Sentences with phrase «real achievement with»

At the risk of sounding boring and worthy: Lamborghini «s real achievement with this car is the way that it has sanitized something with almost twice the power of a base into a machine capable of covering great distances with no hint of histrionics.

And that's the real achievement with the Corvette Stingray.

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Like the OK Go video, just getting through it is a real accomplishment and I think if you can convey that to people, it's a real achievement because you can't do that with CG.

«Real - world creative achievement was associated with leaky sensory processing — or a reduced ability to screen or inhibit stimuli from conscious awareness,» researchers studying the subject have written.

«One of the things that will be a real achievement for me is when I get Apple to build a big plant in the United States, or many big plants in the United States, where instead of going to China, and going to Vietnam, and going to the places that you go to, you're making your product right here,» Trump said he told Cook, according to a transcript of the President - elect's interview with the New York Times on Tuesday.

One of the real glories of the preaching image is its unabashed concern with means as essential to the achievement of ends.

Buddy, technical achievement has nothing to do with real truth.

Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the world, and a corresponding theory of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus of injustice and the goals of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms of the United Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.

A. Rand won a cult following with two best - selling novels presenting her belief that all real achievement comes from individual ability and effort, that laissez - faire capitalism is most congenial to the exercise of talent, and that selfishness is a virtue, altruism a vice.

In time, I think Wenger keeping us in the top four with some of the squads he assembled will be considered a real achievement, but without the talent that made us champions so often, the flaws in his work became more apparent.

A press event with Cuomo LOOKS good, but the real achievement will come when Mangano rolls up his sleeves, gets down - and - dirty in Nassau, and dissolves the most wasteful, abusive, and corrupt special taxing districts.

Drawing a comparison between Ghana and her native Nigeria on her widely watched program, «Keeping It Real with Adeola», Miss Fayehun showcased some of the unprecedented achievements of the young Ghanaian leader,» she told her audience she wished were replicated in her home country, Nigeria.

As you mature, you have a greater number of real achievements under your belt and with those achievements comes both a clearer sense of what you can accomplish and a stronger belief in yourself.

Best Actress: Annette Bening — Kids Are All Right — stern, intelligent yet moving and likeable — it takes a real pro to accomplish that with such style and verve Nicole Kidman — Rabbit Hole — heartbreaking but resilient — a perfect balance between broken and fixed — it is so joyful to watch a character so succinctly communicated Lesley Manville — Another Year — heartbreaking with closeup after closeup of vulnerability and grasping hope — truly a fragile and pulsating performance Julianne Moore — Kids Are All Right — courageous and oh so human — sexy and vulnerable in an earthy way — her struggles with herself are the heart of the movie and she carries it magnificently and warmly Natalie Portman — Black Swan — the tour de force this year — the crazy, emotionally volatile core of a crazy, emotionally volatile film — some wonder if it might be «easer» to play such big emotions but the incredibly thin wire she has to traverse in such an extreme environment is daunting and she makes it work and gives us believability and solicits true sympathy in the middle of a fright fest — a truly accomplished achievement

Rod Steiger's not particularly good, but he's real funny — the movie tries to be a comedy but Shanley wrote it, so it isn't funny... Alan Rickman has a little bit more fun, with only two really terrible lines, which is quite an achievement in this film.

Throw a few chase sequences in there as well, and you start to get a real understanding of Chandor's achievement with A Most Violent Year: never has the crisis of our own morality been such a thrilling ride.

There are innumerable movies based on true stories about real people who overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles with determination, vision, and talent to accomplish extraordinary achievements in sports, the arts, and shaping public policy.

Of course, in today's films, full - blown and very realistic CG characters interacting with real - life actors are very common, so there is a bit of a dated aspect to Who Framed Roger Rabbit in its quality and style of animation, despite garnering several Academy Awards for its technical achievements.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

Using real life examples from schools that have embarked on their own global learning journeys with impressive results in terms of pupil motivation and achievement, our programme ensures you have the opportunity to identify the issues and solutions relevant to your own school community.

A new movement is trying to refocus admissions away from purely individual academic achievement and toward something you can't measure with SAT tests or resumes padded with public service points: real concern for others and the common good.

They're a great way to celebrate student achievements, to create authentic tasks with work produced for a real audience, and to connect with parents and the community.

Changes in real state spending per pupil are uncorrelated with changes in 4th - grade student achievement in reading.

Sacks also challenges the supposed objectivity of standardized tests and shows how repeated administration of very similar tests produces test - score increases that may have little to do with real changes in achievement.

If they were used with real - world applications, such as spreadsheets, or to simulate relationships or changing variables, student achievement increased.

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

The government has done much to address teacher quality with no real change in student achievement.

However, research by economists Stephen Cameron and James Heckman suggests that the real problem may be that poor children simply don't do as well in school, a somewhat discouraging conclusion since sending families bigger checks to help with college is arguably easier than improving academic achievement in elementary and secondary schools.

I can't prove that Santa is real, but with enough persistence can I come up with a rigorous empirical analysis that measures the causal effect of Christmas on student achievement?

Agile Assessment equips educators with high - quality, next - generation formative assessments, real - time reporting to inform instruction, and high - yield strategies to differentiate instruction and enhance achievement.

Real schools with students living in poverty do post high levels of student achievement.

«The SIG process has shown us that concerted action on the achievement gap with targeted supplemental support for educators can produce real improvements in student learning,» he says.

DuFour's exercise opens the door for us to substantiate the vision with evidence, with real school data, and with results that demonstrate that unprecedented levels of achievement are within our reach.

With $ 360 million in additional Race to the Top money, it is backing work by states to design new testing systems that it says will measure student growth — rather than capture a snapshot of achievement — supply real - time feedback to teachers to guide instruction, and include performance - based items to gauge more types of learning.

We applaud the National Center on Educational Outcomes for providing these very real examples of districts that, despite widely varying demographics and economic situations, have demonstrated that it is possible to improve achievement for all students, including those identified as students with disabilities, when professionals set high expectations and work together to reach them.

R - 55 will help solve the dropout rate and increase student achievement, with real accountability and without raising taxes.

She stated its purpose: «Our schools will show real, quantifiable student achievement and with those results, finally dispel the misguided and simplistic notion that the union contract is an impediment to success.»

Now Congress, states and school boards need to step up with real monetary support to help schools make the shift from a culture of exclusion to one of inclusion, equity and achievement.

Technology also should provide teachers with real - time, actionable data that improve their effectiveness in tailoring classroom instruction to personalize teaching and close achievement gaps.

Provide teachers with real - time reporting to target intervention and accelerate achievement for every student in the class.

Curriculum standards integrated with assessments during the instructional process yield assessment results that are more likely to accurately portray the real evidence of student achievement.

Created by a 15 - year veteran of the classroom, and backed by hundreds of real - life teachers who saw the time - savings and student achievement goals they could reach with Quick Key.

So the reason that gamification (points, badges, achievements and leaderboards) works to engage learners with the learning and achieve real, lasting behavioural change, is that it gets Fogg's three factors to converge and boots learners over the threshold into action.

Access powerful, easy - to - use reporting with real - time diagnostic and achievement data for teachers and administrators

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For more than twenty years, MetaMetrics ® has focused on improving education for learners of all ages through the development of scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies that link assessment results with real - world instruction.

According to them, effective school boards: focus on student achievement as the number one job; allocate resources to support students based upon their differing characteristics and needs; watch return on investment and report to the communities they serve with transparency and accountability; use good data to inform policymaking to support student success, and engage the communities they serve in providing real opportunities to give input into policymaking process (2006).

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

In this role, she directly coaches and teams with teachers, students, and administrators in collaborative efforts to raise student achievement through sharing her real - world knowledge of best instructional practices.

Our urban public school is open to teachers and administrators who want to see effective teaching strategies at work in real classrooms, share ideas with other committed educators and see measurable gains in student achievement.