Sentences with phrase «performance in a single year»

In addition, using CCSA's own performance metric, the Similar Students Measure (SSM), charter public schools serving African American students were more than three times as likely as traditional public schools to consistently outperform their predicted performance in a single year and overtime.

When indicators are measured consistently year over year, combining multiple years of data can smooth the effects of outlier performances in a single year.

Not exact matches

After a 2017 equities run in which almost every stock market across the globe went up, this year the average performance across 137 single - country stock ETFs is flat.

Failure to achieve this single KPI means the company is unable to increase oil and gas production year after year, reflecting negatively in the financial performance of the company's profit & loss statement.

Comprising more than 20 % of the S&P 500 Index this year based on market capitalization, the Technology sector frequently drives the index's performance, and has generated roughly 150 % of the returns of any other single sector in 2017.

Its solid performance over the three months to June helped to push year - on - year growth in the single - currency bloc up to 2.1 %, the highest level since 2011.

The proposals for health care in Congress this year, for example, will soon escalate the clash between religious hospitals and state agencies over mandatory performance of abortion: Any single - payer system will prove, as it must, irresistible to social engineers in government, and each twist of the ratchet necessarily moves Catholic hospitals further from the Church and closer to the state.

UK: Sales, profits stay strong in Edrington Group H1 The Edrington Group has hailed the performance of its single malt Scotch whisky portfolio for driving its half - year numbers.

Focus - Pernod Ricard's H1 performance by region and brand Earlier today (13 February), Pernod Ricard released its half - year results, which showed single - digit drops in sales and net profits.

Focus - Pernod Ricard's H1 performance by region and brand Earlier today, Pernod Ricard released its half - year results, which showed single - digit rises in sales and net profits.

i believe the scouting system of arsenal more than the average fans who watches one MOTM performance of a player in a single match and searches him on youtube to watch his best moments in the last years and thinks that is the next vieira, gilberto etc..

Through the year or perhaps in a single superlative performance he has achieved that degree of excellence which is suggested by the ancient Greek concept of arete — a unity of virtues of mind and body to which the complete man of every age must aspire.

Last year, as a sophomore, Lee set a new single - season League record in scoring (337), eclipsing performances of such college and, later, professional players as Ernie Beck, Bud Palmer and Tony Lavelli.

The French attacker from Juventus, Paul Pogba has been receiving for the past few years a number of individual awards and recognition due to his standout performances and this has not gone under the radar as just about every single top European club is interested in signing the 22 year old player.

It provides a single, seemingly straightforward measure of party performance that can tell us not only how well or badly a party has done as compared with four years ago, but also as compared with any previous local elections for which a PNS is available — even though the places in which local elections are held varies considerably from one year to the next.

The single best reason for optimism is the soaring performance in recent years of mass - produced computers.

Researchers studied the performance of 118 noncommercial pilots from 40 to 69 years of age during flight simulation exercises (in a cockpit modeled after a single - engine plane) for three years.

Watching in a single chunk reveals some tonal inconsistencies and the structure of the show will be too frustrating for some viewers — there are also some regrettable decisions to soften the rappers» realities to heighten their legacies — but the performances here are uniformly strong and the mystery around these two murders remains fascinating all these years later.

On the other hand, this is the Year of the Kate, with her having NEVER won a single Oscar and having turned in two career - best performances.

(Speaking of whom, Blanchett's turn in Heaven might just be the greatest performance of recent years not to garner so much as a single nomination anywhere.)

A Single Man Tom Ford's adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood novel, about a gay man grieving over the death of his lover, is a bleak, intelligent film that serves as a showcase for what may be Colin Firth's finest film performance, the ultimate elucidation of the character he has been playing, in one form or another, for years: The man who feels too much to allow himself to show it.

Likewise, Rooney Mara gives a memorable performance as the grief - stricken M, her single moment in the kitchen with a pie being one of the greatest scenes of the year, and one of the best examples of an actor's commitment to their part.

Some liked it less, but according to The Independent, it's Sofia's best - received film since Lost in Translation, and Kiki's being singled out as one of the breakout performances, if not the breakout performance — if you can call someone with a 20 year career in Hollywood a «breakout».

One of Farrell's more adventurous performances in recent years is in The Lobster, director Yorgos Lanthimos «English - language debut set in a world where single people are transformed into animals if they don't find a partner.

Best supporting actress This category contains what I consider to be the year's single best performance, that of Melissa Leo as the Reverend Mother in «Novitiate.»

It features my single favorite male performance of the year in Michael Fassbender «s Brandon, a short - tempered, brittle husk of a man, simultaneously transparent and opaque, desperately searching for the next petit mort in a quest to stave off the deep pain he can't get away from.

Morris from America centers on Morris Gentry (Markees Christmas, in an incredible breakout performance) a 13 - year - old who has just relocated with his single father, Curtis (Craig Robinson) to Heidelberg, Germany.

In his gruff, exasperated way he is worried about a trash - talking single mom called Halley, played by Bria Vinaite, and her kid, Moonee, a glorious performance from seven - year - old Brooklynn Prince.

I think Rylance gave my single favorite male performance of the year in Bridge of Spies, so it stings a bit seeing him not win, but he's going to have a real chance at the Oscar and I doubt Isaac will even be considered for nomination, so this feels like a situation where I'm okay with how it ended up.

Because of a bitter labor dispute, the Minnesota Orchestra has not played a single performance in its concert hall this year.

Redford pulls double duty as a single father looking to escape his secretive past, while LaBeouf delivers what is arguably his best performance in years.

Fans of Michael Shannon will inevitably catch the movie, knowing the intensity he's capable of (remember his powerful performance as Rick Carver, a single father struggling to get back his foreclosed home in one of last year's best movies, «99 Homes,» which was snubbed by most awards groups?)

After seven years in the business, Tatum hasn't delivered a single performance that's convinced me he has any real talent as an actor, and yet he continues to get work in high - profile projects.

Is it more valuable to know about third grade performance, across multiple years, or third, fourth, and fifth grade performance in a single school year?

Whatever the source of variation, single - year changes in test performance are very unreliable indicators of where a school is headed over the long term.

In California, we've moved beyond assigning schools a single number score each year and are implementing a «dashboard» accountability system, to better capture and communicate multiple dimensions of school performance.

You might be asking how a few changes in a test could alter a school's performance rating from outstanding to abysmal in a single year.

California's Dashboard Data Will Guide Improvement By Heather J. Hough and Michael W. Kirst In California, we've moved beyond assigning schools a single number score each year and are implementing a «dashboard» accountability system, to better capture and communicate multiple dimensions of school performance.

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten often advocates for holistic assessment systems, such as portfolios of students» work collected over the course of an entire semester or year, instead of a drawing or musical performance done in a single sitting.

One would be able to explore the intersection of state policies to mandate professional development aligned to the standards, to require that high school graduation requirements reflect CCR coursework, and to base personnel decisions on performance ratings in a single year or across many years, to name one type of analysis that a practitioner or researcher could conduct.

Research has shown that «the difference in student performance in a single academic year from having a good as opposed to a bad teacher can be more than one full year of standardized achievement.»

If the Board received more than 12 applications in a single year from qualified applicants, then the proposed law would require it to give priority to proposed charter schools or enrollment expansions in districts where student performance on statewide assessments is in the bottom 25 % of all districts in the previous two years and where demonstrated parent demand for additional public school options is greatest.

With just a single year of data [41] there is no way to know whether differences in student performance across schools are due to school factors or differences in the average quality of teachers.

Dickinson Fine Arts Academy in South Bend Community School Corporation, after four consecutive years in the lowest category of school performance, scored the highest single - year gains in ISTEP of any middle school in the state.

«Two years in, and student performance on academic outcome measures were bad in every single area — but lawmakers still lifted the cap on how many students can participate, in spite of those negative outcomes.»

While not required by the law, many school districts were reluctant to hinge the possibility of a third grader moving on to the fourth grade on his or her performance on a single test, especially considering that North Carolina just adopted more rigorous standards and more difficult assessments based on those standards — meaning that even more students are likely to fail End of Grade tests than in years past.

WILL does rather the opposite, merging all students together in a school — regardless of grade level, or how long a student has been in a particular school or sector, or students» previous academic performance — for a single year and a single average.

«I don't think we've gotten a single complaint in the past year and a half dealing with the PowerUp program,» said P. Gayle Fallon, the president of the 6,000 - member Houston Federation of Teachers, which is currently involved in a lawsuit challenging the district's use of controversial statistical methods to gauge teacher performance.

Nearly two years later, not a single state's plan to comply with the federal education law — and its broader vision for judging school performance — calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system.»

The new handbook will allow the district to consider teacher performance before seniority in making future layoffs, but Pursell said the provision wouldn't have made a difference this year «because every single teacher I laid off was a good teacher.»