Sentences with phrase «other consortium states»

The report will also feature a graphic that will show how a student's score compares with the average score on the «practice» Smarter Balanced tests in math and English language arts that students in California and other consortium states took last year.

Not exact matches

But there are now 35 other medical schools in the United States and Canada that have joined an academic consortium for integrative medicine.

In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 19.

Chevron, working with a consortium of other oil companies, recently drilled an exploration well in the Gulf of Mexico in waters 7,718 feet deep, a distance five times the height of the Empire State Building.

Several consortiums of industry leaders across sectors - including Partnership for Renewable Energy (which includes Bank of America, Google, General Electric), U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP (Ford, Duke Energy, Pepsi, Shell, among others) and Climate Energy Network (a collection of small and mid-sized companies in every region of the United States)- are «terrifically energetic and committed to their work with U.S. policymakers,» he said.

The research, published in Nature, involved a collaboration with members of a Human Frontier Science Program consortium from the United Kingdom, the United States and Germany, and with other researchers in Italy.

Among other types of projects, Horizon 2020 provides funding for collaborative research projects, involving so - called «consortia» of scientists in several E.U. member states.

The Children's Oncology Group is a consortium of cancer treatment centers across the United States, Canada, and other countries.

The consortium also contributed to the identification of a fifth gene reported by other groups of investigators from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and other European countries.

Microbiologist Mark Morrison, an associate professor at Ohio State's Department of Animal Sciences who is the consortium's coordinator, says its main goals are to pinpoint those parts of the bacterial genomes that play a role in degrading cellulose and other plant polysaccharides, and also to identify other genetic traits that are critical to the bacteria's colonization and persistence in the digestive systems of the host animals.

In other words, a key objective of the CCSS consortium — the raising of state proficiency standards — has begun to happen.

But as other states withdrew and new testing options emerged, the state legislature no longer saw participation in a consortium as necessary.

Consortia decisions will have also directed hundreds of millions in funding from a variety of other state and federal programs.

State assessment directors expect scrutiny by policy makers, parents, interest groups, and others, but the number and diversity of the interested parties is much greater when working on the scale of a multi-state consortium.

Some states are creating their own tests, while others are using common tests developed by two state - led, federally funded consortia (SBAC and PARCC).

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.

It calls for the state to enter into a contract without going through a competitive bid process, he said, so the consortium must be considered against other options.

But the head of the state - led consortium creating the Common Core tests for California and two dozen other states expressed confidence Wednesday that his organization is working closely with states and taking precautions to avoid significant problems.

But based on that 2010 language, the $ 330 million it spent on the consortia, and its weaving of common standards and assessments into other programs, I suspect it was the Department's wish that all or nearly all states participated in the consortia.

The other consortium developing Common Core - aligned tests, Smarter Balanced, says the price of its tests — about $ 27 per student — represents a cost savings for about two - thirds of participant states.

(We think it's worth noting some states are already formulating a «Plan B» in case the assessments developed by PARCC and the other Common Core consortium, Smarter Balanced, aren't ready for the 2014 - 15 school year.)

Their absence hasn't had much of an impact on the other member states in the consortium, though it does beg the question: What happens if more states opt out?

But for the states who aren't spending as much on testing now, there might not be money in the budget for a test from PARCC or the other national assessment consortium, Smarter Balanced, which plans to charge $ 27.30 for its assessment package.

Partnering with other states that have left the national consortia designing new tests would certainly be more cost effective than Indiana designing its own exam.

The Center is working with states and other partners to address comparability issues with consortium as well as with other innovative assessment systems.

And the Common Core tests developed by two federally funded consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced, have become a popular target in other states.

While Duncan celebrated the differences in design between the consortia, he also championed elements that would unify states — every state in each consortium would adopt the same «cut scores,» the number of questions a student has to correctly answer to be deemed proficient, making it possible for the first time to compare students to their peers in other states.

Other states haven't dropped out of the consortia, but are waffling on how to test the Common Core.

The first obstacle that LAUSD and the other California districts involved must overcome is the fact that what they're proposing to do sets a precedent in which Washington gives a waiver directly to a district (or consortia of districts) instead of operating through state education agencies, as it usually does.

In the last few months, a number of states have paused or de-funded implementation of the standards; others have pulled out of the consortia developing tests tied to them.

In addition to the 11 participating states and the Center for Educational Testing and Evaluation, the Dynamic Learning Maps consortium includes faculty from several other departments and research centers within KU, including the Beach Center on Disability, Center for Research on Learning, Center for Research Methods and Data Analysis and Department of Special Education.

Massachusetts is a member of PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers), one of two consortia of states designing Common Core assessments; California is a guiding member of the other, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

Although these findings resonate with education activists and an increasing number of parents across the nation, they have fallen on deaf ears with leadership in our state, even while many other states have dropped their membership with the consortium or removed tying results to high stakes until such findings are substantiated.

Some local innovators and national advocates argue that they do, especially in states that have required high school exit exams as part of their accountability systems.44 For example, according to one consortium of high schools participating in the Competency - Based Education Pilot for Ohio — a state that has required passage of state tests or threshold scores on other exams to graduate — «testing windows that are currently required for state - mandated assessments do not adequately reflect the needs of the students within a STEM school and / or CBE [competency - based education] environment.»

All states who have adopted the Common Core State Standards have selected a consortium in which they are a partner with other states.

Some PARCC states are working with other consortia to develop tests for those students, and other states are working to develop their own assessments.

Additionally, although some states have begun implementing the consortia field tests this year, other states have backed out of their commitments with the consortia.

At Cal - ISBOA, for example, her strong leadership following the merger of two regional organizations helped to unify the membership into what is now the largest state association of its kind and led to the launch of a statewide health consortium, among other developments.

Center staff have recently led and / or participated in psychometric and research work for the PARCC consortium and states using PARCC content (i.e., Louisiana, Massachusetts) such as conducting analyses and advising on issues related to comparability of test scores across test forms with varying proportions of PARCC content, different administration modes, and other conditions that may impact the comparability claims that can be made about the test scores.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) established an English Language Learner Assessment Advisory Task Force in 2012 to address opportunities and challenges for English learners (ELs) presented by new college - and career - ready standards and assessments.This Advisory Task Force — composed of technical staff and leadership from multi-state assessment consortia, EL researchers and technical assistance experts, policy advisers, and other stakeholders — prioritized efforts to move toward a more common definition of English learner within states and across states participating in multi-state assessment consortia.

Eligible grant recipients include State and local governments or other political subdivisions, transit agencies, larger MPOs (representing 200,000 or more population), multijurisdictional groups, or consortia of research or academic institutions.

With some exceptions, we can also borrow materials from other libraries in the SC LENDS consortium, which includes the South Carolina State Library and 16 other county libraries in South Carolina.

The State Library of Kansas, which provided early financial support to the project, plans to adopt Enki soon as well, and other consortia and state systems have expressed inteState Library of Kansas, which provided early financial support to the project, plans to adopt Enki soon as well, and other consortia and state systems have expressed intestate systems have expressed interest.

When the Dolphin Project and a consortium of other animal welfare groups including the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) also applied, they were turned down flat.

Premier Campbell Newman signalled his approach to renewables early in his term when he decided he didn't want to put any state money into the Solar Dawn consortium, or any other renewable energy project for that matter, and announced he would disband the state's climate change and renewables program.

Members of the Armed Forces are barred from suing the United States government for personal injuries, wrongful death, medical malpractice, and loss of consortium — leaving some veterans and their families with large medical bills, permanent disabilities, and other damages that are never compensated for except through VA disability payments and veteran medical care.

In Florida, unlike in some other states, the law allows for claims of loss of consortium brought by others besides one's spouse.

He went on to state that the aim is to scale on - chain to thousands of transactions without masternodes, consortium nodes, or any other centralizing aspects.

Consensus 2017 was undoubtedly a meeting of the minds, and perhaps no other panel quite capture this spirit than the State of Blockchain panel with ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, bitcoin scientist Adam Back, Hyperledger executive director Brian Behlendorf and Richard Gendal Brown of distributed ledger consortium R3.

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.