Sentences with phrase «rate under that measure»

Even 1973 - 74 did not rate under that measure (though it resembled the Chinese water torture).

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Under this measure, the employment rate is at a near all - time high.

The tax bill lowers the corporate tax rate from 35 % to 21 %, eliminates the penalty under the Affordable Care Act for failing to have health insurance, a narrower estate tax, and cuts the top effective marginal tax rate for S corporations to a top rate of 29.6 percent, among other measures that gives the biggest breaks to the wealthiest individuals and companies.

During the «Great Moderation» (1987 — 2006), under Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, the trend rate of growth of final demand, as measured by nominal final sales to domestic purchasers (FSDP), was 5.4 percent per year — split into real growth of 3 percent and inflation of 2.4 percent.

The change in load cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.

At the time, the best measure was the graduation rate calculated under the federally mandated methodology that was based on a six - year window and did not take transfers into account.

This is especially true if almost every time they measure the heart rate it stays under 140.

As a result of these and other measures, the county will stay under the NYS property tax cap rate for 2018, which is 1.84 %.

Under Cuomo's plan, teachers would only receive positive ratings if they received high grades on both subjective and objective measures.

Under Commissioner King's plan, New York City teachers will now have additional protections and opportunities to play a larger role in the development of the measures used to rate them.

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.

The assay can measure the lag times and growth rates of as many as 80,000 individual microcolonies in a single 24 - hour experiment, opening up a powerful new high - throughput tool to study the complex interplay between cell growth, division and metabolism under environmental conditions that are likely to be ecologically relevant but had previously been difficult to study in the laboratory.

The sensitivity measure gives an estimate of the mean area under the ROC curve, and the dissociation of sensitivity and bias avoids a misrepresentation of performance due to conflated hit rates.

Blood pressure and heart rate were also measured while the participants were under 2 minutes of stress.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

Plans by the Bush administration to set a uniform way for states to calculate and report their graduation rates could make it harder for high schools to avoid accountability measures under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Winner: Woodside Primary Academy, London Woodside was put into special measures by Ofsted in 2012, but changes made under headteacher Shane Tewes involved parents and pupils, and a remarkable turnaround now sees the school rated Outstanding.

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.

Nine others do, however, assign growth measures sufficient weight to earn a medium rating, so the news is still good compared to systems in place under NCLB.

States must identify low - graduation - rate high schools using the four - year adjusted cohort rate; the statute is silent on the graduation rate measure that should be used here even though the four - year rate must be used for goal - setting under the law.

In conducting the study, researchers with RAND convened a panel of experts on school accountability policies, reviewed published research, conducted interviews with educators and reviewed the measures employed in each state that publishes its own school ratings in addition to those required under NCLB.

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.

Our goal with this post is to convince you that continuing to use status measures like proficiency rates to grade schools is misleading and irresponsible — so much so that the results from growth measures ought to count much more — three, five, maybe even nine times more — than proficiency when determining school performance under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).

In the two previous years, 46 and 39 percent of urban schools were rated D or F. To be sure, fewer high - poverty schools will flunk under value - added as under a proficiency measure.

The basic skills tests required for entry into teacher preparation in the state — only a small part of the selectivity measures described above — have recently come under fire for being biased against African American and Latino test takers, as their passage rates are significantly lower than those of white test takers.

Chronic absences are going to be a big new part of what many schools measure under ESSA, and how they're rated.

According to the Texas Education Agency, charter schools rated under normal accountability measures had a graduation rate of about 95 percent in 2015, but charter schools rated under alternative standards had a graduation rate of less than 50 percent.

He thinks a comparison of graduation rates should only include charter schools rated under standard accountability measures.

Due to the requirement under the federal No Child Left Behind Act that each state's Title I plan must describe «the specific steps that the state education agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers and the measures that the state education agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress,» TEA formed a stakeholder group, upon which TCTA served, to develop its State Educator Equity Plan.

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.

Under NCLB, states are required to measure the differences in proficiency rates among different student subgroups.

Boosters earn a rating of BEST BET, GOOD BET, Check Fit or Not Recommended, based on a protocol that involves measuring how three - point lap and shoulder belts fit a child - size test dummy seated in the booster on a stationary test fixture under four conditions that span the range of safety belt configurations in passenger vehicles.

Our Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light quantitatively measures screen visibility and image contrast under bright Ambient Lighting — the higher the better.

The Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light is a measure of the contrast you'll see under high ambient lighting conditions.

As a result of its high Brightness and low Reflectance, the Galaxy Note 5 has a Contrast Rating for High Ambient Light that ranges from 118 to 183, also the highest that we have ever measured for any mobile display, which quantitatively measures screen visibility and image contrast under bright Ambient Light

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.

In the same way that the Contrast Ratio measures the screen contrast under low ambient lighting, the Contrast Rating specifies the relative screen contrast under high ambient lighting.

Under the Truth - in - Lending Act lenders within three days of receipt of the application must give the borrowers a Truth and Lending Statement, which disclosures the Annual Percentage Rate (APR) on the loan — a measure of the cost of credit, expressed as a yearly rRate (APR) on the loan — a measure of the cost of credit, expressed as a yearly raterate.

The central bank's president, Mario Draghi, addressed the low inflation issue by saying that the measure of inflation would remain low over the upcoming months, but he would expect it to eventually rise back to the central bank's target rate of just under 2 %.

Cost of living will likely increase at a more gradual rate under the new measure.

An option - adjusted measure of a bond's (or portfolio's) sensitivity to changes in interest rates calculated as the average percentage change in a bond's value (price plus accrued interest) under shifts of the Treasury curve + / - 100 bps.

However, even the extended repayment expectations we use to amortize debt under the D / E rates measure (10, 15, and 20 years for non-baccalaureate credentials, baccalaureate and master's degrees, and doctoral or professional degrees, respectively) do not encompass a lifetime of benefits.

In the context of an eligibility requirement related to program performance, we believe it is appropriate to hold an institution accountable for only those program charges over which it has control, and could exercise that control to comply with the thresholds under the D / E rates measure.

This proposal was designed to approximate the interest rate that a large percentage of the students in the calculation received, even those students who attended four - year programs, and to mitigate any year - to - year fluctuations in the interest rates that could lead to volatility in the results of programs under the D / E rates measure.

Although we agree that it would be appropriate for research and consumer purposes to recognize all educational loan debt incurred by students attending GE programs, we disagree with the comment that limiting loan debt under the cap would invalidate the D / E rates measure.

One final note on trading under a rate - based compliance approach: ERCs can come from any eligible generator or measure as long as they are electrically connected to the contiguous U.S. bulk power grid.

Under rate - based compliance, there will be 375 million emission rate credits (ERCs)(measured in MWh) available for distribution to CEIP projects.

It will be a long long long time before anybody notices as that is far under the error rate in measuring global temperatures.

«'' On both a monthly and annual scale, even the most stable open ocean sites see pH changes many times larger than the annual rate of acidification,» say the authors of the study, adding that because good instruments to measure ocean pH have only recently been deployed, «this variation has been under - appreciated.»

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.