Sentences with phrase «led testing effort»

Led testing effort for offsite business continuity testing for the Aggregate Accounting Team.

They also discussed Telvock's reporting on the inadequacies of Erie County's lead testing efforts, which rarely sample tap water.

Led the test effort for a dashboard feature targeting the Model view layer and coached the team on MVC.

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China is leading an effort to water down the World Bank's most popular research report in a test of the development institution's new president, Jim Yong Kim.

Applying the 71 - year old Howey Test, this qualifies as an investment in a «common enterprise,» in which investors are led to «expect profits» that are «generated from the efforts of others.»

Mr. Levandowski leads Uber's Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, the epicenter of the company's testing and self - driving efforts.

Support a multi-year effort led by world - class scientists to develop a blood test for earlier detection of breast cancer when survival rates are the highest, known as the EIF Breast Cancer Biomarker Discovery Project.

The current effort to permanently undermine New York's teacher evaluation system takes us backwards, masks inequity, and will lead to more and unnecessary testing.

Telvock found the program is beset with slipshod methods and puts more effort into testing predominantly white enclaves with few lead poisoning than in the inner - city neighborhoods where the problem is concentrated.

As part of this effort, participants will be «integrated into the larger regional effort to grow» unmanned aerial systems in Central New York and the Mohawk Valley and will have access to «world - leading» infrastructure and testing assets when they come online.

And neither the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, the lead agency in this effort, nor the state Department of Health, who analyzed the test results, would answer any questions about the reports.

For example, the curation effort could uncover information that suggests specific biomarkers or readouts researchers could test in the lab to gain insight into disease mechanisms — or, in the best case, lead to a cure for NGLY1 deficiency.

And one day the data might lead to the development of genetic tests to predict whether a person can expect to live into old age as well as guide intervention efforts to prevent age - related illness.

The lead researcher on the study, Patihis believes it's the first effort to test malleable reconstructive memory in HSAM individuals.

Today Friedman is a leading proponent of the seasteading movement, an effort to create permanent floating communities in international waters that would allow «the next generation of pioneers to peacefully test new ideas of government,» he says.

Improved diagnostic tests are on the horizon, but we need huge efforts to increase their accuracy, use them for active case finding in the community, and eventually make them available in low income countries so as to inform treatment decisions and preserve the efficacy of any new antibiotic drugs for TB,» says lead author of the Commission Professor Keertan Dheda, University of Cape Town.

Bill Glover, managing director of environmental strategy for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, which is leading an effort to develop, test and certify alternative jet fuels, said the technology is ready.

While this lays to rest the industry's fear that its products might be unwelcome in the US, the French wine growers» association, ONIVINS, has stepped up efforts to track down the source of the excess lead found in those bottles that failed the test.

Dr. Amanda Paulovich of Fred Hutch has been selected to lead a multi-institution effort to develop a biological test to predict which treatments will work for patients with ovarian cancer.

Efforts to use high - stakes tests to regulate school quality at a higher level, however, did not benefit students and may have led schools to adopt strategies that caused long - term harm.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

And he charged out of the gate, instituting tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 — 8 tests, initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum, and leading the charge to win a berth in the Race to the Top winner's circle.

And I think it's worth noting how heavily this nonpartisan, state - led effort has come to rely on the funding and enthusiastic support of the Obama administration when it comes to assessments and testing.

The big question going forward, it seems to me, is whether any of our reform efforts are like to lead to another big bump in test scores anytime soon.

The experience in the 1950s and 1960s definitely led to the prohibition of such efforts in federal statutes — prohibitions that the Obama administration has violated in recent years by endorsing national curriculum standards and funding national tests and national curriculum frameworks together with related teaching materials and lesson plans.

Fellow education blogger Mercedes Schneider is one of the nation's leading voices in the effort to reveal the truth about the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and the other aspects of the corporate education reform industry.

Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

From its origins, the TFA - led movement to improve the teacher force has aligned itself with efforts to expand the role of high - stakes standardized testing in education.

CETE develops and administers educational testing programs that translate industry - leading research into real - world solutions in an effort to assist teachers in identifying strategies that will help students reach their greatest potential.

Gist, whose reform efforts led to the firings of all teachers and staff at one of the state's worst - performing schools, said test scores in the state need vast improvement, the graduation rate must grow and too few high school graduates — just more than half — are heading directly to college.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a federal lawsuit filed by a group of Florida teachers who complained they would be rated on the test scores of students who weren't even in their classes.

When Appalachian State University opens its Academy at Middle Fork to 300 chosen elementary students in Winston - Salem this August, by some accounts, it'll be one of several pioneering, university - led efforts bound to turn around test scores for lagging North Carolina children in the coming years.

District officials leading the effort told the committee that preparing students for the state tests, known as the Next Generation Science Standards, will require 90 teachers and administrators to be trained for a Science Leadership Team, and 1,000 teachers (at least one for every school) to serve as a lead science teacher.

Related efforts to evaluate individual teachers based on student test scores have sparked a flurry of publicity — and led to a major lawsuit.

Over the holiday break, Kyle Spencer of The New York Times reported on how testing and a school district's effort to ease student pressures has led to an «ethnic divide» in the community.

President Obama, along with his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, have been leading supporters of the effort to increase standardized testing, dramatically expand the number of charter schools and push the Common Core standards, curriculum and testing scheme on the nation's children, parents and teachers.

Governor Dannel Malloy has led the effort in his state to expand charter schools and high - stakes testing.

Grounded in a research - based, time - tested curriculum model and fueled by a visionary commitment to early learning and robust family engagement, Elm City Montessori School is on the leading edge of New Haven's efforts to provide a portfolio of exemplary educational options designed to ensure that all New Haven students complete high school equipped with 21st Century skills and ready to lead successful lives.

Wulfson led DESE's efforts to develop MCAS 2.0, the new standardized test taken by the Commonwealth's public school children in Grades 3 - 8 for the first time this spring.

For still others, their RTI efforts are driven by a desire to raise test scores, which too often leads to practices that are counter productive to the guiding principles of RTI.

Now, instead of just mandatory annual testing and punitive measures for struggling schools, cash - strapped states — who had little choice but to pursue the multi-billion-dollar grant money — were made to implement specific federally supported education reforms.19 In the end, despite the Obama administration's efforts to distance itself from NCLB, and the failure of NCLB's testing mandates (in particular the mandated but statistically impossible 100 percent proficiency rates), the act's design provided the policy blueprint that led to RTTT.

Wentzell has led the Malloy Administration's continuing effort to mislead and lie to Connecticut parents about the fundamental and inalienable right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme.

This six - year effort is testing whether the districts» efforts to set standards for principals and then improve how they are trained, hired, evaluated and supported on the job can lead to more effective principals and improved student achievement.

Jennifer Jacobsen is a parent, education advocate and has become a leading voice in the effort to educate parents about the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test and the unprecedented effort by the government and corporate education reform industry to collect data about our children.

Much of the credit goes to Jamie Cullen, Ford supervisor for vehicle dynamics development, who led road test efforts to ensure the car delivered ultra-responsive steering, world - class braking and handling performance to match.

And Jamie Cullen, Ford supervisor for vehicle dynamics development, led road test efforts to ensure the car delivers ultra-responsive steering, braking and handling performance.

Baker, a public health doctor in New York City, led the Department of Health's efforts to test Mallon for the disease.

You can also support initiatives to offer alternatives to animal testing at schools and universities, and by donating to organizations that are leading those efforts.

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Here's the nut of the story, which speaks of an interesting effort in Somerville, Mass., to follow the lead of Bhutan and other countries testing new ways to gauge progress: