Sentences with phrase «new standards movement»

Meanwhile, many others oppose the new standards movement, saying common standards will only weaken schools.

The challenge teachers face is compounded, Meyer says, by the new standards movement, which demands that every student clear the same bar.

Not exact matches

«Super Mario World» is the quintessential «Super Mario» game, perfecting the character's movement and defining many new standards in the series (from the addition of Yoshi to the concept of a Ghost House, and its many exits).

If you ask them how, the company would probably point to some of that aforementioned technology; StretchDown jackets use the new stretch - welded channel construction to trap warmth better than standard stitching and dynamic stretch knit for unrestricted movement.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

New York's outgoing Board of Regents chancellor, Merryl Tisch, says the greatest disappointment of her tenure was being unable to convince suburban parents to «move the standards movement beyond the rhetoric and politics.»

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

The New York State Education Department has been working for two years on revising the standards in response to the «opt - out movement.»

The movement to put the brakes on the national education standards known as the Common Core is gaining momentum across New York State.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

I accept that (supposedly) New Labour (would) like to «button hole» the entire, ECLECTIC, Conservative movement as «Toffs» and then some - working but not working class, well spoken but ashamed of it, of order and behavioural standards but «holier than thou», hypocritical, money grabbing, voracious and deceptive, inclusive (possibly) but divisive...

Whitespace came into play as Lululemon used the body scanner to customize garments to each individual and infrared motion standards to inform the design of the new inner stabilizer to reduce breast movement.

The Standard is new; the left stick governs movement entirely, while the right stick controls the camera.

As a result, in 1997 a new State Board of Education called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endorsement.

The New Navigational Tool: Testing What emerged was the standards - based reform movement that dominates American education today.

Within the accountability movement, teachers often complain that the states» new academic standards are not clear or detailed enough to guide their instructional planning.

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.

Nebraska's enactment last week of a new plan of statewide academic standards and assessments leaves Iowa as the nation's lone holdout in the movement to embrace at least some variety of uniform state testing.

Technology education, a relatively new field of study in secondary schools, is joining the standards movement.

The problem is that redefining proficiency simply because of the new federal requirements may create a credibility problem for the standards movement in a number of states.

After governors and education leaders initiated the Common Core movement, teachers and content experts helped write new standards in math and English that weigh critical thinking skills above rote memorization.

The movement's soul is not about new school models or pedagogy or standards or technology.

We consider New Jersey an early adopter of the Common Core and the national standards movement.

The standards movement has encouraged a new conventional wisdom in education.»

We find that there was the most movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.

The controversial on - line test tied to the new Common Core Curriculum standards forced school districts to increase band - widths, rotate students through computer labs in many cases, and helped fuel a growing anti-testing movement.

The movement to put the brakes on the national education standards known as the Common Core is gaining momentum across New York State.

In the wake of a standards reform movement that galvanized among state and school system leaders in the 1980s and 1990s, the passage of the Improving America's Schools Act and the Goals 2000 Educate America Act (both enacted in 1994) embedded a meaningful and new national focus on high standards expectations for all students.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.

The Competition Package brings with it new seats, which feel almost identical to the standard ones — there's the same range of movement and no more support — but they do have flying side bolsters and look fantastic.

Even without the TracKey's race mapping, the Boss engine is significantly modified over a standard Mustang GT's 5 - litre V8, with a new intake and new camshafts helping lift power from 412bhp to 444bhp, although curiously the torque drops by 10 lb ft to 380 lb ft.. It's the only car in the test with a manual gearbox and it's a really good one, with the pool ball - topped gearlever sitting perfectly in the palm of your hand and movement around the gate feeling tight and precise.

In the new Porsche Cayman, this has been made possible by a new interior architecture that gives a feeling of open space and offers plenty of freedom of movement around the low - positioned standard sport seats.

New Zealand About Blog The Standard newspaper — from where our masthead comes — was founded by labour movement activists in the 1930s.

No longer used for roller - skates, the Circle Pad is now simply used for standard player movement — taking you off the strict grid as in earlier iterations, and being similarly useful for the new DexNav feature.

We are still learning how everything should work in VR, and developers are still setting new standards for movement and navigation.

This added a new dimension of movement to the standard run - and - gun multiplayer gameplay seen in previous games.

It makes use of the standard beaming - clicking to «teleport» to a new destination ahead - or trackpad movement to move through the environment.

We also have a great new feature in our CoD4Engine (CODE) which allows for seamless transitions between mo - cap animations and standard animations, allowing for the smoothest and natural movements in games.

In retrospect, we can identify the first movement of Concerto in Black and Blue as having taken place in 1993, when Hammons contributed a piece — The House of Blue Lights, in which he substituted blue bulbs for a gallery's standard white ones — to the «15th Charlie Parker Anniversary Exhibition» at Tribes gallery in New York.

In the sections that follow, depictions of coastal New England, small - town Pennsylvania, Midwestern farms and other rural regions will illustrate the dispersal of standard modernist styles, such as Cubism and Fauvism, and demonstrate the spread and gradual acceptance of these artistic movements in the American provinces.

Duchamp, who became the darling of the radical Dada movement (founded by Tristan Tzara), created numerous challenging works such as his «readymades» series of found objects, of which the most celebrated was Fountain (1917), a standard urinal basin, which Duchamp submitted for inclusion in the annual, exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in New York.

Founded in 1999 to advance the movement towards a more economically - just and environmentally - sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism, CSRwire has paved the way for new standards of corporate citizenship, earning the international respect of thought leaders, business leaders, academics, philanthropists, activists and the media community.

How well the passive movement fares in North America will depend not only on how PHIUS's new standards are received, but also on whether California spurs competing green - building programs.

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 14, 2006 - Union Standard Insurance Group, a leading property casualty insurance group offering many highly specialized, tailored commercial products and services that meet the broad needs of business customers throughout Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, has become the latest regional agency system company to join the growing Trusted Choice consumer brand movement.

A new initiative called the Cryptocurrency Advisory Plan will be supporting Bitcoin movement for Indian traders and investors in this year's tax campaign, according to the Business Standard.

Nvidia spearheaded a movement to create a standard that would make upgrading the graphics easy for laptop owners so they weren't forced to purchase a new device.

Initially, only Samsung's own wireless chargers supported the new standard that boasted 1.4 x the speed of normal Qi wireless charging, but over the last month or two there has been movement from third party charger manufacturers to offer the same 1.4 x improvement at a cheaper price.

New Zealand About Blog The Standard newspaper — from where our masthead comes — was founded by labour movement activists in the 1930s.

There were new technologies to learn and one - of - a-kind methods to incorporate to bring to market what had become a world standard in eye movement research.

Professional Experience Fourward Technologies, Inc. (Gallatin, MO) 1998 — Present President and Chief Technologist • Lead organization created to incorporate all technology derived from prior Stanford Research Institute consulting project, supervising the DPI through four generations of product, and over 80 units in 15 years, as the new standard for eye movement research worldwide • Hold responsibility for the successful design, manufacturing, and maintenance of the Dual - Purkinje - Image Eyetracker as well as the maintenance of the Rodenstock Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope • Provide relevant guidance, technical direction, and support to product upgrades, system support, and peripheral development • Utilize analog and optical design experience to derive critical documents and establish standardized manufacturing procedures for custom - built equipment from complicated design and development information • Determine all testing procedures, designate material and other vendors, and specify quality assurance standards • Supervise all related business administration and operational tasks as needed