The world has made dramatic gains in getting children — even very, very poor children — into school.
As a teacher, I witnessed how the allure of the series could motivate children to make dramatic gains in reading.
All in all, Mr. Wolfers calls the changes to blacks' answers, "one of the most dramatic gains in the happiness data that you'll see".
(A report issued by the Commercial Club of Chicago, however, argued that dramatic gains in test scores "appear to be due to changes in the test" rather than to "real improvements in student learning").
"The dramatic gains in credit card use and the marketing exuberance of banks are bound to cause the same problems that are commonplace in any society," David Roddy, an economist who edits the Korean Stock Market Newsletter, wrote recently.
Rates of heart disease, stroke and many cancers are in decline, while life expectancy is increasing -- but ever-rising readings on the bathroom scale may be canceling out what would otherwise be dramatic gains in public health.
The seats were representative of a Liberal sweep of the Greater Toronto Area, the populous and vote-rich area around Canada's largest city, where the Conservatives made dramatic gains in 2011.
Since its dramatic gains in the general election, the SNP has hired many new staff who might have to be sacked because of the proposals, a party source said.
After dramatic gains in March's regional elections, it is now the most threatening challenger to Angela Merkel's coalition government, and she is the most talked-about female German politician after the chancellor.
