Sentences with phrase «years of progress toward»

Yet after years of progress toward school desegregation, largely achieved through busing and other court - ordered remedies, the combination of white flight from urban public school districts and a series of Supreme Court decisions limiting the use of desegregation strategies have resulted in a widespread pattern of resegregation.

«Now is not the time for the Commission to abandon 15 years of progress toward protecting the economic future of our country,» the letter said.

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Why it's hot: The development of self - driving cars took off in 2016 with Google's Waymo, Tesla, Uber, Toyota, and GM all announcing progress toward completely autonomous vehicles within the next four years.

These forward - looking statements include, among other things, statements about full - year 2018 guidance, project milestones, increased opportunities in the market, backlog, bids and change orders outstanding, target projects and revenue opportunity pipeline, to the extent these may be viewed as indicators of future revenues or profitability, the expected impacts of the F2G program and progress toward completing the proposed combination with CB&I and the anticipated benefits of that transaction.

«We also made significant progress toward improving our margin on the sale of vacation ownership products, or what we call development margin, and are well on our way toward our targeted development margin of over 12 percent for the year.

«The record sales STAAR generated in the first quarter represents a meaningful acceleration from the emerging growth we saw in the second half of last year and illustrates our team's initial progress toward achieving the strong growth priorities of the recently announced 2018 - 2020 strategic plan,» said STAAR President and CEO Caren Mason.

BETHESDA, Md., June 28, 2011 / PRNewswire / — Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) marked progress today toward the planned spin - off by year - end of its vacation club business into a separate publicly traded company, announcing that its subsidiary, Marriott Vacations Worldwide Corporation, the new corporate name for the vacation club business upon spin - off, has filed an initial Form 10 Registration Statement («Form 10») with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Forty - five percent of Americans say the country has made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

It has been seventeen years since John Paul II issued Ex Corde Ecclesiae (From the heart of the Church) and the progress toward making Catholic schools more Catholic has been, to put it gently, slow and mixed.

The first two hundred years of the American Republic tell an unfolding tale of aspiration — and progress — toward the idea of liberty and justice for all.

Meanwhile, the Churches had been far ahead of the world movement for a United Nations; they progressed toward closer co-operation and mutual understanding all through the troubled years of the 1930's.

Revision of EN ISO 11607, the guiding standard for medical device packaging, is progressing toward completion later this year.

«We have, for some years, held firm to our commitment to sourcing only certified palm oil by 2015, and these changes represent significant progress toward that goal,» said Annette Hansen, director of sustainability for DuPont Nutrition & Health.

Champions 12.3 hosted a major event September 20, 2017 at The Rockefeller Foundation's New York office that assessed global progress toward SDG Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, announced landmark developments and set forth a pathway to cutting in half the more than 1 billion tons of food that goes uneaten each year.

«Smithfield continues to lead the industry in sustainability, and I am proud that we have made such significant progress toward our sustainability goals and targets, even achieving some goals years ahead of schedule,» said Ken Sullivan, president and chief executive officer for Smithfield Foods.

Since the 2012 - 13 school year (SY), districts nationwide have raised the nutritional quality of their offerings across these venues to better support children's health, readiness to learn, and lifelong eating habits.1 Multiple studies show significant progress toward these goals: Kids are selecting more nutritious meals and eating more fruits and vegetables.2 (See Figure 1.)

(h) Submit an annual report to the Governor by January 15th of each year, beginning in 2014, detailing the overall progress Affected State Entities are making toward meeting the Target.

Affected State Entities shall implement a cost - effective portfolio of measures identified and recommended in the audit and shall complete or make substantial progress toward completion of such measures within two years of completion of the audit.

2018 will be the year New York leads the way forward toward the next century of progress and achievement for all women and girls.»

Over the years, a great deal of work has gone into discovering and helping women overcome the stumbling blocks that can impede progress toward science careers.

In August, virologist Gary Nabel at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced progress toward a universal flu vaccine; two shots of it could provide years of protection from every known influenza A virus.

Fiji is already looking ahead: It's named next year's re-evaluation of progress toward the Paris Agreement the «Talanoa dialogue.»

But soon, 2 years had passed without any real progress toward any of my ever - changing goals.

I originally wanted to pursue a Ph.D. in the biological sciences and worked diligently toward this goal for two - and - a-half years; however, every time I voiced concern to my supervisor or adviser about my work progress, they responded by telling me I was not doing so well and that I needed to get more results to prove that I was capable of getting a doctorate.

This year astronomers made great progress toward understanding our place in space, gaining a new sense of the three - dimensional structure of the universe around us.

This situation makes it difficult to gauge the progress toward the first 2 - year goal, according to a summary of the NRC report:

But although scientists are making progress toward artificial hamburgers, even a 2 - year extension from the original deadline of 2012 wasn't enough to lure applicants for PETA's prize.

In explaining the increasingly important role that the science community will play in determining the progress of international efforts toward sustainable development and climate stability, Lovász pointed out that the majestically ornate Hungarian Academy of Sciences neo-Renaissance palace in which the WSF was held was built entirely with public donations 150 years ago, «which illustrates the trust that Hungarian society from the nobility to poor farmworkers had in science at that time.»

«As we look to implement the next five years of the National HIV / AIDS Strategy, we hope that state officials and community stakeholders see this as a useful tool to help strengthen their HIV programs and make further progress toward ending the AIDS epidemic in America.»

The North Pole and Its Seekers October 28, 1868 New Expeditions to the Arctic Regions June 24, 1871 The Latest Arctic Explorations — The Remarkable Escape of the Polaris Party June 7, 1873 Rescue of the Remaining Survivors of the Polaris October 4, 1873 The Latest Polar Expedition December 26, 1874 Work for Arctic Explorers July 17, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition The Coming Arctic Expeditions May 22, 1875 The British Arctic Expedition August 28, 1975 July 3, 1876 The Search for the Pole The British Arctic Expedition December 23 and 30, 1876 The Recent Arctic Expedition January 20, 1877 Another Approach: Balloons and Airships Some Suggestions for Future Polar Expeditions February 13, 1877 Proposed New British Polar Expedition September 20, 1879 To the North Pole by Balloon July 13, 1895 Wellman's Airship for His North Polar Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American July 7, 1906 The Wellman Polar Airship Expedition By the Paris Correspondent of the Scientific American June 22, 1907 Farther North The American Arctic Expedition September 14, 1878 The Peary Arctic Expedition July 15, 1893 Nansen's Polar Expedition March 14, 1896 The Recent Failures of Arctic Expeditions August 29, 1896 The Return of Lieut. Peary September 27, 1902 The Polar Regions June 11, 1904 Peary's New Ship for Work in Arctic Seas October 8, 1904 Peary and the North Pole July 15, 1905 Peary's Arctic Ship, The «Roosevelt» July 15, 1905 Peary's «Farthest North» November 17, 1906 Race to the Finish: Peary and Cook Peary's Quest of the North Pole July 18, 1908 Peary and the North Pole August 21, 1909 Dr. Cook and the North Pole September 11, 1909 Dr. Cook's Discovery of the North Pole September 11, 1909 Honor to Whom Honor is Due September 18, 1909 Commander Peary's Discovery of the North Pole September 18, 1909 Retrospect of the Year 1909: Exploration January 1, 1910 «Investigating» Peary April 22, 1911 THE SOUTH POLE Exploring Antarctica Antarctic Exploration January 23, 1897 To South Polar Lands February 13, 1897 The Voyage of the «Discovery» February 3, 1906 Antarctic Expeditions, Past and Present Some Heroes of Exploration November 11, 1911 Dr. Charcot's Antarctic Expedition November 30, 1907 Motoring Toward the Pole By Motor Car to the South Pole By J. S. Dunnet October 19, 1907 The Shackleton Antarctic Expedition By John Plummer August 29, 1908 Lieut. Shackleton's Antarctic Expedition April 3, 1909 Lieut. Shackleton April 9, 1910 Two Novel Motor Sleds By Walter Langford May 14, 1910 Race to the Finish: Amundsen and Scott The Antarctic Expeditions January 13, 1912 The Discovery of the South Pole March 16, 1912 Amundsen's Attainment of the South Pole Progress of Antarctic Exploration By G. W. Littlehales, Hydrographic Office, United States Navy March 23, 1912 Capt. Scott at the South Pole April 13, 1912 Shadows at the South Pole June 15, 1912 The Scott Expedition and its Tragic End A Sacrifice Made for Scientific Ideals February 22, 1913 Achievements and Lessons of the Scott Expedition March 1, 1913 To the South Pole with the Cinematograph Film Records of Scott's Ill - Fated Expedition June 21, 1913 Science in the Heroic Age The Height of the Antarctic Continent By Walter Langford June 4, 1910 The Renewed Siege of the Antarctic January 17, 1914 Shackleton's South Polar Expedition The Value of His Scientific Observations By Henryk Arctowski June 17, 1916 Thawing Scott's Legacy A pioneer in atmosphere ozone studies, Susan Solomon rewrites the history of a fatal polar expedition By Sarah Simpson December 2001 Greater Glory In the race to the South Pole, explorer Robert F. Scott refused to sacrifice his ambitious science agenda By Edward J. Larson June 2011

An unabated reappearance of CCD year on year demonstrates lack of progress toward solving the problem.

If we're hitting those benchmarks at 10 years, we are progressing toward the ultimate goal of understanding the brain.

«We are three or four years ahead of schedule,» says Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientist W. Richard McCombie, referring to the progress of the international Arabidopsis Genome Initiative toward its goal of completing the sequencing project.

It seems a miracle that after twenty years of stagnation he could have made such progress toward recovery in only one year, but his story is a strong testimony to the power, not only of the vision and the approach of Inner Fire, but of the deep dedication and understanding of the Guides who work out of these insights.

Each month, during the reproductive years of our lives, we activate a handful of follicles to progress through the stages toward producing an egg.

Discovering the work of Dr. Price after eight years of formal academic study, he realized that this research was a crucial missing link for humanity's progress toward sustainability.

During last year's Copenhagen fashion summit, brands and retailers were called upon to publicly commit to making progress toward the adoption of a circular model over the following six months, something companies including Adidas, Asos, H&M and Kering did.

By emphasizing the importance of «working strenuously toward challenges, and maintaining effort and interest over years, despite failure, adversity, and plateaus in progress,» educators can help to encourage the habits of sustained effort and focus that increase the likelihood of achieving goals (Duckworth, Peterson, Matthews, & Kelly, 2007).

Required merger of districts in which fewer than 85 percent of students pass state's Minimum Performance Test, and that fail to show «reasonable progress» toward improvement within two years.

«We have made significant progress towards fairer funding for schools, through an additional # 390m allocated to 69 of the least fairly funded areas in the country - the biggest step toward fairer schools funding in 10 years.»

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

In the 25 years since the passage of Public Law 94 - 142, significant progress has been made toward meeting major national goals for developing and implementing effective programs and services for early intervention, special education, and related services.

Over the next three to five years, education leaders and policymakers should develop a robust, coherent, and aligned system of standards and assessments that measures student progress toward challenging state standards.

The city funneled millions of dollars of additional resources for high school electives and college - level courses this year, and the school system has for years been working on organizational improvements for tracking students in the highly mobile school system and monitoring their progress toward graduation.

The district has already made important progress toward that goal, with 850 graduates (out of 3,400) last year earning a «seal of biliteracy» on their diplomas for demonstrating their mastering of two languages, Ms. Wong said.

Several data collection methods are used throughout the year to provide indicators of progress toward adhering to the Measures of Excellence.

Many schools «failed» year after year, and as 2014 approached, the majority of public schools in the nation had been declared failures, including some excellent, highly regarded schools (typically, the group that was not making sufficient progress toward 100 percent proficiency was students with disabilities, and the schools that were likeliest to be labeled as failing enrolled high proportions of poor and minority students).

In many U.S. schools, efforts to meet individual students» needs may take less priority than efforts to ensure that all students work toward grade - level standards, progress at the same pace as their grade - level peers, or prepare for grade - level tests at the end of the year.

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