Sentences with phrase «most challenging standards»

Our antitrust litigation capabilities are global, with particular strength in the US and Europe — regions with the most challenging standards related to antitrust awards, criminal violations and emerging regulations

In this webinar, we will discuss research - based strategies that give students support with making sense of the most challenging standards, specifically in the areas of: • Geometric measurement, • Modeling problem situations, • Fractions, and • Statistics.

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Picking from the store can be «challenging,» and not to Amazon's usual designed - down - to - the - movement standards, «but most grocers are doing that for click and collect anyway, so it's becoming more industry standard,» said Kodali.

Over this century our nation's economic output and standard of living has increased greatly, but the United States also faced many different challenges — ranging from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Great Inflation of the 1970s and most recently the financial crisis.

He failed to acknowledge that the entire purpose of the Church's principles on issues such as the end of life is to create a standard of conduct clear enough to guide believers through their most trying challenges.

In addressing this challenge we need to consider whether sustainability standards are accessible enough to the most marginalised producers, how standards fit with the needs of emerging markets and businesses and, most importantly, how standards can increase their accessibility without losing credibility.

Celebrating 170 years of high quality paper production in 2015, the business has been carefully stewarded and nurtured by six generations of the Cropper family and is renowned globally for individual expertise in colour, dedicated responses to the most challenging custom projects and award - winning commitment to the highest standards of sustainability.

Gather any group of sports fans together for very long in a gambling environment and inevitably challenges are leveled and wagers made — most extending far beyond the standard offerings of a sportsbook.

In fact, I think that's the perfect way to sum up their current situation, thoroughly enjoying the early euphoria of a couple of stunning results against Wigan Athletic and Newcastle United before some hardhitting reality against two of the Premier League's most consistent sides, with the always title challenging Chelsea handing out a free lesson in how to play the beautiful game as Blackburn provided a much needed reality check that this league is brutal, that half - decent performances in front of your own fans still get severely punished if your own game isn't up to the high standards the Premier League demands.

Britax puts their seats through challenges that most manufacturers don't, driving up standards and driving down injury rates.

Left to right: Enfamil A + Ready to Feed 59 ml nursette bottle, 3 - pack standard flow soft nipples and rings, Enfamil A + Single Serve Packets, Enfamil A + Ready to Feed 237 ml bottle Personally as a new mom, the most challenging yet fulfilling part of my day is taking baby James out on my own.

University of Miami law professor Terence Anderson said that although Palm Beach County voters might have the most valid challenge ever under that standard, any kind of remedy would be difficult to impose.

But he doesn't think it poses any challenge to standard evolutionary theory as the epigenetic change is itself most likely a result of a genetic change.

Such distant giants lend support to the most radical challenge to standard theory, in which some planets form not by core accretion, but by a process called gravitational instability.

The simple, yet challenging mechanics make it one the most convenient exercise, that should be included into each standard routine.

Meeting singles in your usual social circles can be challenging for most singles looking to date someone that meets their standards.

One of the most acclaimed entries in the influential series «Six Moral Tales,» Rohmer's film features Jean - Louis Trintignant as a pious Catholic engineer whose rigid ethical standards are challenged when he unwittingly spends the night at the apartment of a bold, brunette divorcée.

The standard monsters roaming around don't provide much challenge, as most die with one or two hits.

The extraordinarily bloated «On the Clock: The Making of Draft Day» (60 mins., HD) is standard quasi-promotional fare discussing the jitters, the awe - inspiring scope of the NFL spectacle, and the challenge of doing a film about the most popular vice in American culture.

The twin challenges of meeting standards and testing requirements make it even more important that teachers have tools to help get the most out of time with their students.

We know the Common Core standards are more challenging than what preceded them in most places.

Each STEM challenge in this pack includes: • teacher instructions • student challenge sheet • planning and design pages • scoring rubric There is also a set of team member role cards, design process cards, a master score sheet to find out which group is the most successful at helping the explorers, and associated NGSS standards.

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

... also because its students and teachers allow us to see the typical challenges that most places across the country will face as their districts try to put the ELA standards in place.

One of the most obvious ways to better prepare teachers for the ELL challenge is for states to not only require, as California does, that incoming teachers arrive prepared to instruct English learners but to also, unlike California, actually enforce those standards.

In this webinar, we will discuss four of the most challenging shifts, including: • Emphasis on Academic Vocabulary • Complex Text • Close Reading • Greater Emphasis on Informational Text Participants will learn what these shifts really mean; how the various ELA standards connect to support them; and practical applications for addressing the shifts in the classroom.

As teachers and administrators gain a better understanding of the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards and other college - and career - ready expectations in mathematics, they will need to understand which standards are the most challenging for students so they can make the most of their instructional time to ensure students are successful.

Based on independent research and results from over 750,000 students, the most challenging reading standards for students have been identified.

The concept, if not the name, first came into use more than 100 years ago, when education reformers challenged the rote memorization style of learning then standard in most public schools.

Most states set their standards within NAEP's «basic» range, and very few state standards measured up to NAEP's aspirational proficiency standard, which measures «mastery over challenging subject matter.»

MS Office took care of most of the needs, but when PDF format stepped in, corporates and other industries like publishing sooner or later realized what more was needed to overcome the challenges lingering to adopt a standard.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

After my first year of teaching with Common Core standards, most all of the students would say that they did not like Common Core because it was so challenging but at the same time would say that they learned more about Math than ever had.

But the challenges of Ofsted expanding its remit to all private schools are not purely financial — it has recently come in for criticism from a number of agencies and organisations, most recently the Association of School and College Leaders on its use of contract inspectors, indicating that their training is not up to standard.

The change from the previous state standards was dramatic, and they have the most important, detailed insight into how challenging that was for them and their students.

At the same time, the state has moved towards a higher standard for education results with the Mississippi Assessment Program (MAP), our most challenging assessment to date, and the Literacy Based Promotion Act, or 3rd Grade Reading Gate, which requires students to read at grade level before entering 4th grade.

As Secretary Rod Paige so well noted in his first annual report to Congress on Meeting the Highly Qualified Teacher Challenge in June 2002, the teacher preparation system is «broken», and, although Texas has done a better job than most states in raising teacher preparation standards and accountability, we are no exception to this generalization.

The chairman of the committee, Graham Stuart, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that most academies were «working hard in challenging conditions to raise standards.»

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

A recent report sheds some light on the potential challenges that states face in implementing the more rigorous college - and career - ready Common Core standards, especially when compared to the standards currently in place for most students across the country.

That most of us are somewhat constrained by state performance standards and time makes this challenging in a multiethnic, cross socio - economic (if that's the appropriate term) classroom!

Cole visited Harding in an effort to learn more about the standards of the school recently ranked as Oklahoma's «most challenging» by the Washington Post.

The constant change at the federal level and in most states is having negative effects upon implementation of the challenging college - and career - readiness standards.

A subsequent 2003 regulation allowed states to use «alternate achievement standards» for up to 1 percent of students with the most challenging cognitive disabilities.

The most recent version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which was passed by Congress in 2015, requires states to adopt challenging academic content standards for mathematics, reading or language arts, and science.

ESSA puts a state - level cap of 1 percent on the number of students with the most significant cognitive disabilities who can take an alternate state assessment, which must be aligned with challenging state academic standards.

I view this disconnect as perhaps the most fundamental challenge of getting standards - based reform to work — that is, to positively affect teachers» instruction and students» learning.

When one of the leaders of standards - based school reform and one of the products of one of the nation's most challenged school districts agree on something, I pay attention.

This was the most challenging section, with decreasing - radius corners and steep hills, and we loved the firm pedal and precise modulation of the Brembo brakes, which are standard on all ATS coupes.

Our Sport was fitted with the latter and, on standard Michelin tires, it excelled in every off - road challenge we threw at it: powering through deep mud ruts, driving down the middle of a shallow river, and — about as likely for most owners — tackling an obstacle course set up inside a 747.