Sentences with phrase «stakes are a little higher»

Of course, the stakes are a little higher when you can't just press pause or hit a skip button when you're not satisfied with the choice.

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For its part, the oil and gas industry, by pouring investment into the oilsands with little concern for how it's going to get the oil out to markets, «is playing a high - stakes game of chicken,» Cann adds.

This so - called «optimism bias» can be a hell of a survival mechanism in the all - encompassing, high - stakes process of building a business, but it can also serve to downplay real problems — especially little ones that appear inconsequential and are easy to justify.

The stakes are high as oil watchers see very little chance that the markets will react with a shrug of their shoulders.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said Kim Jong Un wants a historic, high - stakes meeting as soon as possible and suggested the North Korean dictator has been «very open» and «very honorable,» a sharply different assessment of a leader he once denounced as «Little Rocket Man.»

Marriage apart from Christianity feels nowhere near as high - stakes as marriage within Christianity, and that's certainly because Christians talk about marriage, think about marriage and pursue marriage in ways and avenues that facilitate a level of intensity and intention that, frankly, is a little uncomfortable.

So high in the popularity stakes, it would appear that these little tinkers have also been involved in highly competitive bake offs and come up trumps!

When the stakes become higher and your force can be felt in an organization, expect backlash for the least little perceived «mistake.»

That leaves little for Detective Tracy Atwood (Demi Moore), who's also in the midst of a high - stakes divorce, to find, but she knows the murders mark the return of «The Thumbprint Killer.»

The stakes and pressure are relentlessly high, and while Victoria is understandably panicked as a result, she's relegated to little more than screaming or crying during most of the episode's running time, making it feel somewhat repetitive.

When Kate's little brother Andy (Caleb Landry Jones) is forced to dump a shipment of cocaine during a high - stakes smuggling run, he lands himself, Chris, and Kate on the hook of local thug Tim Briggs (Giovanni Ribisi).

It's true that the stakes were high, but they were also more than a little remote.

The film relies perhaps a little too much on the spontaneity of its performances as the stakes aren't exactly high and you'd have to be blind drunk not to see how this night ends.

It's a beautiful little beat that demonstrates Greengrass» ability to find truthful character beats in amongst the high - stakes action.

Koretz bluntly states that high - stakes testing has been «a failure» and «the side effects have been massive... [I] t would be hard to justify continuing with an approach that does so much damage while creating so little benefit.»

Further, little is being done to ensure that the tests being devised for the new Common Core State Standards do not introduce a break in the continuous stream of accountability information essential for the evaluation of school and teacher performance (see this issue's forum, «Examining High - Stakes Testing»).

While more dedicated media education in schools would be great, it is little more than a pipe dream in the current climate of low budgets and high - stake tests.

But there seems to be little evidence that this has happened and a huge body of evidence that high - stakes tests of all kinds focus school systems on teaching and learning.

In a bracing new book that might be seen as a capstone to that work, Koretz excoriates our current reliance on high - stakes testing as a fraud — an expensive and harmful intervention that does little to improve the practices it purports to measure, instead feeding a vicious cycle of pointless test prep.

Advocates argue that the use of VA measures in decisions regarding teacher selection, retraining, and dismissal will boost student achievement, while critics contend that the measures are a poor indicator of teacher quality and should play little if any role in high - stakes decisions.

Second, we know very little about how the validity of the value - added estimates may change when they are put to high stakes use.

The proposed changes to the current Policy are minimal and amount to little more than a swap of one high - stakes nationally - normed standardized test for another.

«Of course, whether or not students learn should be part of a teacher's and administrator's evaluation, but when you have high stakes for students, teachers and administrators and little or no accountability for the $ 254 million contract lawmakers have given to the testing company, something is wrong.

This might not be politically feasible in high - stakes situations (we don't want little Johnny involved in high - stakes assessment of little Sally), but for various kinds of formative assessments, peer assessment tools might help us expand the range of the assessable.

A recent survey initiated by State Board of Education Chair Donna Bahorich, and to which over 27,000 educators, members of the public, and even students responded, indicates that there is very little support for our current system of high - stakes testing.

Far too little is still being done, however, to reform the high stakes accountability system that is the root cause of excessive workload.

Since little has been done concurrent with high stakes accountability to actually support and improve schools with resources and innovative services, the result has been a policy environment where the tests have consumed more and more of the curriculum.

That said, we need extrapolate only a little to question the current direction, and underlying theory of action, beneath the continued press to tighten the screws on the package of high - stakes testing, school accountability, and educator performance evaluations tied to student achievement scores (which, as I noted in a previous Educational Leadership column, researchers caution is fraught with concerns of its own).

Standardized tests with high stakes are bad for learning, studies show (Statesman, 3/10/2012) A National Academies of Science committee reviewed America's test - based accountability systems and concluded, «There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress.»

Linda Darling - Hammond argued to me that «with respect to the agenda that began with No Child Left Behind, which has been sort of high - stakes testing without investing, and very little investment in teacher training and capacity, and so on, I would say that these last six years have been a continuation of the eight years that preceded them.»

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

She wrote that «since teachers face pressure to improve scores and since poverty - stricken students generally underperform on high - stakes tests, schools serving low - income students are more likely to implement a style of teaching based on drilling and memorization that leads to little learning.»

Amazon is playing for so much higher stakes than that little bookseller from New York.

Caleb Cain had this to say:»» What's perhaps most breathtaking about the Amazon - Macmillan dispute is how little, finally, is at stake: should the highest price of an e-book be $ 9.95 or $ 14.95?

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Despite the high stakes, I'm gonna risk a gnawing to bring news (via insert credit) of a cool little Fallout 3 - related browser game.

Need For Speed: High Stakes is getting a little long in the tooth now, as is the original Playstation console, but the game is still a lot of fun to play when you just want to goof around for a little while.

The high - stakes that studios place on triple - A projects means there's little room for error, Edmondson said.

It should also be obvious that little is served by staking out a high road that leads off a cliff.

Choe is a Los Angeles - based artist, high - stakes gambler and blackmailer, whose refined taste in food ranges from Chicken Littles to desserts made of paper.

But there was little disagreement that playing what amounts to two games of high - stakes poker at the same time by driving up greenhouse - gas concentrations is a bad idea, particularly as ever more people concentrate on coastlines in both rich and poor countries.

«When you are in high - stakes litigation you have little time, and it really crystallizes which elements in the procedural toolbox are most useful, especially in a case like this one,» says Jeremy Pilaar, a third - year law student working on the lawsuit.

Such requests must be proportional to the matters at stake in the litigation (Ontario Rule 29.2), but in high - stakes actions, this may give little relief.

The stakes are (a little) higher for this, but the point stands.

Those are very high stakes, with very little margin for error.

If the cheater's knew they would be left for cheating they would consider the higher stakes a little more seriously.

«I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter.»