Sentences with phrase «lower tracking ability»

On the other hand, dogs that pants due to fatigue have lower tracking ability than other dogs.

Not exact matches

«The ability to track, navigate, map and recognize both scenes and objects using Movidius» low - power and high - performance SoCs opens opportunities in areas where heat, battery life and form factors are key.»

To avoid being surprised by criticism — and boost your ability to counter it — it's useful to track your work highs and lows through the year.

This is why the deal makes so much sense: AOL provides the technology to target individuals instead of content, and Verizon the ability to track those individuals — at least the over 100 million customers they already have — at arguably a deeper level than anyone else in digital advertising (for non-Verizon customers, AOL's ad platform is still useful, albeit not as targeted; rates would be commensurately lower).

Number two, with the tracking abilities of cellphones and the very low cost tracking programs that exist within the major cell carriers, you can do a couple of things.

The EPA should work with scientists and state officials to lower monitoring costs and expand the ability to track pollutants.

But because lowering and raising the instrument panel and taking such samples can take up to 2 hours each, researchers» ability to track the full extent of possible underwater plumes is severely limited.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Although the empirical research base on the effects of tracking is decidedly mixed, I am willing to grant Burris the point that ability tracking, as typically practiced in district schools, probably is bad for lower - ability students.

Burris combines reviews of academic studies, as well as personal anecdotes from her own experience as an educator, to argue that ability tracking has a negative effect on the educational achievement of «low track» students while also undermining social cohesion.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

If teachers find it easier to teach a homogeneous group of students, tracking could enhance school effectiveness and raise test scores of both low - and high - ability students.

But ability grouping and its close cousin, tracking, in which children take different classes based on their proficiency levels, fell out of favor in the late 1980s and the 1990s as critics charged that they perpetuated inequality by trapping poor and minority students in low - level groups.

These schools tended to have a «more experienced principal, a schoolwide Chapter 1 program, some tracking by ability in grades 1 - 6, lower rates of teacher and student mobility, a balanced emphasis on remedial and higher - order thinking in classroom instruction, and higher levels of community and parent support» (p. 62).

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

The concern with single ability groups is that placing students into lower groups often results in lower expectations.These kinds of homogenous groups organized only on the basis of ability can result in tracking.

They believe these trends stem from five myths that policymakers and teachers alike buy into: that curriculum enrichments are «frills»; that all students should follow the same standardized curriculum; that teaching for basic skills rather than critical thinking is «politically neutral» teaching; that low achievement reflects deficiencies in a student, not the system; and that tracking by ability promotes achievement.

Teachers will perform a full range of duties, including but not limited to: + Preparing / implementing lesson plans that lead to student mastery of curriculum content, including English Language Development + Developing / implementing integrated curriculum units, differentiating and scaffolding as needed + Regularly assessing student progress to refine instruction and meet student needs + Participating regularly in professional development opportunities and collaborative meetings + Communicating frequently with students, students» families, colleagues and other stakeholders + Working closely with children and their families to promote personal growth and success + Maintaining regular, punctual attendance Applicants who possess the following skills will make the strongest candidates: + California Teaching Credential or equivalent, meeting all NCLB «highly qualified» standards + Social Science credential + CLAD / BCLAD certification (Spanish) + Demonstrated ability to implement varied classroom instructional strategies + Educational vision for and experience with low - income and / or minority students + Demonstrated track record with English language learners + Commitment to preserving the cultural heritage of students + Passion for working with children and their families + Bilingual (Spanish / English) To apply please send resume and letter of interest to: https://careers-caminonuevo.icims.com For more information www.caminonuevo.org and www.pueblonuevo.org * Camino Nuevo Charter Academy intends that all qualified persons shall have equal opportunities for employment and promotion.

This rationing of education and soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids would eventually trickle down into the rest of American public education in the form of ability - tracking and even special education.

Unlike lower - spec cars in the SEAT Leon range, you can fully disengage the stability control on the Cupra, which allows you to explore the limits of its ability on the track.

Toyota says the track - tuned lowering springs lower the vehicle 1.1 inches in the front and 1.3 inches in the rear to enhance steering response and improve cornering ability.

They'll also love the lack of torque steer, rack rattle and steering kick, the well - placed pedals that are perfect for heel - toe gearchanges and the ability of the stability control to seamlessly quell low - gear wheelspin, which was easy to induce out of tight turns at the Norwell test track, even in third gear.

With lower feeds and the ability to track investments while waiting in the check - out line can make many aspects of long - term saving easier, there are also some drawbacks.

Studying Warren Buffett and learning his methods is one of the wisest things a stock market participant can do, but because of the size of his capital base, his access to low costs funds with insurance float, and his ability to invest in whole businesses makes tracking his stock market investments less effective to both the private and professional investor.

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cheap measurement, only wide band IR cameras are needed up there and as many ground sources emitting low energy long period pseudo random sequences at specific narrow thermal IR frequency bands as the world can afford, with built in GPS tracking and some communication abilities.

MS opines that the growing popularity of these two tactics in a tough economic climate is due to their low cost, and in the case of email marketing, proven ROI (in light of the ability to precisely measure results using clickthrough tracking and other metrics).

Much of what we take for granted in modern law firms — hourly billable targets, ever - increasing workloads, lengthening partnership tracks, client hoarding by partners, and more — can be traced at least in part to firms» established ability to dictate the terms of employment to a fairly low - cost and easily leveraged labour pool.

John Hancock and Vitality have teamed up to offer life insurance policy holders the ability to have their activity levels tracked by a Fitbit wearable, as well as log other healthy activities in order to lower their insurance premiums.

-- Adds iCloud Keychain to keep track of your account names, passwords, and credit card numbers across all your approved devices — Adds Password Generator so Safari can suggest unique, hard - to - guess passwords for your online accounts — Updates lock screen to delay display of «slide to unlock» when Touch ID is in use — Adds back the ability to search the web and Wikipedia from Spotlight search — Fixes an issue where iMessage failed to send for some users — Fixes a bug that could prevent iMessage from activating — Improves system stability when using iWork apps — Fixes an accelerometer calibration issue — Addresses an issue that could cause Siri and VoiceOver to use a lower quality voice — Fixes a bug that could allow someone to bypass the Lock screen passcode — Enhances the Reduce Motion setting to minimize both motion and animation — Fixes an issue that could cause VoiceOver input to be too sensitive — Updates the Bold Text setting to also change dial pad text — Fixes an issue that could cause supervised devices to become un-supervised when updating software

They have many advantages over traditional services, such as much lower fares, faster response times, and the ability to track drivers and pay through their respective apps.

Apple's new music service, iTunes Match, launched today as a beta, and it includes the handy ability to upgrade your low quality audio tracks to lossless audio tracks and then mirror them in the cloud.

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