Sentences with phrase «on achieving higher standards»

Those who understand that the client is the whole game view their professional obligations as a minimum standard only and instead fix their eyes on achieving higher standards and setting best practices as their goal.

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«We're well on our way to become the first Canadian brewer to achieve certification under the Global Food Safety Initiative, and our performance at brewing industry competitions quantifies for us the high standard of product quality,» added Croft.

«In developing Stoli Gluten Free, we wanted to create a product that not only delivered on a consumer need, but also achieved Stoli's incredibly high standards of quality and taste,» said Michael Oringer, senior VP of innovation and trade marketing, Stoli Group USA.

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Canada 1991, which obligates Canada to ensure that children are able to achieve the highest attainable standard of health.

On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.&raquOn her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.&raquon achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

«One option for achieving our objectives could be regulatory equivalence on agri - food measures, where the UK and EU agree to achieve the same outcome and high standards,» it says.

The Alliance is breaking new ground in that it unites patient advocacy groups, health and social care organisations and other key stakeholders to achieve a high standard of hand hygiene, based on the best available evidence.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

Based on complementary metal - oxide - semiconductor (COMS) technology — a standard low - cost, high - volume chip manufacturing technique used for most processors and chips today — a group of researchers from IBM Research in Zurich, Switzerland, together with a consortium working under the EU - funded project «ADDAPT,» have demonstrated a novel optical receiver (RX) that can achieve an aggregate bandwidth of 160 Gb / s through four optical fibers.

We are developing novel techniques to achieve highest 3D resolution of single fluorophores using Supercritical Angle Localization Microscopy and correlative superresolution and electron microscopy, and are implementing quantitative superresolution imaging based on counting reference standards.

Since 1994, Dymatize has been dedicated to helping athletes achieve superior performance with products based on science and formulated to our highest quality standards.

Of course Star Wars is a phenomenon, but when you get back to the basics of the film itself it stands on its own and has become a high standard that other filmmakers try to achieve

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

First of all, achieving high standards of learning is dependent on the quality of the built environment.

Politicians and business leaders gathered behind these powerful words to insist, for the first time, on high standards for all children — a goal schools had never before embraced, and one they did not immediately know how to achieve.

Tileston, D.) has clearly established that students will achieve higher scores on standardized tests if they know the vocabulary of the standards.

The presumption of the international assessments is that achieving high performance on the local and national standards will also produce high scores on PISA or TIMSS.

If Common Core works as its proponents expect, higher proficiency standards could propel schools to achieve at more impressive levels and thus raise the nation's ranking on international tests.

Schools» positions on league tables are also becoming increasingly important, and teachers are struggling to achieve high standards in challenging circumstances.

However, in the same way that thousands of other schools and education facilities are regularly inspected, Bill Quay faces Ofsted to ensure its achieving a high standard of teaching provision with the results published on the inspectors» website.

Last year, at their national summit, 16 governors agreed to work with Achieve, Inc., a national nonprofit organization, on setting lofty standards for high - school graduation, increasing the rigor of high - school curricula and tests, and aligning standards and tests with the demands of work and college.

In summary, the Common Core mathematics standards fail on clarity and rigor compared to better state standards and to those of high - achieving countries.

The academy has set high standards since opening and maintained a relentless focus on giving pupils the best opportunity to achieve.

Professor Milgram was the only math content expert on the Validation Committee reviewing the standards, and he concluded that the Common Core standards are, as he told the Texas state legislature, «in large measure a political document that... is written at a very low level and does not adequately reflect our current understanding of why the math programs in the high - achieving countries give dramatically better results.»

In fact, according to a scholarly 2011 content analysis published in Education Researcher by Andrew Porter and colleagues, the Common Core math standards bear little resemblance to the national curriculum standards in countries with high - achieving math students: «Top - achieving countries for which we had content standards,» these scholars note, «put a greater emphasis on [the category] «perform procedures» than do the U.S. Common Core standards.»

Curricular Coherence and the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Educational Researcher, November 2012 Exploring the relationship of the CCSS in Mathematics (CCSSM) to student achievement, these researchers found a high degree of similarity between CCSSM and standards of the highest - achieving nations on the 1995 Third International Mathematics and Science Study and that states with standards more like CCSSM have higher 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores on average.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

«What we've always been focused on is the fact that we're a high - performing, high - achieving school district, and we constantly strive for world - class standards,» said Superintendent Randy Poe.

Students who do not meet standards on the exam can participate in the 12th grade bridge courses to achieve college readiness before leaving high school.

MERIT — stickers to insert in pupil planner and recorded on Go4Schools These are given to pupils who achieve high personal standards in their school work and / or behaviour as recognition of their efforts.

The California Charter Schools Association (CCSA) has repeatedly gone on record debunking and factually proving that charters are public schools, kids in charters are achieving academically, charters are non-profits, comply with federal and state laws, are held to exceptionally high standards of accountability, and supports anyone from the community whose primary concern is advocating and creating high quality education opportunities for students.

Our network prides itself on a student - centered culture with 100 % mission and core values alignment, dedication to high standards for all students, and the drive for taking on the hardest work and achieving breakthrough results.

Above all, successful charters keenly focus on getting students to achieve to high standards.

Benchmarking features within Study Island are designed to help promote a higher order of thinking in your students, while providing educators with the tools you need to help students master state standards and achieve success on assessment days.

«When you look at the performance of students across the state, we have a long way to go before we feel like even our highest - achieving students are demonstrating the skills that they need based on our more rigorous standards,» Towns says.

Notice that the year 2019 is replaced with the year 2016 and that «meets the state standards» is replaced with a specific score of level 3 or 4 on the SBAC English and Math tests — a score that only 33 % of Washington high school students can achieve.

From providing a sound, standards - based means of achieving core curriculum objectives to offering a dynamic spectrum of 21st - century, hands - on learning projects, BookJam is designed to engage reluctant readers and produce high - quality results.

Blended learning has evolved significantly in the last 20 years, and with increasing pressure on schools to ensure that all students achieve higher standards of learning with fewer resources, it has never been more important.

In 2008, this served as the impetus for the Common Core State Standards initiative, when governors and state schools chiefs decided to lock arms and develop consistent «college - and career - ready» standards based on the best models in the states and in other high - achieving countries.

This focus on building knowledge of academic language, content, and performance helps prepare English language learners for non-sheltered classes, in which they will be expected to achieve to high academic standards alongside their English - speaking peers, a goal of NCLB.

In 2004, Achieve, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, and the Education Trust released a seminal report that called on states to align K - 12 standards with college and workplace expectations so that high school prepared students for the real world.

We are looking forward to building on our partnership of success with Virginia Beach City Public Schools and supporting their goal of ensuring that every student can achieve a high standard of academic performance and growth,» said Saki Dodelson, CEO and founder of Achieve3000.

[23] This means that students attending a high - achieving school will tend to score around 1.5 standard deviations higher, on average, than students attending a low - achieving school.

Methods of combining information from multiple measures include (1) conjunctive, in which the student or group must pass all measures; (2) compensatory, in which higher performance on one measure can compensate for lower performance on another; and (3) complementary, in which the student or group must achieve the standard on just one of the multiple measures (Chester, 2005).

William H. Schmidt and Richard T. Houang of Michigan State University, found that the Common Core math standards were very similar to the standards of the highest - achieving nations on one prominent international assessment, Third International Mathematics and Science Study.

They can exacerbate inequality when already high - achieving and well - funded schools are judged based on this system, leaving behind lower - performing schools that that will have a harder time adapting to new standards.

I heard that Ford is working on a 3 cylinder engine with a turbo for the U.S. to achieve the higher standard.

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Meanwhile, the sculpted headlamps pack more power into their aerodynamic shells: Bi-Xenon HID headlamps achieve high and low beams from a single light engine, while standard heated power - adjustable mirrors ensure you can also keep an eye on the road behind.

Set high standards, work with the best people, accept other's expertise — and always keep an eye on what you're trying to achieve.