Sentences with phrase «similar economic needs»

Across nine tested schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn, Success Academy students scored on average 39 points higher than their peers attending schools with similar economic needs.

Even if that's the case, this remains larger than the citywide gifted and talented programs - we haven't adjusted for their own huge selection issues - and places an average third grade student nearly on par with fifth grade students at schools with similar economic needs.

Not exact matches

A company called OneWeb, backed by Virgin's Branson and founded by Greg Wyler, has similar ambitions: «OneWeb's mission is to bring the entire world online to improve quality of life and spur economic and national development where it's needed most,» Wyler has said.

Whether or not we agree with their answers, if we are to create a better economic system and avoid a serious class division we need to confront and respond to this and similar analyses of our current problems.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

«We will be seeking similar test customers in your market, and we will be happy to provide the much - needed internet to the folks who are not getting it right now,» said Director of Economic Development Christopher Thompson.

From there the groups should be further refined to include schools comparable on the socio - economic demographics and that have similar percentages of students with special needs (excluding students who receive speech / language services) and English language learners.

The Occupy movement has catalyzed rising anxiety over income inequality; we desperately need a similar reminder of the relationship between economic advantage and student performance.

Then there is the generally degrading quality of U.S. infrastructure, which could easily lead to more outbreaks similar to the 1993 Milwaukee cryptosporidium epidemic — as well as the more general problem of not having enough water to meet basic needs, let alone any economic expansion.

By 2015, assuming that modest economic growth resumes, a reasonable guess is that Britain will need around 64GW to cope with similar conditions.

Remind them that the dramatic U.S. mobilization for World War II is similar to what we need today to reverse the trends that are causing economic collapse and decline.

Chapter 3 performs a similar role in the TAR WG II (Carter and La Rovere, 2001) also discussing climate scenarios, but treating, in addition, all other scenarios (socio - economic, land use, environmental, etc.) needed for undertaking policy - relevant impact assessment.

Second — an airflight tax similar to the one proposed by Chancel and Pikkety (see original post), but higher due to the need for larger amounts than previously calculated to pay for the giant economic transformation needed by the poor countries of the world.

The increasing presence of «the State» (in the broad sense) in general economic life has led to a need for renewed statutory and judiciary response to issues as diverse as vulture funds litigation involving sovereign debt, enforcement of arbitral proceedings against States (and similar entities),...