Sentences with phrase «began public testing»

Mercedes has now begun public testing with the pre-production versions of the 2017 Mercedes GLC Coupe.

Samsung has, at least, begun public testing of its Nougat update for those enrolled in its Galaxy Beta Program.

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Instagram Tests Its Version Of The Retweet But Thru Stories Instagram has begun testing a new feature that would allow users to share public posts from other profiles to their own followers through the Stories feature.

With Pinterest poised to take its first ad product, Promoted Pins, public, retailers and brands that have so far been testing the waters on the social pinboard are now beginning to look more seriously into optimizing their activity on the site.

Otto launched out of stealth in May, about four months after Levandowski formed the company and began consulting for Uber, at which point the company's autonomous trucks were already being tested on public highways.

The tests will begin in early summer through GM's Maven car - sharing unit, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans aren't public.

Ford Motor Co. said yesterday it will begin testing fully autonomous Fusion hybrid sedans on public roads in California next year.

It began its operation in May 16, 2016 with a period dedicated for its public beta testing.

In October, NIO USA announced that it was issued an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit by the California DMV and it would begin testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to Testing Permit by the California DMV and it would begin testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to market.

Before his public work could begin, however, there was still a period of struggle and testing before him.

Students across the region began taking New York State Regents tests Tuesday and a Buffalo Public Schools teacher is using digital means to help students review for their History Regents.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

«We began testing immediately — we got the results back within weeks,» he told reporters at a press conference after results were first made public.

More than a month after New York City began offering free lead testing to nearly 3,000 children living in public housing apartments in the wake of a lead - paint scare, only 73 children have been tested under the initiative, city officials said.

[Silver] can withstand public criticism to a point, but the real test — as it has always been — is whether the growing headaches begin to infect rank - and - file members.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

New York State officials are continuing to test public and private wells in the Rensselaer County community of Hoosick Falls as the village is beginning to flush contaminants from its water system.

Beginning as early as this spring, the companies will offer telomere - measurement tests to research centers and companies studying the role of telomeres in aging and disease; the general public may have access by the fall through doctors and laboratories, perhaps even directly.

When the public began to question the safety of nuclear testing and of radiation emitted from televisions, the government took notice.

Goldsmith says that since SIL began two years ago numerous soybean breeders and public and private seed organizations have come forward seeking to benefit from SIL's breeder development and varietal testing programs.

Beginning with the Nazi Doctors» Trial at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial (1), coverage includes publication of Henry Beecher's «Ethics and Clinical Research» (2), The New York Times exposure of the public health service syphilis study in Macon County, Alabama (the infamous «Tuskeegee case»)(3), the University of Pennsylvania / Gelsinger gene transfer case, and The Washington Post series on international clinical drug testing abuses (4).

Preliminary public testing of the first version will begin in early 2016.

The New York City public schools, which in the past two years began holding back 3rd and 5th graders who fail city tests, will extend the promotion policy to 7th graders.

Importantly, in 1998, the Ohio Board of Regents began tracking the educational progress of entering students at its 45 public colleges, based on information from applications, college transcripts, and standardized tests.

One last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly report a wide array of data related to test scores, poverty rates, teacher characteristics, and much, much more.

Coleman began exploring that possibility with games he developed and tested with students attending Baltimore public schools.

A decade after testing begins and schools install a highly qualified teacher in every classroom, everything will be hunky - dory with public education in these United States.

As Andrew Mollison shows (features, p. 34), the Advanced Placement test is a good beginning, but until more than 10 percent of all public school students take that test, it is not going to have broad impact.

A number of states have begun to do this, and the Bush proposal is focused here, bringing high schools under the NCLB umbrella, primarily via testing and public accountability.

Against heavy opposition, I had pushed hard to begin statewide testing of our public school students.

For now, I hope that more parents will begin to recognize that standardized tests provide invaluable information that can help us move toward equity in public education and improve the system for everyone.

It is not possible to use this methodology to examine elementary schools because testing begins in third grade, so for those schools we compare test - score growth in traditional public schools and charter schools while taking into account student characteristics such as race, age, and special education status.

In Indiana, researchers found that students lost ground in math — as measured by test scores — in the first two years after leaving public school, but began to improve after four years if they stayed with the program.

JB: Sharing the actual FCAT test questions with the public and with teachers, as we began to do in 2005 once we had enough test items, should have been done much earlier in my administration.

As we begin to recognize and embrace again the larger purposes of public education, there is some hope that encouraging and nurturing diversity within schools will no longer seem like a frill or a distraction from the push to increase test scores.

It's still early, but it appears that parents and those of us in the education world are beginning to awaken from the fog of test - based accountability and the often implicit assumption that test scores alone capture the total value and worth of public education.

Yes, as he says in closing, «parents and policymakers might do a great deal to reverse the intensifying segregation of American public education simply by educating themselves about what test scores do and don't say about school quality... Questioning what they have long accepted, however, they might begin to create something different.»

Three years after Maryland began to hold public school students to higher standards, results of English and math assessments released Tuesday show students have made only slight progress and less than half statewide passed the tests.

It was back in 2008 when New York City first began using students» standardized test scores to rate the quality of public school teachers.

Chaos ensued, but Bay State leaders didn't back down, and seven years later Massachusetts» public - school students began a streak — still intact — of finishing first in every test and on every grade - level in the National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the Nation's Report Card.

Chaos ensued, but Bay State leaders didn't back down, and seven years later Massachusetts» public - school students began a streak, still intact, of finishing first in every test and on every grade level in the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Another round of panic will set in, fingers will point at America's public schools, yet again, and we will, yet again (though hopefully not by the grace of more visionary educational policymakers) look to even higher standards and better tests to adopt, implement, and repeat, from the beginning — see # 1 above.

In 2007, St. Charles Parish Public Schools began giving gifted screening tests to all second and eighth graders to avoid the possibility that teacher prejudices could influence who was considered for gifted classes.

This marked the beginning of the push for standardized curriculum, annual testing, and the expansion of public charter schools as educational alternatives.

After the charter takeover of NOLA public schools post Katrina, the state began issuing letter grades for all schools in 2011, and 79 percent of charter schools in the New Orleans district received a «D» or «F.» In 2014, RSD - New Orleans schools are still performing below the vast majority of the state's other districts at the fourth and eighth grades in subjects tested by the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, including English language arts, math and science.

And the public is beginning to see the picture, which is that their schools are being starved of resources, the schools are on an austerity budget, but there's plenty of money for vendors and testing.

Then later, as the Deputy Commissioner of Education was announcing that the «roundtable» meeting was over, a parent diplomatically and respectfully stood up, thanked the Department for its presentation and began to explain why parents were understandably concerned about the Common Core SBAC and NEW SAT testing and our accurate concern that that our public schools are being turned into little more than testing factories.

With the Common Core testing frenzy about to begin in public schools across Connecticut [SBAC testing takes place between March 15 — June 10, 2016], parents are once again reporting that some school districts are informing them that if their child is opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core tests they will be required to stay in the testing room and «sit and stare» during the entire testing period.

A growing number of Connecticut parents are beginning to understand that in just a few weeks, the state's public schools will start giving the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) test.

Because NYC schools risk receivership and even closure based on test scores, because state test scores are the variable used in awarding free SHSAT preparation, because the city publishes school - wide score averages in its own guidance materials for parents and because NYC School Reports literally center their definition of «great schools» on student test scores, test prep continues to feature prominently in city public school curriculum, beginning as early as kindergarten, no matter how much the mayor publicly claims to «de-emphasize» it.