Sentences with phrase «u.s. standards need»

Separately, the Federal Communications Commission in 2013 asked for comments on whether U.S. standards need to be updated to protect people from mobile - phone radiation, and it hasn't acted.

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Costs back then were still low by today's standards, but the integrated mining operations were seeing operating costs of $ 12 - 18 / bbl and new projects needed $ U.S. oil prices of $ 20 - $ 30 to generate reasonable rates of return.

That means the American government building a nationwide 5G network within just three years — a timespan that includes the recreation of a «telecommunications manufacturing base in the U.S.» There would need to be new national standards for deploying the infrastructure, in order to speed up the process.

As the U.S. Constitution authorizes states to manage the time, place, and manner for voting, there is no nationwide security standard that all state Board of Elections need to meet.

Over the past few years, the U.S. Government has worked closely with the government of Bangladesh to encourage the reforms needed to meet those basic standards.

Taking the dollar off of the gold standard along with the Arab Oil Embargo sent it plunging and the U.S. needed something to replace it.

Autonomous cars should be required to meet standards on their ability to detect potential hazards, and better ways are needed to keep their human drivers ready to assume control, U.S. auto safety and technology experts said after fatal crashes involving Uber Technologies and Tesla vehicles.

U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson's bill is a step in the right direction to mitigate fraud while protecting legitimate asylum seekers, and the House should immediately act to pass H.R. 391, which will increase the evidence needed to meet the standard, and include it in any appropriations bill before Congress effecting homeland security.

That's because U.S. workers need a higher salary to pay for the better standard of living.

The U.S. needs to stop holding other countries to higher standards of order than it does itself if it wants to tout being the greatest country in the world.

And that new standard will put even more stress on the 11 donor milk banks in the U.S., which are unable to meet current needs, said Jean Drumlins, president of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.

In January 2012, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, finalized its updated nutritional standards for school meals in keeping with the Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act of 2010 (Public Law No. 111 - 296), which reauthorized the school meal programs and placed an emphasis on the need to improve access to healthy foods in schools.

While newer, mandatory federal safety standards have reduced the need for so many recalls of products such as cribs, strollers, high chairs, and clothing, there are still many baby and child products that, for various reasons, need to be recalled each year in the U.S..

Conferences are also one of the standard ways of getting your work out to its target audience — and that's key to the kind of visibility and recognition that scientists need for their careers to grow, says Donna Dean, a retired senior adviser for the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) who now works as an executive consultant for the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) and a career consultant for the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Pruitt said he would support the U.S. renewable fuels standard, which requires biofuels like ethanol to be blended in gasoline, but said the program needed some tweaks.

Reflecting broad concerns about tainted peanuts, adulterated drugs, and the need for stronger enforcement of standards, the Obama Administration has requested a 19 % budget boost for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, to $ 3.2 billion.

«While sickle cell newborn screening is standard in the U.S., very few infants are screened in Africa because of the high cost and level of skill needed to run traditional tests,» says Dr. Little, Director of the Adult Sickle Cell Anemia Center, UH Seidman Cancer Center and Associate Professor at the School of Medicine.

Eight years ago, in that same Proficiency Illusion foreword, we suggested that «education standards in the U.S. should be tethered to real - world expectations for the skills and knowledge that 18 - year - olds need to possess in order to succeed in a modern economy and democratic polity.

With U.S. schools needing to hire about 2 million teachers in the next decade, the push is on to make sure that the people who take those jobs are qualified to teach to the higher academic standards now expected of students.

Camera of U.S. News reports that Bushaw isn't ruling out a move that would draw NAEP closer to the new Common Core standards, though he cautions that the federal assessment needs to maintain distance from other academic guidelines.

Coleman and Wilhoit told the Gateses that academic standards varied so wildly between states that high school diplomas had lost all meaning, that as many as 40 percent of college freshmen needed remedial classes and that U.S. students were falling behind their foreign competitors.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

Whatever strategy school districts use, Foughty says, they would be making investments with or without the Common Core because Indiana would have needed to revise its own academic standards in the coming years to remain competitive with students outside the U.S.

Each state will now be charged with developing their own standards and accountability protocols, which need to be approved by the U.S. DoE.

SEEN addresses the needs of educators in the southeastern U.S., including classroom management technology, curriculum standards, 21st - century learning, school safety, and character education.

In many U.S. schools, efforts to meet individual students» needs may take less priority than efforts to ensure that all students work toward grade - level standards, progress at the same pace as their grade - level peers, or prepare for grade - level tests at the end of the year.

As public debate over the use of Common Core standards in U.S. schools gathers steam, parents and policymakers need to know more about current proficiency standards for reading, mathematics, and science — and brace for some surprises.

(Calif.) Nine months after California's dustup with U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan over accountability and the Common Core, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — seems to have decided California was right: States need more time to train teachers, prepare assessments and teach students in the new standards before schools can be held accountable.

In order to fully access the core curriculum and post-secondary educational opportunities in the dominant U.S. culture, Standard English Learners need to be proficient in Standard American and Academic English (e.g., become literate in the forms of English that appear in newspapers, magazines, textbooks, voting materials, and consumer contracts).

«ASCD embraces the need for high standards, improved assessment, and increased accountability for U.S. schools, especially those serving children in poverty,» said Carter, speaking for the 165,000 - member nonpartisan Association.

Many U.S. educators, including the architects of the Common Core standards, disagree, saying math just needs to be taught more effectively.

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

Although most U.S. states have now adopted the common core college - and career - ready standards for all their students, many high schools continue to operate on an old premise — that only the best and the brightest will go on to college, with the rest needing a lower dose of academics sprinkled with some occupational training.

If India is indeed proposing to nationalize more rigorously normed learning outcomes, I hope that the U.S.'s mishaps in standards - based reform have offered crucial lessons in inclusivity, developmental appropriateness, decentralized control, and the need for more than adequate implementation support.

They've requested (PDF) that the U.S. Government Accountability Office issue a report that examines the costs associated with the new nutrition standards and the additional assistance school food authorities might need to implement the changes.

This is the type of efficient yet diabolically fun powerplant every sports car maker needs to do well as CAFE standards ramp up in the U.S.

In the U.S., windscreen and wiper come standard, so no need for my helmet.

This is the type of efficient yet diabolically fun engine every sports car maker needs to do well as CAFE standards ramp up in the U.S.

That's 30 hp more than the standard 911 Turbo along which it will go on sale in the U.S. in September and, in keeping with the evolutionary process, some 29 bhp more than the old 911 Turbo S, which didn't exactly come across as being in desperate need of any more firepower.

Ford needs to look at its U.S. sales numbers and make Tracer / Escort automatic transmissions standard, which is the way most of its buyers want it in this country.

This 4 - door, 5 - passenger, front - drive hatchback is 18 inches shorter and 500 lbs lighter than the standard Prius hatchback, and ties its larger sibling as the most fuel - efficient car in the U.S. that doesn't need to be plugged in.

This wonderful Kindle Boards post gives a chart explaining what price you need to set your book on Google Play to get it to be one of the standard U.S. prices.

And unlike manufactured homes that must only meet a standard U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) housing code, modular homes also need to satisfy local regulations.

The standard criteria of being a U.S. citizenship, resident alien, or have permanent resident status apply as well, and you'll need to be able to prove you have steady income.

In 2003, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) estimated that over the next 20 years the United States would need to invest between $ 300 billion and $ 1 trillion just to keep the U.S. domestic water and sanitation systems up to their mandated quality standards.

These geothermal leases further AltaRock's goal of developing EGS in a cost - effective manner in order to provide baseload renewable energy to U.S. power markets, and to meet the renewable portfolio standard needs of utilities in states such as Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada.

WASHINGTON - Automakers met last Friday with President Donald Trump at the White House to impress on him the need for a single national fuel standard as his administration's move to roll back mile - per - gallon rules on U.S. cars and trucks stokes fears...

It's a concern because the internet need not be a surveillance state: back in the mainframe days we had standards for communications security from the U.S. military that demonstrated that we could have a secure computer system and network of computer systems.

Moyse says Canada's academy is «nowhere close to where it needs to be,» innovation-wise, particularly when compared to small but highly innovative U.S. law schools now offering standard courses in e-discovery, document automation, data analytics, machine learning, project management, app building, design thinking and the user experience.

If it doesn't and you're a legal resident of the U.S., you'll need to get coverage that meets minimum essential benefits standards, address the issue of the tax penalty by paying it or get an exemption from the penalty.