Sentences with phrase «pace of improvement»

Yet the overall pace of improvement has been slow, owing in part to poor implementation.

That said, the headline index pointed to only a marginal pace of improvement and the latest reading was still below the average since the survey began in late - 2010 (53.0).

Kia makes great vehicles that get better every year, and new car buyers receive the latest fruits of this steady pace of improvement.

This global policy push, coupled with inexorable technological progress (witness the latest record - breaking solar cells and the blistering pace of improvements in energy storage technology), is working.

While the standards represent a quicker pace of improvement than the target of 35 miles per gallon by 2020 set in EISA 2007, auto manufacturers supported the move, saying that it provides the level of certainty and uniformity the industry needs.

The One M9 does bring a few improvements over the M8, but they're not significant enough to keep up with the rapid pace of improvement in the Android ecosystem.

«The trade data shows the pace of improvement in exports is slower than previously expected.

This pace of improvement, from this starting point, has never been achieved by any railway management team.»

«The computer vision started faster but the pace of improvement was slower, whereas the neural networks started dumb but got smarter faster,» he said.

The issue has at times become a political cudgel — just Google «Obama» and «food stamps,» or, better yet, don't — but this week's report shows the pace of improvement is finally starting to accelerate.

Even with the surprisingly large addition of 287,000 payroll jobs in June, the pace of improvement in the U.S. labor market appears to have slowed somewhat.

At the current snail's pace of improvement, says a recent report by Oxfam - Canada (summary here), pay equity for women worldwide will be achieved — in 75 years or so.

Cuomo is seemingly on board with the idea; so is Andy Byford, the new president of New York City Transit, who recently told City and State that if congestion pricing can «help expedite the pace of improvements and make the system work better» then «I'm all for it.»

At the same time, however, troubling gaps in achievement persist, and we must accelerate the pace of improvement.

If the pace of improvement that has held steady since the passage of NCLB does not change, it will be two decades or so before a mere 50 percent of U.S. eighth - graders reach math proficiency.

«The pace of improvement is well beyond the most optimistic expectations a decade ago,» Amelino - Camelia says.

The initiatives come from a different angle and the pace of the improvement is significant.

At that pace of improvement, the center projects, the percent of students earning a diploma on time could surpass the historical high of 77.1 percent...

Looking back, the reasons that schools like Capital City and Community Roots are being created and attracting flocks of parents seem obvious: a mix of idealism, desperation, and pent - up frustration with the pace of improvement and the focus on a fixed set of interventions.

Despite the challenges facing America's high schools, the Research Center found that the pace of improvement has been slow, with the nation's graduation rate increasing by less than a percentage point annually between...

«It is a definite decline» in the pace of improvement, researcher Philip Gleason said.

For all of the talk of TUDA gains over the last decade, an honest assessment of our current status can lead to only one conclusion: The pace of improvement hasn't been nearly fast enough, because a miniscule fraction of disadvantaged kids in urban districts are succeeding.

Across the state, test scores are still dismal and state officials have expressed concern that the pace of improvement is not fast enough.

Effective educational technology strategies must link the «Three Ts» — teaching, technology, and use of time — with overall whole - school reform strategies and proven pedagogical practices to accelerate the pace of improvement and ensure that all students benefit from the opportunity that digital learning offers.

Verriden said Hope eighth - graders outperformed their local public school peers in reading and math in the last WKCE exam and that that their pace of improvement exceeded those of students nationally and locally in what's known as the MAP assessment.

· That the Board of Education take all urgent and bold action necessary in the case of schools that are found to be very low performing and to have insufficient or unrealized plans, to accelerate the pace of improvement at these schools in order to bring relief to the students who rely on these schools and their plans for academic achievement.

The government also said that 29 sponsored academies were transferred to new sponsors following concerns about the pace of improvement.

The Chevrolet and GMC HD trucks already command substantial market share, so the pace of their improvement is driven by more than an advertising headline.

but the tightening of financial conditions observed in recent months, if sustained, could slow the pace of improvement in the economy and labor market.

June 2016 July 2016 Comments Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in April indicates that the pace of improvement in the labor market has slowed while growth in economic...

I think every serious group that has looked at how much the United States is spending on energy technology and innovation ends up with the conclusion that we need to be spending somewhere between 2 and 10 times as much as we are now if we really want to get the pace of improvement in the energy portfolios we're going to need.

If this pace of improvement continues over the next 40 years, the report says, most of these countries would achieve standards equal to or better than those now enjoyed by the top 25 percent.

Energy efficiency is the only area that came moderately close to the pace of improvement to meet 2030 objectives but progress remains short of what is needed.

And then around 1800 in the lighting — you can see it so clearly in lighting — just an enormous change in the pace of improvement.

Because CSP's technology is simple — reflecting mirrors and metal towers — it wasn't able to keep up with the pace of improvements in photovoltaic power.

Still, with vacancies hovering at 430 basis points above the cyclical low of 12.5 percent, last observed in the third quarter of 2007, the pace of improvement in office fundamentals has truly been glacial.

However, the pace of that improvement appeared to slow in February.

«That said, housing production is still far from what would be considered normal in a healthy market, and many challenges remain for home builders in terms of tight credit conditions, difficult appraisals and the continued flow of foreclosed properties on the market — all of which are certainly slowing the pace of improvement in both housing and the overall economy.»

«Multifamily and hotel markets continue to perform strongly, although the pace of improvement is going to slow down,» according to the Moody's forecast.