Sentences with phrase «year placed emphasis»

The third year placed emphasis on addressing the individual needs of faculty members and providing expanded professional development opportunities such as mentoring and professional sharing.

Not exact matches

The Conference Board notes that the federal government has placed great emphasis in improving Canada's innovation performance for years, most directly in the 2012 budget's revamping of how $ 3.5 billion is doled out to firms under the Scientific Research and Experimental Development program.

For each fund with at least a three - year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Ratingä based on a Morningstar Risk - Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variation in a fund's monthly performance (including the effects of sales charges, loads, and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance.

In conclusion, the point is that promotion from within has a clear role to play in the growth and proliferation of a business, but that over the past 30 years, businesses have been placing perhaps too much emphasis on external hiring.

INCREASED NEED With the rapid uptake of mechanisation and automation in the mining industry, greater emphasis has been placed on the need for maintenance in the last 20 years

Given the remarkable amount of emphasis placed on link building over the past five or so years, it's not surprising that third - party linking analytics tools have proliferated as well.

For each U.S. - domiciled fund with at least a 3 - year history, Morningstar calculates a Morningstar Rating ™ based on a Morningstar Risk - Adjusted Return measure that accounts for variations in a fund's monthly performance (including loads and redemption fees), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance.

During election years, the N.R.L.C. Convention is held near Washington, D.C. and typically places great emphasis on the presidential race.

In recent years, its focus has shifted, placing greater emphasis on national campaigning, and on promoting and producing more resources that are of direct benefit to parishes.

This is why I've devoted 15 years of my life to creating my own practice from scratch focused on my primary emphasis of «Food Behavior» while placing myself in a Rare category where most Never go by completing the # 1 Masters in Functional Medicine Clinical Nutrition Nationwide in addition to expertise I'd have for years in Change Psychology, Mind - Body Medicine, Sport / Exercise Nutrition, Food Science, & Fat - Loss.

That has been apparent in clashes with Liverpool, Tottenham and Man City this year, where the emphasis has seemingly been placed on not allowing the opposition to be a danger as opposed to going out to win the game.

Nearly all intend to increase the emphasis they place on new media over the next year — with half planning to increase their use significantly and another 40 percent planning a slight increase.

President Mahama, also mentioned that his government will place emphasis on Technical and Vocational Education in the next four years.

At the end of last year, Facebook revamped its approach to photos, placing a greater emphasis on them over text content.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

«Reducing humanity's impact on our planet should be pursued as a matter of urgency, but more emphasis must also be placed on being resilient to individual weather events, as this year's storms in Britain have so devastatingly shown.»

Over the years Haidt and his University of Virginia colleague Jesse Graham have surveyed the moral opinions of more than 110,000 people from dozens of countries and have found this consistent difference: self - reported liberals are high on 1 and 2 (harm / care and fairness / reciprocity) but are low on 3, 4 and 5 (ingroup / loyalty, authority / respect and purity / sanctity), whereas self - reported conservatives are roughly equal on all five dimensions, although they place slightly less emphasis on 1 and 2 than liberals do.

Several years ago, emphasis was placed on the treatment of skin lesions rather than on the itch, there was little focus on the quality of a psoriasis patient's life.

As styles have shifted over the years, there's been a larger emphasis placed on the waist.

As the years have gone by I've placed less emphasis on creating «new years resolutions».

Story Dominates Over Spectacle Take a step back to consider the nominees as a whole, and you'll see that this year's selections have placed a greater emphasis on character - driven stories with big ideas over grander, more technically accomplished directorial visions.

Sicario was among the best films to premiere at Cannes earlier this year, and even naysayers (who place too much emphasis on what the film is or isn't «saying» about the drug war) tend to concede that it's gripping as hell.

The pilot also rightly places increased emphasis on how their students learn in the course of a school year, regardless of where they start the year on the achievement spectrum.

The report contends that at present, we place far too much emphasis on a single pathway to success: attending and graduating from a four - year college.

The need for new markers is expected to increase over the next few years as education reforms place more emphasis on exams as opposed to coursework.

«Adaptive Learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

«Adaptive learning» has been a frequently used term in education for many years but today, with the advent of more ubiquitous technology in schools, education systems are placing more emphasis on the advantages of leveraging adaptive techniques within both assessments and instructional programs.

For Thailand, the new national curriculum set to be implemented in the 2014 academic year has also placed emphasis on morals and values.

In ten years, I bet we'll be kicking ourselves for having placed so much emphasis on these supposedly «objective» measures.

«The emphasis for so long has been placed on academic performance and academic content mastery,» said panelist Rebecca Snyder, a co-author of the NNSTOY report and member of Greater Latrobe Education Association in Pennsylvania where she was teacher of the year in 2009.

In the same year, the independent National Careers Council, appointed by the coalition government in its first report stated — «Ofsted has announced that it will place greater emphasis in inspections on careers.

Yet these turned out to be the very skills on which our students continued to decline compared with students in Asian and European countries -» countries that placed less emphasis on formal comprehension skills and more emphasis on coherent year - to - year subject matter.

Wright said the revised reading standards and SOL tests schools are implementing this year place increased emphasis on vocabulary and comprehension.

The state's update to its school report cards places less emphasis on the A-F scale adopted starting with the 2014 - 15 school year.

For over ten years, districts across the U.S. have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic

A greater emphasis needs to be placed on ensuring that all students achieve at least one year of academic growth each year, rather than on what the average test score for a class or grade is on an assessment.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

«The Index will place additional emphasis on academic growth, evaluation of school climate through a robust chronic absenteeism measure, attention to both four - year and extended - year graduation rates, and assessments of postsecondary readiness.»

In recent years, education leaders and policymakers have placed heavy emphasis on school improvement strategies for education reform.

Tectonic social changes — including demographic shifts that have placed most women with school - age children in the labor force, research breakthroughs in the learning sciences and in socio - emotional and brain development, and daunting national achievement worries — have all converged to place a major new emphasis on the quality of a child's learning experiences throughout the typical school day, after school, weekends, and across the year, including summers.

From their founding more than 200 years ago, Catholic schools in the Archdiocese have placed special emphasis on providing educational opportunities for immigrants, a mission which continues today.

Bridgeport leaders place greater emphasis on school culture in the year ahead through expansion of a pilot program focused on emotional intelligence (CT Post).

«My prediction is that within five years, auto retailers will be required by their regulators to have a formal CMS in place,» Van Over says, envisioning increased emphasis on management oversight, risk assessments, policies, procedures, employee training and periodic audits.

With years of Maserati experience, knowledge and an exhausting dedication to detail, the Continental Maserati Parts Department places the absolute highest emphasis on making sure every Maserati vehicle that enters our shop gets the attention it deserves.

This past three years Honda has placed more emphasis on promoting positive environmental change witht the tour featuring the Civic Hybrid.

Over the years, Toyota has placed a great emphasis on making its vehicles the safest on the road, so it should come as no surprise that the Toyota safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) continue to be some of the best in the industry!

View New Inventory Toyota Safety Sense ™ Contact Us Over the years, Toyota has placed a great emphasis on making its vehicles the safest on the road, so it should come as no surprise that the Toyota safety ratings from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) continue to be some of the best in the industry!

This year engineers placed emphasis on the driver's experience during routine handling and emergency maneuvers, making the ride more comfortable and creating a quieter cabin in the process.

TG: We're really putting a lot of emphasis on the events and activities that will take place on the Friday of this year's SEMA Show, and we're finding that our housing numbers are up significantly on Friday because people are starting to stay longer to be able to take part in these activities.

As with so many things this time of year, Mike Shatzkin's programming tends to place a lot of emphasis on prediction.