Not exact matches
Higher leverage can be extremely risky, but because of round - the - clock trading and deep liquidity, foreign exchange brokers have been able to make
high leverage an industry
standard in order to make the
movements meaningful for currency traders.
The history of the San Francisco Zen Center from the late «50s to the present shows a continuous
movement from general intellectual and cultural interest in Zen to
high and demanding
standards of practice.
It's also why we strive to set the
highest industry
standards, elevate the careers of health and fitness professionals, and do everything we can to help people worldwide make
movement their mission.
It combines a
standard Bodyweight Deck Squat with a 1 - Hand Sprawl to create a dynamic
movement that will build your conditioning levels and push your body to a
higher mobility level.
As the leading nonprofit exercise professional and health coach certification organization, our goal is to set the
highest industry
standards, elevate the careers of professionals and help people worldwide make
movement their mission.
Apiece Apart collections are designed for the sensuous, ever - evolving woman, pairing
high fabric
standards with tailoring to inspire confidence,
movement, and ease.
Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of
movement of students from lower to
higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have
high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum
standard remains
high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels
All these lawsuits are riding
high on the back of the
standards and accountability
movement - even though Michael Cohen in «Unruly Crew «shows that states have been slow to implement their accountability systems.
The
standards - based reform
movement seeks both to equip all of our
high - school graduates to compete in the global marketplace and to narrow the achievement gap between our advantaged and disadvantaged student populations.
In fact, the modern accountability
movement, right through to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, owes much to Shanker's relentless calls for
higher standards, assessments, and consequences for poor performance.
Those data have driven the contemporary reform
movement, lending it the moral authority to push for
higher standards, parental choice, and charter schools.
Improving Schools for Every Student Huffington Post, 10/28/15» [Professor] Paul Reville, who served as secretary of education in Massachusetts, is quick to defend the
standards movement as crucial to establishing
higher expectations for all students and maintaining public confidence in schools.
The second is that the Common Core
movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of
standards for what students need to know and do at each grade,
high quality assessments aligned to those
standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.
Such reforms, with their focus on testing and
higher academic
standards, are the precursors of today's controversial accountability
movement.
99, a social sciences teacher at Hopkinton
High School in Massachusetts, says the
standards movement is a noble effort, but she is dubious about the execution of it.
Teach for America helped build today's no - excuses,
high turnover,
standards - and - accountability driven school reform
movement.
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.
This increasing diversity of the school - aged population has occurred within the context of the
standards - based education
movement and its accompanying
high - stakes accountability testing.
The draft also eliminates performance targets, 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 underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current
movement toward college - and career - ready
standards.»
Three of the four districts we analyzed in detail have
high poverty /
high minority populations, yet they all welcomed the
standards movement as helping them to define and achieve important (local) education goals.
Study the state of the modern
standards movement and what changes must be made in K - 12 education to ensure
high levels of learning for all.
For this reason, NCSECS and the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools (the National Alliance) recently filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the Petitioner in Endrew F. NCSECS and the National Alliance are urging the Supreme Court to adopt a
high standard of educational benefit consistent with the charter school
movement's commitment to serving students with disabilities enrolled in charter schools, and its
high expectations for all students.
The entire
standards and accountability
movement, in fact, is based on the implied notion that all children, regardless of background, should get the same
high quality education — and that means common curricula.
The increasing use of state - mandated public
high school exit exams is one manifestation of the current
movement in U.S. public schooling toward more explicit
standards of instruction and accountability.
The original intent of the
standards movement was to ensure that all students would have access to a much more challenging curriculum and therefore, would perform to
higher levels of academic achievement.
«It's certainly seems this is becoming
standard for the choice
movement in
higher - performing districts and an issue they have to contend with,» said Kelley.
The
movement toward full inclusion and the requirements of
high academic
standards for all students ensures that all teachers need to be knowledgeable of promising technology uses with students with disabilities.
We find that there was the most
movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of
high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the
standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.
The declared purpose of the
standards movement is to make students, teachers, and administrators responsible for a
high standard of teaching and learning (Heubert, 2000).
High - stakes assessments are considered a natural outcome of the
standards movement in the U.S..
This popular summer course explored the larger sociopolitical context of the
standards movement, multicultural education, and the historical rise of
high - stakes testing.
In the wake of a
standards reform
movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on
high standards expectations for all students.
The report then goes on to analyze the effect size of various reform
movements, such as charter schools, improving teacher preparation, merit pay, early childhood programs, setting
higher standards, and so on.
Standard deviation, a statistical term that provides a good indication of volatility, ensures the bands will react to price
movements and reflect periods of
high and low volatility.
Through her Maddie's Certificate training, Dr. Sarvis hopes to provide the
highest standard of care to the shelter population, empower others who are already a part of the shelter
movement, and bring animal welfare education to her community and the surrounding areas.
As a leader in the no - kill
movement, they are dedicated to promoting shelter pet adoptions; encouraging spay / neuter programs; reducing animal cruelty; ending euthanasia; and advancing the
highest standards in animal welfare.
Others set a very
high standard in their public contributions to the sustainability
movement.
There is some
movement towards requiring
higher standards for soy, as led by the Roundtable for Responsible Soy, a trade group setting
higher - than - market
standards for the production of soy.
In the 21st century, the eugenics
movement has changed its stripes once again, manifesting itself through the global carbon tax agenda and the notion that having too many children or enjoying a reasonably
high standard of living is destroying the planet through global warming, creating the pretext for further regulation and control over every facet of our lives.
More important, although once dismissed as clownish, negligent farming, the organic
movement is now seen as an innovative
standard setter that is pulling all of conventional agriculture toward
higher environmental
standards and more sustainable practices.
And while foreign OHS laws may apply to foreign workers employed by Canadian companies, that idea is also changing as companies feel compelled to join the corporate social responsibility
movement, which has been issuing calls to apply
higher labour
standards abroad for foreign workers.
As a professional who loves the busy and fast
movement in the fashion world, a rewarding career awaits you; a career as denim designer that is associated with
high standards and excellence in workmanship.
A low tax base and no State income tax are contributing factors to this
movement, as are Nashville's
higher level of living
standards and affordability.