Sentences with phrase «failing key tests»

The growing network of online academies, operated by a Virginia company traded on Wall Street called K12 Inc., is failing key tests used to measure educational success.

In the run - up to the MacBook Pro's planned debut this year, the new battery failed a key test, according to a person familiar with the situation.

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Solanezumab, a drug developed by Eli Lilly that also acts on the amyloid hypothesis, failed some key clinical trials, though the company is still testing it in the pre-clinical stages of the disease.

Since those who fail to learn from their historic drama's mistakes are doomed to repeat them, we've collected five key management lessons that stand the test of any era.

A Downing Street spokesman said in September: «The admissions cap had the best of intentions but it has failed in its two key tests.

As one of the key principles in the law of love is to do no harm... I came to the conclusion that my former view failed that test.

Leading scorer and European Golden Boot competitor Jonas is suspended after picking up a yellow card in the last round to trigger an accumulation ban, and fellow key striker Kostas Mitroglou failed a fitness test and didn't make the lineup or the bench.

Liverpool will be without two key players through injury, as Philippe Coutinho failed a fitness test and Joel Matip is still nursing an ankle problem.

The US Senate has failed to pass a key test vote that would open debate on the 9/11 Health Care and Compensation Act, also known as the Zadroga bill.

David Cameron's reaction to the troops withdrawal was silent on these key issues on Thursday - only Bernard Jenkin MP addressed the heart of the matter: That America has had to «own'the situation in Basra after Britain failed the Pottery Barn test.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

«The key aspect of the Bell test is that it is extremely unforgiving: any imperfection in the preparation, manipulation and read - out protocol will cause the particles to fail the test,» said Dr Juan Pablo Dehollain, a UNSW Research Associate who with Dr Stephanie Simmons was a lead author of the Nature Nanotechnology paper.

Converting primary schools into academies has failed to raise standards, with pupils in primary academies doing no better in Key Stage 2 tests than those at comparable schools, according to a new study from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

Optimism, Test Scores on the Rise at English High School Boston Globe, 11/30/15» [Senior Lecturer Katherine] Merseth said the key elements to improving a failing school are a shared vision, welcoming culture, tracking student progress through detailed data, and supporting teachers as they try challenging new things.»

Regulations issued in November mandate that schools file plans explaining how they will implement key aspects of the law, make supplemental services available in the same year tests are administered, find a way to accommodate students transferring from failing schools, and more.

The key to this failure was cheap, primitive teacher - evaluation systems that failed fundamental tests of reliability and validity and, therefore, could not allow for differential rewards for teachers.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The House is expected to pass a bipartisan bill later this week that would dismantle key elements of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping law that became synonymous with one - size - fits - all testing and a punitive approach to failing schools — and which is reviled almost equally on the left and right.

When the semester ended he hadn't become proficient (a key component in NCLB's accountability model) in all six of North Carolina's competency goals, and it put him at risk of failing the test.

Heads have been concerned the toughening of Key Stage 2 tests, the results of which are used to hold schools to account, would lead to thousands more schools being labelled failing.

But Obama, taking Duncan's lead, now supports some of the key NCLB concepts that doomed it to fail: high - stakes standardized testing, punishment for lowest - achieving schools, and arbitrary deadlines for success.

I would emphasize that these tests may also fail to capture key cognitive skills, and, in particular, reasoning and problem - solving.

While the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme is a «high - stakes» test designed to fail students, the NAEP has sought to reflect whether a random group of students have a basic understanding of the key concepts that are actually being taught at each appropriate grade level.

[3] In an independent test, the Nissan Micra's system was found to be the most secure, while certain BMW and Mercedes keys failed, being theoretically capable of allowing cars to be driven away while their owners were refueling.

► After a month - long rally, shares in Neil Woodford's Patient Capital Trust fell 11 % on the news that biotechnology company Prothena has failed a key drugs test, says Gavin Lumsden on Citywire.

Although some early forest offsets were criticized for failing to meet the key tests of additionality, permanence and leakage, renewed interest in forest conservation has led to improved monitoring.

As I recall the threat from ice floes was mentioned as a secondary issue, with the primary one being their emergency response barge failing a key performance test.

If your Google Fu fails (or there just isn't a good keymap list to be found anywhere online) you'll have to do it the old fashion way and plug a USB keyboard into your media center and test out all the different keys to figure out what they do.

Key management role providing major technology testing for Morgan Stanley focused on mainframe fail - over testing and SIFMA citywide testing initiatives.

Key Highlight: • Lead coverage teams for Motorola network redesign implementation and established testing pass / fail criteria.