Sentence examples for declining achievement from inspiring English sources

Then and now, he often speaks in sentences laced not so much with poetry as with statistics about rising crime and declining achievement in Newark's schools.

Mr. Gordon and other economists also see a wide range of other problems, including an aging population, declining educational achievement and rising income inequality.

Besieged by escalating financial problems and declining academic achievement, the Cleveland City School District was in the midst of an academic emergency when Ohio enacted its scholarship program.

While global newborn mortality is declining, the achievements among neonates (0 – 28 days of life) are dismal compared to the reductions in post-neonatal deaths for both infants (1-11 mofths of age) and children (1 to 4 years of age).

The steeper declines in achievement on standardized tests for Non-Hispanic whites with increasing B-Pbs compared to Non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics was an unexpected finding.

If these responses are not distinguished from responses that are the product of genuine student effort, the results will inevitably produce declining estimates of achievement.

Declining trends in achievement values are pronounced among students with a high level of externalizing problems, and boys with such problems are the most vulnerable group of students.

The prime minister said Welsh Labour were "getting it wrong", claiming they had cut health spending in Wales and had presided over declining standards of achievement in schools.

We conclude that academic achievement declines in proportion to the number of risk factors in early life.

While No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top established national guidelines for student and teacher performance, the underlying purpose of the legislation was to reverse the decades long decline in student achievement in our inner city schools.

The emancipation of women and their integration on equal terms in education, the granting of civil rights to homosexuals, the removal, at least formally, of racial discrimination — these are not a common feature of prosperous or declining empires but unique moral achievements of this one.