Sentences with phrase «pilots experimenting with»

The committee was impressed by the work done by some local authorities to increase young people's participation rates, citing the «Total Place» pilots experimenting with ways public service providers can work more closely.

A pilot experiment with 125 patient plasma samples was performed to investigate the optimal method for isolation of HIV - 1 viral RNA for long amplicon genome sequencing.

Fryer recently ran a pilot experiment with third graders at P.S. 70 in the Bronx.

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And Facebook, of course: Piloted first within Instagram as the photo - sharing service experimented with rolling out native ads, Quip has since spread throughout the rest of the company.

Google's Project Loon started as a pilot experiment in June 2013 and the company launched 30 balloons in New Zealand in coordination with local authorities.

Tubbs is now piloting a guaranteed income experiment in Stockton with funding from Hughes's organization.

A pilot scheme has already seen 4,400 families receive $ 650 with the cryptocurrency experiment increasing the self - sufficiency of the process and reducing reliance on intermediaries.

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At the end of her article, Janet says: «The Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act authorizes pilot programs in individual schools and districts to experiment with universal free - meal approaches.»

To control greenhouse gases the Chinese government is experimenting with pilot programs in seven cities and regions that use carbon markets

Loke also mentions that colitis plagues many juvenile monkeys in primate research centers and that he has received a pilot grant to treat diseased monkeys with human whipworm, an as - yet - unpublished experiment that is already returning promising results.

Under the leadership of Administrator Griffin and Deputy Administrator Dale, NASA has already taken the lead on this opportunity by creating the Suborbital Scientist Participant Pilot Program, which would enable scientists to fly with their experiments as they do onboard high altitude research airplanes.

- NIH should create a pilot program for institutional postdoctoral offices to compete for funding to experiment in enriching and diversifying postdoctoral training, including partnerships with other entities (industry, private foundations, government, etc.).

The investigator is responsible for demonstrating a reliable scheme for identifying targeted ES cell clones by Southern analysis with 5» and 3» probes by providing results from pilot experiments for this purpose.

These endpoints, and our estimates of their timing with respect to viral - induced death, were arrived at from small - scale pilot experiments that determined the necessity for close monitoring because of the rapid onset of virus - induced death.

The district's pilot schools, similar to those in Boston, are a key part of the L.A. school board's own experiment with semi-autonomous schools.

To bolster their stance, union leaders highlighted their recent support of certain innovations, including expanding Cortines's experiment with decentralized pilot schools, operating under flexible labor contracts and granting principals greater authority.

According to the Miami Herald, Miami - Dade, Broward, and Pinellas counties are all experimenting with the MOOC format in the current school year, with an expectation that their pilots will expand across the state.

The «differential accountability» pilot project to allow states to experiment with alternative ways of improving schools that are failing to make AYP

In the past few years, a number of states have created and funded pilot programs to experiment with the concept of school restructuring.

They also have the opportunity to innovate: Through a new pilot program that will allow seven states to develop radically new approaches to assessments, states can experiment with performance - based and instructionally embedded tests and use technology to advance testing.

New York will not apply for a federal pilot program that would have allowed the state to experiment with different kinds of math and English tests for grades 3 - 8, officials announced Tuesday.

Sixteen pilot schools along with several other Lead schools in the English sector experimented with the key concepts of the program of study, as well as school organizational approaches that could be best suited to the strategies required to maximize the effectiveness of the learning environment.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) includes an innovative assessment pilot under which seven states (or consortia of states) will have the flexibility to experiment with new ways to evaluate student performance, such as competency - based assessments and performance tasks.

With enrollment projected to grow between 20 and 40 percent over the next 20 years, charter schools have established themselves as a fixture in the U.S. public education system and can no longer be viewed as an experiment or pilot reform.

The pilot evaluation program is designed to allow flexibility to districts to experiment with a more comprehensive system.

Policy leaders, in particular, can (1) support initiatives that expand broadband availability in all of the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers and in state and locally - funded afterschool sites; (2) encourage robust experimentation with digital platforms that allow expanded learning organizations to collaborate, share practices, and connect experiences that kids are having at various expanded learning sites; and (3) support pilot experiments in up to 10 % of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers that focus on integrating evolving technologies.

But ESSA also creates a pilot program allowing up to seven states to experiment with local assessments that could eventually be used statewide.73 As under NCLB, test results must be disaggregated and reported at the school level and by student subgroups, such as racial and ethnic groups, students designated as economically disadvantaged, and students with disabilities.

-- One more thought on ESSA: The law will allow seven states to participate in a new pilot program where they can experiment with more innovative ways of testing and performance - based systems rather than run - of - the - mill state standardized tests for accountability purposes.

This has prompted them to take more risks and experiment with new pilot projects.

The advantage about self - publishing allows her to experiment with «pilots» that can be further developed into a series.

While there are pilot projects underway at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac experimenting with other forms of credit risk transfer («CRT»), private mortgage insurance is the original form of CRT.

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Along with the video projections of her «pilot wave» experiment, the exhibit includes eight large abstract paintings in which Auerbach scraped rhythmic wave patterns into layers of wet acrylic paint, plus a single, extremely delicate sculpture made by the artist out of flame - heated rods of borosilicate glass.

That's why, even with all of the computer horsepower we have available to us, we still have proving grounds, and R&D labs, and test pilots, and «proof - of - concept» experiments, and prototype airplanes.

To cope, the university town of Lund experimented with a pilot student housing unit of 94 square feet back in 2012, and has since expanded the project, building into 22 units arranged in a cluster of bright green micro-apartment blocks.

April covered the company's multimodal experiment earlier (e-bikes designed to be integrated with Ford vehicles), which is still in the prototype stage, but the other initiative now has some wheels under it, thanks to the launch of two pilot programs for ride - sharing and peer - to - peer car rentals.

Bernard has long been a promoter of technology and innovation in the law, and her understanding approach to the often slower decision making processes within traditional law firm, and passionate belief in new innovations and ideas has enabled her to create successful «co-innovation partnerships», allowing lawyers to explore and experiment with pilots and give them the space to adapt and change their thinking for themselves.

A pilot scheme has already seen 4,400 families receive $ 650, TechCrunch reported Tuesday, with the cryptocurrency experiment increasing the self - sufficiency of the process and reducing reliance on intermediaries.