Sentences with phrase «measures including»

Six urban school districts seeking to strengthen school leadership find value in measures including using principal standards and putting more rigorous hiring in place.

«The exclusive focus on test scores as the measure of educational quality should be replaced with the use of multiple performance measures including rates of graduation, college attendance, post-school employment, criminal justice system involvement, etc.,» Schaeffer said in an email.

And there are those on the fringe calling for more drastic measures including completely eliminating the tests or withdrawing New York entirely from the standards.

An increasing number of states are passing legislation mandating annual evaluations of teachers and school leaders, based upon multiple measures including state test scores, local assessments, classroom observations, climate surveys and other factors.

Teachers are then assessed against these standards, and multiple measures including classroom observations, teaching artifacts and student surveys provide a portrait of a teacher's strengths and needs.

Not less than 50 % of these evaluations will be based on student achievement measures including at least 35 % based on TVAAS data where available.

When asked what should determine teacher pay, 86 percent said a teacher's education and training should be either the most important or an important factor, followed by 77 percent who said their students» achievement and progress on a range of measures including standardized tests, classroom observations and parent feedback; 77 percent said whether the teacher is at a low - performing school where students need the most help; 64 percent who said students» achievement and progress on standardized tests; and 57 percent who said seniority in the number of years of classroom teaching experience.

On Track to Graduate: Includes two components, graduation rates for high schools or attendance rate for other schools, and a set of measures including third - grade reading scores, eighth - grade math scores and ACT participation and performance, as applicable to the school.

However the Ofsted letter said high entry for overlapping qualifications may affect schools» scores in accountability measures including five GCSEs A * to C and also Progress 8.

Understand what questions are answered with different attendance measures including ADA, truancy, chronic absence, and suspensions.

In a separate initiative, emergency measures including extra after - school classes and close monitoring of students helped Glyn Derw achieve its best GCSE results for years.

For example, using the Baseball Card, which is an ad - hoc reporting tool available in ADMS and Unify, we can look at how students performed on high - stakes tests, district benchmark assessments, and other measures including the SAT, reading comprehension, and course grades.

Most of the two - hour session was a tutorial on the detailed process, unveiled last week, that will rate every teacher and principal based on a mix of measures including student performance — starting next year.

Priority should be given to preventive measures including clean air and water and adequate sanitation, and to affordable health care and medicines (including free provisioning to the poor), as far as possible empowering communities and individuals to manage these; and health care should combine various traditional and modern systems.

Consider utilizing multiple measures including student portfolios, writing samples, interviews, oral presentations, and so on to measure student progress.

With a strong environmental emphasis the «Well Building Standard», directed at architects and specifiers, wraps this up with other measures including fitness, comfort and nutrition.

Both the House and Senate last week passed debt - extension measures including a revised version of the Gramm - Rudman - Hollings balanced - budget law.

3.2.1.4) Different measures including credit facility for the poor have to be undertaken to overcome the constraints in the way of migration of poor people.

The group wants the industry to implement anti-fraud measures including: employing algorithms to detect suspicious language patterns used by scammers and regularly searching for fake profiles across multiple dating websites.

Should such efforts not provide relief to the athlete, more aggressive measures including surgery may be considered.

A healthy life involves much more than just eating healthy, it involves adopting healthy lifestyle measures including regular relaxation, exercising to control weight and to optimise overall fitness levels, as well as getting a great night's sleep.

Objective measures including pulmonary function testing and blood levels of inflammatory markers were also applied.

The Northwest Climate Toolbox currently has ten tools, or applications designed around a set of climate metrics such as temperature, precipitation, and more complex measures including the energy release component (we'll get to that last one in a bit).

Measures including psychological measures (depressive symptoms, perceived stress, vitality and mindfulness) and detailed methods for the blood draw, processing, biomarker assays and RNA sequencing of blood samples are described in the Supplementary Appendix, along with all statistical analyses carried out for group comparisons, construction of differential expression signatures, construction of coexpression networks, construction of Bayesian networks and pathway enrichment analysis.

The outbreak began in November 2016, and was immediately recognised and reported to provincial public health authorities in Pakistan, where investigation into possible sources and control measures including use of a vaccine are ongoing.

Additional Services (back to top) Phenotypic characterization of ethanol exposure: The Animal / Cell Core will also provide basic phenotyping measures including ALT / AST, triglyceride concentrations, Oil Red O, Sirius red staining, hydroxyproline concentration, blood ethanol and CYP2E1 expression or activity on a fee for service basis for all NOAC investigators.

A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

The Genetic Edge, owned by Equine Analysis Systems (EAS), adds genetic testing to a series of other performance measures including motion analysis, metabolic profile testing, breathing tests and heart testing.

The study looked to see if ethnic and racial disparities in breastfeeding could be explained by differences in the use of formula in hospitals, family history of breastfeeding, mother's belief that «breast is best»; and demographic measures including poverty, education and relationship status.

Its problems have not gone away, and the population is now inbred, but a combination of measures including a captive breeding programme, habitat restoration and predator control are building up numbers.

Measures including the current prohibition of commercial fishing from large vessels within 50 nautical miles from the coast have resulted in some protection, but the researchers say that this new information highlights that hammerhead sharks may still be in danger, due to their use of both coastal and offshore waters during early life stages.

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months of the legislative session in Albany.

Irene Naa Torshie Addo, the President's nominee for the position of Common Fund Administrator, is proposing new measures including borrowing from banks to end the perennial challenge of the delay in the payment of Assemblies» share of the Common Fund.

Collins last year introduced legislation that would nullify much of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's NY SAFE Act, a sweeping set of gun control measures including a ban on sales of assault weapons in New York stores, Kowalczyk said.

25 per cent thought measures including the VAT cut and loan guarantees to banks would help and were worth the money 64 per cent thought the government's measures weren't worth the money the government is spending on them.

According to newspaper reports he will use the platform of No Smoking Day to announce far - reaching tobacco control measures including, controversially, a ban on tobacco branding (aka plain packaging).

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However, without enough resource to provide places we are seeing some schools having to take extreme measures including converting non-classroom space and reducing playground space.»

Under Governor Cuomo's leadership the state has tripled support for the tourism industry with measures including a $ 45 million tourism campaign.

Senator Sanders says he, too, is pushing for anti corruption measures including campaign finance reform.

Republican leaders in the state Senate did not respond to requests for comment on Hoylman's bill, but on Wednesday they defeated an effort by Senate Democrats to force a vote on several gun control measures including a bump stock ban.

Both facilities will use energy efficient measures including LED lighting.

«We're still contemplating a variety of measures including grassroots mobilization, advocacy, engagement with local and state officials and even litigation to oppose what we view as unlawful and discriminatory executive orders,» Cahn said.

The Lib Dems argue that an alternative package of measures including the withdrawal of travel rights, more surveillance, unannounced home visits, and the use of intercept evidence to enable more prosecutions to go ahead would be more effective and have less impact on civil liberties.

Assembly Democrats on Friday evening released a package of ethics and campaign finance reform measures including limits to outside income, while holding out for negotiations for a constitutional amendment for pension forfeiture by public officials convicted of corruption.

Bob Kerslake says measures including the trade union bill show government is «not comfortable with scrutiny and challenge»

But the bill was a component of Cuomo's larger Democracy Agenda, measures including voting and campaign finance reform that otherwise fell by the wayside during budget negotiations and seem unlikely to pass in the remaining months

Cuomo on Saturday was endorsed by the labor - backed WFP and at the same time announced his support for a Democratic takeover of the Senate, as well as a package of liberal measures including the public financing of political campaigns.

It's a measure that has been opposed by doctors» groups, but comes after Cuomo publicly pledged to support a host of more high - profile measures including a minimum wage hike to $ 10.10 and allowing local governments to raise the wage on their own through a state - based formula.

Cuomo and state lawmakers agreed in the budget to have a package of measures including requiring lawyers to disclose their legal clients who they took on beginning next year.