Sentences with phrase «develop challenging standards»

The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.
The courts» role in this process is to outline in general, principled terms the expectation that the legislative and executive branches will develop challenging standards, fair and adequate funding systems, and effective programs and accountability measures, but to leave to the programs and the political branches the full responsibility for actually formulating these policies.

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In a Facebook Live for The Goal Standard Challenge, high - performance coach Todd Herman shares how a powerful, yet simple routine to reach new goals and develop powerful business habits.
At the same time, we are continually striving and challenging our suppliers to develop a wrapper that is both environmentally sound and protective of our food, there just simply isn't the technology we feel is up to the standards we need.
Madam Ofosu - Agyare also challenged all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies to join hands with my Ministry to develop all tourist sites up to the required international standard adding that her Ministry is ready to offer the requisite technical assistance to any assembly or local community which is ready to develop its tourist attraction.
«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»
Reducing pollutant emission of vehicles and meeting stricter exhaust gas standards are major challenges when developing catalytic converters.
Students faced another challenge developing hybrids: The technology is still relatively new, so there are not a lot of standard components that fit a variety of designs.
But historically it has been a big challenge for such a system to recognize faces under different lighting conditions and from a variety of angles, says Jonathon Phillips, an electronics engineer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which develops standards for the technology industry.
The study's conclusions address a major challenge in current standards of care for prostate cancer: Without knowing a tumor's underlying biology, physicians can not reliably predict which of their patients will develop dangerous forms of the disease.
The challenge, said Kohler, was to develop a standard set of algorithms that could account for the different tectonic environments in each region, including the offshore subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest and the mostly on - shore faults in California.
The discovery challenges the standard picture of how sexual differences develop in vertebrates.
Challenging your mentee will encourage him to always set and maintain high standards of practice, encourage the risk - taking needed for exploration of innovative and creative ideas, and help him develop the persistence to reach difficult goals.
Nevertheless, the field is — also due to the lack of standard conditions for important methods — currently struggling with many issues such as the challenge of developing a clear definition of what tumor stem cells actually are and how they can be identified.
Korean beauty products are incredibly advanced when it comes to ingredients and formulations because the Korean beauty R&D labs are pushed to extremes as Korean women continue to raise the bar for beauty products — in a culture where skincare is an extremely serious pursuit and the standard for «flawless skin» is unparalleled, a very exciting industry ecosystem develops where companies and labs rise to meet the challenge and ultimately, create beauty products that deliver results through supremely high quality ingredients and in a gentle way.
In light of these findings, True believes that industry standards must be developed and implemented to ensure reliability and validity of online psychological tests, thereby protecting online dating services from challenges to the quality and accuracy of their assessments.
The performances are strong, especially that of star Claire Foy, but Jonathan Bernstein and James Greer's screenplay doesn't develop into much more than a fairly standard psychological horror in which the viewer's perception of reality is constantly being challenged.
Another challenge concerns the assessments that the PARCC and SBAC consortia are developing to measure student performance against the standards.
And, to their credit, the states are working to meet this challenge with a set of rigorous standards for reading and math that were developed by governors and state superintendents, not by the federal government.
When do we believe students will develop the dispositions to persevere over time with a challenging project and hold themselves to high standards of quality?
The standards framework In response to these new challenges the National Association of School Business Management has developed a national professional standards framework for school business management.
be aligned with challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards and developed in consultation with core content specialists, teachers, principals, and school administrators;
Over the next three to five years, education leaders and policymakers should develop a robust, coherent, and aligned system of standards and assessments that measures student progress toward challenging state standards.
Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41
In April 2010, he announced another set of Race to the Top challenges: consortia of states boasting at least 15 members could receive part of $ 362 million to craft the assessments based on the Common Core.11 Applying consortia had to submit evidence from each member state that it would adopt standards «substantially identical across all States in [the] consortium,» fully implement whatever assessments were produced by 2014 — 15, and expand their its collection systems.12 In late 2010, two consortia were granted $ 170 million and $ 160 million to develop assessments for use in their 45 member states (combined total at the time).
By following the basic academic standards set by the states or the national subject area standards, parents have a rich framework from which to develop challenging curriculum.
The primary purpose of Title III is to «help ensure that children who are limited English proficient, including immigrant children and youth, attain English proficiency, develop high levels of academic attainment in English, and meet the same challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards as all children are expected to meet» (Title III, Part A, Sec. 3102).
One of the biggest challenges facing Common Core supporters — especially conservative reformers who helped develop the standards in the first place — lies in the opposition from movement conservatives who should be the first to embrace providing all children with strong, college - preparatory curricula.
The conversation compliments teacher - developed policy recommendations E4E - New York released Wednesday aimed at addressing a key challenge in transitioning to the Common Core — making the standards accessible to unique student populations: special education students and English - language learners.
Learn how to develop a standards - based and student - centered curriculum that will challenge students to demonstrate and communicate the depth and extent of their learning and save schools and staff money on purchasing instructional materials.
Inside, the reader will find participants» thoughts on how education reformers might address challenges in four distinct areas: 1) allocation and alignment of resources to support standards - based reform and higher expectations for all students, 2) generating resources for the interventions and specialized programs necessary to support the learning of students with special needs, 3) allocating resources to support learning in alternative education settings, and 4) developing funding strategies for dual enrollment programs.
While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.
Challenges to innovation, she said, include the need for teachers to develop new personalized curriculum and to adhere to state standards and accountability metrics.
For 17 years, PowerMyLearning has used its approach to help teachers and families team up to support students as they meet the challenges of high academic standards and develop ownership of their learning.
He works closely with K — 12 schools across the nation developing active and authentic teaching and learning experiences that address the cognitive rigor of college and career ready standards by challenging and engaging students to demonstrate higher - order thinking and communicate depth of knowledge.
By establishing and maintaining high standards, we hope to develop responsible, productive citizens who will be prepared to meet the challenges of the future.
To assist teachers as they implement challenging state academic standards in the classroom, C - SAIL is developing a new intervention.
As California's schools continue to implement new math and science standards, the challenge of developing a larger and more diverse teacher workforce will loom large.
When grounded in agreed - on standards for teaching — such as the recently revised Interstate Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (InTASC) Model Core Teaching Standards — and developed in ways that overcome the challenges cited, evaluation can be an effective lever for state and local policy.
For teachers of English language learners, it can be challenging to teach rigorous, standards - based content to these students at the same time they are developing English language proficiency.
We also hear district and state education leaders emphasize the importance of the project, recount the initial challenges educators faced statewide and explain how far they have come in developing new standards for principal and superintendent leadership programs.
-- A State retains the right to enter into a voluntary partnership with another State to develop and implement the challenging State academic standards and assessments required under this section, except that the Secretary shall not attempt to influence, incentivize, or coerce State --(1) adoption of the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative or any other academic standards common to a significant number of States, or assessments tied to such standards; or (2) participation in such partnerships.
This includes: providing financial aid information about postsecondary education, encouraging student enrollment in rigorous and challenging curricula and coursework, implementing activities that help students obtain a secondary school diploma, supporting students with completing college applications, providing tutors, conducting outreach programs, helping students meet state standards, developing graduation and career plans, providing extended day learning programs, or offering other activities designed to ensure secondary school completion and postsecondary enrollment of at - risk children.
Developing these tires also posed some new challenges due to the fact the new M5, for the first time, features standard all - wheel drive, though there's a rear bias.
The Living Product Challenge was developed in collaboration with a number of other sustainability standard including the Health Product Declaration, Cradle to Cradle, GreenScreen for Safer Chemicals, and BIFMA Level, through ongoing harmonization efforts.
An active program of research and development should be sponsored by governmental bodies that issue primary legal materials to develop new standards and solutions to challenges presented by the electronic distribution of definitive primary legal materials.
An attorney by trade and an entrepreneur at heart, Jamie Benizri continues to challenge industry standards and develop innovative service models that make it easier for individuals and businesses to meet their legal needs.
Last week the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia upheld against constitutional challenge a delegation of power to Amtrak to develop performance standards.
Although Newbury, JA, agrees that the prohibition is «cruel», and supports the creation of an exception to the law (para. 333), she also discourages future challenges to obsolete laws by reversing the costs order (para. 342), taking an eisegetical view of what was decided (paras. 281 and 315) and when overbreadth and disproportionality were developed (para. 312), directs that analyses of whether s. 7 cases are binding should not look too closely at normative standards but «evaluate broadly the rationality and normative balance» (para. 289), and expresses concern over potential reconsideration of cases prior to 2003 that did not address disproportionality (para. 316).
In identifying the issues that clients need to think about at various stages of an outsourcing transaction, the Standard is also challenging lawyers to deal with the same issues in drafting Requests for Proposals, developing governance processes and negotiating outsourcing agreements [iv].
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