Sentences with phrase «by achieving the highest standards»

The High Performance Green Buildings Act of 2007 (S. 506) encourages government buildings to become greener by achieving the highest standards for energy efficiency, indoor air quality and other environmental impacts.

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Though OPEC has managed to achieve a high standard of compliance, it has mostly been due to the oversized cut by the largest member of the group — Saudi Arabia.

These pressures make it improbable that any effort to achieve higher minimum standards by regulation would succeed.

Furthermore, internal standards and the HACCP concept are continuously checked and documented at the highest level by way of the achieved IFS result (International Food Standard).

Those babies that received the additional nutrition had achieved a fat mass that was 22 % to 38 % higher than those given standard formula by the age of 5 to 8 years, a situation that is known to predispose individuals to becoming overweight as adults.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Canada 1991, which obligates Canada to ensure that children are able to achieve the highest attainable standard of health.

His efforts at collectivisation and agrarian reform were generally a failure and better results were achieved by more moderate leaders like Lula da Silva in Brazil, primarily due to higher administrative standards and the absence of a distracting rhetorical war with Washington.

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

«Today the Government has recognised that a higher energy efficiency housing standard (Energy Performance Standard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achiestandard (Energy Performance Standard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achieStandard Band C) is essential to ending the preventable suffering caused by fuel poverty and have set out a legislative framework and strategy to achieve this.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

NYSPELRA's goal is to help its members achieve the highest possible standard of management advocacy by providing the information, resources and training needed to do so.

Critical factors to achieve a higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.

Liu's microfluidic device achieves two key standards by which the success of CTC devices is measured: high capture efficiency and high selectivity.

Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to achieve the highest standards of excellence.

It says that testing and accountability, by themselves, can not lift the United States to the level of accomplishment reached by the world's highest - achieving countries, an extraordinary standard for evaluating a policy innovation.

The AFT report concludes: Children can achieve when they are taught the basics early; when they are challenged by high standards and a rich curriculum; and when caring, firm adults pay strict attention to the quality of students» work and behavior.

Literature by leaders in the field of self - regulation encourage the teaching of it and clearly demonstrate that those students that have higher self - regulation skills are far more successful in achieving their goals and meeting standards.

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

It added: «What's more, because of the high standards achieved by Catholic schools they are extremely popular with parents of all faiths and none.

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

One of the rallying cries of standards - based education is that all students can achieve at high levels — a point proven by a number of high - performing, high - poverty schools.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»

Achieve, Education Trust and Fordham launched ADP to help states restore the diploma's value by anchoring high school graduation standards to those of jobs and colleges.

We also found that higher - achieving classes, as measured by their average 3rd - grade test score in the relevant subject, may fare somewhat better than lower - achieving classes under teachers with tough grading standards.

The original goal of all students achieving high academic standards by attaining proficiency or better in reading and mathematics by the 2013 — 2014 school year was missed by a mile.

High - achieving students receive less attention because they're already up to «standard», while the lowest - achieving students also receive less attention because getting them up to «standard» requires too many resources, or (I'm told by some teachers who've seen this firsthand) they are dumped out of the system altogether so that they don't count in the calculations.

This is achieved by supporting students, teachers, and families in the development of flexible and equitable learning environments to ensure mastery of the highest learning standards to reach individual student's goals.

National Board Certification, that complements, but does not replace, a state's teacher license, is achieved upon successful completion of a voluntary assessment program designed to recognize effective and accomplished teachers who meet high and rigorous standards established by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS).

«My role is to mentor and develop my students to reach their greatest potential by setting high standards for every student and finding various ways for them to achieve the standards,» she said.

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

The other was released Jan. 28 by Achieve and the Collaborative for Student Success, two groups that push for higher standards.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

They started with a blueprint that laid out what students should know by the end of high school that was written by Achieve, a nonprofit that advocates for better standards and tests, and by the testing groups College Board and ACT.

If standards and tests are well - designed and well - aligned, and if teaching and curricula are strengthened, there is every reason to believe our children won't be left behind by their peers in high - achieving nations.

The rigorous Common Core learning standards that have been adopted by 45 states represent a once - in - a-generation opportunity for the United States to improve public schools nationally, bringing math, science and literacy education up to levels achieved by high - performing nations abroad.

By helping BIE teachers achieve the highest professional standard and become leaders in the classroom, we are able raise the quality of teaching in BIE schools and enhance student learning and achievement.»

More recently, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act sought to hold students and schools accountable to achieve high academic standards measured by high - stakes testing.

Driven by a commitment to provide exceptional academic opportunities, we have forged a comprehensive roadmap that nurtures scholars who develop a thirst for learning, achieve high academic standards, and realize college and career success.

Our culture is driven by great educators, academic rigors that cultivate curiosity and confidence, and the belief that every child can achieve to the highest standards.

By requiring the states to set high standards, pairing them with assessments that measured whether students were achieving those standards, and holding schools accountable if students failed to do so, NCLB, in the eyes of its sponsors, would close achievement gaps and make America's schools the envy of the world.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

But these stories, and countless others like them, show us that when we believe in our students — by holding them to the same high standards as their peers, by giving them high - quality school options, by holding ourselves accountable for the quality of their learning — they can and do achieve great things.

Because the majority of young children are in some form of outside care, Quality Counts was developed as a means to elevate the quality of child care in Miami - Dade County by working together with programs and their staff to achieve high standards.

The standards were created by the nonpartisan Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents the top education officers in each state, and the National Governors Association, along with Achieve, a Washington - based nonprofit working to increase the number of students who graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

However, some students, those described by the federal government as having significant cognitive disabilities, may not be able to achieve these academic standards even with high quality instruction.

It is changing how middle school students learn and meet high standards for college and career - readiness by implementing instructional strategies that help all students learn and achieve, in every subject and every classroom.

Nationally recognized for its award - winning education programs, Somerset was the first charter school system in the nation to achieve «district» accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS - CASI), the foremost organization granting external mark of quality and high standards to academic institutions in the Southern region of the U.S.

With its turbocharged engine tuned to deliver even more power than the standard JCW (which is rated at 208 hp for 2013), an adjustable GP - specific suspension, «race - spec» brakes, unique aerodynamic aids, and high - performance tires, the new GP achieves Mini's best - ever Nuerburgring time of 8:23 (besting the previous GP by nearly nineteen seconds).

We achieved our successful rates by setting the highest standard in the Auto Finance industry.