Sentences with phrase «certain grades of»

Out of all the materials we tested, we carefully selected only certain grades of aluminum that met our high performance standards in all of our tests, while allowing us to trim hundreds of pounds from the truck.

Check out the various types of ticket carefully: some grandstands and areas of the circuit require certain grades of pass and they're checked rigorously.

One set could be only armour would be accepted, the next only a certain grade of item.

Not exact matches

The CEOs were also asked to grade the effectiveness of certain mechanisms in place for making Canada a safe haven for investors.

Consumer contracts and terms of service should be limited to a certain length and required to be written at a sixth - grade reading level.

Consider factors like fees, eligibility requirements (some private loans require you attend school for a certain amount of hours or make certain grades), and the number and amount of monthly payments you must make.

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This has offset the strength of the American dollar somewhat for domestic producers, although transportation issues still result in lower prices for certain Canadian grades.

Reason tells me, that if numerous gradations from a simple and imperfect eye to one complex and perfect can be shown to exist, each grade being useful to its possessor, as is certain the case; if further, the eye ever varies and the variations be inherited, as is likewise certainly the case; and if such variations should be useful to any animal under changing conditions of life, then the difficulty of believing that a perfect and complex eye could be formed by natural selection, should not be considered as subversive of the theory.»

The weighting of traits has given me many a headaches, as it really affects a prospects overall grade, so I'm still working on that, but I do feel very comfortable with the grades I've handed out for certain traits.

We have found that eliminating valedictorian status and class rankings has reduced stress at certain schools — especially those where achievement in the form of grades and test scores and college admission rates is valued above all other traits.

Some medical grade models are covered by certain types of insurance.

There are certain «grades» of plastics that are specifically manufactured to withstand high temperatures and / or freezing.

Grades 3 - 5 can participate in a «Breakfast Club»: After a certain number of days of participation, students can earn prizes that encourage health and wellness, like water bottles and jump ropes.

I hear some statistics can be misleading depending on certain factors, so I'm wonder what strategy in grading a US Congress is considered to result in the most accurate overall measurement of performance.

You have to do a certain volume of clinical activity, and you have certain scores and grades from your patients.

The results suggest the simultaneous activation of certain molecular pathways — actions among molecules in a cell that can lead to change — in particular the MAPK and PI3K cellular pathways, triggered tumor initiation and produced increasingly dense low - grade gliomas that quickly progressed to glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

We reward everything from good grades to good behavior to birthdays with food of some kind, creating a feeling that eating certain foods is associated with being special or doing well.

Certain microbes in your gut can stimulate our body to produce inflammatory substances called cytokines, which create a state of low - grade inflammation in your body or nervous system.

One key cause of inflammation is low - grade bacteria, viruses, and fungi in the bloodstream and certain organs in the body.

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T4 can convert to T3 and at times of stress (whether from everyday life stress, trauma, chronic dieting, environmental toxins, ongoing low grade infections or a side effect from certain medications) T4 converts to Reverse T3.

Michael Crawford is grade school teacher Colin, the meek landlord of a flat where lives Tolen (Ray Brooks), who has «a certain success with the ladies» (which Lester exaggerates in a simultaneously poetically delicate and outrageously dreamy image of identically clad young women lining up the staircase and out the door into the streets for their turn with Tolen).

This ambiguity is in part a result of the fact that NAEP is administered infrequently and only in certain grade levels.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

«They even helped each other figure out how they could get a better grade from certain teachers,» she adds, «sharing tips like, «Oh, with him you just need to make sure you turn in all of your homework.»»

Achievement; growth; social studies in certain grades; growth of students; on - track high school graduation for 9th graders; progress in English - language proficiency; four -, five -, and six - year cohort graduation rates

The second set of data includes school - level information on test scores for certain grades and subjects, collected since the early 1990s as part of Illinois» ongoing accountability program.

Not only did the district, the largest in the country, take on a student population that had come to symbolize the impossibility of educating a certain kind of child — the urban poor who entered high school two and three grades behind — but it succeeded in getting those students to graduation.

I see whether differences in the achievement of adjacent cohorts within a certain grade within a certain school are systematically associated with differences in the gender composition of those cohorts.

Most important, however, the standards recommended certain areas that should receive «decreased attention» in grades K - 4, including «complex paper - and - pencil computations,» «long division,» «paper - and - pencil fraction computation,» «use of rounding to estimate,» «rote practice,» «rote memorization of rules,» and «teaching by telling.»

And some believe that had certain prominent mathematicians who had started working with the development of the new - math programs managed to maintain their influence on those programs, the math education that would have emerged from new math — both lower grades and high school — would have been on par with the best of the math programs overseas.

Only about half of teachers like the idea of continuing the federal requirement that all students in certain grades be tested.

In requiring states to identify certain categories of schools for «comprehensive» and «targeted» support based on their accountability systems, ESSA depends upon some sort of summative rating system (which could be A-F grades, a star or numeric system, some sort of color - coding, etc.).

At one point, it looked like Congress might limit the number of tests mandated under the NCLB law (that's annual tests in reading and math in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, plus science tests in certain grades).

With 20 years of experience, Clare Forseth, a 5th - and 6th - grade mathematics teacher at Marion Cross School in Norwich, Vt., could be expected to be fairly certain about how she teaches math to upper - elementary students.

Ricardo Vazquez, a spokesman for the 10 - campus system, said Asian - Americans have long outpaced whites in the percentage of students who meet the university system's requirements for admission, which include earning a certain grade point average relative to their ACT or SAT scores.

They report only at the national and, sometimes, the state level (and, in the case of NAEP, a handful of big cities) and only in certain grades.

No less than 81 percent of all respondents support requiring students in certain grades to pass an exam before they proceed to the next grade, and 85 percent support requiring students to pass an exam before graduating from high school.

At some point I feel parents and schools started making the mistake of spoon feeding kids to ensure they reach a certain level, to make a certain grade.

That law, signed by President George W. Bush in 2002, says that in order to get certain kinds of federal education funding, states must test their students every year in grades three through eight and once in high school.

Alumni completion of challenging courses in middle school (by the end of eighth grade), as defined by the state — this is certain to include Algebra I but may include other courses, or even non-curricular achievements if sufficiently well - defined (such as the International Baccalaureate Middle Years Programme assessment, or proficiency in a foreign language).

And so there's a perpetual back - and - forth about whether to put certain kids in school a grade behind or ahead of their actual age.

Still, Mr. West noted that it's not certain whether the false positives come from mistakes that make sense in context — for example, a high - performing student who gets chicken pox and misses two weeks of school — or the effect of interventions to help at - risk students in later grades.

Students spoke about how this grading regime shifted their attitude toward school; unlike their previous high schools, BDEA didn't write off an entire course's worth of work if students couldn't demonstrate mastery of certain concepts.

Some of these schools are adding significant numbers of new students and new grades each year, and there are limitations in both the state data due to redaction rules that impact certain grades and subjects, and the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) data, since we don't test all grades in every school.

Often, state law requires kids to repeat that grade if they can not pass certain portions of the test.

Grades and assignments may differ, of course, but how can a teacher candidate show that they have gone beyond the required curriculum to hone certain skills in their chosen profession that are recognized nationally for better classroom practice and potential candidate marketability?

According to the Education Commission of the States, 16 states plus Washington, D.C. have laws that require retention for students not reading at a certain level by the end of third grade.

Perform a needs assessment of each school within the district and determine whether certain grade levels or students would benefit from piloting the blended learning program.