Sentences with phrase «local high scores»

Local high scores and online high scores (requires Xbox Live Gold).

The player tries to complete five stages and can post local high scores.

Beyond keeping track of local high scores, the game also has players progressing through a ranking system.

Note, that if you do this, then the score will only qualify for the local high scores.

We have also added local high score lists with epic voice acting feedback by Kinten to all relevant game modes:

There are no ways to earn extra lives nor replenish the stock of bombs, death bringing players to the local high score table to see where they rank.

There is also a local high score leaderboard to try and boast the best scores, but without a co-op mode or versus it does little to add to the overall experience.

Not exact matches

India scored relatively high in the category of «opportunity recognition,» which measures the number of women who can identify a good climate to start a local business, but low in «institutional foundations,» or the established support and infrastructure they need to pursue their goals.

«Shanghai scored high on PISA in 2012, but this was largely due to the local government's emphasis on the test,» Xiong said.

Aston Villa's 2 - 2 draw at home to QPR on Wednesday, in which they fought back from two - goals down, extended their unbeaten run in the league to three matches, while they've not been beaten on their travels since a 2 - 0 loss to Tottenham on 21 November, 2011 − winning three of five away league games since, including high - scoring victories at Chelsea (1 - 3) and locals Wolves (2 - 3).

Meanwhile a certain segment of our local youth continue to smugly stress out their high school peers by bragging about personal info: SAT scores, AP scores and the like.

Proponents of this approach note that Massachusetts, which has the highest student scores in the nation, leaves to local districts the decision on how much weight to give test scores.

In 2012, this was the district scoring the highest percentage of local votes to President Barack Obama: 96.7 %.

Gidado was among the 68 elected Chairmen announced by the Oyo State Independent Electoral Commission (OYSIEC), after scoring the highest votes in the election conducted in all the 610 wards, 33 Local Government Areas (LGAs) and the 35 newly created Local Council Development Areas (LCDAs) on Saturday.

One 2013 paper found that, more than 7 years after the procedures, open - heart surgery patients scored slightly higher on cognitive tests than did people who underwent less invasive angioplasty, which requires only a local anesthetic.

At our local «Twice As Nice» sale, we have scored new or nearly new snowsuits and winter boots, not to mention toys, nursery essentials and big ticket items like high chairs and toddler bed frames.

Players can battle their way through single - player arcade mode to shoot for a high score or they can grab a friend for local multiplayer, either by sharing the same keyboard hotseat style or by plugging in a second USB keyboard, which is recognized by the game as a distinct controller.

A fascinating score by Dave Cerf and Amy Domingues helps, as does passionate narration by local performer Pamela Z and silky - voiced actress Lili Taylor (High Fidelity).

Physical Contact: 2048 sports a variety of game modes, including four single - player time - attack challenges, 100 score - based challenge levels, and a two - player local multiplayer mode where you can compete against each other and the clock to achieve the highest score possible.

There are local leaderboards but who cares about beating their own high scores?

Local parents of elementary - age kids have set out to make Hogg a school they and their neighbors want to send their kids to, which means higher test scores, tighter discipline, and a college - prep curriculum - changes they believe will benefit all children, not just their own.

Sacramento — California's high - school seniors improved their scores this year in all areas of the state's basic - skills test, owing in large part, state and local testing officials say, to the availability of $ 14.4 million in incentive bonuses for schools.

The presumption of the international assessments is that achieving high performance on the local and national standards will also produce high scores on PISA or TIMSS.

In other words, the average school leader faces pressure from the school district, the state, the parents and the local community to get high test scores.

West Virginia has relinquished the reins of a struggling school system, leaving behind a rare state - takeover success story: a state - hired superintendent in charge of a system with higher test scores and better management and buoyed by local acceptance.

Reform superintendents are guaranteeing higher test scores to placate the politicians and the local school boards.

The low test scores and the number of students who were not prepared for high school urged us to research and connect with the two local elementary schools.

Local qualifying heats will be held across the spring and summer, with the highest scoring competitors invited to take part in the national finals at The Skills Show at the NEC Birmingham -LSB-...]

The high level of interest in local school test scores raises some interesting issues:

Local qualifying heats will be held across the spring and summer, with the highest scoring competitors invited to take part in the national finals at The Skills Show at the NEC Birmingham in November.

Those «high» scores at Parks earned plaudits from local business leaders, Superintendent Beverly Hall (who Aviv paints as willfully blind to cheating), the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and even Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Eligibility in the Local Context (ELC) isn't intended to be fair in the context of what you consider fair, Floyd - that is, whom so ever has the highest grades and test scores combined.

The analysis found that the portion of teacher evaluations that local districts solely control is heavily weighted in most Long Island school districts toward ensuring teachers to score high enough to get an overall «effective» rating.

However, if the NAEP results are accurate, it is not true that poor children are now at least getting the basics: the score increases on state (or local, as in Chicago) tests simply indicates that somewhat different particular things are taught, but overall NAEP results show there usually is no improvement in states which test the most and use tests for high - stakes decisions about students.

For example, a student at Lake Woebegone high school might score well above the criterion benchmark, have a national percentile of 60 and a local percentile of 20.

To be sure, the proof will come when local innovation and investing in what works yields results — better reading and math scores, safer schools, fewer expulsions and dropouts, higher graduation rates, and more students prepared for college and employment.

In fact, the assessment systems of most of the highest - achieving nations in the world are a combination of centralized assessments that use mostly open - ended and essay questions and local assessments given by teachers which are factored into the final examination scores.

This study indicated that the high - poverty schools achieving the highest reading scores were governed by active Local School Councils who chose their principals, and had experienced unionized teachers.

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

Yes, your local public school sure could use $ 24k as a donation, but they are not only missing out on that; another thing they could use from you which you are taking away is your child's high test scores.

Officials say school attendance is up, and the local charter high school has seen a boost in math scores.

He declared unconstitutional and «irrational» the way Connecticut funds and oversees local public schools; he found that the state government has the enforceable responsibility under Connecticut's constitution to provide all students an adequate education — not just the wealthy suburban kids who rank first nationwide in reading scores, but also the many «functionally illiterate» high - school graduates from the 30 poorest Connecticut school districts, which rank below Mississippi and 39 other states in those same scores.

Because if parents really want to know if their local school is helping kids learn — instead of empty reassurance that their artificially inflated test scores means they moved to the right school district and their property values will hold — then they need to start demanding one high bar for proficiency across the country.

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

When Principal James Lee learned that his students at Sylmar Charter High School had among the biggest jumps in state test scores in the local school district, he was thrilled but surprised, because they managed to pull it off despite a well - publicized lunchtime brawl that erupted on campus right in the middle of testing.

In 2006, many students in the six local high schools in Alamance County, North Carolina, were struggling academically and one high school was threatened with closure because of low test scores.

The celebration also highlighted three local DC afterschool programs: 826 National, DC Scores, and Higher Achievement.

Lastly, better local school districts generally means having high test - scores and high school ratings according to pro-suburban standards often set by outsider consultants (Erickson, 2012, p. 259).

When students transfer to a Virginia public school from a state that requires such high school end - of - course tests, the local school division may automatically accept the student's passing score on the test and the corresponding course for the purposes of awarding verified credit.