Sentences with phrase «quality measure under»

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Our factories are maintained under strict quality assurance measures & manufacturing processes are certified under accepted international / country specific, quality & safety standards.

The foundation measures years of potential life lost before age 75; quality of life examines physical, mental and overall health, as well as the percentage of babies born with birth weights under about 5.5 pounds.

The scientists studied Sotheby's vintage rating — a 100 - point scale used to measure wine quality in which a vintage scoring above 90 is deemed «excellent to superb» and a score under 40 signifies a disaster — and compared the trends to climate records.

Budimirovic and colleagues graded tool quality for dozens of diverse outcome measures under the above - noted three areas.

HealthyTokyo matcha is all organically grown under the JAS symbol in Kyushu, Nishio in Aichi and Shizuoka, so you can rest assured you are consuming matcha of the highest quality and grown with the strictest measures available.

Looking across our analyses, we see that under IMPACT, DCPS has dramatically improved the quality of teaching in its schools — likely contributing to its status as the fastest - improving large urban school system in the United States as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Considering the fact that school buildings need to be fit for purpose in order for staff to deliver quality and innovative teaching, he looks at the case of the first school built under the PSBP, which he notes as of December 2014, is still in Special Measures.

Holding schools accountable for student attendance is ramping up under the Every Student Succeeds Act, as most states so far intend to use some measure of attendance (or absence) as an indicator of school quality.

They show that 1) Different academic indicators measure very different aspects of school performance, suggesting that states should be allowed and encouraged to make full use of multiple measures to identify schools in the way they see fit instead of reporting a summative rating; 2) The ESSA regulations effectively restrict the weighting of the non-academic «School Quality and Student Success» indicators to zero, which is not in the spirit of the expanded measurement; and 3) The majority of schools will be identified for targeted support under the current regulations, suggesting the need for a clarification in federal policy.

Under the NCLB Extended approach, embraced by many on the education reform / civil rights Left, achievement would continue to be measured by proficiency rates alone (with rising annual goals for what is good enough); growth data would be used sparingly and / or focused on «growth to proficiency»; «other indicators of student success or school quality» would be minimized; and evidence of achievement gaps would sink schools» ratings significantly.

Under the new Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), states must establish accountability systems that measure student success or school quality.

Getz, who was one of 50 principals who signed a letter to New York Education Commission John King citing concerns about the quality of the spring 2013 assessments, hopes policymakers will acknowledge that standardized test scores are imperfect measures of what students are supposed to learn under the new standards.

If testing remains, as it has been under No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, the primary measure of a quality education, then once again it is the students, their families, communities and ultimately the nation that will be saddled with the fallout of a narrow and alienating curriculum.

This study found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

The Hamilton Project authored a report recommending the measurement of chronic absenteeism as ESSA's fifth indicator, which the authors identify as a choice states must make under ESSA to measure «school quality or student success.»

Standardized test results have been the defining measure of student achievement and school quality under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Looking up and down, we are measuring school improvement under their current management compared to schools that were of similar quality.

Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning calls for replacing the one - shot tests used to impose sanctions under NCLB with multiple measures that better support high - quality teaching and increased student achievement.

Under ESSA, in its recent draft proposal, New Jersey has included chronic absenteeism as a benchmark for its accountability system for measuring school quality, climate and safety.

Under the Every Student Succeeds Act, states have more freedom to measure school quality and performance — including the selection of a nonacademic «school quality» indicator.

The analysis in this brief considers all measures that qualify as measures of school quality or student success under ESSA — regardless of state plan organization or labeling — as this type of indicator.

Under the old law, No Child Left Behind, the only measure of quality was the percentage of a school's students who scored at the proficient level on state tests.

Under this broader vision, states should use some indicators to classify schools; others to inform local decisions about resources and supports; and all measures to ultimately support classroom teaching and learning, school quality, and student success.

Under ESSA, states must hold schools accountable for student performance in English language arts, or ELA, and mathematics; a second academic indicator, such as growth in ELA and mathematics; progress in achieving English language proficiency; high school graduation rates, if applicable; and at least one measure of school quality or student success.

CTAC research found that students whose teachers crafted high quality SLOs outperformed their peers and showed significantly greater gain on two independent measures of student achievement at all three school levels during all years under study.

States would be encouraged to create more, high - quality charter schools under a measure that got a bipartisan stamp of approval from the House Education and the Workforce Committee today...

The long - standing K — 12 academic standards developed by individual states have come under increasing scrutiny and criticism because of the standards» varying quality and the resulting wide disparities in student proficiency as measured under No Child Left Behind and highlighted by National Assessment of Educational Progress scores.

Under the dazzling LED lighting of the «Quality Workshop» sat an unpainted Panamera body shell and chassis, every shutline measured and logged with the panel gaps marked in black pen every six inches or so all over the car.

The higher the measured Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light for a display, the better the image contrast, image colors, screen readability, and overall image and picture quality that you'll see under your actual real viewing conditions, both indoors and outdoors.

A new report by The Century Foundation's Yan Cao examines how on three measures of higher education quality — graduate employment outcomes, student financial distress, and institutional investment in education — for - profit colleges in New York are under - performing when compared to the state's public and nonprofit schools.

One man who has a rare amount of experience in retrofitting heat pumps — and no commercial involvement in a heat pump company — is Tipperary Energy Agency CEO Paul Kenny, who has overseen the installation of scores of heat pumps into energy upgraded homes in the Tipperary region and beyond under the Superhomes scheme, along with other energy efficiency measures including airtightness, insulation upgrades and the installation of mechanical ventilation systems, combining cost - effective energy efficiency, comfort and indoor air quality.

The Council is under intense pressure to demand that all law schools adhere to metrics measuring quality legal education.

The only schools that can survive under this measure are the cut - rate, poor quality online courses that couldn't care less about you and your safety on the road.

Under the program, Fannie Mae personnel conduct trainings for servicers» call center employees, provide scripting for interactions with homeowners and help implement ongoing quality control measures.