Sentences with phrase «for achieving the highest standards»

Raising the expected performance standard in each year of school and holding all teachers and students accountable for achieving these higher standards may not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian schools.

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg said greater rigour in vocational qualifications was essential for achieving high standards and that Labour supported this.

Not exact matches

In order to address this problem, high academic standards will need to be achieved in every school, and communities will have to provide the necessary resources for those students facing additional challenges.

All laboratories have to follow scientific protocol for food testing and maintain high standards of accuracy, reliability and credibility in the operation of the laboratory and achieving and maintaining the required levels of accreditation and reliability together with high professional standards and discipline.

«We're well on our way to become the first Canadian brewer to achieve certification under the Global Food Safety Initiative, and our performance at brewing industry competitions quantifies for us the high standard of product quality,» added Croft.

The PIRSA grants are dollar for dollar voluntary contribution grants, and their purpose is to offer «support in assisting food and beverage businesses and industry associations to help attain industry standard third - party certifications that will support achievement of either or both of the following aims: (a) accessing new or higher value markets for product, or (b) contributing to premium positioning and achieving superior prices for products.»

Instead of (perhaps) fewer producers achieving high standards, it appears the bar is being lowered to make it easier for more producers to become certified.

The high quality of the Australian Certified Organic Standard has earned equivalence with a number of international organic standards, including the European Union, for livestock and wine export, whereas Australia's national organic standard hasn't been able to achieStandard has earned equivalence with a number of international organic standards, including the European Union, for livestock and wine export, whereas Australia's national organic standard hasn't been able to achiestandard hasn't been able to achieve this.

I am all for pushing as many producers toward the goal of sustainable growing methods — but the strategy should be helping producers achieve high standards, not lowering the bar to make it easier to achieve certification.

San Francisco, CA — March 24th, 2016 — Harmless Harvest — the world's first Fair - for - Life - certified Organic coconut water — is announcing a proprietary new multi-step micro-filtration process that achieves the highest levels of product safety and quality, while preserving optimal flavor, fragrance and nutrients of its critically acclaimed coconut water, which complies with FDA standards and requirements.

We are the standard in this respect, and successful breastfeeding is a high priority for achieving optimal outcomes for mom and baby, not only for their health, but also their relationship.

The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) has created the NAYS Coach Accountability and Enforcement Policies to help local NAYS Member Organizations achieve the highest standards for its NAYS Coaches.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

«One option for achieving our objectives could be regulatory equivalence on agri - food measures, where the UK and EU agree to achieve the same outcome and high standards,» it says.

Aled Roberts AM has called for increased investment in the Pupil Deprivation Grant after theDeputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, announced today the biggest ever rise in the Pupil Premium for primary schools in England to help ensure that more pupils are able to achieve higher standards.

Parents worry about funding and standards for their public school students and remain least concerned about the amount of testing in classrooms, a survey released by High Achievement New York and Achieve found.

Clive Benfield, Chairman of ACT - UK said, «The new centre provides a unique capability in the UK for training our future industry managers and helping our current industry mangers to achieve even higher standards, in an unrivaled and radical learning environment.»

It's businesses that drive innovation and choice, and help families achieve a higher standard of living for a lower cost,» he will say.

Critical factors to achieve a higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.

Based on complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (COMS) technology — a standard low - cost, high - volume chip manufacturing technique used for most processors and chips today — a group of researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, together with a consortium working under the EU - funded project «ADDAPT,» have demonstrated a novel optical receiver (RX) that can achieve an aggregate bandwidth of 160 Gb / s through four optical fibers.

The designation recognises that centres have achieved a high standard of integration of medical oncology and palliative care and is valid for three years.

San Francisco, CA — March 24th, 2016 — Harmless Harvest — the world's first Fair - for - Life - certified Organic coconut water — is announcing a proprietary new multi-step micro-filtration process that achieves the highest levels of product safety and quality, while preserving optimal flavor, fragrance and nutrients of its critically acclaimed coconut water, which complies with FDA standards and requirements.

Perfectionist people who set impossibly high standards for themselves and then fail to achieve them.

When our brains do not work at high capacity, we can not achieve the standards of excellence we set for ourselves.

Even back in 2011, Metro achieved 24th annual achievement award for best performance in retails due to its high standards of quality.

Chariots of Fire will thrill you and delight you and very possibly reduce — or exalt — you to tears... Chariots of Fire is for everyone; it's exactly what a popular film ought to be: superb work by first - rate people out to achieve the highest standards of excellence.

Horne, a classically trained pianist and founder of the Phoenix Baroque Ensemble, hasn't yet achieved his objective, but he has made progress: He pushed through higher standards for arts education, appointed an arts specialist in the state Department of Education, and steered $ 4 million in federal funds under NCLB to support arts integration in schools throughout the state.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yeaFor high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every yeafor making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

It says that testing and accountability, by themselves, can not lift the United States to the level of accomplishment reached by the world's highest - achieving countries, an extraordinary standard for evaluating a policy innovation.

«PIRLS 2016 shows that 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark — the proficient standard for Australia — compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark,» Dr Thomson said.

Achieving high educational standards for all.

The implication for schools is that almost all students can be considered capable of achieving high standards given sufficient time and personalised (well targeted) ongoing support.

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Politicians and business leaders gathered behind these powerful words to insist, for the first time, on high standards for all children — a goal schools had never before embraced, and one they did not immediately know how to achieve.

Importantly, we should recognize that the Common Core Standards in language arts and math are outcomes, not subject areas, and that there should be multiple paths to achieving the higher and deeper standards through, for instance, project - based learning, experiences in nature, integration of the arts, and the fast - moving world of games and simulations.

We look for evidence that a student will achieve a high standard in the near future.

(Btw, some argue that students with relatively mild disabilities are achieving well in charters, but I'd love to see more hard data proving that in charters kids at risk for special ed are not being labeled, and / or they're being exited from sped at higher rates after meeting grade level standards.)

The launch of the apprenticeship academy is an exciting opportunity for talented individuals to learn all aspects of the production line and will achieve a high standard of craftmanship.

As we work with states in developing these systems, one of the key components is making sure the information is translatable for parents, that they can understand what percentage of students in that school who are mastering standards and achieving grade - level expectations and whether or not those students are going to be ready to graduate from high school and be successful in college.

Last year, at their national summit, 16 governors agreed to work with Achieve, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, on setting lofty standards for high - school graduation, increasing the rigor of high - school curricula and tests, and aligning standards and tests with the demands of work and college.

The heavily weighted criteria (for example, implementing standards, improving teacher and principal effectiveness, turning around the lowest - achieving schools, supporting high - performing charters) formed a coherent and comprehensive core.

She calls it a «tragedy for our children and our nation» that American attempts at math reform «bear no resemblance to the programs and standards of the highest - achieving nations.»

Most of the nation's governors have gotten the message: if you aren't pushing hard to set high standards and making considerable progress toward achieving them, your state will not be «the place» for business to locate and jobs to be created.

It is extremely important to have a chief executive running our city who is clearly committed to helping all children achieve in school and reach for a higher standard of living.

The latest Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) results, released today by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), show 81 per cent of Australian Year 4 students are achieving at or above the Intermediate benchmark (the proficient standard for Australia), compared to 76 per cent in 2011, with more students achieving at the High or Advanced benchmark.

In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

Achieve serves as a significant national voice for quality in standards - based reform and regularly convenes governors, CEOs and other influential leaders at National Education Summits and other gatherings to sustain support for higher standards and achievement for all of America's schoolchildren.

Commission Executive Director Hosanna Jones tells us that the commission will continue to enforce high academic standards for the three charters to achieve.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»