Sentences with phrase «than in most»

And although PTE cites various international surveys about the benefits of school autonomy, it ignores the fact the OECD found UK schools had a greater level of autonomy than in most other school systems over allocation of resources, employment of staff and spending the budget.

But under a district waiver like the one that's being proposed, schools and teachers in LAUSD would be operating under a different set of federal rules than those in most of the rest of the state.

Even the most «yuppified» Jersey City charter, the Learning Community school, is impressively integrated with 43 percent of its children poor enough to qualify for free lunches — far more than in most suburbs.

While the model flies against efforts to keep class sizes low, Mr. Waronker notes that the teacher - student ratio is lower than in most schools.

The persistent gap in the UK, which is wider than in most other countries and has existed for generations, is commonly attributed to our class - based society, with its greater inequalities than, say, those in Scandinavian countries or the tiger economies of the Far East.

Disadvantaged London pupils are making more progress than those elsewhere in the country, and the gap in English and Maths is ten percentage points lower in inner London than in most other regions.

What's especially encouraging is that Hispanic students, who make up a larger share of the student population in Texas than in most other states, demonstrated some of the biggest gains.

I learned more in that electrifying and bizarre class than in most other classes because he taught us with all the enthusiasm and love for the subject he possessed.

Figure 1 shows that the school year in the U.S. is shorter than in most other countries for which the OECD collects data.

But even if this were true, it would not explain why in Finland students learn better in their schools than in most other places in the world.

Gender equality is achieved to a higher degree in Norway than in most of the rest of the world, including the regions of Europe that share the same Protestant background as Norway.

Take special education, which at more than $ 24,000 per student is far more expensive in New York than in most other states.

Even so, the state ranks ninth out of the states on both the coefficient of variation and the McLoone Index, suggesting that the finance inequities across districts in North Carolina are less than in most other states.

The fact that Texas is a right - to - work state also meant that the union had less leverage than in most other large districts.

On the positive side, the state has smaller schools and class sizes than in most states.

Whether measured on a per - pupil basis or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, support for public schools is stronger in the United States than in most other nations.

The report also found that teachers are working longer hours with bigger classes than in most other developed countries.

We have deep, persistent achievement gaps, larger than in most other states.

In other words, middle school start times are somewhat earlier in Wake County than in most districts nationwide.

A higher percentage of students in West Virginia attend small schools at all three levels — elementary, middle, and high school — than in most other states.

As the recent comparative studies have shown, these results pale in comparison to Boston's high - performing charter sector but are stronger than those in most other urban public school systems.

Louisiana ranks 10th out of the 50 states on the McLoone Index, and eighth on the coefficient of variation — two other measures of finance equity that show the state has smaller funding disparities across districts than in most other states.

I've highlighted quality writing in all of these entries (because I think that is a major factor) but with Deus Ex it's a bigger feat than in most other cases due to the ease with which the topics it discussed could have pushed the game into pretentiousness.

A wonderful portrait of a family, we get three generations (the little kids here play a larger role than in most of Ozu's later films, Good Morning excepted) dealing with Hara's matrimonial issues.

There's more detail in Toothless's eye than in most films altogether, and the creature is a chummier version of the «Cloverfield» creature as he's a panther, bunny, duck, cat, dog, bat, whale, newt, bird and dragon all at once.

There are more amazing shots in German films from the 1920s than in most new releases.

The villain in «Avengers: Infinity War» is more nuanced than in most comic - book movies.

Even with its occasional lapses into melodramatic fakery, its cool, machine - tooled mixture of jargon, gadgetry, offhanded machismo and war - is - hell imagery feels far more authentic than in most Hollywood war movies.

That said, I find a lot more enjoyment in most Curtiz pictures than in most Wyler pictures.

This is more important than in most Mario games as there are a lot of RPG elements; currency helps to make your party stronger.

This IS a good movie and it's my second favorite of the three (original is better than all in most cases though).

Congrats to the writing team and Columbus (I'm guessing there was much less ad - libbing than in most Sandler films).

Most of his films have been, of course, not as indie as this one, but his characters always felt more like real people than in most films I've come across.

There's more sound and atmosphere to admire than in most films, but the mix isn't especially memorable.

I will say that this filming technique is used far better here than in most movies.

But even if you're not entirely satisfied by the whole, you must recognize there's more substance here than in most of the film's contemporaries.

As fun and clever as the first half may be, by the end the story runs out of steam, unsure of how to resolve some impossible plot threads other than in the most improbable way.

The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.

It works better here than in most such stage adaptations.

Director Shawn Levy («Real Steel,» «Night at the Museum») paces the movie well, and the gags are more consistent than those in most Hollywood comedies.

This does sound more overtly plotty in a trivial comic book way than other recent Marvel films, and a more epic sweep is promised, but we hope that Taylor retains the better parts of the first film too; the humor, and the romance, which worked a little better than in most other Marvel pictures.

Details matter here more than in most movies.

When I first decided to search for a Ukrainian girl (how that happened is worth another post), I had set up a profile on a Ukrainian dating site other than In most cases you can tell that the girl is a scammer just by looking at her profile.

Courting is far more indirect in Asian dating culture than in most Western societies.

«Even after you subtract the 24 % of single men in San Francisco who are gay, there are still more heterosexual bachelors to meet, per capita, than in most large cities in America.

Christmas in Russia is traditionally celebrated a little later than in most of the world, but how is the festive season celebrated by Russian singles?

In California they have a longer life than in most places but for me it never seems long enough.

Although there is evidence that running is the best to develop your aerobic base (because you burn more fats than in most other sports), whatever you can find that you can do at a low enough intensity for prolonged periods of time will do the trick.

When you start solid food, be sure to include foods with plenty of vitamin C (and there is more vitamin C in liver than in most plant foods).

Methionine is an amino acid that is found in virtually any animal or plant protein but is about twice as abundant in most animal proteins than in most plant proteins.