Sentences with phrase «many critics of the standards»

Former Southold Republican Committee chairman Denis Noncarrow, an outspoken local critic of the standards, said he's not sure a new party line would make much of a difference in the effort to halt Common Core entirely.

Critics of the standard incline bench often complain that the high angle leads to unwanted delt involvement, and they are right about that.

These findings are largely consistent with the concerns sometimes raised by critics of standards - based reforms.

Critics of the standards packed the hearing chamber Wednesday; deliberations on funding for implementation of Common Core, which had been scheduled for Tuesday before the Joint Finance Committee, were delayed to allow for the informational hearing.

Professor Ellen Brantlin of Indiana University was an early critic of standards based education reform (SBR).

But critics of the standards say they are too tough on the younger grades, while too easy on the older grades.

The Common Core standards took center stage, as the writer explained: «A marathon four - hour session on the common core offered reporters the chance to hear from a range of policy experts,» though «no strident critics of the standards appeared.»

Before McQueen became a critic of the standards, he was actually part of the Common Core machine, albeit a relatively minor one.

Both math and reading scores declined for first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) took its current form in 1998, according to data released by the National Assessment Governing Board on Wednesday, and Common Core watchers say the many critics of the standards could use the dip as ammunition in their war against the Common Core.

Critics of standard policy responses to climate change have often seemed to imply that environmentalists are obsessed with regulatory reductions in CO2 emissions and uninterested in technological solutions.

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Critics point to a laundry list of CFPB actions that they say could warrant removal under existing Dodd - Frank standards: Republicans have excoriated the agency for the cost of renovating its building, for example, and for an alleged lack of diversity among its employees.

A few cranky critics have pointed out that Pono will have to convince a sufficient number of music publishers to remaster their analogue recordings to the new digital standard for there to be a worthwhile library of titles to listen to.

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With his backing, the policy chief will be able to resist his critics into 2016 before the worsening economic slump eventually forces him to capitulate, according to Standard Chartered Plc and Bank of America Corp. «They could probably hold out for at least six months, maybe even a year,» said Ayodele Salami, chief -LSB-...]

Albrecht, a law graduate, also has been a persistent critic of Safe Harbor and its successor, Privacy Shield, frameworks that aim to transfer personal data from the EU to align with Europe's stricter data protection standards.

Banks and lenders can assume some of the blame due to relaxed lending standards in the subprime mortgage market, but critics also lay blame on the government.

In Tangled, the Walt Disney Company's new animated, feature - length, 3 - D adaptation of «Rapunzel,» critic Armond White finds, sadly, that the story of the girl with the very long locks not only «has been amped up from the morality tale told by the Brothers Grimm into a typically overactive Disney concoction of cute humans, comic animals, and one - dimensional villains,» but also that the film's «hyped - up story line... gives evidence that cultural standards have undergone a drastic change» in the decades since Walt Disney first set out to charm both children and adults with his animated retellings of fairy tales.

Working as a music critic, author and broadcaster he lived «as a sort of urban hermit» as Katherine expresses it, and as a counsellor took a rather different approach from the standard secularist one.

Critics described it as social engineering reducing the overall standards of schools down to the lowest common denominator.

In response, we then went on to give the standard free - will response: that the prima facie plausibility of this contention is deceiving, that while it may seem easy to identify specific aspects of our present system that it appears could be profitably removed with impunity, what the critic must do in this case is identify another entire determinate natural order that would neither imply the present evils, nor imply any similar new evils, but still imply the goods that make human life possible.

The standard reply by defenders of traditional free will theism is that «worst» is a relative term so that, if God had prevented the worst evils, then the next worst evils would have been the worst, and the critic would claim that God should have prevented those, and so on, so that, in Hick's words, «There would be nowhere to stop, short of a divinely arranged paradise,» which would defeat the divine purpose of soul - making (363 - 64).

Critics of process theology have carped that God, by history's standards, is not a very effective persuader.

While there are numerous points of disagreement in detail among source critics as to what is or is not J, he follows a fairly standard breakdown, such as can be found in any of the critical Introductions to the Old Testament, with a few modifications of his own, especially in the Joseph story.

This is a big task, overseeing the business practices of companies which demonstrate a varying degree of corporate responsibility, placating critics who say that RSPO's sustainability standards are too low, and explaining the value of certified sustainable palm oil to increasingly conscious consumers.

It is a loaded subject, both because Jean - Georges Vongerichten is one of the few chefs equal to Boulud in age, stature, and pedigree, and because the New York Times critic Pete Wells has recently removed one of Restaurant Daniel's four stars — in large part because of what he saw as a double standard between the treatment of VIPs and anonymous diners.

Critics say the new rules will roll back the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act championed by Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who worked to establish strict nutritional standards on the program as part of her campaign against obesity.

Controversial federal legislation to limit funding for subsidized school lunches and change some of the program's nutritional standards passed a House committee on a 20 - 14 vote May 18, and the proposal is being hammered by critics who believe it would endanger the health of American school children.

The saddest part of the lynch mob mentality currently on the prowl is that the «sudden critics» of Alhaji Atiku want to hold him to a different standard, separate from known measures used for others.

Though labor unions criticize the LLC loophole as a method for circumventing individual campaign contributions and call for its closure, they use affiliates to pump millions of dollars into the political system, creating a double standard — according to critics.

President John Mahama has brushed aside latest swipes from his critics over falling standards of education in Ghana, saying it is one of the best in the world.

ALBANY — Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said Tuesday that critics of the state's implementation of new, more difficult curriculum standards should «tone it down,» and charged that calls for education commissioner John King to step down are purely about «politics.»

One of the problems for Lord Sewel's critics was that neither the police investigation nor the standards committee report were likely to find against him.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in King, over what critics call a botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards.

Some state lawmakers are still questioning, though, whether the Regents are going far enough to remedy what critics say is a «flawed» roll out of the new standards.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Critics of the once - revered independent screening panels now abound, including Ling - Cohan herself, who said the process at least needs to be «tweaked» by having the county consider the standard in Brooklyn that requires a 75 percent negative vote for an incumbent not to be «continued» for renomination.

The panel is about evenly split between supporters and critics of the new, more rigorous teaching standards.

Cuomo has put City Controller Scott Stringer, a de Blasio critic, in charge of inspecting shelters and threatened to close down those that don't meet standards.

Many critics have complained in the past that rigid zoning standards in previous versions forced them into a «California» model of urban development — sprawling suburbs revolving around a central commercial district — which in turn forces residents to make long, traffic - clogged commutes.

After conservatives won a majority on the state board in 2004, they quickly moved to adopt standards that critics say were tainted with creationist ideology, including a definition of science aimed at allowing supernatural explanations for natural phenomena.

Conservative critics say New Jersey's solar success is driven by government programs, including a renewable portfolio standard that requires utilities to derive more than 20 percent of their electricity from clean sources.

Critics of these additives, however, worry they might be dangerous and want an alternative from the 12 - second standard.

Dr. Feinman is also a critic of the current state of nutrition and medical research which is plagued by a decline in standards.

The beautiful people dating site despite its critics does not define beauty, but it gives a representation of what the society views as the ideal standard of beauty as decided by its members.

Critics Consensus: Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann's better films.

Critic Consensus: Miami Vice is beautifully shot but the lead characters lack the charisma of their TV series counterparts, and the underdeveloped story is well below the standards of Michael Mann's better films.

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I'm not completely sure whether movie critics have high standards or just have no sense of humor.

It's a small but prestigious citation for the film, voted as it is by a panel of leading British critics, including Standard stalwart Derek Malcolm and the Telegraph's excellent Tim Robey.