Sentences with phrase «national standards call»

Now, it can be difficult to get the 12 firefighters national standards call for to a working blaze.

This study comes at a time of intense efforts to improve education in New Jersey, which is rolling out new teacher evaluations, new online state tests and a new set of voluntary national standards called the Common Core, which spells out what children should master in each grade.

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Call it the National Gay Standard Version...

A few today, mainly clustered around the Weekly Standard, call for a policy of «national greatness,» which is a little hard to pin down apart from its robust appetite for interventionism in the belief that a little (or maybe big) war from time to time maintains the muscle tone of the nation.

The call from some suggesting the national organic standard should immediately specify a permissible level of GM presence is misplaced for two reasons.

The boycott was called in March when consumer affairs ministers announced a national information standard for free - range egg production, which recommended that farmers label their eggs «free range» should they run no more than 10,000 hens per hectare.

She called for transparent country - of - origin labelling and more rigorous food testing for imported goods to meet national standards.

His system protects the quarterback to a degree; he aims for balance on standard downs and calls more runs than the national average on passing downs.

I would like to tell arsenal fan that the transfer window is not arsenal's problem.Let explain what is in my mind.We need to reinforce our team but we need to think in the future that most of the high class players are going to refuse signing for arsenal fc because of Mr Wenger's philosophy.It looks like arsenal becomes cemetery of players.How many players came in and left because of performance, became good players out of arsenal.We need to accept all of the transformation Mr wenger brings in arsenal but now it does not work.Why??? because lack of tactics, strategies and pretending best players for Mr wenger mind but in reality those players do not get standard of best player.Mr wenger wants to prove everybody that he is wright that players who are calling by wenger are best.I means Mr wenger is the only one can see all matter in good position or bad.He is wrong by thinking this way.He does not like criticism.he is the mind of arsenal.Everything he can say or defend is wright.Think about morrinho comments about arsenal!!!! Why he likes to be arsenal coach!!!! One thing I want to say about arsenal players, I think everybody watch arsenal games.We have got short mind players who play two good games and the rest shameless.They are working hard in the training ground for catching Mr wenger's mind to let them play; what is behind their (players) mind to be the most regular players.Those players have no vision even ambition; they are never becoming high class and their carriers are going to finish in arsenal after arsenal we are going to see them playing for championship.They do not care to become legend as Ian wright, Vierra, Berckam, piress, Henry... What is the big behind their mind to use wenger name to be selected in national team.They are not able to face different leagues in the world.

British Basketball has today announced three new call ups to the Standard Life GB senior men's training camp which opens today at the FA's National Training Centre, St George's Park.

The overhaul comes amid national calls for school lunch reform, though Congress this week blocked many of the tougher federal standards that had been proposed for 2012.

If you read the text of the bill that pertains to school food, it's pretty clear why parents are so alarmed: it calls for a complete repeal of all nutrition standards currently governing the national school lunch and breakfast programs.

WHA 2010 Resolution 63.23 calls on Member States (4) to end inappropriate promotion of food for infants and young children and to ensure that nutrition and health claims shall not be permitted for foods for infants and young children, except where specifically provided for, in relevant Codex Alimentarius standards or national legislation;

The new standards, slated to be fully in place by the 1996 - 1997 school year, call for school lunches to conform to the national Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which include such things as limiting fat to 30 percent of calories, using sodium in moderation and providing a selection of fruits, vegetables and grain products.

As of July 1st, 2014, all schools that participate in the National School Lunch Program have to adhere to a new set of USDA standards called Smart Snacks In School (SSIS).

Britax called their system SafeCell Impact Protection © and the company has designe this system to go above and beyond the safety standards that are established by the federal government and the National Highway Transportation and Safety Board.

But perhaps most important of all is what I shall call the Union Jack argument: the prospect that we might have to relinquish what is, by any objective standard, the best national flag in the world.

Robert Zimmerman, a Democratic National committeeman from Great Neck, called Maragos» candidacy «an affront to the principles and standards of the Democratic Party.

So the Michigan delegation was told to pass on the roll call, and then when it came Pennsylvania's turn, the delegation spokesman yielded to New York — a standard move at many national conventions.

Teachers attending the NASUWT's national Supply Teachers» Conference, held today in Birmingham, have called for national standards for supply agencies to be introduced to tackle the exploitation and unscrupulous practices that too many supply teachers are being subjected to.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has joined a national coalition of 200 colleges in 33 states, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards, advocating for the continued use of Common Core standards for primary and high school education.

Not coincidentally, Gov. Cuomo picked Wednesday to call on the federal government to set new national water standards for towns under 10,000.

To call out workers on «essential services» for a national strike without any major trade dispute with their direct employers will be tantamount to blatant violation of our extant labour laws and international labour standards.

The GOP's «interim performance evaluation» detailed the party's disagreements with several state policies, from the implementation of national curriculum standards called Common Core to gun control.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

For example, the National Academy of Sciences, the Innocence Project, and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Washington Post, and many others have all called for strengthened forensic science and standards.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is beginning a two - year, $ 16 million study of the twin - tower collapse that will address three pressing questions: whether current testing standards and building codes are adequate to resist catastrophic fires; whether building codes sufficiently take into account what engineers call progressive collapse, the chain reaction that leads to extremely rapid collapse (in the case of the World Trade Center towers, about 10 seconds); and how existing buildings can be made less vulnerable to terrorist attack.

President Bill Clinton has called for national education standards and voluntary achievement testing.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

In this latter capacity, he presided over what some have called «The Massachusetts Miracle,» a series of reforms involving teacher preparation, standards, and testing that are associated with the commonwealth's rise to the top of performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The President also called on parents to insist that states and school districts provide ways of showing how children are doing compared to national standards and international benchmarks.

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

Much as lawyers and doctors ensure quality within their professions through bar examinations and board certification, the AFT and the NEA call for higher certification standards for new teachers (but rarely for current teachers), apprenticeships, peer review, and rewards for teachers who earn additional credentials, such as National Board certification.

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

Today, a Democratic candidate could bring together the party's wings by calling for a national commitment to high standards and the resources to meet them.

The grant would have trained teachers to use a middle - school program called Connected Math, one of several, Hoven learned, that was funded by the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF and based on standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Its calls for higher standards in schools and mastery of the basic competencies required for a globally competitive work force were warmly received by the National Governors Association (NGA).

This month, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report calling in the name of national security for national curriculum - content standards on science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving — for elementary and secondary education.

The Council on Foreign Relations calls for the U.S. Defense Department to evaluate and «periodically» review the new national curriculum standards in science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving.

Hess and Finn, in hard - hitting chapters that bookend the volume, call on Congress to set realistic expectations for student performance based on national standards, to provide districts with initial flexibility when intervening in failing schools, but to establish tough consequences for superintendents and principals if those efforts are unsuccessful.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

The Office of Technology Assessment, a nonpartisan analytical agency, expressed its concern at a hearing here on the recently released report of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the stNational Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the stnational standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the standards.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

The director of the national - standards project in history has called for an independent panel of experts to review the three volumes in an attempt to end some of the criticism that has plagued them.

The plan calls for testing all new teachers to establish a national standard and to certify all existing teachers.

Read what states have chosen to call the national academic standards locally.See state names for the Common Core.

Read what states have chosen to call the national academic standards locally.

Since 2009, the tutorial networks (as the grassroots initiative was called) have been leading a country - wide school improvement effort in 9000 schools with the lowest academic achievement on the national standard test.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers were paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop the Common Core standards and the unfair and inappropriate Common Core standardized testing scheme that goes along with those so - called standards.

While education experts and innovators call for personalized learning and differentiated models of schooling, groups like Stand for Children and DFER support national standards (Common Core is also funded by Gates) and punishments and sanctions tied to test scores.