Sentences with phrase «whose average percent»

There was more variation with the middle reading tercile, whose average percent correct decreased by 3 % between low reading demand and high reading demand questions.

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To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

A recent winner — a fund whose performance put it in the top quartile in 2013 among portfolios with the same investment objective — had only a 56 percent chance of doing better than average in 2014, barely better than you would expect by random chance.

Analysts typically find that, when all is said and done, U.S. corporations pay an average rate somewhere between 22 and 29 percent, which, depending on whose estimates you rely on, may or may not be in line with our peer nations.

A listing would test investors» appetite for entertainment software, a group whose shares have declined an average of 18 percent from their offer prices following IPOs this year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Also because of regulations, smaller retail investors have effectively been blocked from participating in higher - yielding investments — namely, private equity and venture capital, whose 10 - year compound annual growth rates have averaged 11.8 and 11 percent, quite a bit more than Treasuries, equities and other common asset classes.

The state with the biggest jump in blue - chippers this year is Michigan, whose 10 four - and five - star kids mark, in total, a 2.3 percent increase over its average from the last four classes.

Today, as adults, they earn an average of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs of delay in infancy.

«As we have done the analysis, it is apparent to me — and I'm 100 percent confident — that if this bill was passed, we are looking at $ 1,600 being kept by the average family in the district,» said Reed, whose district includes much of the Southern Tier.

When Pennsylvania Station in New York undergoes major track repairs in July, the Long Island Rail Road will offer commuters whose trains are diverted to other stations an average discount of about 25 percent, officials said.

When the station undergoes major track repairs in July, the Long Island Rail Road will offer commuters whose trains are diverted an average discount of about 25 percent, officials said.

LATFOR must first follow federal law which requires adherence to the Voting Rights Act and the creation of state legislative districts whose populations are within 5 percent of the average size district.

Starting this month, the ACA's current penalty of one percent doubles for hospitals whose number of readmitted patients, within 30 days, goes above the national average specifically for those conditions.

On average the transplanted stem cells regenerated 40 percent of the damaged heart tissue, said Dr. Michael Laflamme, UW assistant professor of pathology, whose team was principally responsible for generating the replacement heart muscle cells.

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

This has profound implications: Chetty and colleagues estimate that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent of the distribution with an average teacher would increase the present discounted value of students» lifetime income by more than $ 250,000 for a typical class (of 28 students).

,» published by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, students whose teachers routinely gave «authentic intellectual assignments» increased their scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (a widely used standardized test) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationally.

About 59 percent of students in the state attend schools in districts whose spending is at or above the national average.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, whose private school system is expected to provide the bulk of the seats for new voucher students and which was involved in passing and developing the program, is seeking additional money, noting that their tuition rates on average cover only about 50 percent of the system's costs to educate each child.

Our estimates imply that replacing a teacher whose value added is in the bottom 5 percent with an average teacher would increase students» cumulative lifetime income by a total of $ 1.4 million per classroom taught.

The first and most rigorous of the studies, by Dan Goldhaber and Emily Anthony of the Urban Institute, found that on average North Carolina students in grades 3 - 5 whose teachers were board certified scored 7 to 15 percent higher on tests than students whose teachers attempted but failed to gain certification.

In 2005 - 2006, about 60 percent of all California students were concentrated in large urban districts whose per - pupil base state grant was $ 85 less than the average grant statewide.

That same year, K12's Ohio Virtual Academy — whose enrollment tops 9,000 — had a 30 percent on - time graduation rate, compared with a state average of 78 percent.

The Times reported that students with teachers rated in the top 10 percent for effectiveness had scores averaging 17 percentile points higher in English and 25 points higher in math than students whose teachers were in the bottom 10 percent.

The next best vehicle is the Ram 1500 long - wheelbase four - wheel drive, a large pickup whose overall collision losses are 53 percent lower than the average; followed closely by a very large pickup, the Ford F - 250 four - wheel drive; and the Kia Soul electric, a small station wagon.

A company whose earnings growth averages 20 percent a year for 10 years will see earnings rise six fold over that time, thanks to compounding, and I expect to see its stock price rise by that much as well.»

The 43 real estate billionaires whose marital status are known have an average of 2.9 children; 11 (or 26 percent) have four or more children, with William Pulte topping the list with 14 children.

Although the typical buyers whose conventional loans were closed in December had «back end» debt ratios averaging 35 percent, at FHA the average was 42 percent.

To anyone considering renewing a franchise agreement, I have one question: What we deliver supports over 8,000 people across the U.S. and Canada and domestically we average in the top 14 percent in terms of productivity; so why pay two to four times the fees to a company whose agent productivity is almost certainly lower?

Sellers whose sales closed escrow in March sold for an average of 1 percent less than their asking prices.

Working households are defined in the report as households whose members work a total of at least 20 hours per week on average, and where household income does not exceed 120 percent of the area median.