Sentences with phrase «national hearing test»

U.S. - All 50 States About Blog The National Hearing Test is a quick hearing screening to determine whether you need a complete hearing evaluation.

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The hearings prompted President Obama in December to sign the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), one provision of which requires the secretary of defense, by the end of June, to devise a training, testing and tracking plan to drastically cut down on the use of counterfeit parts.

The Justices said they would hear arguments in the railroad case next fall in tandem with arguments in National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab (Case No. 86 - 1879), a suit involving a drug - test requirement for Treasury Department employees.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

The Office of Technology Assessment, a nonpartisan analytical agency, expressed its concern at a hearing here on the recently released report of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the stNational Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the stnational standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the standards.

Backdoor to a national curriculum: Already we have heard of states aligning their tests to the NAEP test frameworks, as North Carolina has done [Grissmer for Rand], which may give them an edge on NAEP.

MPs today held the first hearing into primary test changes after teachers demanded an inquiry following numerous alterations, security breaches and even a national parent walk out on schools.

«National research has shown that placement tests often identify students as unprepared or as pre-collegiate level in skills, when in fact they could have been successful in a college - level course,» Steenhausen said during the committee hearing.

«We did a test, and I discovered, to my great dismay, that I couldn't hear it,» said Deborah Kent Stein, chairwoman of the U.S. National Federation of the Blind's Committee on Automotive and Pedestrian Safety.

It was developed by hearing scientists with the support of the National Institute for Deafness and other Communication Disorders of the National Institutes of Health, under Grant No. 3R43DC009719 to provide a low - cost screening test that can be easily taken over a telephone.

According to the Canada Safety Council is a national, non-profit charitable organization dedicated to safety, smoke alarms should be tested monthly by pushing the test button and to replace the batteries twice a year or when you hear the alarm beep intermittently.