Sentences with phrase «measure of progress from»

«In primary schools, we are raising the bar to improve standards and introducing a proper measure of progress from when children start school to age 11.

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In a panel discussion in Silicon Valley Saturday, however, Musk took a more measured tone on AI, encouraging members of the audience to think about how to prevent it from progressing along a potentially apocalyptic path.

«Accordingly, policymakers and citizens alike would benefit from having an alternative, or at least complementary, bottom - line metric that measures the level and rate of improvement in shared socioeconomic progress.»

Inspired by lessons from lean manufacturing, it relies on «validated learning,» rapid scientific experimentation, as well as a number of counter-intuitive practices that shorten product development cycles, measure actual progress without resorting to vanity metrics, and learn what customers really want.

«We find the gaps between the stated procedures for MFP estimation [a measure of productivity commonly interpreted as technical progress] used by Statistics Canada and the BLS are substantial,» Michael Harper concluded in an open, written response (pdf) he co-authored with Alice Nakamura, another renowned expert on productivity, and Lu Zhang, both from the University of Alberta School of Business.

They intuitively want to convey to their clients that they are working hard, and one of the only ways to measure work progress (from the perspective of the client) is by looking at activity within the portfolio.

This voluntary initiative is designed to help organizations and individuals apply key recommendations on how to advance the role of women in leadership and board positions from the B.C. Economic Forum to your organization (as appropriate) and measure the progress.

The measure of his success is instead whether this week's progress toward an agreement could have been made months ago, before the economy sank back into recession, depositors yanked 30 billion euros ($ 34 billion) from banks and jobs started to vanish.

The «first phase» of progress in health measures, from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, focused on groups rather than individuals.

In 2015, The Consumer Goods Forum, which represents more than 400 of the world's largest retailers and manufacturers from 70 countries, adopted a resolution for its members to reduce food waste from their operations by 50 percent by 2025, with baselines and progress to be measured using the FLW Standard.

Its hard to believe that manu lost 6 - 1 to man city, take nothing away from man city but every club uses manu as a measuring stick to compare themselves too, I really wish it was arsenal that gave that drubbing, I remember not long ago I was watching arsenal lose to manu by that you know what scoreline and my father (a manu fan) walk away, when it was 3 something becoz he couldn't watch a far one sided match, so I guess he is feeling what we are feeling that day, manu is always a side that neva lose by a huge margin no matter what, but tell you da truth I don't like man city becoz I do nt like a side that will spend and replace every single player and still have classy players on the bench, they can say that we won that and this but that becoz of the huge wages that we are paid, I just don't like football to be won by having money to spend there should be a mixture of everything good, middle and work in progress players.

Governments should review progress in national implementation of the International Code of Marketing of Breast milk Substitutes, and consider new legislation or additional measures as needed to protect families from adverse commercial influences.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

In promising to veto the measure last week — as well as following through a veto of the related prevailing wage bill, which that would apply to certain building workers in properties where the city leases a large percentage of space — the mayor argued that the legislation would kill jobs and undermine progress the city had made recovering from the recession.

However, using data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and from New York's state exams, Dr. Aaron Pallas of Teachers College demonstrated that between 2003, just before Mayor Bloomberg's reforms had been implemented, and 2011, the achievement gap demonstrated by the NAEP actually rose and the gap measured by state exams closed by a mere 1 %.

City Council member Jumaane Williams (Flatbush, East Flatbush, Midwood), chair of the Building Committee and a co-sponsor of the measure, has said the measure is still a work in progress and wanted the hearing to include testimony from all sides, including unions, non-unions, construction organizations and administrative officials in the field.

Progress will be measured with data analysis, including the number and percentage of violations that result from the new proactive enforcement measures and how many violations are resolved by their compliance deadlines.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist research and meaningful measures of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.

When the individuals were re-assessed a year later, about a quarter had progressed to Alzheimer's disease and three of the proteins measured in their blood showed significant differences from the blood of participants that did not go on to develop the disease.

Some of the most impressive progress along this path has come from using noncontact - atomic force microscopy (NC - AFM), such as measuring individual chemical bonds using a carbon monoxide - functionalized tip.

A longitudinal study using PET scans to measure CMRglu in people ages fifty to eighty showed that people with the lowest CMRglu at baseline experienced the quickest development of overt AD.24 At baseline, hippocampal glucose metabolism in people who progressed from normal to AD was 26 percent below that of people who did not develop AD, and the annual rate of decline averaged 4.4 percent.

During the debate over the federal «annual yearly progress» standard, many of the proposals that would have included other indicators as measures of a school's annual yearly progress were simply thinly disguised attempts to eradicate any rigor from the system.

It also calls for funding agreements with sponsors to be shortened from seven to five years, and demands that the government include a measure of progress for disadvantaged pupils within their «coasting» definition.

This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple - choice tests and an angry disenchantment with measuring progress of public schools, educators, or education schools.

On top of the 60 per cent pass rate for GCSEs, Morgan explained the new «Progress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary edProgress 8» accountability measure for secondary school's, which is designed to show a child's progress from primary to secondary edprogress from primary to secondary education.

To begin tackling this problem, CMU backward - mapped from the ACT's definition of college readiness to establish grade - level achievement targets for grades 2 — 8 that can be used with Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) or the Performance Series by Global Scholar.

Scores from these digitally based assessments were then calibrated, through careful research, to ensure a fair and consistent measure of educational progress, according to Andrew Ho, a psychometrician and member of the National Assessment Governing Board.

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the gold standard in measuring educational achievement, inched up slightly through the Bush administration, but NCLB was far from a magic bullet.

a resource idea pinched gratefully from «terriannisis19» - cheers: — RRB - Includes differentiated learning outcomes, ways of measuring progress throughout the lesson by the completion of tasks that encourage increasingly deep thinking.

Removing seat time from state regulations certainly stands to open up more opportunities for students to move at their own pace, and for educators to measure progress in terms of authentic learning rather than hours and minutes.

The department softened a proposal to use results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suProgress to measure states» progress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between suprogress over the past several years in boosting achievement scores and closing achievement gaps between subgroups.

Hard to choose but I think my favourite article from last year was either he interview with Andreas Schleicher on the impact of technology on learning outcomes (Research Files 14) or the story on how Nossal High School has shifted their reporting practices away from A-E grading and towards progress measures (Removing grades from student reports).

According to the DfE, the activity - based assessment will enable better, fairer measures of primary school performance by capturing the progress teachers help pupils to make from the first weeks of reception all the way through to the end of year 6.

Beginning in 2002, the accountability system included measures of student progress from one year to the next, a feature not incorporated into NCLB.

Data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress background survey provide a mixed picture on measures of student engagement, school safety, and parent involvement.

But currently, that progress is measured from the key stage 1 Sats, taken at age 7, to the key stage 2 Sats, taken at age 11 — meaning the first three years of a child's education is effectively ignored.

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

We boys spent much of our considerable energy trying to get our girlfriends to abstain from abstinence — measuring our progress in the smallest of increments over the longest periods of time.

Progress 8 is a new measure of school performance which will take into account the progress a pupil makes from the start of secondary school to the end of theiProgress 8 is a new measure of school performance which will take into account the progress a pupil makes from the start of secondary school to the end of theiprogress a pupil makes from the start of secondary school to the end of their GCSEs.

In her time there she has been instrumental in the school progressing from special measures to good and the successful conversion to a sponsored academy as part of a multi-academy trust.

The Department for Education has announced that assessments to measure pupil progress from the start of primary school are to be designed and delivered by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER).

Drawing on best practices from collective impact and board governance, the Lab developed the Measures of Success framework to gauge the progress and success of the Children's Cabinets.

Child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on an individual child from one or more valid and reliable assessments of a child's status and progress, including but not limited to direct assessment, structured observations, checklists, staff or parent report measures, and portfolio records or work samples.

The newsletter now has an expanded focus: the range of new California academic standards — from the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, to the Next Generation Science Standards and the history - social science standards — as well as how schools will be held accountable for measuring their progress on them.

Researchers from the National Center for Educational Outcomes at the University of Minnesota, which conducted the study, said the findings raise questions about the reliability of such well - known measures as the National Assessment of Educational Progress and the National Educational Longitudinal Study.

It's clear that a lack of pressure from leadership to measure business impact would lead to «competing priorities» being the main issue preventing progress.

With a set of recommendations from its expert resource groups in hand, the goals panel appears to be well on its way toward selecting measures to assess the progress of the nation's education system toward the goals.

Tom Perry, a research fellow from the University of Birmingham, and research manager at the Centre for the Use of Evidence in Education, has written a new academic paper on the Progress measures which finds that the measure favours grammar schools — but his findings offers a solution to fix the bias.