Attainment
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112 examples of Attainment in a sentence
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attainment
by 15 year-olds.
Young people were leaving Oklahoma City in droves for Washington and Dallas and Houston and New York and Tokyo, anywhere where they could find a job that measured up to their educational attainment, because in Oklahoma City, the good jobs just weren't there.
Research tells us that two-thirds of the achievement gap, which is the disparity in educational
attainment
between rich kids and poor kids or black kids and white kids, could be directly attributed to the summer learning loss.
At the time I decided to run for office, we had a 23 percent poverty rate, a 17 percent college
attainment
rate and a host of challenges and issues beyond the scope of any 21-year-old.
And I knew how Mr. Webster defined it, as the accumulation of material possessions or the
attainment
of a position of power or prestige, or something of that sort, worthy accomplishments perhaps, but in my opinion, not necessarily indicative of success.
Any person anywhere is capable of rising to that highest point of attainment, only by the resolve that they have in their mind that they must achieve something.
Some of the entrepreneurial traits you've got to nurture in kids: attainment, tenacity, leadership, introspection, interdependence, values.
Through the terrifying ordeals of 2 paramedics kidnapped by the Quanta Group, led by the Teacher, issues of destiny and its attainment, introspection, religion versus science, power of suggestion and gullibility are highlighted, enabling the viewer to evaluate and ponder what might be.
I'd give it 10 for effort and 7 for
attainment.
Part of Bhutan’s GNH revolves, of course, around meeting basic needs – improved health care, reduced maternal and child mortality, greater educational attainment, and better infrastructure, especially electricity, water, and sanitation.
They find that if you control for educational
attainment
and skills, financial jobs were highly paid until the Great Depression of the 1930s, higher than the quality of the people who held the jobs would imply.
Plans to replicate some of the remarkable improvements in London and southeast England’s educational
attainment
of the last 20 years are ambitious but achievable.
Rather than wasting time and public money to set up or maintain the Lisbon bureaucracy, the EU should closely monitor the
attainment
of those national and EU-wide targets that involve significant spillovers across jurisdictions.
They have also been found to aid infants’ cognitive development and children’s educational attainment, thus boosting countries’ economic-growth potential.
Mexico also needs to continue to raise educational
attainment
to prepare the labor force for modern-sector employment.
To the Shiite majority, long brutally oppressed by Saddam and all previous Sunni-dominated Iraqi regimes, Saddam’s death symbolizes their
attainment
of political hegemony.
Making matters worse, even where girls’ educational
attainment
has grown rapidly, commensurate improvements for women in the workforce have remained elusive.
Macroeconomic stability was achieved, domestic investment rose by two percentage points of GDP, and average educational
attainment
increased by nearly three years.
The concept of a “skills premium” – the difference in wages between skilled and unskilled workers – dictates that higher educational
attainment
should lead to higher compensation and more secure employment.
Because educational
attainment
is considered a measure of merit, officials scramble to obtain advanced degrees in order to gain an advantage in the competition for power.
Though we have only limited data on their progress, we know from other research carried out in the United States that participation in sports can have long-term benefits for women, including higher educational
attainment
and job earnings.
It is becoming increasingly difficult for workers with low levels of educational
attainment
to find high-paying jobs in any sector, even when the economy is operating near full capacity.
And a recent study by McKinsey suggests that the gaps in educational opportunity and
attainment
by income impose the equivalent of a permanent recession of 3-5% of GDP on the US economy.
To address the skills gap, the US must boost the educational
attainment
of current and future workers.
Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and
attainment.
Then there are the indicators that link educational
attainment
and employment status.
This combination of factors is particularly burdensome for the most vulnerable segments of the US population – particularly those with limited educational attainment, first-time labor-market entrants, and those who have been out of work for an extended period.
The model for this approach is Denmark’s
attainment
of legal opt-outs in defined areas.
Smaller differences in educational
attainment
between men and women are strongly correlated with higher status for girls and women, which helps to reduce the incidence of sex-selective abortions, child marriage, and violence from an intimate partner.
It has also been a major factor behind the emergence of large and growing differences in the wages of workers with a college education or higher and those of workers with lower levels of educational
attainment.
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