Sentences with phrase «performance at a higher standard»

However, CPS» system will hold student performance at a higher standard of 50 percent student growth measures with the remaining 50 percent based on principal practice.

Not exact matches

«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.

Swansea now find themselves in a bit of a slump in comparison to the loftily high standards they set for themselves earlier in the campaign, having won just two of their last five league matches, this degree of inconsistency within their league form has however come at the time when the added pressure of fixture congestion that comes with a long cup run can really effect a squads fitness and consequently their performances.

Inititally below his own high standards in La Liga, particularly at the Santiago Bernabeu, he has sustained his performances in Europe and hit a peak in recent weeks.

After leaving Old Trafford Stam went on to play at a high level for another six years, finishing his career at Ajax and turning in performances that were of such a high standard that Ferguson was forced into admitting he had been wrong to sell him.

Customer feedback to the performance of the seats has been outstanding and the most important thing when it comes to a convertible seat made for babies, the safety standards, exceed the US standards and are at par with the much higher European standards for car safety.

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.»

Some powerful state Democrats are ecstatic over nutty Rent Is Too Damn High Party standard - bearer Jimmy McMillan's show - stealing performance at last week's gubernatorial «debate,» but not for the reasons many may think.

He added: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

«The poor performance of industry and the business sector in general, could also be attributed to other challenges they faced, including, but not limited to, lack of access to finance, high interest rates, an unstable exchange rate, high import duties on raw materials and machinery, poor facilitation of import and export trade, particularly at our ports, inadequate and poor quality of raw materials for industrial processing, a poorly developed domestic trade infrastructure, lack of effective collaboration between research institutions and industry, limited access to serviced land for industrial production activities and poor standards of regulation and certification.»

Under the proposal, half of the expected 300 students would have to meet the higher performance standards while the others — who could be admitted by taking a school tour or signing up for information at a fair, for example — could gain entry based on less stringent criteria, the notice stated.

At the Supercomputing 93 conference in Portland, Oregon, last month the world's major manufacturers set a standard for High Performance Fortran, a programming language used for parallel computing, and published a library of standard instructions called the Message Passing Interface.

The research also shows that high - performance, graphene - based transistors can be produced at low cost using standard semiconductor manufacturing processes, Lin said.

He said: «If you look overall, not just in Britain but around the world, at those school systems we admire that have got high performance and high standards, from Shanghai to Finland, by and large they don't put their effort into trying to pick which kids they educate; they put their effort into raising standards for all the kids.»

In great high schools the identified goals and performance standards are not optional but rather constitute the guaranteed curriculum for each course offered at the school, no matter who teaches it.

Although performance standards — how high a student must score to be proficient — are still being set, the bar will likely be at the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) «proficient» level.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

Facilities at the conservatoire include over 70 bespoke rehearsal and teaching spaces, seven industry - standard recording studios, six mixing rooms, two performance auditoriums, six Mac Labs and a Roland keyboard room, giving BTEC students unique access to high - spec, state - of - the - art resources.

It's also part of the National STEM School Education Strategy 2016 - 2026 and comes at a time when Australian student performance in maths is flatlining, a substantial proportion of Australian 15 - year - olds are failing to meet the National Proficient Standard, and Year 12 high - level mathematics participation is declining.

Studies by the Fordham Institute and by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan both found that states with high performance standards tended to weaken them in response to NCLB's goal of moving all children to a single standard.

In particular, these findings suggest that so - called «process» standards, such as higher course requirements, may be more effective than test - based standards, at least when testers seek only to establish a minimum level of performance necessary to graduate.

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

Helping states meet Title I's requirement that they have challenging content and performance standards in at least math and English / language arts by the fall of 1997 and high - quality aligned assessments by 2000 - 2001.

On the other end of the spectrum, our sample included districts and schools that were performing at high levels relative to state performance standards.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

In addition, for any school to expand, the most recent rating for 90 percent of the campuses operated under the charter must be «met standard» under the standard accountability procedures and received a district rating of highest or second highest rating for three of the last five years with at least 75 percent of the campuses rated «met standard» and no campus with the lowest performance rating in the most recent state accountability ratings.

The Recognition Task Force will create standards and a process for recognizing high - quality k - 12 performance assessment systems at the national and / or state level.

Fast - forward three years, and the nation is split between higher - performing states chafing at the prospect of less rigorous standards leading to declining student performance, and their lower - performing counterparts that are unwilling or unable to fund the transition to Common Core tests.

This is particularly difficult at a time when the supply of teachers is constrained by high turnover rates, annual retirements of longtime teachers, and a decline in students opting for a teaching career — and when demand for teachers is rising due to rigorous national student performance standards and many locales» mandates to shrink class sizes.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

For high schools: College, Career and Military Readiness indicators, including students meeting the Texas Success Initiative benchmarks in reading or math; students who satisfy relevant performance standards on Advanced Placement or similar exams, students who earn dual - course credits, students who enlist in the military, students who earn an industry certification, students admitted into postsecondary certification programs that have as an admission requirement successful performance at the secondary level, students who successfully complete college preparatory courses, students who successfully meet standards on a composite of indicators that indicate the student's preparation to success, without remediation, in an entry - level course for a bachelor's or associate's degree program, students who successfully complete and OnRamps dual - enrollment course, and students awarded an associate's degree while in high school.

The salary scale will start at $ 45,000 and goes as high as $ 87,000, with raises based on performance standards.

«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.

In short, studies of student performance at high - need schools suggest that the three factors identified in Leandro are no less important today than they were when the court originally defined the standard.

SB 1882 (Menendez / Koop)-- TCTA successfully advocated for including higher performance standards for charter schools with whom school districts may contract for operation of a campus, to require that the charter school had acceptable performance for at least the three preceding years prior to the contract.

This year, 27 states have committed to linking their high school diploma to achieving the standards in at least one subject area, and nine states measure student performance in all four core subjects.

With its turbocharged engine tuned to deliver even more power than the standard JCW (which is rated at 208 hp for 2013), an adjustable GP - specific suspension, «race - spec» brakes, unique aerodynamic aids, and high - performance tires, the new GP achieves Mini's best - ever Nuerburgring time of 8:23 (besting the previous GP by nearly nineteen seconds).

Available in both front - or all - wheel - drive and powered by a standard 3.6 - liter V - 6 rated at 305 horsepower and 264 lb - ft of torque, or high - performance Twin - Turbo 3.6 - liter V - 6 that delivers 410 horsepower and 369 lb - ft of torque, the XTS is also the only luxury sedan with standard Magnetic Ride Control for an incredibly smooth ride.

What it is: The high - performance BMW M4 is available in coupe or convertible form and competes with the Cadillac ATS - V and Lexus RC F. For 2017, the adaptive M suspension is standard instead of optional, and wireless phone charging and a Wi - Fi hotspot are included in the Executive Package.

While many skeptics have dismissed Tesla as a «fad car», with over 150,000 units sold, three models added to the line up, and viral videos displaying phenomenal performance prowess, the Tesla Model S has secured its place in history delivering a highly refined automobile offering luxury and performance features at very high standards.

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(569 N • m) of torque • SRT performance: 0 - 60 mph in the low five - second range, 0 -100-0 in under 17 seconds, 60 - 0 mph in approximately 110 feet • Benchmark braking • World - class ride and handling characteristics across a dynamic range • Functional, performance - oriented exterior design and race - inspired interior appointments • Benchmark performance at the best price PRODUCT CHRONOLOGY 2008 MODEL YEAR EXTERIOR • New color: Steel Blue Metallic Clear Coat INTERIOR • Available Side - curtain Air Bags • Available SIRIUS BackSeat TV ™ • Available SRT - engineered KICKER ® premium surround sound system • New instrument panel cluster • New center console • SRT - exclusive Reconfigurable Display (RCD) • LED lighting in the front cup holders and front - and rear - door map pockets • Dark Slate Gray interior color • Agate - color accent stitching • Carbon - fiber - like pattern door handles and carbon - fiber - like leather - trim steering wheel POWERTRAIN / CHASSIS • New optional 20 - inch aluminum wheel PACKAGES • Super Bee Special Edition — with Surf Blue Pearl Coat 2007 MODEL YEAR EXTERIOR • New color: TorRed INTERIOR • Optional Rear Seat Video system, including KICKER ® Mobile Surround Sound PACKAGES • Super Bee Special Edition — with Detonator Yellow exterior color • SRT Track Experience — Standard 2006 MODEL YEAR New high - performance version of the Dodge Charger with new 6.1 - liter HEMI ® engine EXTERIOR • Colors: Brilliant Black, Bright Silver, Inferno Red • New front fascia with integrated brake duct inlets • Insert in rear fascia • New rear spoiler • Body - color mirrors and door handles (carryover base car) • «SRT8» exterior badge (deck lid) • Mesh grille insert with «SRT» badge • Brake duct system in front belly pan • 16 mm clearance rear fascia to exhaust tips • New hood with scoop, bezel and underhood duct • New hood silencer pad INTERIOR • Colors: Dark Slate / Light Slate Gray • Sport front seats with matching trim on rear seats • Red accent stitching • Carbon fiber leather on steering wheel upper • Satin finish steering wheel spokes (from 300C) • Satin Silver shift bezel and lock knobs (from 300C) • «SRT8» badge below right - hand air conditioning outlet duct • Satin Silver color for center stack bezel POWERTRAIN • 6.1 - liter HEMI ® engine (425 horsepower / 420 lb. - ft.)

The 16V petrol engine features a new, high - pressure fuel pump injector to satisfy the greater performance demands and allow it to meet strict EU5 emissions standards while revisions to the electronic engine management system, plus increased maximum turbo pressure (1.9 bar at max output and 2.2 bar at max torque, versus 1.8 bar for the 240 PS 2.0 - litre TSI in Leon Cupra) complete the powerplant changes beneath the SEAT's svelte «clamshell» bonnet.

The latest BMW 7 Series is also the first to be offered in the UK as an ActiveHybrid in both standard and long - wheelbase guises courtesy of a 3.0 - litre six - cylinder engine mated to a synchronous electric motor and lithium - ion high performance battery which will allow for solus electrically - powered driving at given times.

Official fuel economy figures for the standard M4 stand at 32.1 mpg, with CO2 emissions coming in at 204g / km; the CS produces 33.6 mpg and 197g / km of CO2 and the high - performance M4 GTS emits 199g / km of CO2 and returns 34mpg, but it's unlikely you'll ever achieve if you're driving it in the way it was intended.

Just one glimpse of the high - tech package confirms that the four - door executive segment coupé also boasts the typical DNA and is the perfect embodiment of the AMG brand promise of Driving Performance: with a maximum output of 265 kW (360 hp) a maximum torque of 450 Nm, it is not only the world's most powerful series - production four - cylinder engine, but at the same time the turbocharged engine also impresses with maximum efficiency and compliance with the EU6 emissions standard.

XT5's performance and handling are worlds better than the SRX's were, even with standard front - wheel drive (all - wheel drive is available on the higher priced Luxury trim starting at $ 48,375).

Previewed by a series of concept cars with mid-engined configurations, the high - performance Veloster debuted alongside the standard hatchback at the 2018 Detroit Auto Show.

TRANSMISSION SSG Automatic ENGINE CAPACITY 3798 STANDARD POWER (BHP) 616 EMISSIONS (CO 2) 279 AKRAPOVIC The performance exhaust for the McLaren MP4 - 12C is a high - tech system crafted from a special durable and heat - resistant titanium alloy with bigger tubes and unique solutions to improve torque and power at all rpms, especially in the most - used middle range.