Sentences with phrase «cut back testing»

Last week, state education chiefs and district superintendents announced a plan to examine their assessment systems, ensure that assessments are high - quality and cut back testing that doesn't meet that bar or is redundant.

Responding to public pressure, both states and districts cut back testing volume.

Next is to transform this movement strength into concrete victories by winning state legislation and local regulations to cut back testing, end high stakes, and implement high - quality assessments.

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NEW YORK (AP)-- Wal - Mart is cutting about 7,000 back - office store jobs over the next few months as it centralizes its invoice and accounting departments, expanding a test it announced in June.

Turned out just like the picture I cut back on the nutmeg, and cloves I'm just not a fan and it still was so good... The real test my daughter... LOL

In one of my test batches, I cut the brown sugar back from 3/4 cup to 2/3 cup.

Don't forget the H2O I was drinking a lot more coffee than usually my last grad school quarter... knew it... said once my tests were over I'd cut back... and then got a kidney infection the weekend of my tests.

I had cut WAY down on gluten over the past several weeks (never going the whole way, though), but... I'm now going to be adding wheat back in for a few weeks and attempt to go back to my «old» way of eating until I get this testing done.

The three - cone drill is a big test for linemen and running backs, who need fast cutting motions and quick instincts inside the trenches.

However, if the Red Devils were to win on Sunday, that would breathe a bit of life back into the title race, because it will cut the gap to five points, stop City's momentum and there is the busy and testing Christmas period coming up.

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Recently, we got to test out a product called Munchkin Squeeze that has simplified our feedings and cut back on the usual mess.

From Alice's Kitchen of Husband Tested Recipes: the delicious lunch below features Spicy Walnut Lentil Burgers (with a little red onion and yogurt sauce to go with), Spicy Asian Ginger Slaw, and for dessert — Triple Chocolate Brownies (made with a secret ingredient which cuts back on the fat).

So, when I was feeling touched - out or just ready to quit nursing, I would test the waters, cut back a little or talk to [my son] A.J. about it, and see how he reacted.

Now, in a second attempt, the new task force will review the Common Core standards, the state's curriculum guidance and the tests» quality, develop a process to ensure that tests fit the curriculum and standards, examine how schools can cut back on the length and number of tests and suggest reforms, according to a news release.

They have called for decoupling teacher evaluations from student test scores and cutting back on testing.

David Cameron's pledges in the election, No. 10 feels, rule out the full - scale assault on the principle of universality that the Lib Dems argued for, such as means testing benefits like child benefit to cut them back for better off families.

Back in the 1950s, Lilly was a National Institute of Mental Health neuroscientist who dabbled in isolation tanks, darkened chambers of lukewarm water in which a test subject — often Lilly himself — could float serenely, completely cut off from the outside world.

Troublingly, in recent decades kids more and more have been sequestered indoors, as fearful parents discourage unsupervised roaming and schools cut back on recess to make more time for test prep.

After Nutrigenomix testing, patients will no longer be given generic advice such as «cut back on salt.»

My first test was to cut back on my saturated fat intake while continuing to remain in ketosis.

The owner Joseph is obsessed with holistic fitness so he attends conferences and always has new gadgets and health tests that feel cutting edge — The fact that I want to keep coming back and have consistently shown up week after week — Fitting back into my jeans — The compliments:)»

Recently had tests done that showed very high oxidative stress and an A1C of 5.9 (has come back twice now at that level, even with cutting out almost all carbs.)

I increased my carbs to 100 gm, cut back my saturated fat to 60 gm, and rechecked my labs on 3/16/2015 (My Health Test Results from March 2015).

After ten days of the fourteen day test, I cut my dosage back to half of the recommend amount and I felt much more like a human being again (and less like an animal).

I love baking with almond flour, but almonds also came back high on my IgG Food intolerance test and so I've decided to cut them out, and since I'll be going AIP in a few short weeks, it makes all the sense to begin this process now.

Have you tested positive for gluten sensitivities and have cut back?

But since the two - week test cuts back so drastically on your carbs, it's very difficult to stay running at the same heart rate without a very powerful aerobic system.

I've cut out sugars and grains, currently finishing up the «two week test», and have backed off my training intensity slightly, to my 180 formula hr range.

I've cut back on testing new beauty products and using what works well for my skin.

Instead of picking the most trending style of the moment (like you did with the perm back in» 82), consider a cut that has stood the test of time.

I bought a long bolt of it for part of my wedding centerpieces and I cut a test square a few weeks back and it was super frustrating.

Claim: Since the advent of No Child Left Behind, many schools have cut back on every subject that was not tested.

Under pressure to cut back on testing time, many opted for other, shorter tests, or chose to use the SAT or ACT in high school instead.

You may remember that CPS CEO Barbara Byrd - Bennett announced at the end of last year that the district was cutting back «15 of the 25» district mandated standardized tests.

Richard DuFour blames both a testing culture that leads some teachers to cut back on creative and in - depth teaching as well as disempowerment (not having the resources to do your job and being blamed for things outside your control).

The poll found that only 22 percent of voters said California should cut back on testing.

And the impact of their massive standardized testing scheme is equally clear; cut back on instructional time, reduce «specials» like art, music, physical education and devote more time to test prep and standardized testing.

«Rather than being an incentive to cut back on testing, superintendents, principals, and teachers are faced with an increasing amount of testing to evaluate teachers» and serve as test prep to increase SBAC scores, said Williams.

No country in the world conducts more standardized testing of its students and rather than cut back, the corporate education reform industry is dramatically increasing the amount standardized testing that is forced upon students in the United States.

Responding to grassroots campaigns, Texas policymakers cut back the number of mandated tests from 15 to 5 while Minnesota eliminated its high school graduation exam requirement.

The State of Connecticut today took a very small step to cut back on student testing by eliminating the English Language Arts (ELA) performance task section of the SBAC exam.

In addition to failing to fully deliver on earlier promises of digital tests for all students and more timely results, as with the national benchmarks (through agreed cut scores), other promises made by the Department of Education back in 2010 are still up in the air.

An assessment backlash that put districts under pressure to cut back local tests.

Discussions about cutting back on these requirements comes at a time of growing concern about the number of tests kids take and the time they spend taking them.

In fact, we may have made recess so safe, perhaps dull even, that few complained when many schools cut it back in order to spend more time prepping students for standardized tests.

In service to high - stakes «test and punish» threats, schools with the most limited resources have been most likely to cut back on history, art, music and physical education, simply because they aren't covered on standardized tests.

For years, critics of test - based school accountability have pointed out that when schools face pressure to raise students» scores in math and reading, they tend to respond by doubling down on those two subject areas and cutting back on the teaching of history, art, music, civics, and more.

Could it be that the test results for urban districts announced a few weeks ago are the first sign that student achievement is being held back by these cuts?

Teachers have told us that students in their schools have had recess cut back in order to clear more time for test prep, despite abundant research showing that exercise improves learning.