Sentences with phrase «now measure progress»

The first report in this series focused on programs for the 2001 - 2002 school year and established a baseline against which we may now measure progress over seven years.

«It just sets a new foundation from which we now measure your progress.»

Not exact matches

Exploration has progressed rapidly since the acquisition of the project in late 2011 and the Project now hosts 100 million ounces of silver in Measured and Indicated resources and a further 44 million ounces of silver in Inferred resources.

«Now the department is throwing good money after bad by introducing a short - term fix with no adequate plan for delivery, insufficient skills and unclear milestones to measure progress against.

«As I said, if you measure our progress now compared to where we were, there's just no denying the fact that we're better off now.

1.5 and 2 °C are not hard and fast limits beyond which disaster is imminent, but they are now the milestones by which the world measures all progress toward slowing global warming.

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

Now, I just see my weight as just a number that will help me figure out other numbers (or signs) that are more important in measuring my progress.

Now, make it a point to measure them at periodic intervals and this will give you an idea as to whether or not you are progressing in the right direction.

I hope I'm a better writer now, though this blog is probably not the best yardstick for measuring my progress.

Due to the 169 targets that collectively make up the 17 SDGs, progress can also now be much more effectively measured.

A practical remedy on which all sides now agree: change how the law measures academic progress.

Whether or not these complaints are valid, the accountability system was still in the development stage, and there is now no systematic way to measure the progress of Head Start children through the program.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

This new leading teacher role means she's now working with data across all subject areas, supporting staff in assessment practices and measuring student progress.

With the new progress 8 measures, every grade counts now and what better way to bolster pupils grades than use revision resources in pre exam revision sessions?

Now, what's also very useful — many school leaders want to measure progress.

Are valid and reliable measures of student progress and meet other requirements now in Sec. 1111 (b)(3) of Title I. [i]

These assessment scores offer a baseline that now gives Maine the opportunity to measure student progress in meeting the standards as educators cultivate and strengthen students» ability to think critically and solve complex problems.

Students in California are now taking online tests in English and math, which provide more accurate and timely measures of student progress toward career and college readiness, helping to improve teaching and learning.

Almost every state is now instituting accountability systems to measure progress in standards - based reform, and almost every such system depends heavily on testing as an indicator of student or school performance.

The newsletter now has an expanded focus: the range of new California academic standards — from the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, to the Next Generation Science Standards and the history - social science standards — as well as how schools will be held accountable for measuring their progress on them.

• Newark students are now doing better than over 80 % of those 37 comparable districts in Math and 72 % in ELA — tremendous progress by any measure.

Schools now face a painful dilemma, I fear that as the grade weighting has changed so will the bias towards the more academic pupils, bringing us back to a similar situation to which the new «fairer» progress 8 measure was to negate against.

The Department for Education has now backed away from using the tests for measuring progress this year - after publishing a study that it had commissioned looking at the comparability of the three testing systems.

As a result, the achievement gap is now further measured when students are judged against the 39 categories needed to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) as specified in No Child Left Behind.

L.A. Unified now joins Chicago, New York and many other cities in using testing data as one measure of a teacher's effect on student academic progress.

Now, a new measure is being used, based on GCSE results from grades A * to G across eight subjects, known as Attainment 8, along with another measure, known as Progress 8.

For now, this isn't as easy to replicate in eLearning, though I'm hoping someday we'll have better tools to take advantage of this powerful measure of progress.

Now students» progress will be measured by how well they learn the new Common Core standards in reading and math, which Washington and most states have agreed to use.

The pendulum swing toward, and now away, from high - stakes test accountability in measuring educational progress «taught us all that balance is important.

These separate categories are now one category and schools can devise their own scheme for measuring progress based on these steps: Assess, Plan, Do, Review.

But there is now a new performance measure, of the progress made by pupils, which should make the system fairer.

Now it measures whether students are mastering more rigorous material used for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Teachers, finally released from these shackles, are now working their way through «freedom from» the imposed levels into the «freedom to» stage, where they can seize the opportunity and choose whatever measure of pupil attainment and progress they feel is most appropriate.

Last week, the school district backed down, announcing that the Measures of Academic Progress — or MAP test — is now optional for high schools, but those refusing the test must find another way to gauge student performance.

Measured Progress can now easily deliver its Formative Assessment Bank and STEM Gauge via Learnosity, making it easier for school districts across the US to implement meaningful, actionable assessments.»

The Standard Of Excellence in achievement testing for 80 years, the Stanford Achievement Test Series now offers a state - of - the - art Tenth Edition to measure student progress toward high academic standards.

Now that you've got the latest UDL Guidelines, how do you measure progress in putting them into practice?

SchoolCity SUITE now delivers the Measured Progress Formative Content Bank and STEM Gauge resources to partner districts.

We're in a place now where we're not only seeing real progress but we can set those aggressive goals and measure how students are doing.»

With the addition of Measured Progress STEM Gauge ® assessment materials to IQWST, science and engineering educators across the country will now have access to NGSS - aligned science assessment materials to support the curriculum they have already implemented in their classrooms.

NAESP is pleased to have played a role in creating the opportunities that are now afforded to schools under the new law, such as allowing accountability systems to include multiple measures, factoring in elements other than test scores; conducting needs assessments for struggling schools and learning communities facing the greatest challenges; developing clear and concise plans for targeting federal funding in ways that meet the needs of students in the school; and implementing local programs and monitoring their progress in collaboration with educators.

Researchers found large differences in the pupil progress gap between different types of schools, and have now called on the government to consider new policies including requiring schools to publish their progress measures for disadvantaged pupils on their website, and for that measure to be included in performance league tables for multi-academy trusts.

I've heard your name and mentions of «Killing the Sacred Cows...», but only now feel relaxed into myself enough to read your blog at a measured pace — which is progress for me as skimming seems to have been a way of life.

The road towards victory in the mode is now measured through the group's average progress through the map which grants a score bonus if the survivors made it to the safehouse.

The challenge now is to build upon this progress to construct a strategy for promoting a new model of rural development in which punitive measures are complemented by positive incentives and finance at scale for landholders, indigenous communities, counties, and states to make the transition to low deforestation, productive, sustainable rural development.