Sentences with phrase «poor quality group»

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But I have never seen such poor quality from a group of gunners.

The particular focus of How Children Succeed was the role that a group of factors often referred to as noncognitive or «soft» skills — qualities like perseverance, conscientiousness, self - control, and optimism — play in the challenges poor children face and the strategies that might help them succeed.

The pro-school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

The Alliance for Quality Education, a statewide coalition of education groups including teacher unions, contends that all additional state financial assistance allotted to districts in 2016 - 17 should be distributed according to the state's «foundation» formula, which gives extra weight in funding distribution to districts with students who are poor or non-English speaking.

She spoke at a press conference Monday organized by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group that pushes for more state funding for schools and has said that the current funding distribution favors wealthy, white districts over poor areas with people of color.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

The pro school funding group Alliance for Quality Education, in a statement, accused Cuomo of «perpetuating educational racism and economic inequality» for not including billions of additional dollars to comply with a decade - and - a-half-old court order to fully fund schools in poorer school districts.

Nixon's first Albany appearance on Monday displayed her qualifications, speaking at a news conference called by the Alliance for Quality Education, an activist group she has worked with for years dedicated to ending the gap between the school budgets of poor communities without large property tax revenues and those of model schools in well - to - do communities.

However, even if such data are not discarded outright, subjects who move more will contribute less to the group - level results because of the poor quality of their data.

Nigwekar adds, «We're now planning to expand the investigation of olfactory deficits to a larger group of patients and determine whether or not poor dietary intake truly drives the association between olfactory deficits and nutritional quality.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

Although both groups gained muscle size, the antioxidant group had developed muscle tissue of poorer quality with fewer contractile units.

But most singles either submit poor quality selfies or photos taken during a vacation or at group events.

The Big Life Group, linked to the Big Issue magazine, has set up a primary school, which will deliver high quality education and childcare to families in one of the poorest parts of Manchester while Everton, Bolton Wanderers and Bradford City are examples of a number of football clubs that have embedded their role in the community by leading the creation of new schools.

Poor and minority citizens are just as informed: Although many have speculated that low - income and minority citizens are less informed about or interested in school quality than more advantaged groups, we found no evidence that this is the case.

In one project, a group of boys decided to tackle the issue of poor water quality in our school dam.

Founded in 1958 by a group of scientists concerned about the poor quality of science education in the public schools, the BSCS published a set of...

NR: We currently don't have a formal relationship, and part of what I'm going to do over the next ninety days is to see if we can come up with informal ways of working more closely with groups like NACSA, especially since the discussion around quality is so focused on what authorizers are doing and how quickly they're shutting down poorly performing schools... Of course, it's very difficult to shut down a school that has a following, but I don't think our sector has done a very good job of explaining to families what a good, high quality school looks like and why it's so important to not tolerate poor performance.

Parent Power groups are also going to push the legislature to eliminate the state's Zip Code Education policies, which essentially limit the ability of poor and minority families to provide their kids the high - quality education they deserve.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

CC: I look with astonishment at groups like Save Our Schools, highly represented by white wealthy suburbanites that have made it their mission to undermine the opportunity of poor African - American students to have access to quality education.

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.

Rather than focusing our ire on the countless poor - quality, unaligned, often mind - numbing «extra» tests that, along with test preparation, have come to take up so much instructional time, we seem poised to eliminate tests that actually let us see how we are doing across large groups of students.

However, it was also synonymous with poor quality during the Cold War era and it wasn't until it became part of the Volkswagen Group that it reversed its reputation and image with improved build quality.

Veterinarians and veterinary nutritionists say giant breed dogs generally have a poorer stool quality when compared to smaller breed dogs, making larger dogs another target group to benefit from probiotics.

Platforms, classifieds and Facebook Groups are helpful because they already have targeted traffic on them; but if your ad or copy is of poor quality, you will never find any success in your endeavors.

We carefully studied issues raised by skeptics: biases from urban heating (we duplicated our results using rural data alone), from data selection (prior groups selected fewer than 20 percent of the available temperature stations; we used virtually 100 percent), from poor station quality (we separately analyzed good stations and poor ones) and from human intervention and data adjustment (our work is completely automated and hands - off).

During extreme heat events, nighttime temperatures in the region's big cities are generally several degrees higher28 than surrounding regions, leading to increased heat - related death among those less able to recover from the heat of the day.36 Since the hottest days in the Northeast are often associated with high concentrations of ground - level ozone and other pollutants, 37 the combination of heat stress and poor air quality can pose a major health risk to vulnerable groups: young children, the elderly, and those with pre-existing health conditions including asthma.29 Vulnerability is further increased as key infrastructure, including electricity for potentially life - saving air conditioning, is more likely to fail precisely when it is most needed — when demand exceeds available supply.

The study is the first to focus on the links between antibody responses to cockroach and mouse proteins and respiratory and allergic symptoms in such a young age group, and the implications for children who live in our inner cities where indoor air quality is often poor are truly significant.

The Police Action Lawyers Group (PALG) has resigned from the advisory board of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) after becoming frustrated with the poor quality of the organisation's decision - making.

Considering the size of some of the firms in the top, say, 250, there are still law firms of substantial size that have relatively poor Web site offerings, surprisingly poor Web sites... If you compared the top 250 law firm Web sites against another 250 corporate or financial services firms of similar size, [you would find] that as a whole, the law firm group would lag behind in terms of the depth and quality of their Web sites.

Equal Justice Works was founded more than 25 years ago by a passionate group of law students who shared the belief that the poorest and most vulnerable among us deserve the same access to justice and quality legal representation as those who are more fortunate.

«Changes in the quality of a marital relationship appear to predict CVD risk, though consistently good or poor relationship groups were not very different.

The global prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms has been increasing in recent decades.1 The lifetime prevalence of depression ranges from 20 % to 25 % in women and 7 % to 12 % in men.2 Depression is a significant determinant of quality of life and survival, accounting for approximately 50 % of psychiatric consultations and 12 % of all hospital admissions.3 Notably, the prevalence of depression or depressive symptoms is higher in patients than in the general public.3 — 6 The underlying reasons include the illness itself and the heavy medical cost, unsatisfactory medical care service and poor doctor — patient relationship.7 8 Several informative systematic reviews on specific groups of outpatients have been published.

We also find that widowed persons who were previously in age heterogamous unions are more likely to have engaged in deleterious health practices during marriage than all other groups, but there is little evidence suggesting that they are more disadvantaged or have poorer marital quality than their peers who were previously in age homogamous unions.

As the most stigmatized group due to their lack of biological ties, adoptive families would be expected to show lower well - being and poorer relationship quality than would the other family structure groups, and two parent biological families would be expected to look the most well adjusted.

No differences between the organized and disorganized children in relation to the quality of Caregiving but significant differences with the «unclassified» group who received poorer quality of care

Poorer quality malls face a «very tough environment,» Blackstone Group LP's global head of real estate Jon Gray said June 6.

Most of the board's services and departments received positive feedback, but the group gave poor marks to the content, quality and distribution of Real Estate News; TREB's media coverage; communication with members; enforcement of MLS rules; and financial management.