Sentences with phrase «substantive improvements»

Settings which engage fathers in specific support to children with low levels of attainment have seen substantive improvements in children's learning.

The idea is that if these six schools can show substantive improvement over the next several years, the rest of the city's struggling Catholic schools could follow.

Test - driven, measurable improvement — some caveats notwithstanding — is in fact almost always substantive improvement.

New technologies offer us the opportunity to plot a course that maintains accountability goals but encourages significant innovation and prioritizes the use of technology - enabled assessments — not just for automation, but for substantive improvements in student achievement.

But Pearson and McKoy reiterated support for a neighborhood school system that has been making substantive improvements and also cautioned that growing much larger could lead charter schools to sacrifice some of their autonomy.

Substantive improvement initiatives were once a rarity in the underresourced district — where more than 70 percent of students qualify for free or reduced - price meals, and where no increase in municipal funding has occurred over the past five budget cycles.

And now, for 2017, there's a new Ram Power Wagon, and we at Autobytel are happy to report that it's a far cry from an appearance package — it's the toughest and most off - road - capable pickup Ram makes, thanks to a slew of substantive improvements.

To paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, we'd better hang together toward meaningful and substantive improvements in purebred health or the AR extremists will be only to happy to hang each one of our breeds separately.

While DPS has done a great job increasing the district's high school graduation rate and allowing the new high performing schools to flourish, the district has struggled to make substantive improvements to the mainstream high schools.

De Blasio has said his administration is giving Renewal schools three years to show substantive improvement.

The company made no substantive improvements in the 2018 Index.

«The sooner we take steps to make structural and substantive improvements to that text and address public concern, the better.»

Shipps covers more than a century's worth of school shake - ups, led mostly by business groups — none of which led to any substantive improvements for children educated in Chicago schools.

While initial revenue estimates had led some school leaders to hope for a substantive improvement in school funding, this proved overly - optimistic.

Product innovation or differentiation results from offering unique features that fill an unmet demand, such as exposure to an asset class or strategy previously not available through an ETP vehicle or a substantive improvement on an existing product.

«For renewables, particularly solar, substantive improvements in cost and efficiency are not only possible but likely,» writes Sott Nyquist, director of McKinsey & Company's Houston office.

While this evolution is critical to a firm's survival, it's important that firm administrators understand that substantive improvements are only possible through multi-directional change.

The work could lead to substantive improvements to Apple's Siri personal digital assistant.