Sentences with phrase «more difficult tests»

«Our system is being rendered less intelligent by the belief that «rigor» equates to ever more difficult tests,» warned NPE Treasurer Anthony Cody.

Many states have since raised their goals for students and instituted more difficult tests.

It has become particularly acute as states have switched to more difficult tests designed to align with the Common Core, academic standards adopted by more than 40 states and spurred in part by the federal government.

(The unions» opposition has more to do with implementation and the new, more difficult tests that are being used to evaluate teachers than the standards themselves.)

Using a computational model, they saw that it took longer in the more difficult tests for the brain to accumulate the necessary information to reach a critical threshold and make a decision.

While lower test scores largely result from more difficult tests, they fly in the face of Mayor Bloomberg's constant assertions that everything in our schools was getting better, thanks to his leadership.

«There will be more difficult tests ahead for him but he did everything that was asked of him tonight as did Nathan Ake, another young player who has played in the first team before.

Much more difficult tests will come and should he overcome the hurdles and prove exceptional he will be another gem in the hand.

Four games remain for Napoli this season, and despite their impressive performance against Bologna, they know that they have a much more difficult test ahead with a trip to Roma next Monday.

I know this is a more difficult test because most tests have different answers for different questions.

The plaintiff also succeeded in establishing intentional infliction of mental suffering a more difficult test than for harassment.

Not exact matches

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

«This is one of those things that's really difficult to test on the ground,» said Musk, looking much more energetic than he did at a National Governor's Association meeting last Saturday.

As companies continue to increase the number of tests they conduct in cities, their vehicles are facing the kinds of challenges — like pedestrians and intersections — that are more difficult for self - driving cars to handle.

«This is a lesser standard than the predominance test and effectively makes it more difficult to offer skill - based gaming,» wrote the author of a different 2013 legal opinion letter.

The state's new «ABC» test will make it more difficult for companies to defend classifying workers as independent contractors.

This attack can only intensify as black liberal leaders find it more and more difficult to pass the conservative litmus tests for pro-Americanism in foreign affairs: uncritical support for U.S. policy toward Israel and U.S. intervention in Central America.

So while creationist and evolutionist will often agree on the what, we disagree on the how, why, and where, which are often more difficult to test definitively.

The second part of the theory is more difficult to test.

He's certainly changed his tune from a few weeks ago, when he said that he didn't expect passing to be any more difficult after giving it a try during testing.

Tottenham are in a promising position in their Champions League tie against Juventus, but they still face a difficult test to make it to the next round as their opponents are a lot more experienced in this competitions.

They created chances early on but found it difficult to test Lopez in the Madrid... [Read more...]

«Children who have been in extended daycare and preschool programs have: poorer work habits, inferior peer relationships, substandard emotional health, lower grades and standardized test scores, and are more difficult to discipline.

I was about to start fertility meds as I was diagnosed with PCOS, which makes it more difficult to get pregnant, but two days before I was going to pick up the medication, I got a positive pregnancy test, three to be exact as I just could not believe the first one.

Tested later in life, early «imaginators» had more resources to draw on when it came to coping with challenges and difficult situations, such as what to do if they forgot a book they needed for school that day.

The second one is that your baby used to sleep really well for the first year of his / her life, but is now starting to test the boundaries and becoming more difficult around bed time.

Best of all the locking levers are very easy to use, whereas other umbrella strollers I've tested were more difficult to lock.

Tested later in life, early «imaginators» were more resourceful when it came to coping with challenges and difficult situations, such as what to do if they forgot to bring a book to school they needed that day.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

There have been no tests whatsoever on the much more important issues of long - term soil pollution, transgene flow (carrying contamination to neighbouring fields), the very difficult problem of superweeds, or on the environmental impacts if crop yield profiteering were maximised.

«We should be looking at ways to encourage and invite investors to back British enterprise and infrastructure projects, not reverting to government - run public interest tests which make it more difficult for them to do so.»

This is especially difficult because people being more tolerant because they are more educated is an emotionally satisfying explanation for more educated people, who would otherwise be the ones testing that theory.

Driving tests are to be made more difficult to ensure young people are equipped with the right attitude to driving, rather than just the basic skills.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

The state began testing third through eighth graders on the more difficult material last April, despite protests from unions and teachers that schools did not have the resources or time to prepare.

Some of the proposals Cameron suggested included a crackdown on new immigrants claiming benefits and the development of a «residency test» to make it more difficult for migrants to access legal aid.

Tisch, who served nearly 20 years as a Regent and six as the Chancellor, led the controversial movements to adopt rigorous Common Core standards and tie a portion of teacher evaluations to student test scores, and also implemented more difficult state exams during her tenure.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King will appear at 12 public forums during the next six weeks, allowing parents and teachers a chance to sound off about the state's adoption of more difficult curriculum standards and related testing.

It could be more difficult to complete the teacher reviews at schools where many kids missed the tests.

Portable potable test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved sources as a measure of drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.

But measuring those levels on a broad scale would mean testing water in homes, which is even more difficult than the area testing.

One problem, however, is that many people produce similar — called «cross-reactive» — antibodies in response to other bacteria not associated with Lyme disease, which causes confusing results and makes test accuracy more difficult.

But they're more difficult to grow in the lab, and testing is right now limited to animals.

He and others worry that a moratorium would make research on the technology more difficult, scare away funders and prevent field tests.

«This exciting advance, the culmination of decades of studies on prion diseases, markedly improves on available diagnostic tests for CJD that are less reliable, more difficult for patients to tolerate, and require more time to obtain results,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a component of NIH.

As the complexity of optical chips increases, testing and characterising such chips becomes more difficult.

The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms — designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password — that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NSA and other attackers to test every possible combination.

I mean, I started out with a very ambitious plan to test and train it at different times in their circadian rhythm and to just use a lot more replicates and then, you know, it became apparent pretty quickly that they're pretty quick buggers and just getting one alone to train, to associate the taste and the smell was very difficult.

To make the test even more difficult, most of the pistols were consecutively manufactured.

The study found, through tests in rats, that a meal rich in saturated fat, reduces a person's cognitive function that make it more difficult to control eating habits.