Sentences with phrase «rise as the achievement»

Under the leadership of Dr. Beverly L. Hall, the Atlanta, Georgia, Public Schools have seen achievement rise as the achievement gap shrinks.

Not exact matches

As much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centurAs much as the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras the fall of the Berlin Wall or the rise of social media, the astonishing decline in world - wide poverty stands as one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter centuras one of humanity's greatest achievement over the past quarter century.

We are forever putting conditions and qualifications on the love of God: «If you rid yourself of your racism, if you vote Democratic, if you accept Jesus as your savior, if...» Such conditional, achievement - oriented, self - made - men religion certainly doesn't need Jesus dying on the cross and rising from the dead to make itself plausible and reasonable in an achievement - oriented, you - get - what - you - deserve capitalistic culture.

On the other side of the coin many will view McLuhan as a pure technophile, almost placing religious value on technological achievement - especially with the rise of electronic communication in the fifties and sixties prompting his now overstated phrase «the global village.»

Sustainability surfaced in packaging vernacular in 2006, after publication of «The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best - Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social and Environmental Success - and How You Can Too» by Andrew Savitz with Karl Weber, which Amazon.com describes as «the groundbreaking book that charts the rise of sustainability within the business world and shows how and why financial success increasingly goes hand in hand with social and environmental achievement.»

It's not been a rise as meteoric or as glamorous as some, but the general trend is always upward, and it has been all to quickly forgotten quite how remarkable an achievement it was to finish 8th - 6th - 8th - 7th with Bolton.

«Barriers to achievements for children with special needs and disabilities rise even higher as savage cuts to local authority budgets cause vital specialist support services to be axed.

But as we begin to celebrate the achievements of the NHS over the last 60 years, it is also right that - as new technologies emerge, as expectations rise, and as healthcare needs change - we look ahead and continue to reform and renew the NHS for the future.

But Labour outperformed even that achievement as a unique alliance of enthused younger voters and previous non-voters combined with older austerity - hit, anti-establishment Ukippers to deliver a 10 - point rise in Labour's vote compared with two years ago, to 40 %.

The sequencing of the Iberian ribbed newt salamander is the first time that an entire newt genome has been sequenced, an achievement that can give rise to new discoveries on the amphibian's ability to recreate brain neurons as well as entire body parts.

Critics Consensus: The set design and cinematography are impressive, but the real achievement of La Vie en Rose is Marion Cotillard's mesmerizing, wholly convincing performance as Edith Piaf.

Dead Rising 2 is as about as generous as Scrooge, pre-three ghosts, when it comes to basic achievements for simply playing the game.

As a contribution to illustrated history from a black point of view, Still I Rise is a unique achievement, one that will be valued by students, educators, collectors and general readers for a long time to come.»

Chris is a little worried about Rose's family's reaction to him — she hasn't told them that her boyfriend is black — but they're very nice to him, even if Dean's pointedly enthusiastic comments about the achievements of Olympian Jesse Owens and loving Obama come off as a bit clueless.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

Working as a cohesive team we have found that student achievement is on the rise too.»

«As researchers, we must unpack all of the differences between these groups in order to really understand the dynamics that give rise to student achievement.»

The hope and the expectation for deploying SAMs are that once principals get back to using their expertise as instructional leaders, teacher confidence and satisfaction will rise and student achievement will improve.

As is well known, the economic benefits of a college education have risen dramatically during the past quarter century, and substantial evidence shows that students with good grades or high scores on achievement tests tend to pursue more education.

It's just that we didn't serve many of those students well in the past and therefore should expect that achievement should be rising as we devote more resources to them.

Before stepping down as secretary, she told Virginia's General Assembly that the «trifecta» of challenges facing Virginia public education are rising poverty rates, higher achievement expectations, and decreased levels of funding.

This may be why real costs per student have increased substantially (nearly doubling in the past 30 years) while the performance of schools, as measured by average student achievement, has not risen at all.

If schools could have used the recession and budget crisis as an opportunity to cut their least - effective teachers, student achievement would actually have risen.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

• «The amount of homework for high school seniors has decreased... and grades have risen as average student achievement has been declining.»

In other words, NAEP has been identifying gains that are somewhere between two and three times as large as those recorded by two respected international testing agencies that do not have a political stake in showing rising levels of student achievement in any particular country.

As someone who is concerned about rising inequality, I'm willing to restrict parental choice only when there's evidence that parents are being hoodwinked or when the option they have chosen has a poor track record of fostering student achievement.

Prior to her work at Achievement First, Christina taught special education for six years, first as a teacher in Harlem and later helping to build a special education program at Rise Academy in Newark, N.J. Throughout this time, she spent her summers working as a school director at Teach For America's Summer Institute, while also earning a master's degree in public policy at the University of Chicago, where she received a Harris Fellowship.

The foundation is seeking to find out whether districts can create pipelines that produce a large number of highly - qualified principals and whether student achievement rises as a result.

The school's culture improved significantly, as well as district and state achievement data that rose steadily.

If Jobs» ideas were to be implemented, student achievement would rise as would the paychecks of star educators.

Star principals were invited to participate using the following criteria: achievement scores had risen in their schools for a three year period; they were rated by their faculties as effective instructional leaders; central office personnel identified them as accountable fiscal managers; and parents described them as effective in developing community support for their schools.

The year I removed all classroom assessments, behavioral issues were reduced 90 percent, attendance rose, and learning and academic achievement increased dramatically as engagement and rigor skyrocketed.

As Klein relates, however, when the state raised the bar for proficiency in the summer of 2010, not only did proficiency rates plummet across the board — suggesting the progress was not nearly as great as had been claimed — but the magnitude of the achievement gap rosAs Klein relates, however, when the state raised the bar for proficiency in the summer of 2010, not only did proficiency rates plummet across the board — suggesting the progress was not nearly as great as had been claimed — but the magnitude of the achievement gap rosas great as had been claimed — but the magnitude of the achievement gap rosas had been claimed — but the magnitude of the achievement gap rose.

Faculty members were learning to use data both to design instruction and adjust instructional practice, and as a result, student achievement was on the rise.

But as all test scores rose, the achievement gap remained.

We studied four school systems that are rising to the challenge and seeing growth in student achievement, even as they work with large populations of high - need students.

After Politifact rated as «mostly false» Diane Ravitch's claim about rising student achievement until NCLB, Andy Rotherham reluctantly came to her quasi-defense: Of all the false claims she's lobbed out over the past few years, I'm not sure why they chose to go after her on that one where she's more or less right.

65 The WSJ editorial board frames the study as showing that «student math achievement rose significantly in individual - salary districts relative to salary - schedule districts due in part to improvements in the teacher workforce.»

One key finding of the study is that most school districts in central and southern Illinois, which are predominantly white, saw significant drops in achievement as their low - income enrollment rose.

As the number of Hispanic students in Connecticut's schools continues to rise, the achievement gap between these students and their white classmates remains.

From her earliest days in Jamaica, as a young girl who was driven to teach others to read, to her rapid rise through all levels of the school system to become Ontario's first Chief Student Achievement Officer, Glaze has been a persistent voice in the belief that there should be no «throw - away kids.»

While it's too soon to assess the ultimate impact of i3 (whether student achievement will rise as a result of more and better innovation), it's not too soon to consider its early lessons, especially as the program's second round kicks into gear.

The data show that even when scores are rising, the so - called achievement gap between low - income and minority students and their non-disadvantaged counterparts remains wide, with students from low - income families at least twice as likely to fail.

``... one experiment in which more than 200 American teachers took part in lesson study, student achievement rose, as did teachers» math knowledge — two rare accomplishments.

But even as achievement rose, problems with the new disciplinary approach began to crop up.

They are learning that collaboration across leadership teams and use of evidence in teaching teams trumps teacher isolation and benefits the entire learning community as achievement levels rise and gaps between groups narrow for the first time ever.

Perhaps it should not surprise us that standard educational achievement scores have dropped as the incidence of two - income families has risen.

Adjustments - Timing shortened from being downed to rising, rising into a movement, mid-air quick recovery, jumping, dashing, moving (on ground or midair), attacking, or guarding - Awakening: Fixed bug where attacks at very close range came from unguardable angles; these can now be guarded - Dash Combo: Fixed bug where Tag Combos weren't counted for achievement purposes unless landed on a foe who was incapacitated by a Tag Combo - Brynhildr (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Ares (Summon Special Move 1): Removed hitbox between Ares and spear that appeared right after throwing a spear - Odin (melee mode, neutral melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Odin (melee mode, side melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Grim Reaper (Special Move 2): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time for zombies when targeting foes as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Grim Reaper (Down + Special Move 2): Fixed bug where dog zombies occasionally didn't face the correct direction while moving - Grim Reaper (Awakened, Character Ability Power) Added fire effect to characters who take damage after being hit by a zombie ball when Grim Reaper is in fire zombie ball mode - Ra (bomb mode, Special Move 1): Bombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charging.

As with most games these days aswell, the game does feature trophies / achievements for the hunters out there and honestly Dead Rising is just so fun anyway that more or likely you will still find yourself returning to the game every now and then just for some zombie killing fun.