Sentences with phrase «administration over testing»

The NEA endorsed President Obama twice but has grown increasingly at odds with the Obama administration over testing and teacher evaluations, among other issues.

The NEA, which represents about one out of every 100 Americans, has been increasingly at odds with the Obama administration over testing and teacher evaluations, among other issues.

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The Trump administration recently touted FAA regulations that may make it easier for companies developing drones or drone - based services to test these in the U.S.. However, the FAA tightly restricted drone operations over 133 U.S. military bases as of April 2017.

The Trump administration is committed to transforming the health care system into one that emphasizes value over marathon tests with hazy prices, while empowering consumers to find doctors and services the way they find restaurants on Yelp or Open Table, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told health insurers.

While there is no concrete proof that BPA is harmful to humans, some tests by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), the National Institutes of Health, as well as the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) have shown that there could be potential issues that could arise due to over exposure of this chemical.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

The additional exam would address concerns about teachers being rated based on a student's work on one day or over one test - administration period, the administration official said.

The speech typically includes an argument that Success values progressive educational values over test scores, a joke about what might happen if Success students were allowed to voluntarily attend school, and a swipe at the de Blasio administration.

The changes made to the state's tests have made it difficult to compare student performance on the assessments over time — a fact that has not stopped the de Blasio administration from publicly celebrating rising scores.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates drugs, devices, and many tests, but it does not control how doctors use them and has no control at all over surgeries.

But the Federal Aviation Administration, which wants ADS - B fully operational across the US by 2020, says tests it completed in 2009 show ADS - B has no risks over and above those presented by existing radar systems.

The move comes a week after a flap over Pathway Genomics's plans to sell its test over the counter in Walgreens, a plan the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said was unacceptable because the test needed the agency's authorization.

Over a three - year period, Charles Santerre of Purdue University and his colleagues tested metal levels in catfish, trout and crawfish grown in aquaculture facilities across the southern U.S. Levels of mercury in these fish measured on average 40 to 100 times lower than the one - part - per - million limit set by the Food and Drug Administration.

The first test of a follow - up will come later this year as Congress wrestles over the administration's 2013 budget request for the NIH.

As the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, Mr. Simon is defending the testing called for in the Bush administration's signature school law, as well as trying to win over the law's growing...

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

The state department of education has audits under way to examine Chavez's finances and concerns over whether proper protocols were used in the administration of the state's standardized tests.

The overall passing rate for prospective teachers in Massachusetts improved on the third administration of the state's controversial licensing test over the previous round, but not by much.

That's the generous grade to give the Obama Administration — based on student test performances in math and reading over the eight years it held office (2009 - 2017).

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Wednesday sued the Obama administration over the Common Core academic standards and tests.

The Obama Administration and others have made much of «over testing» in recent months.

The striking opt - out rate of over 20 percent on state tests this spring — which puts New York at risk of federal penalties — was a direct product of his administration, he said.

The original set of state standards and state mandated standardized tests were imposed by the Whitman Administration as part of a lawsuit, known as Abbott versus Burke, over New Jersey's school funding formula.

This week has seen a major flap over the Obama administration's plans for testing under a new ESEA.

Over the weekend, the Obama administration announced a plan to reduce and limit the amount of standardized tests students are given.

The statute was sponsored by the SSPI, and the CDE has used their influence with the locals to justify technology - based administrations for well over 99 percent of the kids taking SBAC tests this spring.

As the Obama administration calls on schools to stop obsessing over standardized tests, Brooklyn Ascend High is rolling out a liberal arts curriculum that promotes critical thinking over exam prep.

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

The Advocate: Dennis Persica: The Obama administration concedes standardized testing has gone too far, but with Louisiana is split over Common Core what happens next?

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

New York's expected turnabout comes as states across the country are trying to respond to anger over standardized testing, and as the Obama administration is backing off the idea of tying teacher evaluations to test scores.

As New York state schools chief from 2011 to 2014, King clashed with parents and teachers over his efforts to implement the same policies — including new teacher evaluations and new Common Core standards and tests — that the Obama administration has pushed hard nationwide.

Gary: with all due respect for those who post here, thank you for your patience with nit - picking, e.g., we could argue interminably over the use of the terms «validity» and «reliability» and «bias» as they are used generally and as they are used in very specific ways by psychometricians when talking about the construction and administration of standardized tests and the inferences that could be drawn about test scores.

King's comments came as the Education Department released its «testing action plan» over the weekend, which includes easing up on the controversial use of student test scores in the Obama administration's final teacher preparation rule, expected in December.

Prior to her position in the Obama Administration, Dr. Jones served as the Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Early Childhood Education in the New Jersey State Department of Education and as a Senior Research Scientist at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton for over 15 years.

NAEP SCORES SLIP AND SPIN ENSUES: Fourth and eighth grade student scores on the Nation's Report Card took an «unexpected downturn» this year after more than two dozen years of small and steady gains, prompting immediate recriminations over the Common Core, testing and the Obama administration's education policies.

Another $ 15.3 million has been allocated to AIR (over 4 years, including this year's pilot) to cover CMT / CAPT Science Test administration.

As I'm sure you know, even the hint of testing irregularities and misconduct in the test administration process could call into question school reform efforts and undermine the State accountability systems that you have painstakingly built over the past decade.

It is an act of fancy rhetorical footwork to blame states and municipalities for an over focus on standardized testing when FEDERAL requirements have incentivized that very focus, first with threats to label schools as failures under NCLB and then with the Obama administration pressuring states to use discredited statistical models to evaluate teachers as part of Race to the Top.

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After catastrophic outcome of the recall of Firestone tires on Ford Explorers, Congress quickly enacted the TREAD Act of 2000, which required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration («NHTSA») to adopt a test to rate a vehicle's propensity to roll over.

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The plaintiff argued that based on the Food and Drug Administration's decision to take Redux off the market, there was no test for weighing the risks over the benefits that could have justified placing the drug in the marketplace, and Wyeth should have withdrawn the drug sooner than it did.

In response to Robert Blanc's concern about reliability, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration measured EDR accuracy using 37 crash tests over a wide spectrum of impact conditions.

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