They are also a mapping process that enables teachers to think carefully about research - supported, teacher - learner - content interactions that help
kids meet standards and grow up to save the world.
Right now, big new standardized tests intended to make sure
kids meet these standards are themselves being tested out in many states.
Our first two turnarounds — Dodge and Williams — have more than tripled the percentage of
kids meeting standards in five years.
Not exact matches
The new California «Uber for
kids» companies claim there are benefits to working with them for drivers who can
meet their loftier
standards.
It's very possible that the seat you've had sitting in the garage for 5 years between
kids no longer
meets current safety
standards.
Some states even make it almost a breeze; in Tennessee, couples with
kids have to
meet higher
standards to be able to divorce than those without
kids.
You still want your
kids wearing a helmet with the latest technology though and which
meets all of the requirements of the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment (NOCSAE), with a certification sticker that says it
meet the NOCSAE
standard, since the CPSC does not mandate safety guidelines for football helmets.
But that said, only 11 % of the children's meals from those ten chains
meet the
Kids LiveWell
standards.
The Healthy Hunger - Free
Kids Act recognized the need for USDA to establish education and training
standards for all school nutrition personnel — including school nutrition assistants; managers; district supervisors and directors; and state agency directors as a means of helping to ensure that school nutrition programs
meet the goal of healthy children ready to learn.
Accounts like these (and my post on Monday about the USDA Team Up program) show that successfully
meeting the Healthy, Hunger - Free
Kids Act
standards is entirely possible when schools receive adequate support.
Given conflicting data indicating that 90 % of districts are already
meeting the
standards successfully, many school food advocates have asked the obvious question: instead of weakening nutrition — a move that directly harms
kids — why not put more effort into helping the small minority of districts that are struggling?
But I love her overarching message (as you seem to, also) that we must set a reasonably high
standard for school food and let
kids learn to
meet it, instead of assuming they'll only eat junk food so there's no point in even trying to improve school food.
Team for me - teaching is much more about the relationships I create than the Products my
kids create and the
standards they
meet!
Correcting
kids is about establishing
standards — whether that's setting a morning routine or dinnertime manners — and then teaching them how to
meet those expectations.
As of 2013, 88 percent of school districts needed at least one additional piece of kitchen equipment to help prepare and serve meals that
meet the National School Lunch Program's nutrition
standards, according to a survey by the
Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project.
Like the Good Housekeeping Seal given to household products that
meet high
standards, the Better Sports for
Kids Quality Program Provider designation recognizes those organizations that have
met an equally high
standard when it comes to administering youth sports programming.
... Parents have a right to expect that their
kids will be served fresh, healthy food that
meets high nutritional
standards.»
As I said in my May post, any roll - back of the Healthy, Hunger - Free
Kids Act rules is misguided, given that 99 percent of districts were reportedly already
meeting the more rigorous
standards.
While you were served a meal of meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas and carrots and a canned pear half, today's children (if they have the financial means) can pay for a meal of processed «
kid fare» which has to
meet only the most minimal federal
standards — chips, ice cream, and (particularly if they're in secondary school) items like brand - name pizza, breaded chicken sandwiches, Rice Krispie Treats and slushies.
We currently have three car seats that
meet this new
standard, these are the Maxi - Cosi 2 - Way, Joie i - Anchor and the BeSafe
Kid i - Size.
When I was about 20 years old, I
met an old pastor's wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn't believe in striking children, although spanking
kids with a switch pulled from a tree was
standard punishment at that time.
This type of parenting includes very little connection between parents and children, with high expectations for
kids and punishment when they don't
meet parents» stringent
standards.
Schools can serve healthy lunches, but whether
kids will eat them is a question that has been asked often since the 2012 - 13 school year, when districts across the United States raised the nutritional quality of meals to
meet updated national
standards.
Although areas such as menu variety and food waste still have room to improve, these studies demonstrate that
kids are accepting and benefiting from school lunches that
meet today's strong national
standards.
As part of the Healthy, Hunger - Free
Kids Act of 2010, Congress directed the USDA to review and update CACFP nutrition
standards to align more closely with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs).2 In early 2015, based on science - based recommendations from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Health and Medicine Division (formerly the Institute of Medicine), the USDA proposed several adjustments to CACFP
standards to better
meet children's nutritional needs without increasing costs.
Kids can play Pop Warner tackle football from age 5 to 16, but must
meet strict weight - for - age
standards.
Also, an example of red tape: Exemption for Entrees to exceed the smart snack
standard for a la carte sales the day of and after it is put on the menu: My broccoli with cheese sauce (some
kids: the only way they eat broccoli) does not
meet the smart snacks requirement... Yet, I can sell Cheetos (until 2016)?!
This is how schools and commodity processors are able to serve food that «
meets guidelines» — they first engineer it to
meet the
standards, and then find ways to make it resemble what our
kids have been taught to regard as «food».
Finally, our list would not be complete without the Step2 Shootin» Hoops set, which looks like your
standard basketball hoop for
kids, but there is more to it than
meets the eye.
Pursuant to a provision of the Healthy, Hunger - Free
Kids Act of 2010 (HHFKA), as of July 1, 2014 all foods sold at school during the school day will need to
meet nutrition
standards.
According to the latest USDA data, over 93 % of schools are currently
meeting the higher nutrition
standards that were implemented as part of the Healthy, Hunger - free
Kids Act of 2010.
The new
standards have
met with grumbling from school nutrition officials who say they are difficult and expensive to follow, conservatives who say the government shouldn't be dictating what
kids eat and — unsurprisingly — from some children who say the less - greasy food doesn't taste as good.
Britax claims that this car seat
meets or exceeds all safety
standards, so there's no question about your
kid's safety while riding in the seat.
All our
kids deserve to be taught by teachers who have gone through a rigorous process, but the Charter Schools Committee has just approved a measure that would toss these
standards aside for charters — all because some charter schools have trouble
meeting them.»
There's no more pressure you can put on a person than to say, if they show up, «You get these
kids for 56 minutes a day, and you're required to
meet these
standards.»
You know those things or people that try to make you feel guilty because you don't
meet THEIR (key word on «their»)
standards of raising
kids and the possibilities of being selfless at the sametime.
My
kids are very particular about their clothing — each with their own picky
standards — and we were so pleased to find clothing to
meet their liking in each department.
Our entire
kids» sweater range
meets the high
standard of quality expected from winter wear.
Searching is pretty
standard, and Sugar Babies can filter to search for Sugar Daddies who
meet certain criteria like distance, last logged in, photos, type of dating, age, height, smoking / drinking preferences, relationship status,
kids, ethnicity, body type, and education.
Knowing he'll need a «super-duper fucking group» to get the
kid back, Deadpool begins to assemble his team, though they must
meet some very strict
standards.
The new transcripts «get
kids focused on doing their personal best on
meeting or exceeding
standards rather than getting a better grade than the
kid next to them,» said Pierce.
PBL can align with CCSS when teachers, knowing their
kids» interests and abilities, let projects evolve to
meet student needs as well as the
standards.
You try to
meet the
kids where they are today and then raise
standards over time and push the system along as you go.
The temptation, of course, will be to cut plenty of slack for young people in that world, a sort of end - run around the
standards that
kids in regular schools and courses will be expected to
meet.
(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.)
California's year - end test can tell which 5th graders
meet the state's math
standards; it can't tell if some of those 5th graders have progressed to trigonometry or pre-calculus, as two Los Altos
kids did last year.
The assessment - oriented judgment of whether or not
kids have
met a
standard does not change.
So why would an education administration that claims to care only about the interests of
kids decide to use a reading program, Month - by - Month Phonics, that does not
meet the
standard for effectiveness established by a broad consensus of scientists?
Only 29 percent of New York's
kids met the new higher English
standards under Common Core.
The real challenge is going to be when there's an awareness of — an awakening to — the fact thatwe've created a set of
standards that only a third of our
kids can
meet.