Sentences with phrase «working on closing that gap»

And if schooling were to be delayed, that would mean that it was even later that we started working on closing that gap.

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That is the biggest strength of the iPad Pro, and a very notable gap Microsoft is likely not going to close anytime soon, as most of the (still very few) apps in the Microsoft Store are designed to work on the primarily desktop - based Windows 10.

Tiffany has been with the SSE for three years, and worked on the launch of its campaign to «close the gap on ESG reporting» within which the SSE asked all stock exchanges to commit to providing written guidance to listed companies on reporting ESG information.

But what's done is done, we can not keep crying about the past, but work on how to build a squad for next year that would help us close that gap to the top.

However, Unai Emery's men still have a lot of work to do in order to close the gap on Villarreal on fourth place and their unbeaten streak will surely come under threat this weekend as they prepare for a clash against champions Barcelona at the Camp Nou.

Sport England are trying to close the gender gap with the This Girl Can campaign and wholeheartedly support British Cycling's continuing work on their women's strategy.»

2002 Midwifery Today, Philadelphia, «The Anthropology of Hospital Birth»; «Closing the Evidence - Practice Gap» with Marsden Wagner; «Dealing with Consumer Demand»; «Medical Imperialism: The Impact of the Western Model of Birth on the World» with Marsden Wagner; «Birth Renaissance around the World: Models that Work,» with Jan Tritten.

«The budget amendments provide additional detail on how savings will be achieved, but work remains to ensure the budget gap can be closed.»

«The task of schools in closing the attainment gap is made even harder when teacher supply is in crisis as a result of attacks on teachers» pay, working conditions and professionalism.

These actions build on the Governor's record of working to close the gender wage gap and advancing women's rights and opportunities.

Connecticut lawmakers are working on closing a nearly $ 1 billion budget gap for the next fiscal year before their legislative session ends at midnight on Wednesday, May 4.

Lawmakers are working on closing a $ 2 billion dollar budget deficit, significantly less than last year's $ 10 billion dollar gap.

We check for a diastus gap in your abdominals and work on pelvic floor recovery to get you back into shape, avoid leaking when exercising or sneezing / coughing, plus closing tummy muscles.

Bottom line: The quality gap between her work on the little screen and the big may not close anytime soon.

Turning Points 2000: A Blueprint For Middle Grades Education Reform A new report by the President's Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans advises that groups need to work together to help Hispanic students close the achievement gap with students of other ethnic groups.

Befitting its name, the laboratory's mission is to be open to a wide range of creative ideas and approaches for closing the educational achievement gap among American students — and, importantly, to rely on rigorous research to determine what works and doesn't.

«By working closely with UK universities to raise awareness of data analytics skills and giving hands on training, we are helping to close the skills gap that exists between today's graduates and the workplace — but we see this is just the beginning.»

«We need to hone in on tackling the gender divide that has seen the results of Australia's boys trail behind girls and work to close the performance gap between students from high and low socio - economic status backgrounds,» he said.

During the two - day conference on June 18 and 19, funders, activists, practitioners, public school officials, and policymakers focused on research findings that provide further insight into raising achievement levels while working to close the achievement gap.

We're working on a lot of those system parts already: early childhood education, technology, extended learning time, wraparound health and human services, career readiness, closing enrichment gaps, etc..

LL: We have been working on how to close this gap for 20 years and I think we are getting somewhere.

Working on just a few problems daily (or more, if your child enjoys math) can help students of all ages close the gaps in their math skills, preserve what they learned during the previous school year, and prepare for the next.

«The SSTA wishes to acknowledge and welcome the Deputy First Minister's determination to declutter the work of teachers and allow them to focus on teaching and learning in our battle of «closing the attainment gap».

In an initiative now being piloted in six cities across the country, communities are working to redesign their municipal systems and form new citywide partnerships so that everyone — elected officials, nonprofit leaders, healthcare professionals, social workers, parents, business owners, and educators — takes on the responsibility of supporting children and closing the opportunity gap.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

As lawmakers close in on the end of the legislative session, they're working to finalize a bill that would address the state's school funding gap.

This suggests that in order to close achievement gaps, schools need to work on helping students gain these skills and mindsets and that simply focusing on improving instruction and revising curriculum alone will not close the gap.

«If Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, and Newcastle are to be engine rooms of a Northern powerhouse, one of their priorities must be working with the towns on their borders to raise attainment and close skills gaps across a wider area.»

Magnet schools work to close the achievement gap, improve racial harmony, and make a positive impact on the lives of children @ [Insert Senator / Representative Name] #schooldiversity

Shattuck wanted teachers to understand that this work was critical to closing the achievement gap and that everyone would be on board the bus, whether they worked in the classroom or in the human resource office.

Prior to Teach Plus, Candace was the assistant director for pre-K-12 school and district assistance at the Education Trust, where she worked with schools and districts to improve student assignments and provide coaching and professional development on practices to close achievement gaps.

Students in low - income schools are more likely to be given an «A» for work that would receive a «C» in a more affluent school, according to «Raising Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools and Districts on the Performance Frontier,» an Education Trust study released last November.

Despite Dr. Coley's focus on the right work and her teachers consistent practices to close the achievement gap at the school, when they received preliminary state assessment data, they still had many, many students not working at grade level.

As we have worked together to craft our revised Denver Plan this spring, I have spent much time engaging with our teams on how to best accelerate our academic improvements and close our achievement gaps.

NEA's Priority Schools Campaign is working with Roberts and other priority schools to provide tips and techniques on how the community can work together in struggling schools, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

In the fight over how to close the racial achievement gap in education, you rarely hear about the only policy that's ever worked on a national scale: desegregation.

In working with teachers» perspectives on how NCLB has played out in their schools and profession, legislators will more successfully close the gap between Congress and the classroom.»

Prior to the work of the individual PLCs, the entire staff read articles on differentiated instruction and closing the achievement gap so that they could have some basic shared ideas.

From my work founding an innovative public - private partnership aimed at closing the achievement gap to my service on Madison School Board, I've seen firsthand the barriers standing in the way for too many students.

«The danger here is that you have two kinds of problems going on,» Kati Haycock, president of the Education Trust, a nonprofit group that works to close achievement gaps, recently told the New York Times.

Georgia State has done a lot of work to close gaps, and administrators seem to recognize it is incumbent on them to address services and supports, not change their admission policies.

And improving literacy has always been on our agenda: we worked with all schools and teachers across Wales to embed the Literacy and Numeracy Framework into curriculum planning and teaching and learning and from 2013 to 2016 we delivered Closing the Gap: test and learn, a Department for Education programme that put interventions to improve literacy in primary and secondary schools to the test.

Recently Kristin's work has focused on implementing new ways to help close the achievement gap in her school as early as possible.

I'd like the new commissioner to have a sense of urgency on implementing work to close the achievement and opportunity gaps while at the same time, supporting teachers through this process.

In recent years, an intense focus on closing racial and economic achievement gaps has resulted in policies and practices that can sometimes come at the expense of families that work hard and play by the rules.

«I sensed a clear commitment to working hard on closing the achievement gap,» he said.

In particular, the federal government plans to crack down on what it calls «hidden fees» by ending extra fees for paper bills; expanding no - cost basic banking services, working with the provinces and territories to regulate predatory payday lenders and further close the U.S. - Canada price gap.

During combat it works pretty well as it lets you close the gap on enemies with guns so you can get your sword out, and it lets you avoid the more powerful, unblockable attacks, although sometimes it can feel a little unresponsive.

«Nancy Lorenz: New Work» (closes on Saturday) Operating in the gap between painting and the decorative arts, Ms. Lorenz's latest efforts add to the history of modernist abstraction by way of seemingly gestural marks and lines fashioned from mother - of - pearl inlaid in surfaces of silver, white gold or palladium.