Sentences with phrase «benchmark standard»

Unfortunately, there is no one benchmark standard used across the veterinary industry for diagnosing heartworm for cats.

Action I: Upgrade state standards by adopting a common core of internationally benchmarked standards in math and language arts for grades K - 12 to ensure that students are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to be globally competitive.

«The Board of Education supported — and continues to support — the development of internationally benchmarked standards for states to adopt outright or to use as models to improve their own standards.

First, federal policymakers should offer funds to help underwrite the cost for states to take the five action steps described above [including» adopting a common core of internationally benchmarked standards in math and language arts.»]

«We also benchmark our standards against the EU,» says Joanne.

Joanne says, «We also benchmark our standards against the EU.»

When the NCCE released its initial report in 1990, it discussed the early impact of globalization and urged America to adopt international benchmarking standards in education to focus on low skill, low wage jobs.

Accordingly, these plan sponsors will be required to understand the EHB benchmark standards for the state in which their plan operates in order to review their plan to ensure that it does not illegally impose lifetime and annual limits on EHBs.

To support this rapid growth, NSF International provides auditing and certification services to Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)- benchmarked standards such as SQF, BRC, IFS and FSSC 22000.

In Wisconsin, we are transitioning from having grade - level academic standards (at grades 4, 8, and 10), so we appreciate having clearer, higher, internationally benchmarked standards at each grade.

And despite its power, the 1.4 TFSI sets new benchmark standards in its class for its acoustic output too.

In fact, it's proven faster than the mighty Qualcomm Snapdragon S4, which was the current benchmark standard.

His 3105 score trumps the 2226 of the stock Xoom configuration and doubles that of the nearest benchmark standards including the Nexus One and the Droid X.

The VCS is a global benchmark standard for project - based, voluntary, greenhouse gas emission reductions and removals.

There are many hospitals in the city that follow globally benchmarked standards of medical, nursing and operating protocols, and hence it is one of the preferred healthcare destinations for international patients.

We are constantly assessing the competition and benchmarking their standards against our own in order to ensure that our customers are the ones who receive the absolute best experience when receiving their car insurance quotes.

The poll also suggested that Americans still aren't sold on the Common Core State Standards, a set of internationally benchmarked standards in math and English adopted by 45 states.

It is currently undergoing an indepentent third - party assessment to ensure it is in compliance with our international benchmark standards.

Forty - five states and Guam have adopted Common Core — the first set of internationally benchmarked standards in the US.

E-health systems should be utilised to monitor and enhance continuity of care against benchmarked standards for both mainstream and ACCHS providers.

Already - volatile markets swooned after Trump announced the tariffs, with the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 Index falling more than 1.3 percent that day.

The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index also hit an all - time high Friday of 2,367.34, and it's up 10.6 percent since the election.

A month earlier, a jump in wages got investors worried about inflation and set off a stock market swoon, giving the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index its first 10 % decline in two years.

It lost 6.6 percent of its value in 2007, the first time it had trailed the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index in back - to - back years since 1990.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 1,000 points as Wall Street opened, and the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 index slid more than 2.5 percent, a drop that puts it nearly 10 percent below its record high.

He beat the returns on the benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index for 15 years running, a feat unmatched among the legends of Wall Street.

But before you send roses to your fund manager, consider this: The benchmark Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index was up even more — 20.6 %.

Now in their 10th anniversary year, an unprecedented number of clubs have attained the Family Excellence Award for 2017, with a significant increase in the benchmark standard being applied by the judging panel.

Announcing the joint collaboration on the irtec scheme, Nick Jones, Chief Executive, SOE, said that a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations now paves the way for improved skills levels and greater recognition of a benchmark standard of competence in the commercial vehicle and passenger transport maintenance and repair industry:

The Administration is also supporting investments in scholarships to attract and prepare high - quality math and science teachers through the Robert Noyce Scholarship Program and other investments in student aid, a push for rigorous, internationally - benchmarked standards, high - quality curricula aligned to the standards, and better assessments.

One member of the state House, Republican Rep. Bill Cook, said of the benchmark standard in an interview last week, «Good God, that would have cost this state a fortune for some made - up numbers, as far as I can tell.»

Of course, we have not answered all these questions, but I think we have come down to a decent description of the problems, which we see as an important foundation for solving these issues and implementing the benchmarking standard.

To offset such misperceptions, we need to require that all schools in all districts report student performance — and calculate achievement gaps — using the same, internationally benchmarked standards.

«In the United States, now we're talking a lot about international competition, internationally benchmarked standards and so on.

«One of the biggest challenges is that teachers are expected increasingly these days to be able to get students to a benchmark standard,» she said.

But to be eligible, states had to agree to adopt «internationally benchmarked standards and assessments that prepare students for success in college and the workplace.»

One was to «upgrade state standards by adopting a common core of internationally benchmarked standards.»

Secretary Duncan urged the nation's governors and state education leaders to continue the movement toward adopting internationally benchmarked standards for public K - 12 education during his keynote address at the 2009 Governors Education Symposium in Cary, NC.

Benchmark standards (i.e., «cut scores» or «targets») are built into the system to assist in determining which students are at - risk for academic failure versus those who are on track to be successful.

And by internationally benchmarking the standards, we will raise expectations for all students.

This foundational knowledge base includes competence in a broad range of rigorous internationally benchmarked standards.

But, the experiences of states like Massachusetts and Minnesota, which have adopted rigorous, internationally benchmarked standards, proves that U.S. students can achieve at high levels.

Their charge was to develop a like set of internationally benchmarked standards that would be adopted and used by every state.