Sentences with phrase «like letter grades»

They are just like letter grades, with the «A» ranges being the best.

Any decisions about assigning metrics like letter grades to drugs — a step floated by FDA personnel in the past to indicate the quality of different manufacturers and pressure companies to improve — was not part of the plan.

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Sometimes it feels like you need a master's degree in education just to decipher all the eduspeak in the comments section (not to mention schools that have moved away from using traditional letter grades).

Like restaurants, which are required to show a letter grade for their level of cleanliness, lawmakers at the city and state level want to make sure that street food vendors get the same treatment.

CORONA — A local politician is pushing the city to lift the cap on its number of food cart street vendor permits — while also forcing them to obtain letter grades like restaurants — in a bid to ease tensions between popular vendors and neighborhood store owners.

«I think letter grades like the one they have in restaurants are a good idea.

(Guys who, for example, write as if they failed third grade English, who send form letters to girls, who like to photograph themselves taking muscle poses in the mirror, and guys who have an affinity for emailing girls pictures of their meat - sticks.)

In other words, the app will analyze message quality, including length, spelling mistakes, slang and hostile words and then assign you a letter grade, like in school.

Like most Tarantino, Death Proof is a love letter to movies of yore, and this try - hard b - grade throwback to trashy 70s movies certainly succeeds on that level.

In Florida, while regular schools like Olympia get letter grades for performance, alternative schools can opt for less rigorous ratings tied to testing progress.

What if you never placed a point, percentage or letter grade on your students» assignments and projects?What would assessment look like?

As state chief of Indiana schools, Tony Bennett implemented an A-F grading system, giving the schools a letter grade, just like students.

Since it was first passed in 2011, lawmakers have made annual changes to the school grading law, which requires public schools to receive a letter grade based on metrics like test scores and graduation rates.

Despite South Bend schools» new resolution, since it's a legal requirement, the district, like all others in the state, will still be assigned a letter grade by the state.

Fiske and Ladd argue that North Carolina's letter grades fail to account for the impact that poverty has on academic achievement, and that wrap - around services, like summer enrichment programs and health clinics, are critical to seeing broad - scale improvement in students» learning gains.

In 2nd grade, students will study silent letter patterns, like / kn /.

He says even though Indiana has a waiver from some of the federal No Child Left Behind law's strictest provisions, things like school letter grades and teacher evaluations are still tied to standardized test scores.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

Summative assessment scores are usually recorded and factored into student academic record in the form of letter grades and scores from tests like SAT or ACT.

State Superintendent Glenda Ritz says moving forward, she'd like to see the state's Legislative Services Agency «check» the Department of Education's work calculating school letter grades.

«No one liked» the cap that limited a school's state - issued letter grade rating to a C unless the school met performance goals laid out under No Child Left Behind, a top state education official tells StateImpact.

Like many educators, Eiler says the system has a key flaw: Under the new system, students can achieve very high scores on the ISTEP, but still be labeled «low growth,» potentially harming the school's letter grade.

You'll find that on our chart we have divided the charities up into sectors and awarded them easy - to - read letter grades, just like those awarded in school.

Think of your credit scores like a report card that you might review at the end of a school term, but instead of letter grades, your activity ends up within a scoring range.

We start by evaluating each stock for its value potential and then for its growth appeal, assigning each a letter grade, like the ones you received in school.

The Substandard rate class is not a specific rate class like the others above but it is a scale of table ratings that will be based on your health history graded by letters or numbers which would normally be either the letters A-J or numbers 1 - 10.

Substandard This isn't a specific rating classification like the others; instead, based on your health and history, you're placed in what's called a table rating system, graded by either letters or numbers (typically either A-J or 1 - 10).

Instead of the general classes listed above, these ratings range from Table A through Table J. Much like grades in elementary school, the further down the letter, the worse off you are.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has ruled the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) television and radio licenses with spectrum rights containing bandwidth differences are like - kind, or eligible for a 1031 exchange, because they were not different in nature and character, but merely grade and quality, per Private Letter Ruling 200532008.