Sentences with phrase «common yardsticks»

Yet that kind of learning has been made harder by the lack of common yardsticks that enable thoughtful comparison and study.

For decades, the S.A.T. and the American College Program test have been used by college - admissions officials as a «common yardstick» to determine if students from New England boarding schools, one - room schools, and everywhere in between are ready...

He has noted that common standards will allow schools and providers to focus on excelling against a common yardstick, instead of rewarding those able to game 50 different state education bureaucracies.

«This low rate of parental exemption indicates that our parents and students see the value of measuring the skills of all students against the same standards the same way, using one common yardstick, and one shared goal: learning,» Torlakson said.

Because large numbers of students throughout the country take the same test, they give educators a common yardstick or «standard» of measure.

The National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) is administered by the U.S. Department of Education to measure student achievement across the nation with a common yardstick.

Since George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind in 2002, federal law has required states to give all public school students in grades three through eight the same exams, so their math and language skills could be measured against a common yardstick.

«Many investors are focused on inflation and closely follow breakeven inflation, a common yardstick for inflation expectations,» said Michael L. Sapir, Chairman and CEO of ProShare Advisors LLC, ProShares» investment advisor.

But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a common yardstick just to have a standard of measurement across all businesses.»

Not exact matches

However, Bank of America's return on average common equity was 7.3 percent, below the 10 percent general yardstick for cost of capital.

With marriage as the yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in common does not seem worthy of a legal status.

One of the goals of the Common Core was to make comparisons across states possible by measuring all students with the same yardstick.

«We want to say (to federal officials), «Look, because of the transition (to Common Core), we need elbow room, and there is no way to measure progress from last year to this year, so (let us) use participation rates (in the test) as the yardstick,»» Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said.

At CEI we support the promise of the Common Core, particularly in terms of a common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring proCommon Core, particularly in terms of a common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring procommon curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring progress.

Slekar says Common Core standards, the educational benchmarks now being implemented in school districts across the state, are not the right yardstick and points out that the nation's best and most exclusive schools do not use them.

That said, for many short - cycle tasks, shunning specific metrics while relying on a common framework may indeed be more efficient than spending time trying to delineate a near - term yardstick.

But while 10 - 14x revenues is a common M&A yardstick right now, Hulu's reliance on its equity owners» content for the bulk of its value make it highly unlikely that it will come anywhere close.