Sentences with phrase «of education tests»

The Washington Post's Challenge Index is determined by taking the total number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given each year at a school.

The ranking looks at the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests taken at the school and the school's graduation rate.

America's Most Challenging High Schools ranks schools through an index formula that's a simple ratio: the number of Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate and Advanced International Certificate of Education tests given at a school each year, divided by the number of seniors who graduated that year.

There's also the example of education testing.

Chauk one more up for the greed and deceptiveness of the education testing industry and their corporate education reform allies in and of government.

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Look at mistakes as a very necessary part of your education — another way to test your resolve and prepare you to succeed.

• Ambow Education Holding, which provides test prep in China, filed for an IPO of up to $ 5 million Monday.

The world of education revolves around tests and test scores.

Results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress, a test conducted by Department of Education, also showed average math scores for 4th and 8th graders falling for the first time since 1990.

The Omani - based company leads many different initiatives in a variety of sectors, ranging from higher education to solar energy to core testing for oil and gas, and even trying to build a «smart city» which may enable citizens to pay utility bills automatically, amongst other things.

We looked at traditional measures of K - 12 education including test scores, class size and spending.

Mean test scores in reading (Programme for International Student Assessment) Mean test scores in science (Programme for International Student Assessment) % of those aged 25 - 64 who have attained tertiary level education Education expense,education Education expense,Education expense, % of GDP

The US Department of Education told Business Insider it decided not to participate in the test because it had yet to prove its «technical stability.»

Lower average test scores might not be a problem if you can find out that kids are rapidly improving over time, making that cute house in the cheaper part of town not only good for your wallet, but good for your child's education too.

While we wound up winning along with two other teams out of a pool of more than 4,000 applicants, none of us had actually produced clean energy, fixed a significant element of the education system or tested a solution to the housing crisis.

We look at traditional measures of K — 12 education, including test scores, class size and spending.

Former New York City Board of Education chancellor Rudy Crew, worried that the Internet age was passing by too many kids in his urban districts, provided the B - schoolers with three beta - test schools and agreed to join the duo's previously nonexistent board of advisers.

In addition to employee education and awareness about how phishing attacks work and how to identify a suspicious email, it is an imperative that IT put filtering mechanisms in place that use technology — not people — to sort, test and eliminate such malicious emails before they even have a chance to test the eyes of the employees.»

Connecticut owes much of its improvement to a big jump in its Education ranking, climbing to No. 3 from No. 18, due largely to better high school test scores.

Like many aspects of education, taking tests like the MCAT and GMAT are expensive, and some of those tests have limitations on how many times candidates can take them, putting on added pressure to do well the first time around.

The factors of this test are outlined by the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid office and are paraphrased below:

Education (One Day University, University of Maryland, Drive Safer, PDH Engineer, TOEFL Test Preparation)

A core component of the Options Education Program or OEP is the MyPath assessment tool, which allows investors to test their level of options knowledge for a personalized learning track.

Regression on cognitive tests by drinking categories Controls: age, gender, education, health history, mental health treatment, family history of dementia); results for exdrinkers same as for drinkers

Its world - class educators work in partnership with engineers and designers to build and test an education technology platform within AltSchool's network of lab schools.

It aims to launch a series of general, trade (fiction as well as non-fiction) and education books (school K - 12 and test preparation) soon.

CMIT involves all franchisees in product development and testing strategy, providing plenty of opportunities for continuing education and industry certification that can provide a competitive edge and deliver increasing value to our clients.

«New attention to Nutrition: With the aim of driving meaningful reductions in micronutrient deficiency in young children we will test products like micro nutrient powders and fortified porridge, and augment education on balanced diet.

The company's licensed loan officers undergo extensive education, testing and training to help customers through the origination process every step of the way.

Most SaaS products require more customer education in order for the prospect to see the value of their software and even consider giving it a test run.

The ADRs of Global Education & Technology, which provides tests and after - school courses in the English language in China, rose 16 % in their October 8 debut on Nasdaq.

All over the world, Blacks consistently score lower on IQ test than Whites or Asians regardless of income level, education, national origin, etc..

At his lecture he set aside his prepared notes and instead described the severe Prussian discipline of his own education: the classics he had to master; the languages he had to learn by exercises and constant tests.

Comparing national test scores, Catholic schools in general (as with most private schools) perform better in both reading and math than public schools although the advantage is stronger in reading than in Math though the difference in Math was still statistically significant; however, this could be due to the self selecting nature of the students in Catholic schools where the parents have made the decision to value education to the extent of paying for it.

New York (CNN)- One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests — including «dinosaur,» «birthday» and «religion» — the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

Recent defenses of the Greek ideal of liberal education are couched in terms of «forms of knowledge» or publicly distinguishable ways of understanding and organizing experience that are structured around distinctive sets of concepts, statements, and tests against experience (LE 113 - 118).

It is likely that the coalition formed there failed to notice that their merger was never perfected, for they separately envisioned two very different foundations: «one fully under the control of the bishops and one committed, above all else, to theological education... [and] a church - sponsored university but otherwise one without religious tests or even theological schools, one open to the latest science and scholarship.»

Many of these practical judgments are required in education, which Dewey liked to call «the laboratory in which philosophic distinctions become concrete and are tested» (MW9: 339).

The undemocratic class bias in education extends even farther than the tests that automatically discriminate against students from the lower social and economic strata of society.

The formation and testing of teachers being prepared to teach sex education can not reasonably be achieved at a one or two day in - service programme.

The Department of Education's says that avoiding sensitive words on tests is nothing new, and that New York City is not the only locale to do so. California avoids the use of the word «weed» on tests and Florida avoids the phrases that use «Hurricane» or «Wildfires,» according to a statement by the New York City Department of Education.

The banned word list was made public — and attracted considerable criticism — when the city's education department recently released this year's «request for proposal» The request for proposal is sent to test publishers around the country trying to get the job of revamping math and English tests for the City of New York.

A recent religious test showed that agnostics and atheists scored much higher on knowledge of the Bible than Christians did and had more education on average.

Education changes over time as we learn more and more of our surroundings, we take that knowledge and test what we know, and our teaching... (wait for it)....

Perhaps this is the force of Stackhouse's contention that theological education must focus on «orthodoxy»: it must not focus on those theories about God certified once and for all to be «right» or true, but instead must focus on the ongoing task of testing our theories about God to get them as «straight» or as «right» (orthos) as we can.

Funded by three successive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the project was able to develop class - tested materials and to enlist the support of recognized historians of religion.

I am (a) a delusional schizophrenic; (b) a naïve child, too young to know that that is silly (c) an ignorant farmer from Sudan who never had the benefit of even a fifth grade education; or (d) your average Christian Millions and millions of Catholics believe that bread and wine turns into the actual flesh and blood of a dead Jew from 2,000 years ago because: (a) there are obvious visible changes in the condiments after the Catholic priest does his hocus pocus; (b) tests have confirmed a divine presence in the bread and wine; (c) now and then their god shows up and confirms this story; or (d) their religious convictions tell them to blindly accept this completely fvcking absurd nonsense.

The annual event is magnificent in its simplicity: Dine at one of the 3,000 participating restaurants in nearly 60 cities across North America and that restaurant will donate a generous portion of the day's proceeds to fund HIV / AIDS care, prevention, education, testing, counseling and other essential services in their city.

Each restaurant donates a percentage of the day's food sales, which goes to local organizations to fund care, prevention, education, testing, counseling and other essential HIV / AIDS services.

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