Sentences with phrase «higher standards for»

Major business groups have taken up the quest for better teaching and are pushing for higher standards for teachers, better preparation and professional development, and higher pay linked to performance.

Higher standards for entry.

WASHINGTON — A proposed Education Department regulation that could require some states to set higher standards for professionals working in special education has divided groups representing various interests in the field.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation today unveiled plans to revamp its high school grantmaking strategy to focus squarely on three pillars: identifying and promoting higher standards for college readiness, improving teacher quality, and fostering innovations to aid struggling students.

This is characteristic of the global education ideology, which seems to hold America to far higher standards for human rights than it does other nations.

Our Curriculum for Excellence gives teachers the tools and flexibility they need to teach, and sets higher standards for achievement than ever before.

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.

«Even if they don't end up in a relationship or married, I love seeing them set higher standards for their dates — those little wins are huge to me.»

Laurel Whole Plant Organics is setting higher standards for result driven skin care lines, by offering luxurious 100 % organic skin care solutions for all skin types.

Optimum Nutrition has a 30 - year history of setting higher standards for quality.

Choose certified all natural animal products that have higher standards for the quality of farming and production.

Increasing requirement for farmers to adopt higher standards for food safety and biosecurity, become less reliant on the use of antimicrobials and hormones, and provide assurances regarding animal welfare, in order to remain compliant with regulations and competitive

Among other advantages, legalizing pot would would eliminate the strain on public lands resulting from its clandestine cultivation as well as meet higher standards for the use and disposal of toxic substances

Legalizing pot, she says, would clean things up substantially, as the growing would both eliminate the strain on public lands and meet higher standards for the use and disposal of toxic substances.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

The revised rules, unveiled by Gov. Andrew Cuomo Friday, put more emphasis on state tests and set higher standards for good grades.

After months of promising a substantive education agenda, he's merely re-peddling the right wing's factually deficient smear campaign on higher standards for children.

No bill or draft has yet been released for the measure, which would be aimed at forcing greater disclosure of income and higher standards for lawmakers.

«I am committed and our regents are committed to higher standards for our students to prepare them for college and career,» Elia said.

So I think that if the study «scares» people into supporting higher standards for practicing midwives, that's probably a good thing.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who has described his own struggles with weight as a child, said the higher standards for snack bars, vending machine and cafeterias will mean «the healthy choice is the easy choice for our kids.»

Optimum Nutrition has a 30 - year history of setting higher standards for quality.

Mortgage lenders commonly impose higher standards for borrowers who are seeking a jumbo loan, simply because there's more money involved.

Meanwhile, lenders appear to be setting higher standards for FHA and other government - insured home loans.

Reacting to revelations that the political research and consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained Facebook user data for the purpose of influencing voters in multiple countries, the Internet Society called it «the natural outcome of today's data driven economy that puts businesses and others first, not users» and called for «higher standards for transparency and ethics when it comes to the handling of our information.

Maintaining high standards for how people treat each other is a wonderful thing as we live in a world that's rife with animosity and discrimination.

The CFA wants consumers to know the product was grown in Canada, our farmers follow high standards for food safety, and their practices are environmentally friendly.

South Korean women are held to notoriously high standards for beauty — the country has the most cosmetic surgeries per capita in the world, with almost one million procedures every year.

Another key is to set an incredibly high standard for every project.

But they both do need to recognize high standards for those things and teach realistic expectations on scope.»

Consumers have high standards for their experience on mobile, and ineffective desktop formats such as banners, interstitials and auto - play pre-roll ads aren't measuring up.

I aim to set a higher standard for companies like Celtra — to prove that there is a fair and sustainable way to create space for families, even in a growing mid-size technology company.

In Canada, even if it is found that companies have worked with the NSA to exploit or create vulnerabilities in software, the higher standard for bringing legal action could prove a significant hurdle (although he says Quebec has slightly different laws that make such action more likely to succeed).

First, let's assume that you meet the highest standards for all other criteria in your loan application.

As Museum Hack expanded their workforce, IDoneThis enabled them to keep organized, without having to compromise their high standard for creativity.

We believe IBM should establish high standards for evaluating and disclosing IBM's participation and extensive spending in the legislative process through lobbying.

Directors must have a history of achievements that reflect high standards for themselves and others, enabling them to contribute to the superior performance of the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade's Board.

I've always maintained very high standards for myself, and have expected others to perform to those same high standards.

To go about talking about how low and depraved you are because God, which exists in your imagination, sets impossibly high standards for you.

The Pelikan volume on the Book of Acts sets a very high standard for a series that promises to make a historic contribution to understanding the Bible within the living tradition that is the Church.

I have a very high standard for community safety as a result of my own experience, so it is no small thing for me to say that I feel safe at TLS.

Strict scrutiny is the highest standard for review and it's very difficult for a law to survive under this standard.

I also have a high standard for the quality of work that I produce.

Inquisitorial prisons had high standards for the times and were inspected several times a year — indeed, there is evidence that some prisoners in secular prisons deliberately made blasphemous remarks or announced they were heretics in order to be transferred to the care of the Inquisition.

They have a very high standard for God when it comes to answering prayers the way they want.

The second thing is that there is an incredibly high standard for someone who claims the name of Christ.

The traditionalist sets a much higher standard for public virtue than does a modern secular democracy.

Accordingly, faculty members are required to have earned the Ph.D. degree, and to be promising scholars who contribute to their fields and meet high standards for tenure and promotion.

Let's have a higher standard for our theology, shall we?

How do we reconcile the Christian theology of a reign of grace with the practical need to hold a higher standard for our leaders?