A series of bilateral agreements were signed and several confidence
building measures adopted.
Not exact matches
To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need to be made more efficient,
adopting measures ranging from reducing the energy costs of sanitation to constructing
buildings that waste less energy.
The winning states are making dramatic changes in how they do business —
adopting common standards and assessments,
building data systems that
measure student growth and success, retaining effective teachers and principals, and turning around their lowest performing schools.
This approach will be innovative in its integration of personalized screening
measures that validly identify different kinds of learners; personalized educational interventions that are matched to the needs of individual students, in and out of school; and personalized resources that
build the capacity of educators and parents, and the systems in which they work, to
adopt and integrate these personalized tools and
measures.
Test Drive: New Hampshire Teachers
Build New Ways to
Measure Deeper Learning (The Christian Science Monitor) Dan Koretz discusses performance - based assessments as states
adopt new plans under the Every Student Succeeds Act.
High schools are seeking to
build systems that ensure success for every student; this is being further emphasized by the Obama administration, which has identified the following four Race to the Top priority areas in the Race to the Top Executive Summary (2009): «
adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy;
building data systems that
measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction; cultivating effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and turning around struggling schools» (p. 1).
«What you're dealing with is actual numbers versus estimates,» said Luci Willits, deputy director of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, which
built a test Wisconsin and 17 other states are using this year to
measure how well their students in grades three through eight are meeting the new academic standards the state
adopted in 2010.
«To construct / renovate classrooms, restrooms / school facilities to improve the quality of education at Brittan Elementary School,
build a gymnasium for school and community use; repair, construct, acquire classrooms, sites and equipment, shall this Brittan Elementary School District
measure be
adopted to issue $ 4,000,000 of bonds at legal rates, levy approximately 3 cents / $ 100 assessed value, generating approximately $ 260,000 annually while bonds are outstanding, with annual audits, independent citizens» oversight, NO money for salaries, all money staying local?»
«Providing a summative
measure does not have to conflict with the multiple indicator approach that California has
adopted and can
build on it, to ensure that parents have a clear entry point to interact with the richer performance data and the state can clearly identify those LEAs and schools with wide achievement gaps and in need of extra attention,» the letter says.
Adopted in 2012,
Measure G taxes property owners at 7.2 cents per
building square foot or $ 7.20 per empty parcel.
This strategy aims at helping Member States to
build and maintain the requisite knowledge base, and to
adopt measures for adapting to the impacts of climate change, contribute to the mitigation of its causes, and enhance sustainable development.
But
adopting the position that by
measuring effectively we can assess performance and efficenciy, you at least on your way to
building a more proftiable practice.
66 They also used LIWC to
measure plain language by calculating the inverse of the average words per sentence.67 Both were positively associated with the percentage of brief language
adopted in the Court's opinion and the associations were highly significant.68 Our study
builds on this multi-factor approach to
measuring readability.