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In fact, two years ago, only 27 percent of all the third- through eighth-graders were passing the state standard in both English and math.
The move destroyed the reservations, making it easier to further subdivide and to sell with every passing generation.
So we offer teachers bonuses if the kids they teach score passing grades on these big test scores that are used to evaluate the quality of school systems.
She found herself listening to a consultant one day who was trying to help teachers boost the test scores of the kids, so that the school would reach the elite category in percentage of kids passing big tests.
I search for the truth in this eternal quest I'm passing on fashion; you can see how I'm dressed CL: I'm going to stop that there; so what do we see in his brain?
I was hit by a passing sedan.
These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me.
What we're seeing is more of a passing of the torch from human gatekeepers to algorithmic ones.
We're now on the couch, looking out through the window at cars passing by.
In silence, in meditation, in my inner space, in the me that remains when I gently put aside my passing emotions and ideas and preoccupations.
You can walk a mile when it comes to understanding why that person's driving 40 miles per hour in the passing lane; or your teenage son; or your neighbor who annoys you by cutting his lawn on Sunday mornings.
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation.
Salmon swim upstream to get to their spawning grounds, and lancet flukes commandeer a passing ant, crawl into its brain, and drive it up a blade of grass like an all-terrain vehicle.
The idea of replicating ideas; ideas that replicate by passing from brain to brain.
We could use that wisdom today, I think, in every culture, in every place, passing to the next generation what we could do together.
And so today we focus on not just passing out food, but making sure the mothers have enough enrichment, and teaching them about breastfeeding.
And what we're looking for is the tiny dimming of light that is caused by a planet passing in front of one of these stars and blocking some of that starlight from getting to us.
Equations were derived, graphs were produced, and the net result is that we find that the bubble bursts faster and faster with each passing year.
And it may be that passing the 50 percent urban point is an economic tipping point.
Why passing the buck like a Frisbee?
These are contrails, which are artificial water clouds that are made by the passing of a jet engine.
Passing ships actually cause clouds to form, and this is a big enough effect that it actually helps reduce global warming already by about a degree.
We could hear in the air the bullets passing.
Every time you walk into an open house, you get some information about what's out there and what's on the market, but every time you walk out, you're running the risk of the very best place passing you by.
Or like how in Honolulu, the large prison population of native Hawaiians like Kimmy is heavily influenced by the island's long history with US colonialization, its impact passing down through generations to today.
Maybe biological life is just a passing phase.
And the current passing between the electrodes generates enough heat to keep it at temperature.
It's the passing on part.
Mostly it's been a person-to-person thing, a teacher-student, performer-audience thing, and then around 1880 came this new technology that first mechanically then through analogs then digitally created a new and miraculous way of passing things on, albeit an impersonal one.
And it excites me now to meet people who are hikers, chefs, code writers, taxi drivers, people I never would have guessed who loved the music and who are passing it on.
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