Sentences with phrase «recent point assessment»

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In the most recent assessment, the City has stated that they have redefined project boundaries to minimize impacts on the abandoned Mill Creek channel, but they haven't addressed the more important point — what about the impact of the project on potential efforts to re-animate the channel in the future?

After increasing their policy rates by 125 basis points and 150 basis points respectively in the current cycle, market participants expect that the tightening cycles in both the UK and New Zealand are close to an end, although in both cases, recent inflation data have caused some participants to revise that assessment.

They also pointed out how the education department has made recent adjustments to standardized testing, such as reducing the number of questions and testing time on state assessments for students in grades 3 through 8 this school year, and receiving a federal waiver to stop «double testing» in math for seventh and eighth graders through a combination of state and federal testing.

He points out, however, that the EIA's most recent assessments of the total amount of gas that can be recovered from major shale gas areas, formations such as Marcellus and Texas's Barnett, have fallen rather than risen.

This sector of Antarctica has long been identified as the most vulnerable to changes in climate and, according to recent assessments, its glaciers may have passed a point of irreversible retreat.

A recent literature review of PBL (Condliffe, Visher, Bangser, Drohojowska, & Saco, 2015)(PDF) and the work of educational researchers and practitioners point to three approaches that have potential to enhance authenticity and rigor in PBL through assessment.

Klein's opponents also point to recent data on charter schools that show, as a whole, less than stellar results on Common Core — aligned English Language Arts assessments.

For example, in 2013 (the most recent NAEP data) African American students in Massachusetts scored 277 on the 8th grade NAEP mathematics assessment, 14 scale score points above the national average for African Americans.

The most recent state assessment results show that the achievement gap between African American and white students is 30 percentage points for 3rd grade English Language Arts and 33 percentage points for Algebra 1 — two academic benchmarks often used to project college and career readiness.

Administrators can further support teachers» effort to close the gap by providing common preparation time for teacher teams or subject - area specialists, ensuring that professional development is aligned with the goal of improving student success, and providing time at staff meetings for a focused look at results of recent assessments (perhaps by subject area as a starting point).

An analysis of the most recent assessment of 74 education systems around the world offers some interesting points about how teaching is viewed in top - performing countries.

Acknowledging it has struggled in the past, but with PSC support and recent appreciable gains on state assessments, Howenstine Principal Maritza Nunez pointed out the future looked promising.

This comparison provides more positive results than the recent Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) findings, which has skeptics pointing to the difference in countries compared — some countries compared in PISA analysis but not in TIMSS include Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, and countries compared in the TIMSS assessment but not in PISA include Armenia, Botswana, Ghana, Iran, Kuwait, and Syria.

2) There are numerous evidential lines of causation of the recent warming, pointing to natural variation too, but proper assessment of them has been excluded from the policy making process by those who only want one side of the story to be heard by policy makers.

Blanchard's assessment of the viability of a ban illustrates how the debate has advanced far in recent months to the point that a ban is being seriously contemplated.