Sentences with phrase «more objective state»

State Sen. Toby Stavisky (D - Whitestone) and state Assemblyman Rory Lancman (D - Fresh Meadows) lambasted Gov. David Paterson this week for vetoing legislation they sponsored that they said would result in more objective State University of New York and City University of New York boards of trustees.

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'' (c) The aeronautical and space activities of the United States shall be conducted so as to contribute materially to one or more of the following objectives:

Jan Dehn, head of research at Ashmore Investment Management, says: «The adoption of a currency basket should allow China to move more quickly to a flexible exchange rate and is entirely consistent with the stated objective of the renminbi's formal inclusion in the SDR.

While most active managers will state that their objective is to outperform over a full market cycle, they need to be more emphatic with asset owners up front about how much time that really entails and why they need it, especially if they state they have a long - term philosophy.

While the stated objective of this trade policy is to «level the playing field» for American manufacturers — and many trade experts believe cheap imports have hurt the domestic steel industry — tariffs may do more harm than good over the long run.

If employing the suggested possibilities would actually help Ogden with his stated intention of being more adequate to the «objective» side of faith assertions about Jesus, and if these possibilities are inherent in the process philosophy which Ogden employs, the question raises itself as to why Ogden has not developed his position along the suggested lines.

Ogden stated in Christ Without Myth (1961) that he intended to express the «objective» reality of the event Jesus Christ more adequately than Bultmann had succeeded in doing, but that this would have to come in a later work.17 His fullest treatment of the problem thus far appeared in 1963 in his essay, «What Sense Does it Make to Say, «God Acts in History»»?

At the heart of the problem of consciousness, in other words, is the problem of qualia: to show how «brain processes, which are publicly observable, objective phenomena, could cause anything as peculiar as inner qualitative states of awareness or sentience, states which are in some sense «private» to the possessor of the state (MC 60).6 Searle thus prompts an even more basic question: whether it is possible to distinguish clearly and distinctly between private and public aspects of perception.

And last but not least, Suchocki expressly states that God's consequent nature is not prehended, while Whitehead not only claims in the last page of Process and Reality that «the perfected actuality passes back into the temporal world, and qualifies this world so that each temporal actuality includes it as an immediate fact of relevant experience» (PR 351), but also speaks in more exact language of» [t] he objective immortality of his [God's] consequent nature» (PR 32).

If you are honest and look at the situation the constant over the past 12 plus years is the willingness of the Board to accept 4th place as the goal and objective each year because it meant CL football (and more money in their pockets for quarter finals without having to really buy new players) and the ability to constantly offer meaningless public interviews stating that they want to win the league each year.

However, while the primary objective should be to raise the quality of all schools (while ensuring that the most gifted children have access to the materials they need to help them meet their potential), we need something more to create truly world class state schools.

Teacher evaluations are now significantly more objective, there's less room for local bargaining to undermine standards, the state has power to set a consistently high bar, and tests have been reduced.

The Citizens Union report, «Creating a More Equitable and Objective Discretionary Funding Process in NYC,» states:

Current state frameworks for teaching mathematics to children in elementary and middle school (kindergarten through grade 8) can include more than 100 objectives for a particular grade, says Francis «Skip» Fennell, NCTM president.

«There should be a study,» says graduate school dean Lawrence Martin of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, who is also head of a panel of land - grant colleges that has drafted a position paper urging coverage of more fields, greater use of objective research criteria, exploration of some measures of program outcome, and ranking institutions by cluster rather than individually.

Washington and Oregon based the goals, objectives and activities in the strategy on input from more than 100 state, tribal, local emergency managers and more than 300 community members, including many who have had training as part of Community Emergency Response Teams.

The objective of the course is to make you a more aware, conscious, wise and discerning consumer, who takes accountability for their state of health.

Once we understand the objective evidence, we take a more holistic and natural approach to create a custom tailored program of care that involves targeted supplementation, diet, exercise and other lifestyle modifications to bring the body back into a state of balance and harmony.

The point being, if being healthy is really your objective, working on your mental state might be more important that the physical.

SACRAMENTO STATE — Feb 23 — Online personals have become an alternative for college students looking for a more objective way to find dates.

You'll find information on the state's growth model («student growth percentiles»), student learning objectives (SLOs), how the new evaluation system influences tenure, how summary ratings inform professional development, and more.

My learning objectives were clearly stated from the beginning, but I wanted more for them.

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

If more governors had exhibited Mark Warner's excellent grasp for what it would take to improve the teaching profession, terms such as «Highly Qualified Teachers» and «High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation» might not have entered our lexicon («Netting an Elusive Breed,» Feature, Fall 2004).

Consider a more realistic set of objectives for education policymakers, one that is based on experiences from within the United States itself.

The presumption behind having national standards (whether voluntary or coerced) is that having a clearer and more consistent statement of learning objectives across states would tend to lessen the problem of heterogeneous skills that students bring to the labor market.

The process has already achieved its objective, with more than two dozen teams submitting proposals that are chock - full of suggestions for states and commonsense recommendations for the U.S. Department of Education.

Therefore, we encourage states to establish innovation programs to enable the design of new, more nimble systems that are ready to accommodate flexible and timely progression decisions based on clear learning objectives, transparent definitions of proficiency and a strong embedded formative assessment system.

Dewey (1933) and Rodgers (2002) stated that the primary objective of reflection on action is to promote the more difficult reflection in action.

About Advance Illinois Leaders from more than a dozen civic, philanthropic, business and education organizations from across the state came together to found Advance Illinois in 2008 to serve as an independent, objective and nonpartisan voice promoting a healthy public education system that prepares all students for success in college, career and civic life.

Otherwise, these tests are designed to align with state or more local standards, objectives, outcome statements, and the like.

Denver Public Schools has been using SGOs for many years; their 2008 - 2009 Teacher Handbook states that an SGO must be «focused on the expected growth of [a teacher's] students in areas identified in collaboration with their principal,» as well as that the objectives must be «Job - based; Measurable; Focused on student growth in learning; Based on learning content and teaching strategies; Discussed collaboratively at least three times during the school year; May be adjusted during the school year; Are not directly related to the teacher evaluation process; [and] Recorded online» (for more information click here).

For one, they ignore the key reason why the Obama Administration declined to renew Washington State's waiver: The state's failure to meet its promise to replace its shoddy observation - based evaluations with more - objective data - based performance management tools using test score growth State's waiver: The state's failure to meet its promise to replace its shoddy observation - based evaluations with more - objective data - based performance management tools using test score growth state's failure to meet its promise to replace its shoddy observation - based evaluations with more - objective data - based performance management tools using test score growth data.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Clarity involves stating goals or major objectives and making sure that students know what they are accountable for knowing or doing; carefully outlining a lesson sequence, moving from simpler to more complex ideas; providing instruction both orally and in writing; checking understanding by asking specific questions or obtaining work samples; and providing for meaningful practice and feedback through class work or homework assignments that review all lessons skills and content.

States can move away from the No Child Left Behind Act's narrow, unrealistic, and unpopular goals to broader, more attainable, but still ambitious objectives.

States are also looking to more personalized and school - appropriate measures for determining teacher impact on student learning and vesting teachers more directly in monitoring student progress through approaches such as student - achievement goal setting, student - learning objectives, student - learning targets, teacher goal setting, and unit work samples.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

SLOs, or Student Learning Objectives, are being used across states as a way to provide a student growth measure in non-tested grades and Read more about AIR offers Helpful Recommendations on Teacher Evaluation -LSB-...]

And considering the low - quality of subjective classroom observations that are the norm for traditional teacher evaluation systems, the state laws and collective bargaining agreements governing teacher performance management discourage school leaders from providing more - ample feedback, and that the use of objective student test score growth data is just coming into play, few teachers have gotten the kind of feedback needed to build such expertise in the first place.

The report examines teacher evaluation policies in the 30 states that require objective Read more about Running in Place: How New Teacher Evaluations Fail to Live Up to Promises -LSB-...]

Harris also discusses some «other ways to use value - added» should states still decide (e.g., within a flagging system whereby VAMs as the more «objective» measure could be used to raise red flags for individual teachers who might require further investigation using other less «objective» measures).

Yet we are optimistic that students, parents and educators will have a more meaningful voice in fixing New York standards; reducing the burden of standardized testing; and creating a fair and objective evaluation system,» New York State United Teachers president Karen Magee said in a statement.

A more objective assessment of the standards maintained by states can be inferred by comparing the percentages of students designated as proficient by the state with the percentages found by the NAEP's independent assessment.

The Andalucía Education Department was evaluating new ways to promote foreign language learning, including more collaboration between different international institutions, with the objective of improving the language skills of both teachers and students in the state education system in Andalucía, the largest education authority in Spain.

This lesson covered the concepts of keep it simple, use a theme, clearly state your objective and... more»

When over 50 % of Texas high school graduates who enter community colleges need remedial courses, we're a long way from the state's objective of having 60 % of our 25 - 34 year olds secure an industry certification, an associate's degree, or a bachelor's degree by 2030, so there is no more time to lose or room to further backslide.

Each strategic objective also includes performance goals, which state the level of performance to be accomplished, and more information about these and the corresponding performance indicators may be found in DOT's Annual Performance Plan.

A fund is simply a pool of money invested in a portfolio of stocks, bonds, money market instruments and / or other assets, managed by one or more professionals who follow a stated investment objective.

They know that they are more objective, rational and logical while they were planning the trade / before they entered, so they trust their judgment in that state of mind rather than when the trade is live.