Sentences with phrase «biggest public tests»

This put the alliance in a particularly tough spot, because it was being set up to fail one of its biggest public tests.

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In April 2003, Rutan went public with his plans and started flight - testing the White Knight, the big, spindly aircraft that would carry SpaceShipOne under its belly to 46,000 feet and loose it.

He did a «stress test» study with the data available to him on all big public pensions.

One of the country's biggest pork producers is in front of fund managers testing market appetite for a potential initial public offering post reporting season.

An ambitious vision for a bigger Burnham Park passed its first public test Wednesday, amid praise and a few suggestions from parks advocates.

Although Dan Jarvis seems to be gathering donors and thinkers around him for the future... Although Peter Hyman, Joe Haines and Peter Kellner are recommending active resistance in the latest edition of the New Statesman... and although there are signs that the two biggest stars of the Twitterleft — Owen Jones and Mehdi Hasan — are becoming frustrated at Team Corbyn's competence... the chances are that May's tests of public opinion won't be catastrophic for the man who wants nuclear submarines without nuclear warheads.

It was the first big test of public opinion since last year's General Election.

Giles Dilnot dusted down the Daily Politics mood box - used to test public opinion - and headed to a royal park in west London to see what people really think of the big day.

In the biggest test of public opinion since the general election, efforts to wrest the strongholds of Westminster, Wandsworth and Barnet from the Tories fell flat.

Eric Rubin, a microbiologist at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, says that although the probe still requires clinical testing, «a diagnostic based on this principle could make a big impact both in drug development and in controlling disease, especially in areas with limited access to technology».

Patients welcomed the rapid diagnostic tests as well as government involvement in improving drug shops, and vendors «felt big» and more akin to qualified health workers in the public sector for being allowed to test blood.

But the biggest surprise was that the California Department of Public Health refused to apply the explicit exemption written into the law for laboratory tests done in a purely teaching environment.

«As a toxicologist, I support the aims of REACH — it is the biggest investment into consumer safety ever,» said study author, Thomas Hartung, MD, PhD, Doerenkamp - Zbinden Professor and Chair for Evidence - based Toxicology and director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

Results of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education, or SAGE, program showed that between 1996 - 97 and 1998 - 99, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in 30 public schools performed better on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills than did students in bigger classes.

For the past three decades, public school accountability had generally been heading in one direction: toward common standards, standardized tests, and a bigger role for the federal government in shaping how states gauge student performance and improve schools.

She thinks it's time for a big debate about the role of standardized testing in American public education.

Let those standards - whipped, assessment - oppressed, and red - tape - bound public schools and big bureaucracies like ETS administer those dread tests.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

Everything is at stake in these tests, so perhaps it's dawning on us that fraud — by adults — is inevitable, but there's a bigger issue here that continues to escape public outrage: The tests are stupid.

With a couple of changes, a teachers» union's proposal for rigorous testing for prospective teachers could have a big impact on public education.

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For years, elites in big business, foundations, well - endowed think tanks, and corporate media have conducted a well - financed marketing campaign to impress on the nation's public schools an agenda of change that includes charter schools, standardized testing, and «new and improved» standards known as the Common Core.

If nothing else, that big majorities of both parties in Congress felt the need to greatly ease federal force in elementary and secondary education — at least overt federal force — is a powerful testament to the breadth of the public backlash against federally driven standardization, testing, and «accountability.»

In the year since we released our in - depth report, Smarter Balanced has improved their website design, rolled out a big public relations campaign to convince parents of the virtues of the test, but they have done little or nothing to improve the tests themselves.

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

The Corporate Education Reform Industry claims that the Common Core, more standardized testing, doing away with teacher tenure and privatizing public education by shifting to privately owned, but publicly funded charter schools will solve the biggest problems and challenges facing public education in the United States.

With the Connecticut legislature's approval, the Malloy administration has been busy turning Connecticut's public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers for private entities, many of which have become some of Malloy's biggest campaign donors.

And they require a bigger commitment to public education than the test - pushers are willing to make.

As noted by the journalist of this article, however, this is the biggest concern with this (potentially) big win for education in that «There is broad agreement that students should be tested less, but what agency wants to relinquish the ability to hold teachers, administrators and school districts accountable for the money we [as a public] spend on education?»

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Set to make its public debut at the Paris Motor Show in October, the first Mercedes - Benz dedicated plug - in hybrid model uses a new parallel gasoline - electric drivetrain that is claimed to net the big luxury sedan combined cycle consumption of 84 mpg (U.S.) on the European test cycle while providing it with a zero - emissions electric range of more than 20 miles.

And while the 175 - horsepower SUV isn't exactly the Japanese automaker's most adrenaline - inducing model on offer, the virtual experience should be a big step up from the normal test drive routine on public roads.

All these «big» training organizations use the same, or very, very similar, «Public Access Test» to «Test» your dog and then tell you that it can go out in pPublic Access Test» to «Test» your dog and then tell you that it can go out in publicpublic.

343i discussed the decision on Halo Waypoint, they said «As this update contains the biggest changes to the Matchmaking system yet, we've identified that additional time and testing is required, and we are currently evaluating both timing and need for a CU beta with the Xbox One Preview program, as well as the final public release date in February.

Yesterday a new patch hit the Public Test Region (PTR) which highlighted big changes to both D. Va and Mercy in Overwatch.

We've seen a lot more public beta tests for multiplayer games over the last year or two, as publishers and developers aim to make sure their big bets don't get crushed by server or balance issues upon launch.

This is a big problem on drug - test day, when the test is conducted in a public restroom and I can not perform.

Taking an unlimited amount of DPS practice tests is a great way to sharpen your mind and build your confidence before the big test day at the Department of Public Safety.

The big picture: While it remains unclear when the tests will take place (or what potential platforms the Land Registry will experiment with), the development nonetheless represents the latest example of a public agency looking to blockchain tech as a mechanism for cataloging changes in land ownership.