Sentences with phrase «against high standards»

Urban schools are not afraid to be measured against higher standards and they are confronting the achievement gap.

Holding the language of public discourse against the highest standards of reason and integrity is a responsibility shared by politicians and the media, and to a considerable extent, civil society.

It won't actually be any worse, but it will look worse against the higher standard than it looked against the previous, somewhat lower standard.

Teachers who are using these tools say that their kids are doing better work against higher standards, and most agree that they improve instruction.

How does this sequel stack up against the high standards set by its predecessors?

The construction industry pushed against a higher standard, and now the government is delaying it.

Opponents question the emphasis on raising academic standards, independently assessing students against those high standards, and holding educators responsible for the results.

In order to attain National Board Certification, teachers must complete a rigorous process in which their content knowledge and teaching skills are measured against the highest standards as determined by the NBPTS.

But the holiday will finally come to an end, schools will start to get meaningful ratings against high standards, and we'll see if that puts some gas in the student achievement engine.

Through the National Board Certification process, we voluntarily analyzed our classroom practice against high standards.

McLaren Qualified is the only way to be reassured that a pre-owned McLaren has been checked and qualified against the high standards of the experts that built it.

That you can go back to your small town wherever it was and be a provincial success, show in be a local exhibits, but that if you really wanted to be an artist, go where the work will be measured against the highest standards.

The best community organizing advances those commitments, and CCHD evaluates each grantee judiciously and against the highest standards of integrity to pursue the shared goal of a society oriented to the common good.

«Because the new content standards set higher expectations for students and the new tests are designed to assess student performance against those higher standards, the bar has been raised,» Joe Willhoft, executive director of Smarter Balanced, said in a statement.

It can be argued that the crowds were so good because we were winning regularly, but that argument is easily countered by our current home form, six wins on the bounce the best run since the early days of SImon Grayson's time at the helm, and against a higher standard of opposition.

Against those high standards, the staff at the True Siam was rather average.

So what happens to Cruz when he's put up against this higher standard?