So for the past three years, the law, under No Child Left Behind, the federal government has evaluated public schools based on the progress students make towards this goal by comparing students year to year.
Comparing the new year to a journey, he prayed that it "may lead on a path to peace for every person and every family, for each country and for the whole world".
But there's another problem with comparing deficits on a year-to-year basis.
After I wrote a piece critical of the parallel mortgage settlement with state attorneys general last year, comparing it to the deeply flawed tobacco settlement, I was barraged with comments from critics accusing me of downplaying foreclosure fraud.
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Critics like the Wall Street Journal's Joe Morgenstern are comparing the 24-year-old British actress to Audrey Hepburn.
The evidence collected by Dr Dangour was for a study due to report later this year comparing fish oil supplements with placebo.
Another approach is to acknowledge that some closed end funds will always trade at discounts and that comparing the current discount to its one-year average discount will eventually result in funds returning to their average discounts.
When April sales results are posted, comparing the combined March and April sales this year to last will give a more accurate picture of where the consumer stands as it will neutralize the affect of Easter.
To be fair, comparing quarter-to-quarter results is generally less telling than looking at year-over-year.
Stores that fell under the estimates included Target, which was comparing to a strong surge in sales a year ago.
More upside could come over the next year, as trial data comparing Rebif to Copaxone, another MS drug made by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, is due out.
At the TKTS booth, where every tourist comes -- they sell about 30, 000 half-price tickets every week -- TKTS treasurer Bill Castellano(ph) decided to crunch the numbers for last year, comparing the Sunday before the Super Bowl, Super Bowl Sunday, and the Sunday a week after.
Comparing the 1991 data with information gathered for the year 1800, prior to the age of steam and mechanisation in the fishing industry, showed up clear reductions in the numbers of cod, haddock, saithe, cetaceans and seabirds.
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"If you love reading and are looking to invest a chunk of money into a device as a dedicated e-reader, then the iPad is not your best bet, " Cesar Torres, of CNN content partner ArsTechnica , wrote last year in a review comparing the third-generation iPad to e-readers such as the third-generation Kindle. (That iPad has the same screen as the most recent one).
The film begins with 81-year-old Dell'Orefice candidly comparing her plastic surgery to repairing a ceiling that's falling down.
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In a debate earlier this year, he responded to a question about student loans by comparing the government's role to cancer.
Amy believes kids are always comparing, if subconsciously, and she typically feels the need to balance out the spending each year for the sake of fairness.
Last year, Gee apologized for comparing the problem of coordinating the school's many divisions to the Polish army, an off-the-cuff remark that a Polish-American group called a "slanderous" display of bigotry and ignorance.
Mr. SCHWARTZ: We do try to refine it, but I would say that we try to be consistent, as well, so that from one year to the next, you can rely on the categories that you're comparing.
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