Sentences with phrase «spending practices compared»

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Compared to all the time they'll spend competing in practice.

Continuing this practice, while also reducing total ECS spending (compared to FY 2017 levels) in FYs 2018 and 2019, puts Connecticut at further risk of violating its federal maintenance of support (MOS) requirement, which is the primary fiscal measure by which states are judged to be eligible for federal funding under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).

Teachers whose preparation programs focused on the work of the classroom, provided a supervised clinical experience, and gave them the opportunity to engage in the practices of teaching were able to drive greater learning gains for their students once in the classroom than those who did not receive the same kind of clinically oriented preservice training.56 Prospective teachers who had a longer clinical experience reported greater confidence in their teaching abilities and were more likely to say that the length of time they spent as a student teacher was adequate, compared with their peers who had shorter clinical experiences.57

On average, teachers spent 31 hours being trained in the Classroom Assessment for Student Learning approach (60 hours were required); no differences were observed in their classroom practices compared with teachers not using the program (Randel et al., 2011).

Regardless, that revelation doesn't compare to the next one: Attorneys who practice in a «business boutique» firm report spending only 17 percent of their time managing and marketing the firm.

For one thing, the legal industry spends less than one per cent on research and development compared with an average of 3.5 per cent for the typical U.S. business, according to Dan Jensen, head of Nextlaw Labs, a business accelerator focused on investing in, developing and deploying new technologies to transform the practice of law and an autonomous, wholly owned subsidiary of global law firm Dentons LLP.

Compared to parents with lower levels of education, parents with higher levels of education tend to spend more time with their children (Guryan et al., 2008), use more varied and complex language (Hart and Risley, 1995; Hoff, 2003), and engage in parenting practices that promote socioemotional development (Duncan et al., 1994; McLoyd, 1997; Bradley and Corwyn, 2002).