Sentences with phrase «real gains»

We are pushing lawmakers to make real gains in protecting our communities and waterways from the risk of oil spills.

For a while, this focus produced real gains for students.

An investment that was better timed, by the way, could easily have made real gains of over 200 %.

«If we could get up to eight to 10 stories and really build it well and efficiently, I think we'd start to see real gains,» he says.

On average, they produce gains similar to those of comparable neighborhood schools, with the best producing real gains and the weakest setting kids further back.

Based on our experience running both district and charter schools, we believe that charters have shown real gains and can play a transformative role in educational reform.

But how can you help teachers become self - reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach translates into real gains for student achievement?

Unfortunately, this type of thinking is detrimental to making real gains because muscle pumps have nothing to do with the muscle build process.

In some cases, score gains have been three to six times as large as real gains in achievement.

It could well be that, as compared with earlier generations of students, the current cohort of blacks has made real gains relative to whites.

If you want real gains, you have to avoid cheating by swinging the weight up and using momentum.

Real gains among black children in recent years could explain this result.

However, real gains by blacks in recent cohorts do appear to be an important part of the divergence between our results and past research.

These schools are receiving more students than similar schools, and there is evidence of real gains in student test performance.

But how can you help teachers become self - reflective practitioners whose thoughtful approach to teaching translates into real gains for student achievement?

Tell them that a complete workout intense enough to make real gains can be accomplished in seven minutes, and I think you have a winning idea.

Then you can see real gains from upgrades.

Then specuelate on where real gains are likely with the input of research funding and finally: Debate which direction produces the best overall outcome.

No Child Left Behind coincided with real gains on national tests.

We're taking them on a neuroanatomical detour that seems to go with real gains in reading ability,» says Gabrieli, the Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, a member of MIT's McGovern Institute for Brain Research, and the senior author of the study.

It would be nice if Wednesday's budget offered real gains because so far the Trudeau government's handling of both issues is pretty much a mess.

However, with both the 10 - year Treasury yield and the average dividend yield for a company on the S&P 500 hovering around 2.35 %, that doesn't leave much in the way of real gains if inflation is running at 2 % per annum.

I do not object to paying 25 per cent of any short - term (one - year) capital gain, but when it comes to gains that include a tax on inflation that occurred over long periods of time, it means severe injury to whatever real gain has been earned.

After several unsuccessful transfer windows which saw high spending, but minimal real gains in terms of quality and improvements to the team, Liverpool FC's current transfer policy appears to be heading in a very different direction to that which preceded it.

Other real gains were made by the Nationalists.

It is important not to substitute Real Gains for food, it is to supplement you regular meals.

Nevertheless, critics of high - stakes testing wonder whether those increases reflect real gains in students» knowledge and skills - gains that ought to translate to students» performance in school and on other exams.

These retention and persistence realities deeply hamper the ability for schools, particularly high - poverty schools, to initiate and sustain school improvement efforts necessary to achieve real gains for students.»

Schools are measuring real gains in positivity and there are now consistent safety and behavioral expectations in every classroom - including how they identify, track, and follow - up when things may go off track.

On those journeys where we engaged the X4's Eco Pro mode, which includes a coasting and regenerative braking system to maximise efficiency from the engine, we were able to see real gains demonstrated in kilometres through the driver display.

If you want active management of your portfolio, Cabot can be the active partner you need to target real gains.

However, there are also real gains in terms of your employability - the skills, qualities and knowledge you offer to prospective employers, which suggest that you will successfully adapt to life as a graduate in the workplace.

Maybe then real gains might be made to reduce incarceration rates of young people and we can see #JustJustice.

In other words, while those are real gains from an accounting perspective, Buffett himself doesn't laud them as being a predictor of Berkshire's future success, and are just a necessary procedure.

These are not real gains.

This is where real gain is found.

DCA should protect investors but it might take longer to show real gains on stocks purchased now, depending on what the investor buys.

Investors who view bull market gains as real gains are like consumers who take out large amounts of credit - card debt to enjoy a better life than they can afford with money earned from their jobs.

There are three leading explanations: 1) the sample of children included in the data set used by Phillips, the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY), especially in the early years, may be nonrepresentative; 2) better information on students» background characteristics is available in the Early Childhood survey; and 3) blacks born into recent cohorts have made real gains relative to blacks born a decade earlier.

In Texas and across the nation, high - stakes testing regimes produced real gains for a few years, then flat - lined

Read alongside the results of studies based on student - level data, they suggest that even a little bit of competition from charter schools can force schools to appear to be improving, but that policymakers need to take care to ensure that translates into real gains for the average student.

We have made real gains in understanding the historical context of ancient Israel, the literary forms of the Bible, the nature of tradition and the theological beliefs of the people.

In its first 10 years the Rooney Rule ushered in some real gains — but over time, its impact began to wane.

Many of these companies already enjoyed a bump in share prices when the Liberals won the election, and again after the budget announcement, but Nazir thinks the real gains will come once the extra cash starts showing up on balance sheets.

The fair thing would be to establish inflation factors to determine real rather than nominal gains, and base a real tax on a real gain.