Sentences with phrase «behind became law»

The report is the first of its type since No Child Left Behind became law in 2001, when state standards and assessments to measure student and school performance narrowed curricula.

A decade after No Child Left Behind became law, there is still a large achievement gap between English language learner students and their English - proficient peers.

Miller is a strong proponent of testing, but says states went to the extreme after No Child Left Behind became law by putting all their efforts on teaching to the test instead of focusing on changing teaching methods to improve student learning.

This study finds that kindergarten has changed dramatically since 1998, which was before No Child Left Behind became law.

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What ever it is it became clear that we went and still are going wrong for having left behind laws and judgments given to us by God Allah and replaced it with laws and judgments made by men that are against what we were instructed to follow up but followed the vain desires of some diverging from the truth although we were warned not to..?

The member of the Ugandan Parliament behind a controversial «anti-gay» bill that would call for stiff penalties against homosexuality - including life imprisonment and the death penalty - says that the bill will become law «soon.»

Almost any law in any country from any era has a history behind how the law became a law.

But even when we think about more mundane laws, like the tax code, or campaign finance law, or even the laws about the speed you can drive or the legal drinking age, all of these laws have stories behind how they became laws.

In the past decade particularly, cynicism about the International Court of Justice and the UN has become so pervasive that millions of Americans are no longer aware of the crucial role that the concept behind these institutions played in their own heritage: «In the annals of forgetfulness there is nothing quite to compare with the fading from the American mind of the idea of the law of nations.»

When parents have the motivation to find out the science behind laws and regulations, they can quickly become as qualified as the experts to lobby for safer practices, she says.

As the wife of a white man, thrown in jail while pregnant, a mother of small children, who becomes the driving force behind changing archaic laws that forbid a white man bedding down with a black woman, Negga virtually disappears into the character.

Connecticut last week became the first and, so far, only state to sue over the federal No Child Left Behind Act, a move that some analysts say could embolden policymakers elsewhere to step up their varied challenges to the Bush administration's signature education law.

«The rash of standardized testing after the No Child Left Behind Act became law in the early 2000s did not raise achievement averages very much,» he observes, but the backlash that has led states to ease back on testing isn't being replaced by anything that's apt to work better.

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) became law nearly fourteen years ago, and its excesses — such as federally mandated school ratings and interventions — are now routinely pilloried.

The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one - size - fits - all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.

Harkin told HuffPost that he is «hopeful» the bill will become law before implementation of waivers allowing states to forego certain No Child Left Behind rules, such as those requiring all students to be proficient in math and reading by 2014.

It then moved to the White House as the basis of the No Child Left Behind law when Rod Paige, the superintendent of the Houston schools, became the education secretary under George W. Bush.

In the Senate, Kerry voted for the Republican - led education - reform efforts that became the No Child Left Behind law.

Last year, Washington became the first state to lose its waiver from some of the strictest requirements of that law, known as the No Child Left Behind Act, because lawmakers here refused to require school districts to use student test scores as part of evaluating teacher effectiveness.

But it's not known how much class time students spend preparing for tests that became mandatory, starting in third grade, under the George W. Bush - era No Child Left Behind law and are a flashpoint in the debate over the Common Core academic standards.

The latest results on the most important nationwide math test show that student achievement grew faster during the years before the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law, when states were dominant in education policy, than over the years since, when the federal law has become a powerful force in classrooms.

Florida legislators decided on their own to adopt AYP nearly 4 years before 2013, when full compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act becomes law.

President Bush's education reform initiative, the «No Child Left Behind» Act, becomes law.

Lily Eskelsen García, who was Utah's 1989 Teacher of the Year, became president of the 3 million strong National Education Association last September, just as momentum to change the 2002 No Child Left Behind law began to build.

The gap between Hispanics and whites on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, has stayed fairly stagnant over the past few years in both math and reading, even as the country has become more focused on closing achievement gaps as required by the 2002 federal education law, No Child Left Behind.

Since the No Child Left Behind Act became law in 2001, school administrators have spent a lot of time wrangling with its complexities.

Since No Child Left Behind became federal law, every state has been required to test every child every year in third through eighth grade in math and reading, plus once in high school.

Tennessee Senator Lamar Alexander pledged to fix the No Child Left Behind Law ahead of becoming the HELP Committee's new chairman.

Report becomes basis of $ 5 billion in reading programs through No Child Left Behind law.

Although the bill isn't expected to become law, the idea behind it, once seen as beyond extreme, has gained some currency in the era of Trump and DeVos.

In the first half Victoria talks to Gloria Gilbert Stoga, president and founder of Puppies Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization that uses prison inmates to train puppies to become guide dogs for the visually impaired or explosive - detection dogs for law enforcement.

We live in an age where what was once deemed private is becoming public and the law is being left behind.

Some aspects of employment law are out of touch with the demands of this modern workplace and this problem is becoming greater with each passing year as the law gets left further behind.

45 Others would find that outside duties, including service in Congress, made them too busy to properly attend to apprentices.46 By as early as the 1780s, some progress was being made to teach both practical skills and the theory behind them, including writing, in what became the first «private law schools.»

While doing my monthly domain name shopping, I stumbled upon what might become an interesting blog: http://www.ontariorulesofcivilprocedure.com/ It was created only 3 days ago and has no content, except the logo of the law firm behind it: Fraser Milsner Casgrain.

The chief executive behind Spindle Law, David P. Gold, is a graduate of Columbia Law School who clerked for the 9th Circuit and became a litigator in New York City before founding the company.

Once hidden behind the paywalls of Westlaw and Lexis Nexis, the law is quickly becoming open source.

We speak with Marc Mercier, a Barrister based in Brisbane, who touches on corporate law, human rights and equality, as well as the keys behind to becoming a successful barrister.

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prevalent and useful, most industries are looking for ways it can benefit them; law firms are lagging behind in dedicating the time and resources to make AI work for them.

Areas that are considered include: how these tougher conditions will lead to greater competition leading to both consolidation and more firms falling behind their peers; how pricing pressures will create a new dynamic between law firms and clients with the need to unbundle process work and produce it in a new way becoming paramount; how alternative means of production will challenge the traditional law firm model; and how globalisation can act as an antidote to the commoditisation of process work.

Law had become hidden behind computer firewalls and claims of «proprietary» or «trade secret.»

To preserve the relationship with the law firm, many clients prefer to have us work behind the scenes until it becomes appropriate or necessary to introduce us to the law firm.

Because alcohol - related accidents, injuries, and deaths have become such a serious problem throughout the country, many advocates have pushed for tougher driving under the influence (DUI) laws to deter motorists from getting behind the wheel while impaired.

The business development plan behind the Patent Map is twofold: to increase revenue by targeting new and existing clients (winning just one piece of new business can make a big difference to revenues), and to raise the firm's profile in its bid to become the go - to law firm for complex international patent litigation.

Inevitably, like Indigenous laws, Indigenous society must follow quickly behind to become a relic of a once vital and functioning society.

The true intentions of the competition bureau and the driving forces behind it will only become evident once they have successfully destroyed the Real Estate industry in favour of monitory gains for banks, law societies and who knows what else.