities separate from those of wife and mother are still increasing.
Elementary teachers in the United States spend more time with their students than do teachers in 18 other advanced countries, the study found.
The U.S. economy is growing at a faster rate than other advanced countries, and with interest rates set to rise, global investors are likely to return to the U.S., which will further inflate demand for the dollar.
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