Their scores reveal that far too many students aren't ready for college or prepared to meet
the writing demands of the 21st century workplace.
Yedlin (2003) identifies the prerequisite skills and knowledge that English
writing demands of ELLs in the primary grades:
Individuals with dyslexia may not be alone when struggling with the reading and
writing demands of the workplace.
Collaborating this way allowed for one preservice teacher to see that current theory grounded in New Literacies is happening in classrooms where practicing teachers honor student voices in an effort to better prepare students for the academic
writing demands of college classrooms.
Not exact matches
Andurand, who runs oil hedge fund Andurand Capital Management LLP,
wrote in a string
of tweets on Sunday that companies may be less willing to risk investment in long term oil projects because
of low crude barrel prices and a predicted peak in electric vehicle
demand.
«OPEC's current strategy hinges heavily on the prospects
of future
demand growth,» Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
wrote in a new paper on OPEC's policy and choices.
But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear
of failure or previous setbacks
of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or
write) about past successes before you tackle any cognitively
demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.
While some
of the tasks in many current middle - skill jobs are susceptible to automation, many middle - skill jobs will continue to
demand a mixture
of tasks from across the skill spectrum,» Autor
writes.
The battle between Apple and the U.S Justice Department has been raging since the government in February obtained a court order
demanding that Apple
write new software to help law enforcement officials unlock an iPhone associated with one
of the shooters in the December attack in San Bernardino, California that killed 14 people.
Business Insider nailed it when it
wrote, «The new on -
demand models have opened the door to real - time fulfillment
of goods and services, which consumers have embraced with a frequency that is unprecedented.»
I recently
wrote about how converged devices such as smartphones might be creating
demand for optimized gadgets in the vein
of cameras, gaming systems and e-readers.
«If you are in the process
of gaining employment with Google, negotiate hard, be
demanding, and make sure to get EVERYTHING in
writing.
«We attribute the disconnect
of iPhone unit guide from supply chain data points given lower iPhone X
demand (focus
of supply chain) transferred to higher iPhone 8/7
demand (hence lower adjusted ASP),» analyst Wamsi Mohan
wrote in a note to clients Wednesday.
In a letter to David Segal, executive director
of Demand Progress, a progressive action group, Reid
wrote:
«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless
of where they send their children, a wide variety
of schools would spring up to meet the
demand,»
writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.
The kind
of working conditions that lead into this legal danger zone include not just «egregious acts
of harassment and bullying» but also chronic stress, excessive
demands by managers, and unpaid overtime,
wrote the report's author, Dr. Martin Shain
of the University
of Toronto.
«The
demand to effectively operate in unfamiliar environments and navigate cultural differences can be an intensive one, particularly when business travel requires meeting rigid schedules,»
write professors Scott A. Cohen
of the University
of Surrey in the UK and Stefan Gössling
of Linnaeus University in Sweden.
This will,
of course, increase the
demand for independent workers,»
write Emergent.
With recent discussion surrounding the hot - button issues
of writing for free and interning for free, unpaid reviews are in some ways simply the next step in
demanding payment for labor.
«With a strategy focused on higher yielding segments, including international routes and the business class traveller, Air Canada saw a nice uptick in
demand,»
wrote Walter Spracklin
of RBC Capital Markets.
«This is partly a consequence
of Under Armour wanting to «own» many different segments
of the sports performance category, but in a softer
demand environment where consumers are more selective about what they buy, such a lack
of focus is harmful,» Riva
wrote Tuesday.
With the Chinese market a major driver
of coal
demand in Asia, any policy changes in the country will affect prices, contributing to the likelihood
of continued price volatility in the seaborne coal market,
wrote Wood Mackenzie's principal analyst for mining and metals fundamentals research, Rory Simington in a Nov. 16 report.
Historic productivity tips: Benjamin Franklin used to read and
write in the buff; Beethoven
demanded 60 beans per cup
of coffee.
Think about it: The opportunity and encouragement to intermittently rest and renew our energy during the work day serves as an antidote to the increasing overload so many
of us feel in a world
of relentlessly rising
demand,» Schwartz and Porath
write.
«These practices would stand in stark contrast to forced performance distributions that
demand pre-set percentages
of «worst employees» and up - or - out promotion systems that require employees to be fired even when the team is functioning well,» they
wrote.
«The levels
of [prescription]
demand would suggest access is not a key hurdle to patients and there is a high level
of awareness
of the product by patients and doctors,» Divan
wrote in a Friday note.
«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee
wrote, «and
demand some
of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.
With India having imported a phenomenal 525 metric tons in the first half
of 2017 alone, Teves
writes that «we expect gold
demand in India this year to be around historic averages,» which would be very supportive for prices.
«Consumer on -
demand parking, while one
of those novel, amazing experiences for customers, is a very difficult business to scale,» the company
wrote in a goodbye letter.
In a newspaper article from May 1948, Rep. Buffett
wrote, «In a free country the monetary unit rests upon a fixed foundation
of gold... independent
of the ruling politicians... unless you are willing to surrender your children and your country to galloping inflation, war and slavery, then this cause
demands your support... we must win the battle to restore honest money.»
«The combination
of the scale and quality
of the
demand has led us to rethink our strategy for both this transaction and the next round,» Hyman
wrote.
While it's somewhat disingenuous to
demand that your bill be evaluated not as it's
written, but as it might be amended at some later date, here in the interest
of fairness is TPC's 2018 projection:
«Declining ore grades for copper, continued lack
of investment in new mines and the time required to bring new discoveries to production will constrain metal availability and, ultimately, the metal sector's ability to meet growing
demand from automakers for battery electric vehicle production,» Carol Cowan, a Moody's Senior Vice President
wrote.
This is what I
wrote about in the Financial Times yesterday: the U.S. refusal to cooperate with other countries, above all its double standard insisting that other countries must turn their foreign - exchange surpluses over to the U.S. Treasury to promote U.S. financial markets at their expense — and the
demand that any country running a trade surplus with America spend the money on U.S. arms — is so abhorrent that other countries are proceeding to create an alternative global financial system
of settling trade and balance -
of - payments transactions without the United States.
Action:
Write to your political reps to
demand stronger privacy laws Who is this for: Anyone who cares about privacy, and especially Internet users in North America right now How difficult is it: A bit
of effort Tell me more: There appears to be bipartisan appetite among U.S. lawmakers to bring in some form
of regulation for Internet companies.
I have
written more than one long blog post on this topic, but a simplified version
of that would be to say: A startup will know it its offering has achieved product / market fit if they are having trouble meeting
demand for the product.
In June, he
wrote a Washington Post op - ed calling for a new third class
of worker — somewhere in between contractor and employee — to fit the needs
of on -
demand and marketplace companies.
The Washington Consensus on global economic policy is dead World economy faces heightened risk
of fragmentation, nationalismBuilding support for a new unifying economic paradigm to replace the discredited Washington Consensus will be an analytically challenging, politically
demanding, and time - consuming process,
writes Mohamed El - Erian.
This is exactly why I
wrote here that the EU is missing a great opportunity to
demand emissions certification from all sources
of crude oil.
«We expect
demand to outstrip supply for iPhone X over the next two quarters, but
demand could potentially slow down starting in the June 2018 quarter due to anticipation
of new devices later in the year,»
wrote the analysts.
Dourado
writes (I take his «in the short run» to mean «in a situation
of unsatisfied excess
demand for money»):
Elsewhere the Japanese Yen slipped 0.06 % to ¥ 109.11 against the Dollar at the time
of writing, easing geo - political risk and better than expected PMI numbers out
of China supporting market risk appetite through the session, leading to a pullback in
demand for the safe havens.
Here is another
write up
of Lee's presentation by
Demand Gen Report: C2C15: Leveraging Influencers For Credible, Valuable Content.
Despite its technical staff ruling in 2010 - 11 that Greece's foreign debts could not be paid and hence needed to be
written off, its heads — first Dominique Strauss - Kahn and then Lagarde — acted in blatant conflict
of interest to support the French bankers
demands for payment in full, and U.S.
demands by President Obama and Wall Street lobbyist Tim Geithner to insist there be no writedown at all.
In the September 2013 Quarterly Report we
wrote that, by 2015, increasing production from US shale oil would be «easily absorbed by an estimated incremental
demand of 4 million barrels from non-OECD countries over the same time frame».
You have
written extensively about the supply and
demand forces
of precious metals.
I'll
write about the bogus «China gold
demand» theory again in the future as it's one
of the most persistent false beliefs within the bullish camp, but in this post I'm going to quickly deal with another China - related false belief that periodically shifts to the centre
of the bullish stage: the idea that China's government is preparing to back the Yuan with gold.
«Given the size and scope
of the IoT and 5G opportunities, we see IDCC's IoT goal as conservative as the company likely accounts for the uncertainty around monetization strategies and the timing / rate
of incremental
demand for its IoT related services and products,» analyst Darrin Peller
wrote in a note.
Comey
writes that Trump's loyalty
demand reminded him
of «Sammy the Bull's Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump, in the role
of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a «made man.
I
wrote a longer post on the subject here, but the TL; DR version is: In the first decade
of the 21st century, Chinese
demand for coal went through the roof.