Sentences with phrase «meaningful standard of»

In those cases, enforcement actions should be taken, and the results of those enforcement actions should help to flesh a meaningful standard of care.

By doing so, we will prevent future cuts to education funding and ensure that every teacher is held to a fair and meaningful standard of excellence.»

«For more than a decade, Burger King Corp. has demonstrated a commitment to animal welfare and, through our BK Positive Steps ® corporate responsibility program, we continue to leverage our purchasing power to ensure the appropriate and proper treatment of animals by our vendors and suppliers,» said Jonathan Fitzpatrick, chief brand and operations officer of Burger King Corp. «We are proud to announce these new, industry - leading commitments that support meaningful standards of humane treatment in our U.S. supply chain.»

«The commission made important progress by banning cruel veal crates, but it has a lot more work to do to fulfill its mandate of creating meaningful standards of care,» says Pam Rogers, Kentucky state director for The HSUS.

We also call on the pet industry and the USDA to adopt meaningful standards of care for commercial, large - scale dog breeding operations.

The HSUS is also urging the pet industry, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to adopt meaningful standards of care for commercial, large - scale dog breeding operations.

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Again, Zuckerberg has gestured to this idea, adopting «meaningful groups» as another of his new totem - phrases, and suggesting that the solution lies in Facebook's hosting a constellation of smaller overlapping social networks, each of which can set its own standards.

The base 13 - inch MacBook Pro without a Touch Bar comes standard with 8 GB of RAM, but you can give it a meaningful performance boost by opting for the 16 GB RAM option.

In 16 years of running my own business, I've found that providing the «standard» benefits as well as other meaningful (but less expensive) perks can be a catalyst for employees to reach their full potential.

The US Postal Service delivers periodicals at a discount rate, and the Federal Communication Commission's television station licensing requirements include a vague but meaningful «public interest» standard that is generally held to require both the production of local newscasts and the airing of major national news events.

Will this latest storm of strum and drang about «corporate welfare» and tax reform, a standard sound bite of every new White Administration — or at least every new Democratic Party White House Administration — actually result in any meaningful changes to the tax codes.

Higher leverage can be extremely risky, but because of round - the - clock trading and deep liquidity, foreign exchange brokers have been able to make high leverage an industry standard in order to make the movements meaningful for currency traders.

But she said the lack of any meaningful free range egg standard meant that «genuine» producers faced an uphill climb.

Through our global membership, we will be calling on and supporting other major businesses to follow Nestlé Waters» lead in making meaningful and independently verifiable contributions to our shared water challenges through the implementation of the AWS Standard.»

Since their return from injury i have tried to give Welbeck and Wilshire the benefit of the doubt when others have slagged them off for some pretty average displays.Regrettably I am now of the opinion that they will never reach the standards required to make a meaningful contribution towards the revival of Arsenal and along with 3/4 others in the current squad they should be moved on.Their performances against Stoke was the last straw as far as I am concerned.It will be interesting to see if Gareth Southgate shares my views and does not include them in his World Cup squad.

And there are also many, many things we could be doing to encourage children's acceptance of healthier school meals: imposing meaningful restrictions on children's junk food advertising; requiring food education in schools — not just nutrition education, but offering kids a real understanding of our food system, and overtly inoculating them against the allure of hyper - processed and fast food; teaching all children basic cooking skills; getting more gardens into schools; encouraging restaurants to ditch the standard breaded - and - fried children's menu; imposing taxes on soda (and even junk food); improving food access; and so much more.

Because of the fact that there is no meaningful educational minimum standard for CPMs, I don't even know if she can set an IV.

But in all of this, there is actually another level of coordinated engagement, one standard deviation above the scaling of meaningful relationships, organizer pathways and empowerment.

He said Nigeria believed that ensuring the meaningful participation of women and girls in all areas of society was vital, adding gender equality yields greater economic growth and higher standards of living.

Miller's survival is still an open question, but the idea of meaningful changes to the standards committee is plain laughable.

You can not carry meaningful development on trucks on the highways... Development has to be carried on the back of a modern railway system and the president has made that a top priority and today we can say on the implementation platform is 5oookm of modern standard gauge railway that will cut across the length and breadth of this country.

«It is essential that apprenticeships are of a high standard, all of them paying at least the Living Wage and leading to meaningful work.

Better and more effective oversight of the Compass contracts would be a start, together with meaningful penalties for providers who fail to meet standards.

«We are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing NY standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» said Karen Magee, President of NYSUT.

We are randomizing physicians and their patients within each of the above models to receive clinically meaningful information derived from WGS plus a family history assessment versus current standard of care plus a family history assessment without the use of WGS.

The use of this metadata standard by all ongoing and future GSCID sequencing projects will provide a consistent representation of these data in the BRC resources and other repositories that leverage these data, allowing investigators to identify relevant genomic sequences and perform comparative genomics analyses that are both statistically meaningful and biologically relevant.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylOF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestylof teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

The talented Maria Bello plays the standard coach's wife and Carlos Pratts, as the most talented but unrefined member of the team, is really the only of the bunch fleshed out in a meaningful way.

GOLD Director: Stephen Gaghan Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll, Craig T. Nelson, Stacy Keach, Bruce Greenwood The term «McConaissance» arose as a way of acknowledging Matthew McConaughey's career shift from standard rom - coms to heavier, more meaningful projects.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

Congress should also provide incentives to states where standards are really low to raise the standards, and provide incentives to states to develop meaningful measures of teacher effectiveness.

It is an approach to teaching which includes intentional identification of naturally aligned standards, taught authentically alongside meaningful assessments which take both content areas to a whole new level.

This is not now sustainable and we should expect the very highest standard of impactful provision; meaningful, challenging, stimulating and real, making experiences for young learners.

But once those logistics are conquered, another big question looms: How can educators find or develop meaningful, standards - based lessons that fit the visual and data constraints of a small - screen device?

Yes, Margaret Spellings allowed for a «growth model pilot» when she was secretary of education — but schools still had to get all students to proficiency within three years, an unrealistic standard in states with a meaningful (and rigorous) definition of proficiency.

Small schools can also help boost graduation rates among these underserved students by providing them with a new version of the three Rs - rigorous academic coursework, meaningful relationships with instructors who can help them meet high standards, and relevant learning opportunities through internships, community partnerships, and real - world tasks.

Supporters of the Common Core, ourselves included, peer out across this vast nation and see a hodge - podge of standards, tests, textbooks, curricular guides, lesson plans — little of it of high quality or particularly «innovative» (with much of the «innovative» stuff being faddish and silly), and none of it aligned with much else in any meaningful sense.

The second is that the Common Core movement muddles through, meaning that we end up, eventually, with a nearly national set of standards for what students need to know and do at each grade, high quality assessments aligned to those standards, cut scores for proficiency on those assessments that are challenging and equal across the nation, and a set of meaningful carrots and sticks for holding educators accountable for preparing all their students for success.

One might take the challenges faced by the consortia - designed assessments as evidence of the impossibility of creating meaningful standards for which educators and students can be held accountable.

Similarly, national standards will fail because it is not possible to have a centrally determined set of meaningful standards that can accommodate the legitimate diversity of needs, goals, and values of all of our nation's school children.

We tie engaged and meaningful work to state standards and the importance of personalization.

Unfortunately, too many policymakers are moving schools in the wrong direction by removing the few tools, such as meaningful grading standards and high - quality end - of - course exams, that might encourage more student effort.

We have to help students to find their passion, and with this realization comes the argument that our schools must focus not just on the Common Core State Standards but on the student standards of interest, hobby, and meaningful learning.

To contribute to the advancement of volunteerism to meet world - class standards by creating positive change, conducive platforms for volunteerism, strengthening and promoting volunteerism as the strongest backbone for meaningful community, national, continental and international development.

«Educators understand that introducing new standards, appropriate curriculum and meaningful assessments are ongoing aspects of a robust educational system.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

The curriculum includes common core standards, child development and learning, building family and community relations, cultural diversity, assessment to support young children and families, strong content knowledge to build developmentally appropriate and meaningful curriculum and experiences, and professionalism and ethics of educators.

Following the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the PED launched NMRISING, a statewide initiative to inform the development of New Mexico's state plan7 and build upon the momentum of recent student success.8 The plan reinforces the PED's commitment to robust CCR standards and assessments, meaningful school accountability, a commitment to ensure that all students are served by excellent educators, and dynamic strategies for turning around the state's struggling schools.

Diversity and choice must be paired with common standards, and the content of these must be rich and meaningful.

But it does seek to make certification meaningful by building exacting standards into the process, standards that rely on evidence of knowledge and performance rather than a checklist of courses taken.