Sentences with phrase «private testing companies»

True, Common Core content may have seeped into some private testing companies» tests.

Quinn said public school children shouldn't be forced any longer to take private testing companies» field tests, which aren't graded, and which are only intended to help for - profit companies such as Pearson develop questions for the next year's exams.

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Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

MuleSoft — the next highly valued private tech company to go public — will really test whether tech valuations can survive public scrutiny, Kathleen Smith, Renaissance Capital chairman, said Monday on CNBC's «Squawk Alley.»

Two private citizens (the company will not name them until they clear health and fitness testing) have paid the company to do a moon mission.

Private companies can offer equity to as many as 35 private investors without their having to pass wealth or investment knowledge litmus tests, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidPrivate companies can offer equity to as many as 35 private investors without their having to pass wealth or investment knowledge litmus tests, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidprivate investors without their having to pass wealth or investment knowledge litmus tests, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission guidelines.

Aitel suggested that, rather than outsource tasks or projects to particular individuals without security clearance, the government could allow private companies specializing in penetration testing — the practice of testing a computer system, network or application to find vulnerabilities that a hacker could exploit — to apply for security clearance and compete for a contract.

Other companies facing similar questions about whether they can make good on early investor expectations — and lofty private - market valuations — include online storage service Dropbox Inc., note - taking company Evernote Corp., music - streaming service Deezer SA and blood - testing company Theranos Inc., said Anand Sanwal, chief executive officer of CB Insights, a firm that tracks startup investing.

Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

The National Weather Service says the February alert was also a routine monthly test sent out by a private company, but they say it was a different company than the one that sent out today's warning.

It was determined that after the strategic review process and corresponding significant decrease in the share price on the announcement that Fairfax and other institutional investors were investing in the company through a $ 1 billion private placement of convertible debentures, in lieu of purchasing the company, that the carrying value of the company's assets exceeded their fair value based on the impairment testing performed by management.

Apple also has denied reports that it talked to a private test track facility east of San Francisco, chatted up cutting - edge Austrian automotive supplier Magna Steyr, or powwowed with electric - car charging station companies.

Forbes reported testing of Waymo's autonomous Peterbilt is ongoing at the company's private track in California, and on - highway testing is expected to follow later this year in Arizona.

The discussions may become tests of whether high - profile private companies can continue to raise new capital, even as some big names — like Snapchat and Dropbox — have seen their valuations marked down by mutual fund investors.

With the company's co-pack and private label manufacturing capabilities, the LiDestri business model also enables companies to scale up production if the test market results are successful.

Add to this the private nature of the companies offering genetic and nutrigenomic tests means there are often discrepancies in results, and this new era of personalised nutrition is looking a lot murkier than at first glance.

Julie Clarke, «The Australian Competition Tribunal «undeclares» third party access for rail lines company applying «private profitability» test to 44H (4)(b)(The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty)» (8 February 2013, e-Competitions, N ° 51089, www.concurrences.com) On 8 February 2013 the Australian Competition Tribunal (Tribunal) handed down its decision in Applications by Robe River Mining Co Pty Ltd and Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd..

Julie Clarke, «The Australian Competition Tribunal «undeclares» third party access for rail lines company applying «private profitability» test to 44H (4)(b)(The Pilbara Infrastructure Pty)» (8 February 2013, e-Competitions, N ° 51089, www.concurrences.com)[download PDF]

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Last week the President's Commission on Organized Crime recommended that federal agencies and contractors be required to test employees and that private companies consider doing so, too.

Some residents along the East Coast received a false tsunami warning this morning after a private company sent out an alert following a monthly test by the National Weather Service.

Pearson — a private company — has a more than $ 32 - million contract to provide tests to the state Education Department.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

They include ensuring that the new Common Core test results for third through eight graders will not count on students» permanent records and an end to the State Education Department's contract with a private company, called InBloom, to input students» personal records and data.

Then the tests are moved to an earlier date in April (even less time to teach) because this private company who we're paying big bucks to can't get the job done in time to evaluate the teachers and have the student information so we can properly place them.

Haulage drivers at the Tema Port have embarked on an indefinite sit - down strike over a new directive by the Ghana Ports and Harbors Authority (GPHA), requesting them to send their trucks for further testing at a private company.

For a course on security auditing and penetration testing, they hack into private companies» computer systems, pinpoint vulnerabilities, and then advise the companies how to do a better job protecting their systems.

The pros and cons of genetic testing — not to mention those done by private companies — have been hotly debated.

The Duke team has previously explored blood tests to examine a patient's RNA for gene signatures to distinguish bacterial and viral infections in the upper respiratory tract and is working with a private company to develop potential diagnostics.

While private space companies were making their move, NASA began testing the J - 2X rocket engine, one of the powerhouses behind the agency's Space Launch System that could drive the next stage of manned space exploration.

A CubeSat's utility in space seems limited only by its size and the imagination of its designers and users — governments, universities and private companies increasingly rely on them for everything from broadband remote monitoring of Earth to performing on - orbit science experiments as well as test - flying novel propulsion and communications technologies.

Data shows children who didn't take part in the activities, run and funded by various governments, private companies and charities, did just as well in GCSE tests.

For the past year, the DNP has tested eagles» prowess against flying drones, collaborating with a private company called Guard from Above that trains raptors to snatch drones out of the sky.

Clinical laboratory geneticists primarily work in genetic testing labs that are part of either academic or research institutions, hospitals, or private diagnostic companies.

These, in addition to our extensive data sets and experienced personnel, provide opportunities for government, public / private sector companies and academia to research, demonstrate, test and validate technologies and concepts in a real world setting.

Researchers from five laboratories and a private company recently spent two days in blistering 100 degree heat testing radiation detection technologies amidst cargo containers.

We have no evidence if the matching algorithms stand up to empirical testing, and we can't test that because these are private companies and thus their algorithms are proprietary.

The difficulty here is that nobody can ever really empirically test a matching algorithm like eHarmony's because they're a private company — their algorithms are proprietary and they don't have to share their «secret sauce.»

As I suggested in my Follow the Money post in August, «our philanthropist reformers» may just be «responding to what has been the outsized influence over the system exercised by private teacher unions, textbook and testing companies, and a web of high - powered lobbyists representing all manner of industry associations.»

Some private companies charge hundreds of dollars to prepare students for the school's entrance exam, a two - hour test of math and verbal - reasoning skills.

• Adams County School District 50 in Westminster plans to pay 29 percent of its grant award — $ 480,000 annually — to a private company tasked with rescuing five elementary schools, mostly through coaching but also for administrative support to meet state testing and paperwork requirements.

Liberal concerns tend to focus more on the opportunity for private corporations to make money by selling Common Core products to schools, and the fact that testing companies are helping to write some of the Common Core tests.

Brooks says he knows skipping state tests doesn't address broader concerns about labeling schools as «failing» and increasing influence of private companies in public education.

In the past, private companies created textbooks, materials and tests to satisfy requirements for 50 different states.

The private companies which sold Baseline Assessment systems to schools are now trying to persuade teachers to carry on using their tests and observation schedules, on a voluntary basis.

But though schools may have to prove they're increasing student test scores, the city's department of education doesn't hold private companies to the same rules.

Learndirect, the country's largest private training company, holds a # 2 million contract with the Department for Education to administer the computerised professional skills tests which would - be teachers must sit to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS).

But the damage might be irreparable: thousands of closed schools, worse conditions in those left open, an extreme degree of «teaching to the test,» demoralized teachers, rampant corruption by private management companies, thousands of failed charter schools, and more low - income kids without a good education.

In fact, the company says, in New York there was no significant test - score difference between students who attended private school on vouchers and those who stayed in public school.

One international private / charter school company has fabulous results with their practice of using passages with real, relevant content for reading tests.