Sentences with phrase «much testing in»

I understand that many of you feel strongly that there's too much testing in our schools.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo has warned that too much testing in schools risks killing the joy of reading for children.

«We've done so much testing in Philadelphia, we already know the costs,» he says.

«That there is too much testing in the schools.»

He repeated his earlier position that the state's rollout of curricula and tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards was rushed, that teachers were not prepared and there is too much testing in general.

It was very much a test in two parts, with the teams testing high - downforce configurations for the Monaco Grand Prix, the next round of the championship, and low - downforce settings for the Canadian Grand Prix... Continue reading 2008 F1 testing round - up 12: Paul Ricard

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At 1,400 ppm, for instance, the test subjects» performance dropped by 50 percent on average, and in some cases by much more.

That means interleaving not only produces better short - term results, it also results in much greater long - term retention — which is incredibly important in the real world where the point of learning isn't to simply remember something long enough to pass a test.

Based on the concept that the test is then «needed,» testing only once someone is already sick results in costly outcomes and limits individuals from fully taking ownership of their own health, in a world in which so much of our healthcare costs and outcomes are driven by lifestyle related decisions.

That's hundreds of millions of times as much as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 and roughly 163,000 times as much as the Soviet Union's test of Tsar Bomba on October 30, 1961.

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Fresh off the launch of Falcon Heavy — which can lift nearly three times as much as the next largest rockets in operation — Musk is touting BFR as on track to begin testing «short trips» by the «first half of next year.»

In their own internal email marketing campaigns, Ladder.io has seen A / B testing as much as double click - through rates.

But Brin's timing is not propitious, coming as many developers and early Glass users are losing interest in the much - hyped, $ 1,500 test version of the product: a camera, processor and stamp - sized computer screen mounted to the edge of eyeglass frames.

Kim said there were two additional, larger tunnels that remain «in a very good condition» at the Punggye - ri test site beyond the existing one, which experts have said had collapsed after repeated explosions, rendering much of the site useless.

In 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the laIn 2011, after government researchers conducted a series of those tests, the European Commission found that diesel cars were spewing as much as seven times more NOx on actual roads than they were in the lain the lab.

In other sessions, he explains the results of our Bod Pod tests, suggesting that a balanced approach to eating and exercise that will reduce body fat percentages much more effectively than «running a marathon and eating anything you like.»

The field test Oxitec wants to run — in Key Haven, Fla. — would assess whether that actually happens and estimate how much the overall aegypti population is suppressed at the trial site compared with a control area.

Although they are much less powerful than the industrial models from Universal Robots, IOActive released a video of a test in which an otherwise cute NAO robot suddenly begins laughing in an evil and maniacal way and uses a screwdriver to repeatedly stab a tomato.

Uber is testing many of its cars in Pittsburgh, which has much more challenging climate and geography than Phoenix.

Kara Swisher, Editor of Recode, drops in on the VAL field testing much to the surprise of it's creator.

Gross says focusing on video games was as much about the science of tracking and collecting information about patients» vision, as it is about the psychology in having a testing format that appeals to a wide range of ages and cognitive abilities — from children through elderly — regardless of reading or language skills.

That doesn't tell us how much faster it is than the A9 used by the previous iPad, though, or even the A8X chip used by the iPad Air 2, so we'll have to reserve judgment until we get the new iPad in the lab for testing.

Still, from the minute it learned WeatherTech was doing a Super Bowl ad, Americaneagle.com went into research and testing mode, not only estimating just how much extra traffic WeatherTech would get on February 2 and the days afterward but also testing the site to see where bottlenecks existed that might cause problems in the event of a huge traffic spike.

Try test marketing your product on a small scale so you can realistically forecast how much you can sell in the future, suggests Edward Hess, professor and Batten Executive - in - Residence at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business.

A big part of what's driving Opdivo's success is an early decision by BMS to chase a much wider share of the cancer patient population — a decision that has meant that doctors don't have to administer a time - consuming diagnostic test to check if patients have a protein called PD - L1 before prescribing Opdivo in certain cancers.

And in his January 1937 inaugural address Roosevelt said, «The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.»

The initiative takes ongoing tests Macy's has been conducting at its «petri dish» of a store in Woodbridge, N.J. — such as mobile checkout in store and new lighting to make shopping more inviting to 50 stores this year — as a launching pad for a series of initiatives it can roll out to a much greater number of stores in 2019.

While we will be giving it away to a friend, I would have been much better off doing a test run with an animal with lower long term costs in the beginning.

The entrants follow the growing push for digitization across the industry because it's much easier to test out than some of the major pieces of equipment involved in mining, said White.

To test how much meditation training you need to make a serious dent in your stress levels, J. David Creswell and his team from Carnegie Mellon University, looked at the payoff of three short 25 - minute mindfulness training sessions in which participants were taught to focus on their breath, focus their attention and be more in the moment.

The fields and arenas of professional sports are a testing ground for the return on investment that's possible from data analytics, and nothing did as much to popularize the concept of big data in sports as «Moneyball.»

- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would halt nuclear tests and intercontinental missile launches, in an announcement welcomed by US President Donald Trump ahead of a much - anticipated summit between the two men.

Positive fantasies relax us so much that it shows up in physiological tests.

In any case, testing gives you a much better idea of what is truly happening with shopping - cart decisions, and how to optimize the entire mobile shopping experience to make the register ring this holiday season.

Meanwhile, Mitsubishi Motors has admitted using fake testing methods for fuel economy for 25 years, much longer than previously known, in another powerful blow to its reputation.

Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

The social network's much - anticipated business edition — formally dubbed Workplace by Facebook, rather than the Facebook at Work moniker used during its 18 - month beta test — has already been adopted by more than 1,000 companies, according to information that Facebook (fb) plans to share Monday evening during the product's official launch event in London.

Klemp believed in the science so much that he convinced investors to come on board for further research, including a repeat of all previous testing.

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

But technology is very much in Uber's DNA, from its app that revolutionized individual transportation worldwide, to its current testing of self - driving cars in Pittsburgh.

In the second test, there was a much larger difference.

It looks to be seeking to test the water to see how much of the workings of platforms» algorithmic blackboxes can be coaxed from them voluntarily — such as via measures targeting bots and fake accounts — in an attempt to stave off formal and more fulsome regulations down the line.

Having addressed our earlier stress - testing concerns, we certainly expect a much easier time in future cycles even if Fed - induced bubbles become the rule.

It also wouldn't hurt to test them on these skills, as evaluating someone in action is much different than hearing them talk about it.

His deregulation economic agenda will affect every other aspect of Canadian life: self - regulation in food safety; self - regulation in airline safety; «harmonising» regulation with the deregulated U.S. on pesticide residues on fruits and vegetables; abandoning separate Canadian testing of new drugs and much more.

A new genetic test that analyzes the free DNA floating in a pregnant woman's blood was proven to be more effective at predicting chromosomal disorders compared with standard screening tests, due to its much smaller incidence of false - positive results.

Of all the robots that we tested it stood out in pretty much every category: no big or unrealistic promises, an easy sign - up process, with clear instructions and all the necessary information about the software itself.

In that space, we know that the new rules mean you need to be much more qualified to have that mortgage today than before the rules went into place, so there is a cushion in there where you can tolerate a higher rate of interest and so on because you have been tested against iIn that space, we know that the new rules mean you need to be much more qualified to have that mortgage today than before the rules went into place, so there is a cushion in there where you can tolerate a higher rate of interest and so on because you have been tested against iin there where you can tolerate a higher rate of interest and so on because you have been tested against it.

Although the «flinch test» (keep raising the price and constraining the terms until the customer flinches) may have been an effective pricing art in the era of enterprise software, much more thoughtful strategies are needed for the modern models.