Sentences with phrase «adopt standards set»

One idea would be to require firms and organizations with lawyers to adopt standards set by the law society for the recruitment, retention and career advancement of minorities.

The 2010 law gives our State Board of Education the authority to adopt a standard set of guidelines that will set out the requirements for teacher evaluation instruments and procedures.

Not exact matches

«This isn't reinventing the wheel,» said Christina Strong, a New Jersey lawyer who co-wrote a set of standards that most states largely adopted for the organ transplant industry.

Again, Zuckerberg has gestured to this idea, adopting «meaningful groups» as another of his new totem - phrases, and suggesting that the solution lies in Facebook's hosting a constellation of smaller overlapping social networks, each of which can set its own standards.

Twelve other states, including New York and Pennsylvania, as well as Washington, D.C., have adopted California's emission standards, setting up a face - off between more than 130 million residents — who own more than a third of the auto market — and the President.

Today very few «cash registers» are set up to accept a phone instead of a credit card, and similarly only one widely available phone in the U.S., Google's Nexus S, is tricked out with the necessary chip for so - called Near Field Communications that the industry hopes to adopt as the standard for transferring data from phones to in - store terminals.

Setting forth the Reformed system of theology and church government, they were widely adopted by Presbyterian churches in Great Britain and America and into the twentieth century continued to be standard in these bodies.

Help is at hand from the Electoral Commission, which has agreed draft standards with the main parties about adopting a comment set of standards.

Common Core is a new set of academic standards adopted by New York's Board of Regents in 2010, outlining which math and English skills students should be able to demonstrate at each grade level.

The bill sets minimum liability insurance coverage requirements of $ 100,000 for drivers using apps and $ 1 million when they have picked up a passenger — matching a standard adopted by 43 states but falling short of higher minimums advocated by Democrats who dominate the state Assembly.

Common Core is a set of nationally developed standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, designed to align grade level cirricula across the states.

The task force appointed by New York governor Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the Common Core standards the state adopted in 2010 issued a set of recommendations on Thursday that, if adopted, will see school curricula and assessment standards move further away from the Common Core, the New York Times reports.

On Thursday, the advocates called for all state agencies, authorities and affiliates such as the SUNY Poly nonprofits to adopt a uniform set of procurement and contracting standards to ensure competition and transparency, with existing state agency standards set as the minimum.

The Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD) has developed a set of 15 standards that oil and gas drillers can adopt in their operations (a PDF of the standards is here).

This is the fifth set of science standards adopted by the board in 8 years.

After all, standards set in California — the eighth - largest economy in the world on its own — are often adopted at the federal level, ranging from emission standards for vehicles to efficiency settings for appliances.

His concept of standard time formed the basis of the system adopted in 1884, but it took another 35 years before nations agreed a set of time zones covering the entire world.

«They helped set a standard that all new ground based observatories are adopting.

Rhode Island, Kansas, Maryland, Vermont, and California are among the small handful of states that have already adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a set of standards for teaching science that were finalized last April.

Dr Bark explains the difference between stand - alone health coaches and those who use health coaching to supplement clinical practice, trends in the healthcare field as health coaching is adopted by more clinicians to help with patient motivation and compliance, and how standards set by the National Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches (now referred to as the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching) will benefit those who use health coaching within a clinical setting.

Following the success of GRID, which set new standards for damage, AI, visuals and introduced the Flashback time rewind feature — now adopted by many racing games — GRID 2 will again raise the gameplay and technological bar for motorsport gaming and remain true to the series» core values — it's all about the race.

In late 2008 the STF were appointed by the Learning Outside the Council Interim Council (an independent charity set up by the UK government in 2008) to act as the Awarding Body for the Study & Sports Tours Sector of the LOtC Quality Badge and our standards adopted as the benchmark for all companies operating in that sector.

The poor results triggered speculation about the effect of Common Core State Standards (CCSS), the controversial set of standards adopted by more than 40 states since 2010.

States would be in a better competitive position if they adopted a «common set of K — 12 standards» that had been adopted by «a majority of the states.»

If we could adopt a constitutional amendment empowering Diane Ravitch, Chester Finn, and their heirs to oversee the development and maintenance of national standards, I'd be willing to set aside my reservations and sign on the dotted line.

Case in point: In 1992, the California State Board of Education adopted the California Mathematics Framework — a set of standards based prominently on NCTM's standards of 1989.

In one scenario, a large number of states may adopt the standards in name only, develop their own tests, and set their own proficiency cut scores.

Earning these points required «commitment to adopting a common set of high - quality standards» and «participation in a consortium of States that is working toward jointly developing and adopting a common set of K — 12 standards» that «includes a significant number of states.»

States have voluntarily come together in the Common Core movement and agreed upon a common set of standards that they will all adopt.

January 22, 2016 — The Common Core State Standards (CCSS), adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia in an effort to establish a set of common educational objectives and standards for assessing student proficiency in reading and math, are accomplishing one of their key goals.

These English and math standards have been adopted by forty - five states and the District of Columbia, and represent (in our view) a rigorous, coherent set of expectations pegged to college and career readiness in those two important subjects.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than forty states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools.

Yes, states developed standards and assessments as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) required, but many adopted weak standards and set low cut scores.

Once the federal government coerces states to adopt a set of standards, as it has already done without Fordham's objection, and once states are compelled to adopt a particular set of assessments, as Fordham proposes the federal government should do, then we have a de facto national curriculum regardless of whatever else is done.

My post earlier this week framed the piece that Jeff Henig and I contributed to Ed Week's print edition and laid out the need for education reformers to review the evidence and admit that closing achievement gaps is not as simple as adopting a set of standards, accountability and instructional improvement strategies.

Educators nationwide would have to exchange long - held practices for newer ones if all 50 states were to adopt a set of common content standards.

Through the federal Race to the Top, states had to «enter binding agreements to adopt and fully implement a single set of federally defined content standards and to utilize assessment products created by a federally sponsored «consortia.

Indiana recently became the first of the 45 states that originally signed on to the Common Core to officially drop the standards (although the new standards they are set to adopt look very similar) and several states are considering pulling out of the two consortia developing Common Core - aligned assessments.

In the early 1990s, the Bay State adopted a set of smart, coherent standards and well - aligned state tests.

While states received points (40 out of 500) for «adopting a common set of high quality standards,» strictly speaking there were only two eligibility requirements (i.e., what a state had to do in order to be eligible to apply and receive funds): (1) an approved plan for distributing funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and (2) no legal or regulatory barriers to linking student - level data and individual teachers.

Now, with the advent of the Common Core, a set of rigorous reading and math standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade that has been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, educators say the pressure to prepare young children is growing more intense.

Learning Forward (formally the National Staff Development Council), an organization focused on effective educator professional learning, adopted and expanded the Guskey and Sparks (2002) model by developing a set of standards for high quality educator learning (Learning Forward, 2011; National Staff Development Council, 2001).

The new standards, adopted in California and 44 other states, have ushered in a whole new set of academic standards for math, with significant... read more

Adopting national standards and tests through the Common Core State Standards Initiative surrenders control of standard - setting to distant national organizations and Washington bureaucrats.

Between 2010 and 2012, more than 40 states adopted the Common Core standards in reading and math, setting dramatically higher expectations for students in our elementary and secondary schools.

Common Core refers to a set of national education standards adopted by 45 states, including Florida.

And at first blush it looked like they had achieved it, with about 45 states committing to adopt the new set of standards and federally - sponsored standardized tests aligned to those standards.

Keep in mind that New Jersey signed onto the Common Core before the standards were even finished, adopted them about a month after the final set came out, and was a original supporter of the PARCC tests, before the tests were even developed.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state - led effort that established a single set of clear educational standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts and mathematics that states voluntarily adopt.

States must either adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or formulate a set of standards that are deemed «College - and Career - ready»; implement a plan to improve the lowest performing schools; and design an evaluation program for teachers and principals.