Sentences with phrase «earlier standards»

As expected, proficiency levels dropped sharply from the previous year, when the state used an older test based on earlier standards.

Coming to the scoring criteria, this standard scores more than the two earlier standards at 15 points.

Earlier standards asked students to draw heavily from their personal experiences and opinions for most writing assignments.

While it is perhaps too early yet to say whether teachers are responding to the standards in the way their authors intended, we know from earlier standards efforts that implementation often falls short of intention.

This neglect corresponds with earlier standards, which saw abstract painter Alma Thomas overlooked.

First, experts feel responsible for upholding earlier standards, as they have sometimes been part of creating them and promoting their benefits.

In the Progressive Era, newly empowered superintendents sought to use methods of rational administration, including early standards, tests, and accountability measures, to make schools more efficient and effective.

Highlights are Ruscha's early Standard Oil painting in 1963, and how it evolved to a blind embossed print in 2011, and juxtaposed rows of photographs taken from the same LA rooftops in 1961 and again in 2011.

In 2017, Samsung showed incredible promise by releasing the Nougat update for the Galaxy S7 in February, an impressively early standard compared with previous years.

The prior federally funded studies of instructional materials, such as textbooks, were focused on earlier standards and not the CCSS.

It is because of his early standards that our fans standards are so high.

That's important, because our earlier standards were set so low that they were sending signals to kids and to parents that all was well, when it wasn't; that kids were on track, when they weren't.

Few states have followed through with the curriculum and professional - support programs promised by the early standards movement.

Using state - of - the - art techniques, Dee finds that earlier standards - based reforms lowered graduation rates but improved students» employability, especially among black students.

Carol E. Smith, longtime AACTE staffer who deftly guided the Association through the early standards movement and years of accreditation reforms, died June 6 in Falls Church, Virginia.

Daro was involved in an earlier standards effort in that state.

«It was impossible for teachers to cover everything,» he says, adding that teachers view the new national standards as «a breath of fresh air» because they require much less regimentation than the earlier standards.

(Currently the two most popular ebook formats are EPUB, a worldwide, open standard that evolved from an earlier standard called OEB (Open ebook) and widely used by Sony Readers and most other ebook readers, and AZW, a proprietary format developed by Amazon and currently readable only on its Kindle reader.

The earliest standards did not consider this a factor but merely express that weight should be proportional to height.

Moving glacially, the works chart a course that comes nearest to the photographic objectivity that was an early standard of the medium.

«I would say there's a bit of a trend to build on the earlier standards and increase them.