Sentences with phrase «over national standards»

It may be that the debate over national standards has been so energetic over the past year that the public now is more aware of the issue, whether or not the phrase «Common Core» is mentioned.

The battle over national standards for public schools appears to be over.

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The national migration to EMV payment standards (popularly recognized as microchip debit and credit cards) is virtually guaranteed to safeguard small businesses and their customers against fraud over the next year.

Over the past decade, several high - profile 401 (k) fee lawsuits and DOL efforts to implement a fiduciary standard for professional investment advice have put 401 (k) fiduciary responsibility in the national spotlight.

According to Goolam Ballim, group economist at Johannesburg - based Standard Bank, improvements in public finances over the past decade mean less revenues now go into debt servicing and capital repayment, opening the way for more national investment in infrastructure.

The National Association for Business Resources has over 20 years of experience conducting Best and Brightest Company competitions and has identified numerous best Human Resources practices that provide benchmarking for companies that continue to be leaders in employment standards.

A composite index for Israel as a whole, composed of crime, national mood, and the stock market, showed an increase of 1.38 standard deviations over the same periods (p =.0001).

I've also read the national content standards that have been developed for K - 12 education over the past decade by thousands of scholars, teachers and representatives of professional organizations.

Barton is also active in the national struggle over public school curricula, consulting with both Texas and California on educational standards.

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He has been very involved in many aspects of domestic and international agricultural policy and practice development, organizing, food labeling, standards, certification and accreditation work over the years, including: Founding Chair of the USDA / National Organic Standards Board, A founder of Domestic Fair Trade Association, National Organic Coalition, and Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, Founding member of National Family Farm Coalition and National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Board member of the International Organic Accreditation Service, Former NGO delegate to UN Codex / FAO / WHO Food Labeling Commission and WTO, Founding partner of Agricultural Justice Project, which has developed domestic fair trade standards for North America.

Over the next 12 months, Australian Organic will canvass members about important issues, including imports labelling and testing; achieving a one base national standard; our promotional programs; and the objectives of your organisation.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

The Community Foundation is in compliance with the Council on Foundations» national standards and has awarded over $ 220 million in grants to nonprofits in Fairfield County and beyond.

The proportion of people aged 18 years and over who consumed more than two standard drinks per day on average, exceeding the National Health and Medical Research Council lifetime risk guidelines, decreased to 19.5 % in 2011 - 12 from 20.9 % in 2007 - 08.

Along the way, they set new attendance standards — they drew a record 14,066 for their penultimate home game, a 66 — 64 victory over No. 2 Ohio State — and beat a raft of highly ranked foes (No. 1 Stanford, the Buckeyes, No. 3 Notre Dame) as well as defending national champion Connecticut, in Hartford.

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out... [Continue reading]

Students of color are the largest demographic served by the National School Lunch Program, yet as we gear up for the fight over healthier school meal standards in Congress this fall, the voices of these critical stakeholders can easily be drowned out by politicians, lobbyists and the School Nutrition Association.

Boakai has waged a bitter legal battle over problems with queue control and voter identification in the October 10 first round, and said he would accept the result provided the National Elections Commission (NEC) met «all of the standards».

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

Tension in school communities over New York's implementation of the national Common Core standards exploded this week when King canceled four planned town hall - style meetings following a raucous forum in Poughkeepsie.

If a national standard does pass, Misewich says that a key recommendation from the report is that any such standard should be phased in over time to address these challenges.

The current contract operator, Los Alamos National Security (a partnership among Bechtel Corp., Babcock & Wilcox's BWX Technologies, the University of California, and the URS Corp.'s Washington Group International), took over after the 2006 evaluation and is in charge of making sure that fire safety standards are followed.

Students had to be trained, national standards had to be established, and academia had to be prepared to take over preclinical and clinical research in the field.

The airline industry has favored a global standard over individual national standards since airlines operate all over the world and want to avoid a patchwork of rules and measures, such as taxes, charges and emissions trading programs.

For over 30 years, ACE has set the gold standard in the health and fitness industry through certifications that are accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA)-- a third party that ensures high standards across multiple fields, including nursing, counselors, emergency technicians, health and fitness professionals, and more.

Margaret Moore sits down with Global Advances in Health and Medicine to discuss the work of the National Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches (now referred to as the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching), which has been working over five years to develop national standards and a credentialing process for health and wellness coaches natNational Consortium for Credentialing of Health & Wellness Coaches (now referred to as the International Consortium for Health & Wellness Coaching), which has been working over five years to develop national standards and a credentialing process for health and wellness coaches natnational standards and a credentialing process for health and wellness coaches nationwide.

Meet the thought leaders who invested thousands of volunteer hours over the past seven years to collaborate and develop national standards:

Highlights of this year's NAPLAN results include: • There is evidence of movement of students from lower to higher bands of achievement across year levels and most domains over the last 10 years • Year 3 reading results continue to show sustained improvement • ACT, Victoria and NSW continue to have high mean achievement across all domains • There are increases in mean achievement in the Northern Territory in primary years reading and numeracy since 2008 • WA and Queensland have the largest growth in mean achievement across most domains since 2008 • Percentage of students meeting the national minimum standard remains high — over 90 per cent nationally and in most states and territories, across all domains and year levels

In this latter capacity, he presided over what some have called «The Massachusetts Miracle,» a series of reforms involving teacher preparation, standards, and testing that are associated with the commonwealth's rise to the top of performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

One victim of the controversy over national education standards could be the board designed to certify them.

So Arne has forced Alaska's hand — has it «over a barrel» in Lamar Alexander's words — and opens up the Common Core to the label of «federally mandated» national standards.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Just as the 1996 National Science Education Standards set the direction for science education over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decades to come.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

But nobody knows how stable the CCSSO / NGA arrangement will prove over time — their leaders, priorities, and bank accounts are changeable — or whether their joint venture is the optimal governance and management for national standards and assessments over the long haul.

WASHINGTON — The National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which has agreed to propose national standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stNational Council on Education Standards and Testing, which has agreed to propose national standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stnational standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stnational guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the standards.

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

In the often heated national debate over the Common Core, opponents have cast the standards as a threat to teacher autonomy and students» intellectual creativity.

In other words, a broad consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

Over the decade, we have witnessed — perhaps contributed to — the advance of school reform: the proliferation of school choice from vouchers to tax credits, charters, and online learning; the evolution of accountability's focus from schools to teachers; renewed attention to national standards; and a more realistic understanding of the uncertain connection between educational expenditures and school quality.

State policymakers should reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

Although many states moved to adopt the Common Core national standards and tests prior to the 2010 election — an unprecedented surrender of state educational control to Washington — conservative leaders can reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

National standards would strengthen federal control over education while weakening schools» direct accountability to parents and taxpayers.

Ofqual has halted inexorable grade inflation, and is introducing a new National Reference Test to provide a reliable measure of standards over time.

Greg has warned that a national system of standards without control over implementation provides license to every quack, crackpot and anti-Semite to un-accountably pursue their own agendas while claiming that national standards made them do it.

But perhaps the strongest objection to national standards that we have repeated at JPGB (here, here, and here) is that even if the current set of proposed national standards is an improvement for some states (and less good than others), there is strong reason to fear that people opposed to sensible, rigorous standards will gain control over the newly created national standards infrastructure and be in a position to impose their nonsense on everyone.