Sentences with phrase «measured against higher»

Urban schools are not afraid to be measured against higher standards and they are confronting the achievement gap.

The state of emergency declared by Cuomo allows the Department of Environmental Conservation to issue emergency permits for protective measures against high Lake Ontario waters, and Cuomo also created a rapid response team, a flood information hotline and deployed 20 National Guard members to help in flood reactions.

In order to attain National Board Certification, teachers must complete a rigorous process in which their content knowledge and teaching skills are measured against the highest standards as determined by the NBPTS.

In fact, most FX brokers have increased their margin requirements ahead of UK referendum on EU membership that takes place today, as a preventive measure against high market volatility.

That you can go back to your small town wherever it was and be a provincial success, show in be a local exhibits, but that if you really wanted to be an artist, go where the work will be measured against the highest standards.

Not exact matches

The Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool, or EPEAT, which measures computers against a list of 27 sustainability criteria — including the use of mercury - free materials — gives this model its highest mark, a gold rating.

«If the U.S. does take protectionist measures, then other countries are likely to take justifiable retaliatory actions against U.S. companies that have an advantage... in fields such as finance and high - tech, leading to a tit - for - tat trade war that benefits no one,» it said.

After recalling Tsipras coming to power as an unrepentant demagogue whose high - wire negotiations in 2015 cost Greece «100 billion euros» (in extra austerity measures), the opposition accuses him of «belatedly discovering investments» that he fought against.

On October 12, 2007, the Dow Jones Industrial Index, against which many investment returns are measured, closed at a nominal high of 14,693.

Gold recovered as the U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, slid 0.21 % to 92.09, pulling back from Tuesday's four - month highs of 92.37.

The U.S. dollar index, which measures the greenback's strength against a basket of six major currencies, was up 0.67 % to 92.24 by 10:21 AM ET (14:21 GMT), the highest level since January 11.

AZO provides food processors, who are legally required to take effective safety measures against contaminants, with high - quality machinery and systems which help ensure that their products comply with the relevant standards.

High pressure games are games against top clubs or in cup competitions rounds like Quarter finals and above against rivals that measure up in quality or have more quality than we do.

«I reckoned that if I could get some guys together from our «Glory Days» and swim them against our counterparts on the same high school's team of today,» he said, «then even if we lost, which we surely would, we'd at least know the measure of our decline.

His power is legend, too: the home run he hit in Washington in 1953 practically invented the tape measure; only Mantle and Williams have ever hit a baseball over the roof in Detroit; only Mantle ever hit a ball up so high against the fa √ ßade in right field at Yankee Stadium.

Measured against other leading countries the report also reveals that Britain has a higher ratio of 18 - 24 year old road user deaths relative to other age groups, and a higher proportion of deaths on roads where the speed limit is 60MPH or above.

It said the system losses were as high as 27.44 per cent when power purchased was matched against sales in units and, therefore, asked the ECG to put in place measures to control and reduce the losses.

The race for high - speed systems has been encouraged by the fact that more and more countries have improved their active counter measures against cruise missiles.

Former President John Dramani Mahama, has charged government to institute measures to cushion consumers against high fuel prices being experienced in the country.

David Cameron: We will knock down «brutal» high - rise estates David Cameron rails against «absurd» child poverty measures David Cameron's speech to the Tory party conference

He says his group is also against some measures that could be more likely to pass, including public campaign financing, and a higher minimum wage in some cities in New York.

Senate Republican Majority Leader Dean Skelos acknowledges that the state's Conservative Party, which cross endorses many GOP Senators for reelection, is against the measure, but he says he was opposed before that because the amount 25 grams, is set too high.

«All you have to do now is not only feel sorry for the liars, but you have to go against them and pray to God that the lies can be crushed and the liars can be silenced so that real measures can be put into place to actually save children's lives,» Nugent said about the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students.

But I would point out that pensioners have been expensively shielded against inflation by the so - called «triple lock», this government's guarantee that pensions would be measured against three different indicators each year, and uprated by whichever is the highest.

Almost a week after 17 students and teachers were gunned down at a Florida high school, the state legislature voted 71 - 36 Tuesday against a measure to consider a ban on semi-automatic weapons.

They tested high - performance computational models against known geological and geophysical observations of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and demonstrated that a drip of lithospheric material below the surface can account for the measured elevation changes across the region.

«Having said that, global marine protection also includes taking measures against the still high CO2 - emissions.»

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

The current study — conducted in three neighborhoods of Merida, Mexico — measured the efficacy of indoor residual spraying against adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes in houses treated with either deltamethrin (to which the local mosquitoes expressed a high degree of resistance) or bendiocarb (another insecticide to which the mosquitoes were fully susceptible), as compared to untreated control houses.

«So I think it is high time for us... to embark on an agreement on preventive measures against CBRN disasters as a symbol of regional or international cooperation.»

However, after seeing how much cadmium is present in molluscs im not convinced that any of these measures would be effective against prolonged high intake of metals like cadmium, so i am considering dropping molluscs as a regular part of my diet.

The GHQ and CES - D have been validated against the CIS - R in this cohort and showed high sensitivity and specificity in measuring depressive episodes39.

If her idea is adopted by their boss, it will put an abrupt end not only to Ryan's field trips but to his budding romance with Alex. Although this inspired, mile - high sitcom is a delightful romp, it is likely to prove to be a bit of a disappointment for Reitman fans measuring it against either Juno or Thank You for Smoking which earned the # 1 spot on this critic's Top 10 List of 2006.

The Alaska measure was prompted by the recent dismissal of criminal charges against an Anchorage high - school teacher who allegedly had sex with a 17 - year - old student.

Education World: National Board Certification measures a teacher's practice against «high and rigorous standards.»

President Donald Trump and lawmakers from both parties in Congress seem to agree that additional training of school staff and law enforcement, as well as new preventive measures, would help guard against incidents like the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., that left 17...

Standardized exams, in Tang's view, serve as a necessary tool to measure reality against these high expectations.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

The SAT is valuable for two main reasons: 1) It provides colleges with a common standard against which to evaluate students who attend high schools with varying grading policies and levels of rigor, and 2) it partially predicts students» grades during their freshman year of college, a measure of how prepared they are for higher education.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

That's why the American Statistical Association, the American Educational Research Association, and numerous researchers have cautioned against high - stakes use of such measures.

Measuring Houston against the state of Texas is holding the city to a high standard.

Following Durand Academy's successful High Court challenge against its Ofsted report, which would have placed the school in special measures if upheld, Luke Green and Joe Orme from law firm Hill Dickinson consider what powers a school has to challenge Ofsted judgements and what should be taken into consideration

Following Durand Academy's successful High Court challenge against its Ofsted report, which would have placed it in special measures, what powers does a school have to challenge Ofsted?

Take the Vardaman High quiz bowl team, which Weddle joined last year in order to travel the state and measure herself against other students.

My own research has suggested the potential importance of reference bias due to differences in school climate, leading me to caution in this series against proposals to incorporate survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills into high - stakes accountability systems.

Mike says that those opting out should be «held accountable against an alternative set of measures» that are nonetheless still outcomes - based and geared toward high school graduation and post-secondary readiness.

Winners had to show they were reforming their education systems to fix the worst schools, get quality teachers in each classroom, have high standards and measure students and schools against those standards and impose data systems to be able to measure what works and what doesn't.

In education, this simply means setting high standards for what students should learn, measuring progress against those standards, and then using the data to determine and implement the right kinds of supports and interventions to help students succeed.