Sentences with phrase «said wide gaps»

He said wide gaps in affluent yet integrated communities like Shaker Heights, Ohio, may stem from «competition for educational success» being «particularly strong in such places.»

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Still, critics say the gap may not be quite so wide.

Bullard, who has criticized the Fed's communications strategy as being too confusing for the public, said he was surprised the gap in expectations between the central bank and markets remained so wide.

At Netflix, Ajao says, Sabah learned that the gap between what we think we want and what we actually do can be wide.

Economists, who had expected a $ 40.00 billion trade gap in September, said the wider deficit could cut as much as a half a percentage point off that growth estimate.

If the final rule «is not dealt with» either by statute or other means, «then what we'll see over a period of time is a self - fulfilling prophecy: What happens with less advice is more diminished returns and over a period of time what happens is a wider and wider [savings] gap,» Roskam said.

He said it's clear that greed was a major factor in the economic collapse and that a wide gap between the haves and have - nots is social dynamite.

Some would say i am being harsh, but its the truth, Ozil basically got a mention, base on some journalist thinking of the most accessible targets for Barcelona if Neymar goes, not even considering the wide gap in the difference between the players.

That said, Brighton didn't keep that narrow when they weren't pressing, with the gap between Dale Stephens and Anthony Knockaert often growing quite wide.

She said about education funding, «That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it has ever been before, and that's got to stop.»

«Migrants are filling gaps in the labour market left wide open,» he will say, «by a welfare system that for years has paid British people not to work».

Cuomo says there continues to be a wide «gap» between the two houses on the issue of increasing the minimum wage.

«New York's schools are the second most unequal in the entire country,» Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, said in her kickoff speech in March, «and the gap between the richest and the poorest schools has grown wider today, under Andrew Cuomo, than it's ever been.»

«These are the ties that unite our society — and yet they are not powerful enough on their own if the economic gap between us is allowed to grow too big... I say we One Nation Tories can not ignore the gulf in pay packets that yawns wider year by year.

«That gap now between our richest schools and our poorest schools is wider under Governor Cuomo than it ever has been before, and that's got to stop,» Nixon said on the «Today» show.

And the racial gap gets wider every time we ask,» said Carroll.

Liu's campaign said that after crunching the numbers, it became clear that the 568 - vote gap between the two candidates was going to be too wide to close, even with the roughly 1,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted.

In poll after poll, from British Social Attitudes to the Guardian ICM, three - quarters of voters say that the income gap is too wide.

These socio - demographic gaps are even wider for foreign - born Hispanics, but foreign - born Hispanics experience better health and fewer health risks than U.S. - born Hispanics for some key health indicators such as cancer, heart disease, obesity, hypertension, and smoking, the report said.

Debabrata Ghosh, a professor at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, had a wider audience in mind as well: «I attended the March in Delhi to keep alive the tradition of asking critical questions and to bridge the gap between scientists and nonscientists,» he says.

«The wider the time gap between perception and thought, the more depth there is to you as a human being, which is to say the more conscious you are.»

Head teacher Derek Peaple said: «Our partnership with Achievement for All has developed at the heart of a wider approach to school improvement that has seen Park House identified as one of the top 100 state schools in the county for closing the achievement gap and securing continuous improvement in good GCSE results.

Professor Sonia Blandford, founder and CEO of education charity Achievement for All, which developed and delivers the programme, said: «The UK has one of the widest attainment gaps in education anywhere in the developed world with one - in - five children currently underachieving at school.

The persistent gap in the UK, which is wider than in most other countries and has existed for generations, is commonly attributed to our class - based society, with its greater inequalities than, say, those in Scandinavian countries or the tiger economies of the Far East.

It also fails to make a real dent in the wide gaps between whites, African Americans and Latinos,» said Monty Neill, Ed.D., FairTest's Deputy Director.

Given that accountability is being limited to the worst five - percent of schools within a state and at least 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps, reformers (especially centrist Democrats) should be skeptical about what the administration means when it says «ambitious» and «achievable».

Liberal Democrat councillor Martin Vye said the statistics were «appallingly low» and the gap was still too wide.

But with the gap stubbornly wide five years after implementation, Cosby said that the challenge as he sees it is «that the core is not always common.»

The gap between education establishments which are doing well and those that are not is still too wide, the watchdog said.

Identifying strengths that could lead to success in reading is of particular importance, Gardner - Neblett said, because of the wide skill gap between African - American students and white students.

«Providing a summative measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has adopted and can build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.

But Conservative education spokesman Paul Davies said: «The gap in spending per pupil between Wales and England is unacceptably high - and getting wider.

The Smarter Balanced tests have revealed wide gaps in subgroup scores that education analysts said reflect the challenges of online tests and the rigors of the Common Core standards that they assess.

Meanwhile the tactic of putting all minority kids into super-subgroups ends up being a subterfuge because it hides the performance of kids from different backgrounds; a district can, say, do poorly in providing college preparatory curricula to Native Hawaiian children in its schools and still appear to do fine so long as the achievement gaps between groups don't appear to be so wide.

The two candidates vying to become the next superintendent come from school districts with limited similarities to Boulder Valley, but both say they have the skills to lead a high - performing district with a wide achievement gap.

Several participants offering feedback on the qualities they seek in the school district's next superintendent said they want an innovative leader who's not afraid to push change and take on wide achievement gaps.

The letter said pupils» achievement by the age of 16 is poor in comparison with pupils elsewhere in the west midlands and nationally; secondary schools are too often failing to build on the success of pupils in primary schools; the gap between the GCSE attainment of disadvantaged pupils and their better - off peers is wide; and not enough has been done to address these failings over the years.

Since there was such a wide gap in the prices, said Motor Trend, «we decided the only fair way to approach this comparison test would be to apply a version of our Best Driver's Car rules.

John Herrema, Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy at Good has this to say to explain the wide disparity: «We attribute the large gap between iPad and Android tablet activations to the combination of user preference among our «BYOD» (Bring Your Own Device) users and large deployments of company - owned iPads, especially in verticals like financial services and healthcare.»

That gap is considered an untapped revenue source for the county, whose officials said earlier this year they would not support raising property taxes to pay for wide - scale spay - and - neuter efforts.

While forums are filled with those who encountered serious problems, there are also people posting to say that they have had minimal issues with the game, hence, I believe, the quite wide gap in review scores and public feeling.

Sony Interactive Entertainment's CEO says that being on the top doesn't always mean success: The VR market leader states the gap is too wide a margin.

Roughly Greenland has a perimeter of 6600 km Say 10 % of this is open to the present - day ocean, gives a «gap» 660 km wide for GIS to empty though.

The wider investigative goal I proposed to ProPublica is to expose «reality gaps» in descriptions of clean - energy technologies and policies (not to mention policies of those saying the fossil - fuel status quo is just fine) and point to under - addressed opportunities to cut vulnerability to climate - related hazards right now.

I see this as a gap given that some of the most important issues related to the past performance of the climate panel and its utility going forward concern the interface between its scientific assessments, the governments that have final say over the reports and the wider audience.

«No one is saying they will step up and fill the gap,» says Argentine native Mariana Pauncio - Feldman, senior director of International Climate Cooperation for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

As a corollary to my previous post (above), if you have learned from your life experience, that you can, on average, jump a horizontal distance, given a running start; 0f say 4 metres, or 12 feet, I would strongly discourage you from always trying to jump across every gap you come to, given the assurance that those gaps, on average, are only 3.5 metres or 11 feet wide.

The widest gap occurred with granola bars, with 71 % of the public saying they're healthy, but only 28 % of nutritionists agreeing.

Jane Stevensen, task force engagement director at CDP, said the findings demonstrated that when it comes to turning climate risk awareness into concerted action to actually address those risks, there was still a wide gap across many sectors and countries.

Knowing what the average was for the position would certainly help you craft a salary, but an experiment at Hired, said it made the gap even wider.