Sentences with phrase «about new tests»

A recent report from the Public Policy Institute reveals that the majority of California's public school parents are uninformed about the new tests their children took this past year.

Parents and teachers flooded Wednesday's open public testimony session to complain about the new tests, which will be administered to all students in grades 3 - 11 in March and again in May.

The California Department of Education said that it and school districts are «working hard» to educate parents about the new tests, drawn up by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

One communications expert said spotty attendance at events informing parents about the new tests may be one reason that many are unaware of them.

States also varied widely in how well they communicated with educators, parents, and the general public about the new tests.

So I'm always keen to hear about new tests to try.

The article included eight statements about the new test, with each immediately identified as fact or myth, and with an explanation of why the items were true or false.

Bruce Rosengard, the surgical director of the cardiac transplantation program at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, is cautiously optimistic about the new test.

«I, and other parents, have been asking our principal for the last few months for information about the new testing,» said Nancy Hsieh, whose children attend school in the San Mateo - Foster City School District, in an email.

I had mentioned in a post not too long ago about a new test that might negate the need for invasive biopsies when men have a high or elevating PSA.

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«What we're excited about is the constant testing on new ways to use Twitter and engage users,» he says.

Nick and Jill moved into a cottage in the redwood forest near Pescadero, where Nick set about working 16 - hour days at the computer and the sewing machine, testing new fabrics for the next - generation product, designing marketing materials, writing patent applications, and starting to build up a network of retailers.

Wilson, who had heard about Cogito from Christopher Kay, Humana's chief innovation officer, offered 200 of her call - center associates as guinea pigs in a test of a new product.

Fishman says consistent touting of such promotions helped spread the word about new flavors the company is informally testing.

They care a lot about execution but what they are the best at, is feeling the trends, predicting the future and testing new ideas,» explains Soussan.

After Alex Jones used his platform to rant about the Comedy Central host, Klepper weaved his comments about «The Opposition» into a bit at a test screening in New York.

It's an exploratory process in which you can evaluate your options, test your assumptions about your idea, and even discover new opportunities.

ASH 2016 has been one of the most anticipated scientific conventions of the year, with companies like Novartis, Kite, and Juno presenting critical new data about a next - gen set of drugs that are being tested in numerous blood cancers.

«About one - third of Medicaid's spending goes toward demonstrations, which allow states to test new approaches to delivering Medicaid services.

«What I appreciate is that the company improved areas where it may not have been the best or where they received customer feedback,» Patrick Moorhead, president of Moor Insights, said after he was allowed to test the new chips for about a week.

Wolfers spoke excitedly about the growing assortment of new measures that can help policymakers test their intuitions and better understand the actual consequences of policy decisions.

As you might expect, representatives from these companies talked about the innovative technology on the market and they talked up their new benefits and perks, like genetic tests and fertility treatments.

But I tested the new Surface Pro for about a week, and my take is similar: Microsoft's new device is a better bet for most people than the Apple iPad Pro.

Bloomberg News» Sophia Horta E Costa and Ruth David report that Goldman has fired about 20 analysts in both London and New York for cheating on internal tests.

I am interested in testing the new brownies in the Denver area... I know that my customers would buy the brownies, because I have so many ask about why we do not have them.

Asked at the conference about Netflix's tests with new pricing plans, Wells said the company was looking to offer different choices because as the customer base grows larger «one size does not fit all.»

NEW YORK (AP)-- Wal - Mart is cutting about 7,000 back - office store jobs over the next few months as it centralizes its invoice and accounting departments, expanding a test it announced in June.

Because Facebook gives you such specialized information about who your audience is, and what they interact with, it's a perfect testing ground for new ideas, products, services, or other innovations.

For example: When testing a new Firefox add - on, Mozilla used Feedback Army to query consumers on questions like, «What confused you about the installation process?»

Starting this week, Instagram is testing a new way for users to learn more about products they discover in the app and to purchase those products if they wish to.

It is a quick and inexpensive way to test out content topics and experiment with new ideas by querying people about their interests and preferences, like:

While both McDonald's and Wendy's own about a fifth of their locations, Burger King has sold off over a thousand of its stores since 2010 and now retains just 52 — mostly to train staff and test new products.

Starbucks store manager Jesse Wenkoff - White first heard about Starbucks new mobile ordering feature when the company launched a test in Portland, Oregon last December.

For a certain kind of person (i.e., the hermetic kind), blogging is a true dream job: You get to write about your passions, test out new products / recipes / lifehacks (or whatever your specialty is), and earn money through advertising or by earning sponsorships from companies in exchange for reviews — all without ever needing to get out of bed.

Our stance, as a sophisticated digital asset trading platform that serves millions of users around the world, has always been to be prudent about adding new digital assets that have not been fully tested by the market.

But there should be nothing conspiratorial nor nefarious about trying it — or in hiring a group of new talents to test it out.

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Biotech companies that don't have new drugs or therapies in the pipeline yet (about 40 percent of all those that went public last year, in fact) tend to take advantage of an IPO window because they have serious cost burdens --- like multiple drug tests and regulatory approval --- that other VC - backed companies don't have.

have you not read or been informed about the many many verses in the bible, the new testament about the serious error in putting God to the test?

In respectfully holding their bishops to account, the Catholic faithful should cut through all the chatter about more psychological testing, updated bureaucratic procedures, and new guidelines for reporting, and ask the simple question, Have you been doing your job?

It is the abiding Word of God alone that tests and accompanies all study of Scripture; it challenges and encourages us to continue on this road, critically weighing all human words about God's Word, with the expectation and certainty shared with the church of all ages that the «jewel» of the gospel will not be lost in a new and still unknown future.24

In a nervous recession, it's easier to sell a familiar story about tried and tested characters than it is to chance something new.

The new series will see the women «take part in a series of entertaining tasks and hidden experiments which will test their - and our - assumptions, challenge gender stereotypes and reveal fascinating truths about what it is to be a woman - and man - in the 21st century».

Sales and accounting offices have been renovated, its sales force is growing and West Coast Prime Meats is excited about the completion of its new test kitchen, which will allow it to demonstrate new products.

For various reasons we had only tested the recipe once (usually we try new recipes at least three times) but we still felt pretty good about it.

This bread market, which is being tested at the two newest locations, allows customers to sample and talk with Breadheads about what type of bread they might like or would go best with a meal.

There were about 100 seats in the audience for all the people who were test driving the new Cadillacs and attending the Culinary Challenge.

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After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

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