Sentences with phrase «meaningful standards»

Third, the platforms themselves should come up with clear and meaningful standards for portability — that is, the user's ability to meaningfully leave a platform and take her data with her.

We demand excellence through meaningful standards and robust accountability about school quality and student progress from early childhood through postsecondary education.

«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.

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.

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

While he is correct that the certification systems in many, if not most, states have too many licensure fields and (although he doesn't say it) often lack meaningful standards, his solution is not to streamline the system and add rigor.

That pathway starts when districts measure the academic progress of students against meaningful standards, help students plan and prepare for postsecondary success, and make deliberate connections for students to all forms of professional life.

Even assuming that sustainable seafood certification is credible and responsible with meaningful standards, problems remain («Supermarkets boost sustainable seafood offerings,» July 18).

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.

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.»

Develop effective measures and meaningful standards, establishing both short - term milestones and long - term targets

Without any meaningful standard by which to measure our worth, we turn to the public eye for affirmation.

OCR's «Dear Colleague» letter offered no meaningful standards for what would constitute an actual disparity in resources.

For all the success we've seen in building better school - accountability systems, we've gotten almost completely rolled when it comes to holding students to meaningful standards.

Meeting any meaningful standard is a heavy lift when teaching is a low - prestige profession, and when teachers are prepared by schools of education that consider «training» teachers beneath their dignity.

The goal was never met because, as a fundamental matter, individual human variability makes 100 percent proficiency to a meaningful standard an impossibility.

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.

The mayor and chancellor dismissed these criticisms as the hidebound defenses of an old, failed system devoid of meaningful standards.

Second, this equation assumes that the tests are linked to meaningful standards and are therefore valid measures of student achievement relative to those standards, assumptions yet to be supported by reputable research.

That is, determine a meaningful standard value in energy measures (like BTUs) for each dollar.

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