Sentences with phrase «new standards efforts»

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Tesla did not disclose its «first pass yields» to CNBC.This number indicates what portion of a manufacturer's new cars were created using standard processes, not requiring the extra effort and expense of rework.

Ultimately, our collaborative efforts will help to improve the care we deliver to patients and I'm confident this partnership will help usher in a new era of innovation at TEGH and allow us to continue setting a new standard.»

As Nielsen continues its efforts to truly grasp the bifurcated and fragmented methods Americans are viewing TV programming (via linear TV, OTT devices, and more), the search for a new standard currency has been a major point of contention across the media ecosystem.

Ultimately B.C.'s new tax will likely fail to cool the overheated market for the same reason every other effort to date — tighter mortgage lending standards, larger down - payment requirements, jawboning bordering on pleading from the Bank of Canada — has failed.

Not far from the same time efforts were begun to bring the nominal Christianity closer to the standards set forth in the New Testament.

It also highlights efforts to help governments and companies measure food loss and waste, such as the FLW Standard announced in June, and new funding like the Danish government's subsidy program and The Rockefeller Foundation's Yieldwise, a $ 130 million investment toward practical approaches to reducing food loss and waste in Kenya, Tanzania, Nigeria, the United States and Europe.

Arla Foods UK has increased the standard price it pays to dairy farmers for milk and adopted a new, more transparent milk pricing and sourcing model in an effort to «build confidence in the British dairy industry.»

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) In a new industry - wide effort to reduce consumer confusion about product date labels, grocery manufacturers and retailers have joined together to adopt standard wording on packaging about the quality and safety of products.

Since then, however, breastfeeding activists have grown increasingly incensed over the new products, saying manufacturers mislead mothers and undermine efforts to promote breast - feeding, which is the consensus gold standard in infant nutrition.

Members should be aware that this letter will try to discredit the Association and limit SNA's efforts to advocate on your behalf for any kind of flexibility under the new standards.

In an effort to improve the quality of foods served in its schools, CPS debuted new breakfast and lunch menus in the 2010 - 2011 school year that exceed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge Gold standards, distinguishing...

In an effort to improve the quality of foods served in its schools, CPS debuted new breakfast and lunch menus in the 2010 - 2011 school year that exceed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) HealthierUS School Challenge Gold standards, distinguishing... Read More

If you've been following the fight over school food, you know that the School Nutrition Association (SNA), the nation's leading organization of school food professionals, is the main force behind current efforts to weaken the new healthier meal standards.

The School Nutrition Association (SNA), the leading force behind efforts to roll back school nutrition standards in Congress, held its annual meeting earlier this month and installed a new president, Jean Ronnei.

The new nutrition standards are largely based on recommendations by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, as part of efforts to curb childhood obesity.

In the first federal effort to address serious air pollution associated with fracking, the EPA issued new air quality standards that require oil and gas companies to capture toxic and climate - altering gases from wells, storage sites and pipelines.

«This multipronged effort is setting new standards that will help make our roadways safer for motorists and pedestrians alike,» Cuomo said in a news release Thursday.

According to Casale, this effort brought together volunteers from across the state — Democrats, Republicans and independents; teachers, students and parents — all united in their opposition to the controversial new standards.

«These new standards will reduce pollution, further encourage the development of renewable resources and support this state's efforts to combat climate change,» the governor said in a statement.

He criticized Cuomo's efforts to improve the implementation of the standards during this legislative session, which included new laws that prevent Common Core - aligned tests from being used for students» permanent records or in promotion decisions.

Cuomo has pushed in recent years to adopt new efforts aimed at reducing emissions and shifting the state toward the majority use of clean and renewable power in the coming years, including an effort to close coal - burning power plants by 2020, promoting offshore wind projects and developing a clean energy standard to have the state on 50 percent renewable energy by 2030.

Former Southold Republican Committee chairman Denis Noncarrow, an outspoken local critic of the standards, said he's not sure a new party line would make much of a difference in the effort to halt Common Core entirely.

Governor Cuomo has already spent part of his multi million dollar war chest on positive ads, touting his efforts to cap property taxes, promote the new Common Core learning standards, and clean up corruption.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instructiNew Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instructinew Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instruction.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instructiNew Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instructinew Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instruction.

As U.S. officials consider new education standards in mathematics and English, a long - term AAAS science literacy initiative continues its efforts to encourage a standards - based approach to science education and set specific learning goals for K - 12 students.

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.

Theoretical efforts to describe new types of «dark matter» particles imply that the standard model's Higgs could have several cousins.

«Every time the patient does one of the exercises, the system sends new data, so the doctor can immediately determine whether the patient's effort meets the standard set and make adjustments to the prescription if necessary,» adds Álvaro Martínez.

The majority of the efforts are simple standards, however, such as a new limit on energy usage for televisions with more than 42 - inch screens.

Despite efforts to retrofit power poles and to build new poles to avian - friendly standards, electrocution remains a substantial cause of death for the golden eagle.

By spelling out what should be taught, its authors hope to influence nascent efforts by a nonprofit group, Achieve, to develop new science standards for school districts throughout the United States.

We also want our campus community to know that we fully support new efforts now underway in a number of departments and colleges to address cultural issues and standards related to sexual harassment.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

Geber's way of thinking became the new standard for medieval alchemists as they started distilling mercury and combining it with different metals in an effort to make the Philosophers» Stone.

They have leveled blistering criticism about Obama's efforts to slow down the Keystone Pipeline; they don't like his new auto emissions standards; they are unhappy with new EPA mercury emissions rules for boilers; and they don't like the fact that permits for drilling and fracking on federal lands have slowed.

ABOUT THE VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — STAND UP TO CANCER EPIGENETICS DREAM TEAM The Van Andel Research Institute — Stand Up To Cancer (VARI — SU2C) Epigenetics Dream Team fosters collaboration between several of the world's most respected research and clinical organizations in an effort to translate scientific discoveries into new standards of patient care.

This is all really to say, the western woman has generally held the light on the culmination of these efforts, emerging positive changes while raising enlightening social standards, and economic «new age» commerce.

New standards for classroom acoustics will be the first step in the effort to change all that.

We also need a concerted effort to identify the existence of asbestos within schools and, as a minimum, all new and refurbished schools should have sprinklers fitted as standard.

All of the efforts to establish new standards, develop new assessments, improve the quality of teaching, and increase funding will produce few positive results if the effects of that activity do not reach the classroom.

The level of activity states are engaged in, the possibilities offered by technology and cross state collaborations, and the extraordinary effort to develop new assessments all suggest that the common core standards might generate some real changes in classroom instruction.

The Washington - based American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced a new effort to design and build a collection of test items in mathematics and science that provide «explicit evidence that a student has or has not learned a specific idea or skill» in state or national standards.

For example, preparing to teach to the new, higher «Common Core» standards is an effort best done together, with the expertise of front - line teachers playing a key role.

Aided by a highly misleading New York Times article, the anti-Common Core crowd is pushing the narrative that Massachusetts's recent testing decision (to use a blend of PARCC and its own assessment rather than go with PARCC alone) spells the end for the common standards effort.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal, formerly a strong Core proponent, has done a complete flip and is now battling his state's education superintendent in efforts to scuttle the new standards.

The new standards, published in the June 7 Federal Register, are part of an ongoing effort to revamp the office of educational research and improvement, the department's major research arm, and to improve the quality of the research that it finances.

In their continuing efforts to extract more school spending from state legislatures through the courts, advocacy groups recently acquired a powerful new weapon: the standards movement.

I also urge our nation's colleges and universities to vigorously expand their efforts to establish new «pipelines» that encourage many more minorities to go to college and to prepare them to reach the high standards needed for college success.