Yet that kind of learning has been made harder by the lack
of common yardsticks that enable thoughtful comparison and study.
Not exact matches
However, Bank
of America's return on average
common equity was 7.3 percent, below the 10 percent general
yardstick for cost
of capital.
With marriage as the
yardstick, the relationship between parents with a child in
common does not seem worthy
of a legal status.
He has noted that
common standards will allow schools and providers to focus on excelling against a
common yardstick, instead
of rewarding those able to game 50 different state education bureaucracies.
«This low rate
of parental exemption indicates that our parents and students see the value
of measuring the skills
of all students against the same standards the same way, using one
common yardstick, and one shared goal: learning,» Torlakson said.
One
of the goals
of the
Common Core was to make comparisons across states possible by measuring all students with the same
yardstick.
«We want to say (to federal officials), «Look, because
of the transition (to
Common Core), we need elbow room, and there is no way to measure progress from last year to this year, so (let us) use participation rates (in the test) as the
yardstick,»» Chief Deputy State Superintendent Richard Zeiger said.
Because large numbers
of students throughout the country take the same test, they give educators a
common yardstick or «standard»
of measure.
At CEI we support the promise
of the
Common Core, particularly in terms of a common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring pro
Common Core, particularly in terms
of a
common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its yardstick for measuring pro
common curricula, deep conceptual understanding, and its
yardstick for measuring progress.
The National Assessment
of Education Progress (NAEP) is administered by the U.S. Department
of Education to measure student achievement across the nation with a
common yardstick.
«Many investors are focused on inflation and closely follow breakeven inflation, a
common yardstick for inflation expectations,» said Michael L. Sapir, Chairman and CEO
of ProShare Advisors LLC, ProShares» investment advisor.
But you can use the resulting present value figure that you get by discounting your cash flows back at the long - term Treasury rate as a
common yardstick just to have a standard
of measurement across all businesses.»
But while 10 - 14x revenues is a
common M&A
yardstick right now, Hulu's reliance on its equity owners» content for the bulk
of its value make it highly unlikely that it will come anywhere close.