Sentences with phrase «by focusing on test»

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 required schools to focus on struggling students and raise proficiency by focusing on test scores, which prompted many schools to separate out children who were behind so they could provide targeted instruction.

Schools and educators are likely to narrow the curriculum by focusing on tested subjects at the expense of untested ones.

But Meier eventually became disillusioned with the Bloomberg administration's mission for small schools, believing that, while there was surface agreement on size, her vision of education was being marginalized by a focus on test scores and a top - down approach to accountability.

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Once your final product has been approved by testing and feedback sessions then you need to focus on your marketing campaign.

Test them by publishing blog posts that focus on the basic ideas.

Following up on a blog post that Mark Zuckerberg posted a few weeks ago, the company now says it's testing and starting to roll out some changes focused on «the worst of the worst, on the clear hoaxes spread by spammers for their own gain.»

A MAJOR exploration drive by Australian Gold Resources Limited in the Murchison mineral field will not only focus on vanadium but also test the potential for gold and base metals mineralisation.

You've probably heard by now that the secret to the success of Upworthy, BuzzFeed and Huffington Post is their focus on split testing their headlines.

At the core there just wasn't enough consistent traffic coming to the site to really split test different opt - ins, so I decided to focus on traffic building first by creating a stronger profile on Instagram.

As I was considering what type of content to write for this article, I decided to focus on the unforgettable seven tests prescribed by Graham in Chapter 14, Stock Selection for the Defensive Investor.

We even tested a new cloth diaper — one of our editors swears by them — and while we focused on cotton, which was strongly preferred in previous tests, we threw in one synthetic microfiber towel (the fabric is known for wicking moisture).

Let me show you a really simple technique that you can use with the previous technique i showed you about using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business

Second, White focused on the SEC's plan to improve its grasp of portfolio composition risks and operational risks by: requiring better data reporting and risk controls, particularly with respect to derivatives; mandating that investment advisers create transition plans to prepare for major business disruptions; and requiring large investment advisers and funds to submit to annual stress testing.

If I don't see the sync, then I don't try to decode the sector header, because I don't really know where the sector decoding process should really start.So I really have to focus on why I'm not seeing the SYNC's, and try to improve that, and then worry about the DATA later.Now don't get me wrong, I'm pretty excited about seeing the valid data!And maybe by using a better test file, I might be able to determine WHY the SYNC's are not being read properly.

There are also some new programs of ministry to ministers — counseling with the help sometimes of psychological testing instruments, but designed to focus on vocation and career and not merely upon problems that should better be dealt with by psychiatrists.

During this 60 - minute recorded webinar, presented by Ian Ciesniewski from Mettler Toledo and Ed Szczesny, Quality Assurance expert from Rhodes Pharmaceuticals, viewers will learn about all aspects of calibration, verification, and routine testing necessary to ensure quality and USP and GLP / GMP compliance, with a focus on laboratory weighing instruments.

Her simple recipes focus on whole food, plant - based ingredients, and are often taste - tested by her 2 young nieces who love to help out in the kitchen.

The article focusses on concerns raised by Prof Graeme Samuel over the National Farmers Federation's proposed hybrid effects test.

The Organic Valley Good Food Commons features 30 minute micro-workshops organized thematically by resource centers, each focusing on important topics within the Good Food movement such as growing food, raising animals, learning culinary skills, and composting as well as testing your own where attendees are invited to bring in a sample of their backyard soil for testing.

ACO is required by the Department of Agriculture to carry out testing on 10 % of operators we certify, but ACO is vigilant and constantly exceeds these requirements and focuses on high risk products, especially imported products, to ensure products wearing the ACO logo are truly certified organic.

Taught by our executive chef, Mary Nolan, each online class focuses on some of our favorite recipes developed in the Test Kitchen for the magazine and online.

Inconsistency, a poor defence, a friendly fixture list — these arguments have been crushed by impressive results in the most testing period of the season thus far — so instead the focus is placed on the fact we are yet to face our two most likely rivals — Chelsea and Manchester City.

In contrast, parents who value a performance orientation, focus on their student's achievement as mainly measured by grades and test scores — the need to score better than others in order to succeed.

Because we believe that parents need the most support and our focus is on Arab communities, we started by offering these tried and tested approaches to Arab parents.

By focusing on their own plan, realizing the relative non-importance of testing, remembering their past performance and practicing deep breathing, your child will learn to control her test anxiety.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

Some of the current # 2.7 bn spending on the Winter Fuel Payment could be better focused on helping the poorest pensioners, for example, by means - testing the payment, or by raising pensioners» minimum income guarantee.

Last week the Prime Minister focused his case for bombing in Syria on the critical tests set by the respected cross-party Foreign Affairs select committee.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

An eye examination is a battery of tests performed by an ophthalmologist or optometrist assessing vision and ability to focus on and discern objects, as well as other tests and examinations pertaining to the eyes.

Her current work focuses on topics in the physical sciences, and she is principal investigator on a test development project funded by the U.S. Dept. of Education's Institute of Education Sciences.

The study focused on how many of these patients were tested and treated for iron deficiency anemia — a common complication of ulcerative colitis, caused by intestinal bleeding and malnutrition.

The study focused on the testing of methods which seek to reduce the imaging time and to correct image problems caused by a long imaging time.

To accurately test the hypothesis of a lower risk of recurrence with HRT, a new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital published in European Urology Focus, performed a systematic review and meta - analysis, pooling available data, to assess whether an improved risk of recurrence could be demonstrated using HRT compared with CRT, in addition to assessing the relative impact of these two treatments on bladder and rectal function.

By testing all those samples, I identified microbes inhabiting the animal reservoirs and focused on those that showed up in the hunters» blood, making them candidates for firing up human disease.

They focused on three basic emotions: anger, sadness and happiness and tested 24 participants by playing a random mix of vocalizations and nonsense speech, e.g..

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

It turns out that focusing on your worries by writing about them before a test can boost your scores, according to a different paper published in January in Science.

The focus of intense research by automobile makers in recent years, ultracapacitors are finally being tested on the road.

In the study, the carotid narrowing data came from vascular ultrasound tests performed on 307,444 tri-state area residents during 2003 - 2008 by Life Line Screening, a leading community - based health screening company focused on evaluating risk factors for vascular disease.

We are also focused on cutting the costs required to repair them,» said professor Shiling Pei, an Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines who is leading the tests funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a variety of industry sponsors.

Current efforts are focused on identifying TB - specific surface proteins that are targeted by CD4 + and CD8 + T cells and testing them in their multi-organ computational model.

The researchers suggest, based on their analysis of the data, that screening compliance could be increased by focusing educational and outreach efforts on certain groups who were less likely to get their infants screened for congenital CMV: less educated mothers, babies not born in a hospital and infants who received hearing tests later than 14 days after birth.

Led by Philip De Jager of the Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Broad Institute, and Harvard University, and David Bennett, of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the study will focus on drugs that have completed phase 1 testing, and could be granted $ 7.9 million over 5 years.

Focusing on reef - building corals and other shelled creatures that are threatened by increasing temperatures and ocean acidification, she is testing them to determine how species may acclimatize to the new circumstances.

The team led by Alexandre Dayer, Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Basic Neurosciences at UNIGE's Faculty of Medicine, focused on testing a tool which would allow to find out where a specific type of interneuron is generated, how they migrate into the cerebral cortex and finally what are the mature properties of this type.

The new tests were led by Santaris Pharma, a biotech company in Horsholm, Denmark, focused on developing microRNA - based therapies.

«Future research will focus on optimizing the candidate therapies discovered by our team in this study as well as developing biomarkers that can be used to test the efficacy of other potentially promising drugs,» says Dr. Rothstein