Sentences with phrase «significantly smaller gains»

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

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Small protest parties and the likes of the BNP especially, would gain significantly as a result.

The SFLF pilot model seems to be a very attractive option for small farmers who can significantly increase their income by harmonizing and synchronizing selected operations to achieve scale and gain bargaining power in input purchase and output sales.

They took a bunch of fecal samples from vegetarians, did some DNA fingerprinting, compared it to omnivore feces, and found significantly more of the lean - type bacteria — suggesting a smaller capacity for energy gain from food in vegetarians.

Grain - fed turkeys gain weight faster but have significantly smaller brain size than their omnivorous wild cousins of the same breed.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

These small differences can significantly affect any gains or losses you make.

For most SMI readers, then, we believe it's better to pay tax each year on the relatively small amount of income generated by your bond portfolio (especially given today's ultra-low interest rates) than the significantly larger gains created by your stock funds.

A smaller iPad would be even more portable than current models and would cost significantly less, allowing Apple to gain market share at a lower price point.