Sentences with phrase «upward trends»

The positive news about graduation rates was coupled with continued upward trends in scores on the state's High School Proficiency Assessments (HSPA), the required exit exam in language arts and math given to all juniors.

Certainly, one might think it was inevitable that each of the four continuous upward trends in Atlanta NAEP TUDA results, from 2002 or 2003 through 2013, would end.

«This coming year, the California charter movement will commemorate its 20th anniversary, and to continue to see these upward trends is phenomenal and encouraging.

Excelling With a Diverse Student Population Principal Virginia Minshew of Park View High School in Sterling, VA, talks about how her 1,300 - student school has overcome the challenges of poverty and diversity to exceed all expectations by meeting AYP and by producing significant, ongoing upward trends on state testing.

But aside from a slight drop - off in NAEP 4th - grade reading and math scores, the overall upward trends put in motion under Bloomberg have continued through de Blasio's first term.

Nevertheless, a measure of state and federal court cases calculated per enrolled student would demonstrate similar upward trends, more than doubling from the years 1976 — 1992 to the 2003 — 2007 period.

In spite of the summer being a quieter season than the others for dating industry, we are seeing great upward trends in both registrations and payments that is of course a good sign.

«I truly believe it is the future of healthcare and one sure way to get people to make the diet and lifestyle changes needed to reverse the upward trends of diabetes, obesity and other chronic illnesses.»

Those predictions clearly suggest an annual global temperature record in 2016 and a (relative) cooling in 2017, all while the long - term upward trends continue.

Similar upward trends in upper - tropospheric specific humidity, which considerably enhance the greenhouse effect, have also been detected from 1982 to 2004.

European companies are laggards in spending on research and development — but a new report offers a few upward trends.

This is due to the unabated upward trends in human population growth (6), atmospheric heat content, and OA (2).

The observed upward trends in drinking among adults 60 years of age and older, particularly women, are of public health concern.

The other four sports showed upward trends in concussion rates, but based on statistical analysis, those increases could have occurred by chance.

While they saw changes in meteorological quantities that are consistent with these upward trends, the meteorological trends were not the ones expected under climate change.

Instead, major upward trends in interest rates are driven primarily by rising inflation expectations, or, to put it more aptly, by declining confidence in money.

Under the current monetary regime, major upward trends in interest rates are not driven by the desire to consume more in the present (the desire to save less) or by rapidly - increasing demand for borrowed money to invest in productive enterprises.

After a long period of being a drag on the economy, the housing market is now providing lift to economic activity, with upward trends evident in housing starts, home sales, and home prices.

Macro: The Macro strategy's strongest contributions came from long equity and Energy - sector positioning as low volatility and sustained, upward trends in these markets continued driving returns throughout most of January.

These are all great numbers; I'm thrilled about the upward trends, and I'm a big fan of data and stats.

Western Australia's house price index has risen 2.7 per cent in the June quarter, in line with the national upward trend, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.

The upward trend in premiums could also very well continue.

«Underlying inflation pressures continue to remain subdued and have yet to show a convincing upward trend,» ECB President Mario Draghi said Thursday.

It suggests that the pattern in Canada is that a slight upward trend in CEO pay is accompanied by a bigger upward trend in shareholder value.

Female entrepreneurship continues an upward trend globally.

They've got $ 2 billion in cash in the bank, so it's a company that has time, options and assets, but what it doesn't yet have is a demonstrable, positive upward trend to give anyone reason to believe it'll be bigger than it is now any time soon.

Morgan Stanley also highlights the continued upward trend for S&P 500 12 - month forward earnings, as shown in the chart below:

But the same year, legislators backtracked, starting the process that sent discretionary spending on an upward trend.

It's critical to inform members of your team about the inherent benefits of a company pursuing an upward trend.

A: We have seen an upward trend in employee happiness since this policy went public.

House prices may at times go into reverse, but they historically have enjoyed a long - term upward trend, like stocks.

When the Shanghai composite index rebounds — it's down about 16 % over the past 12 months — and signals that the worst of the slowdown is over, commodity prices «will be on more of a decisive upward trend.»

The basic problem is that during each recession, governments increase their debt load to stimulate the economy and maintain (or even increase) services, but rarely cut back on their debt loads or services during the prosperous times — creating a long - term upward trend in indebtedness that Tony Boeckh of The Boeckh Investment Letter calls the «debt supercycle.»

Although China's exports declined in 2014 from the year before, Beijing's arms industry is still in a broader upward trend.

Edward Meyer, Ocean Road Advisers chairman, and Laurie Glimcher, Weill Cornell Medical College dean, discuss the upward trend in philanthropy and how donations provide seed money for innovative research projects and recruit top talent.

Yet some fund managers and analysts say that Amazon.com's (amzn) lofty upward trend is leaving the stock primed for a significant tumble should it not exceed high expectations for growth in its Prime subscription service, which jumped 50 % last year.

His comments suggest the ECB remains confident that inflation is finally on an upward trend, supporting market expectations for the bank to finally end its bond purchase programme this year, satisfied that inflation will eventually hit its nearly 2 percent target.

A move below the lower support is a reversal in the upward trend.

There was just a temporary blip, before the upward trend resumed again,» said Per - Arne Sandegren, chief analyst at Svensk Mäklarstatistik, a company that collects data on the Swedish housing market, to SvD Näringsliv.

Historically, however, the market has had an upward trend.

While health care shows a strong upward trend in priorities and investment spending, it remains below average in the priority attached to innovation and in spending plans.

Professional and business services also saw an upward trend in employment, with 612,000 jobs added in the past 12 months.

Mortgage originations increased to $ 502 billion, continuing an upward trend that began in the 2nd quarter of last year.

Also, there's a clear upward trend in OTC cryptocurrency trading, which dates all the way back to 2013.

If you want to invest your time and energy to optimize for certain keywords, they should be ones with an upward trend, such as «smartphone» over «mobile phone».

However, ever since 2001, the mortgage cost of residential properties has been on an upward trend, with the exception of the 2009 downward blip.

Long - term bond yields continue to extend their hostile upward trend, while other market internals continue to diverge as well.

That was a new one, because financials have been clinging to the top of their upward trend channels for months.

In broad terms, we're seeing a slow and steady upward trend in wages, but we're not seeing the type of acceleration that should be expected when the unemployment rate is around 4 %.

To do so credibly would presumably require confidence that the upward trend in inflation seen over the past couple of years would be likely to turn down.