Sentences with phrase «national scale based»

No student should be denied graduation or rated on a national scale based on a standardized test!

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This may tip the scales in August's favour in those places, but on a national basis, June is triumphant.

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Wilcox has not written a religious or political polemic here but rather a scrupulously even - handed report, basing his conclusions on his statistical analysis of three large - scale national surveys of U.S. adults» social attitudes conducted from the late 1980s through the»90s.

With states and counties showing increased interest in adopting evidence - based methods for preventing or reducing child maltreatment and for parent training of families involved with child welfare services, it is now time to test this array of science - informed and promising parent training programs and program components on a national scale.

There is nothing wrong with plural voting, other than the fact that all historical occurrences of it on a national elections scale were designed to favour certain groups on questionable bases (white male property owners, for example).

The methodology used in the preparation of each set of results took as its starting point the gross national income (GNI) of the States Members of the United Nations during the corresponding base periods as a first approximation of the capacity to pay, and applied conversion factors, relief measures and limits to the scale in order to arrive at the final scale.

However, President Obama in a CNN interview last week did seem to speak of self defence when he said «there is no doubt that when you start seeing chemical weapons used on a large scale... that starts getting to some core national interests that the United States has, both in terms of us making sure that weapons of mass destruction are not proliferating, as well as needing to protect our allies, our bases in the region.»

Executive Director of the National Board for Small Scale Industries (NBSSI), Lukman Abdul Rahim urged the association's leadership to strengthen its base and membership drive to attract government's attention.

He and researchers at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)-- which is operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and based on Princeton's Forrestal Campus — had an idea for solving this problem by using continental - scale data.

The researchers analyzed data from 36,085 respondents to the 2012 - 2013 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions - III, a representative sample of the U.S. adult population, to create two cognitive scales based on dimensionality and reliability.

Are there obstacles to scaling up biofuels to serve a national or global customer base?

► In this week's In Depth section, Jocelyn Kaiser described a plan under consideration by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), to make a large - scale switch from project - based to investigator - based funding for basic biomedical science.

Many postdocs at the Whitehead Institute were paid on an experience - based scale that was set according to the stipend awards granted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to postdocs through its National Research Service Awards.

The authors note that, although their model is based on the best available data, the data for Russia and India was scaled up from regional data and may not represent the true national disease burden.

UTeach's track record so impressed the Texas - based ExxonMobil Foundation that in March it launched a $ 125 million National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) to scale up the program at dozens of universities.

In collaboration with the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Sorger and colleagues leveraged an approach developed as part of the National Institutes of Health's Library of Integrated Network - Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS), a large - scale program that aims to amass molecular data from cells following drug exposure to study the mechanisms of drug response.

In the longer term, Revive aims to nucleate an even larger scale effort that will bring together an expanding number leading scientists, clinicians and biotechnology companies into a national Consortium for stem cell - based regenerative medicine and drug screening.

This, together with steadily increasing funding from Parliament administered by the DST, has led to the building of capacity in the ASSAf secretariat, many further evidence - based studies and forum - based activities, a large - scale Scholarly Publishing Programme, a strong international presence and a wide acceptance of the Academy's key role in the national system of innovation.

Coordination between NASA and the NSF can be advantageous because (1) the sheer scale of many modern astronomical investigations requires a coordinated national, if not international, effort; (2) the enormous increase in technical, computer, and Web - based capability reduces the barriers to cooperation; and (3) the growing sophistication of researchers» investigations implies that coordination across wavelength bands and across disciplines is required to produce a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the objects and processes under study.

As vice president, Gray not only advises The Mind Trust's president and CEO on issues of strategy and operations and advances the policy work, he also leads the effort to help this Indianapolis - based and - focused organization build a national network of city - based organizations that will work together to support education entrepreneurs as they scale to new markets across the country.

Assessment: Improving assessment of LTLT competencies, through the exchange of experiences and innovative practices, as well as methods to strengthen and monitor learning assessments — via either school - based or large - scale national assessments — is important.

That's the conclusion of the first large - scale study of writing portfolios conducted on a national basis.

In 2011, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the first large - scale computer - based assessment in writing.

Third, the assessments have not been scaled up for use on a statewide or national basis.

The initiative includes two private sector partners: Jobs for the Future (JFF), a national nonprofit focused on broadening educational and economic opportunity; and the Stanford Center for Assessment, Language and Equity (SCALE), an affiliate of Stanford University that provides consulting services on the design and implementation of performance - based assessments.

The Dallas, Texas - based National Math and Science Initiative, also recognized in the Scale - Up category, focuses on STEM education.

This guide is based on lessons from the National Summer Learning Project (NSLP), the largest study ever to look at whether and how large - scale, voluntary summer learning programs offered by public school districts can help improve educational outcomes for children.

Released today by the Washington - based National Council on Teacher Quality and U.S. News and World Report, the projectgrades programs on up to 18 standards on a scale of zero to four stars.

Organized by the San Francisco — based nonprofit FOR - SITE Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service and the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz will include a series of large - scale installations occupying several buildings on Alcatraz.

Eight large - scale steel sculptures will be installed at historic Crissy Field, a former airfield and military base that is now one of the most - visited national park sites within the Golden Gate Nationanational park sites within the Golden Gate NationalNational Parks.

The exhibition will also feature his flip - book film, Second - hand Reading (2013), a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model which reveals his working process on the opera production Lulu (2016), which he will direct at English National Opera this November.

Khan — by day a professor at Lahore's National College of Arts — has produced four large - scale Chinese - style scrolls based on a «Garden of Ideas.»

Bombay - based artist Nalini Malani will present a large - scale video projection across the entire west elevation of the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh, commissioned by the Edinburgh Art Festival; leading artist Bob and Roberta Smith's new large - scale work using thousands of candles will be created by a range of community based groups in Belfast, commissioned by Factotum.

The exhibition features his flip - book film, a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model which reveals his working process on the opera production Lulu, which he will direct at English National Opera this November.

Three of the works are film pieces: The Refusal of Time (2012) and O Sentimental Machine (2015), which have never previously been exhibited in the United Kingdom, and Second - hand Reading (2013), a series of mural - scale tapestries based on his opera production of Shostakovich's The Nose and a set model for the opera production Lulu (2016), which Kentridge will direct at the English National Opera in November 2016.

For her commission at Studio Voltaire, Calero has worked in residency in the gallery for six weeks creating a large - scale installation based on the Caribbean community of Los Roques, a Venezuelan National Park situated in the Caribbean Sea.

In her second solo exhibition with Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles - based artist Rosson Crow explores memory, history, and the visual cues of U.S. national identity in a series of large - scale works on canvas.

Other highlights will include a series of large - scale head paintings, such as Rosetta II (2005 - 6), made while the artist was based in Italy, and the premier of a major new work, Aleppo (2017 - 18), which is at the Scottish National Gallery alongside historic works from the collection.

Following protests by the Azerbaijan president, two large - scale sculptures by Moscow - based artist Aidan Salakhova, flanking the entrance of the Azerbaijan National Pavilion, were yesterday hidden from view under pieces of cloth.

This technical document provides the following information: - An update of global greenhouse gas emission estimates, based on a number of different authoritative scientific sources; - An overview of national emission levels, both current (2010) and projected (2020) consistent with current pledges and other commitments; - An estimate of the level of global emissions consistent with the two degree target in 2020, 2030 and 2050; - An update of the assessment of the «emissions gap» for 2020; - A review of selected examples of the rapid progress being made in different parts of the world to implement policies already leading to substantial emission reductions and how they can be scaled up and replicated in other countries, with the view to bridging the emissions gap.

The framework proposes fourteen initial indicators to represent environmental, economic, social and nutritional dimensions that are based on their ability to be applicable to inland capture fisheries and aquaculture, and that are easy to interpret, robust and applicable at the national as well as regional or local scales.

Based on national labs data, that's roughly half the cost of utility - scale solar today.

«Until then, cost - effective mapping of carbon stocks for project - and national - scale assessments will rely on a combination of satellite imagery and ground - based inventory samples of forest carbon density.»

In order to test a possible CR - cloud connection, Sun & Bradley (2002) made use of long - term surface - based cloud data over land from national weather services at regional scales, and over ocean from observing ships over an approximately 50 year period from the datasets of Groisman et al. (2000) and Hahn & Warren (1999).

We combine these two approaches to measure sustainability at the national scale, by comparing national consumption - based environmental footprints to «downscaled» planetary boundaries6.

An appeal to corporations and foundations to help CCNF advance climate literacy on a national scale, establish a new brand and new standard of climate journalism, and facilitate an unprecedented national dialogue and bipartisan debate based on sound science and shared values regarding what can or should be done as a nation.

Although there is no comprehensive national survey to buttress their view or to document the extent of savings for clients, «anecdotal evidence and our own recent, small - scale survey confirm the trend that we perceived: law firms increasingly moving to alternative billing approaches at clients» request,» said Richard C. Reed, who is a consultant at Altman Weil Pensa, a Philadelphia - based legal management consulting firm, as well as chairman of the American Bar Association's alternative billing task force.

The logic behind the formation of the nationals and now the globals was and is straightforward enough — scaling up in size to parallel the scope and geographical reach of their preferred client base.

Small firms worry about hyper efficient, large scale competitors with a resource base, national reach, consumer brand and technology platform that they simply can't match.