Sentences with phrase «recent testing year»

The report also notes, however, that «even in the schools deemed «suburban» by the state department of education, large percentages of students were not mastering state standards in the most recent testing year.»

In three recent testing years, 33 public schools have been flagged for problems and possible cheating on standardized tests — 12 more than once.

Not exact matches

In recent years, North Korea successfully put satellites into orbit twice aboard long - range rockets in what the UN called a disguised test of long - range missile technology.

Like Tough Mudder and Warrior Dash, the endurance test has gained a ton of traction in recent years.

However, this perseverance has been severely tested in recent years by the Great Recession and subsequent tepid economic recovery.

North Korea has set off several powerful nuclear test blasts in recent years, but they all occurred deep inside a mountain.

«The leg - up in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US dollar,» he noted.

Confidently, because 1) we know exactly how our present methods, as well as our pre-2009 methods, have navigated complete market cycles across history, and in real - time prior to this half - cycle, and 2) taking both our present and pre-2009 methods to data from recent years, we also know the «counterfactual» - how our discipline could have navigated the markets since 2009, had my stress - testing decision not bared the Achilles Heel that we addressed in 2014.

In recent years statistical tests have been developed to locate mildly explosive bubble periods...

-LRB-...) Italy's political chaos, which inflamed the euro - zone crisis two years ago, could be the biggest test so far of Europe's defenses against a revival of the financial panic that has afflicted the region in recent years.

In my original article I also tested the 10 month moving average system popularized in recent years by Mebane Faber in The Ivy Portfolio: How to Invest Like the Top Endowments and Avoid Bear Markets.

Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

«Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.

The canned wine and single serve market segment has been maturing in recent years, but one reason that it has not seen a huge number of new brands might be the barriers of entry that make it hard for small and mid-sized brands to test the segment without a huge commitment.

Even in recent years, the eye test tells me Portugal is far more dependent on Ronaldo.

You as a visitor know it is going to be a tough task to play against technical Arsenal sides and it was always a big test for us but we seemed to have success in recent years.

He was a relief pitcher of distinctive rhythms: deep, snoring naps in the bullpen that stretched through a game's first five innings; languid ninth - inning strolls to the mound that tested the patience of even the most unalloyed baseball purists; an endless, silky windup that uncoiled fastballs that until recent years hit 100 mph.

The South African runner has been subjected to gender testing in recent years, which has caused her to withdraw from -0 and then be reinstated into — international competition.

Teams taking the covers off their new cars through online reveals or pit lane launches have become pretty common in recent years, but while people go mad for the updates on social media, it'd be cool to bring the fans closer to the new cars with reveals at the circuit itself, perhaps the day before the first test.

This is the second race Alonso has missed in recent times, when he didn't take part in last year's Australian Grand Prix following his mysterious winter - testing crash at the Circuit de Catalunya.

But the trend of recent years shows that teams which are fast in testing tend to at least be up there in the races, too.

In recent years, there have been a handful of positive tests for blood doping techniques like EPO that have ravaged cycling.

II runners - up to Bishop O'Dowd - Oakland last year, and fell to the Dragons in a recent rematch, but no other Northern California team has provided much of a test for St. Mary's over the last five years.

While Christmas time is crucial for a team's season, for Chelsea in recent years, their big test has been November.

But, what's interesting is that many teams will face their familiar teams as many have played already in last season, while in recent years many of them have tested each other on several occasions.

Baseline pre-injury and post-injury neuropsychological or neurocognitive testing is now commonplace at the professional and collegiate level, and has become more and more common at the high school level as well, with a recent study showing computerized neuropsychological testing being used to assess fully 41.2 % of concussions at schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff in the 2009 - 2010 year, [2] an increase of 15.5 % from the 25.7 % of concussions in which such testing was used in assessing concussions during the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Instead, I voted to approve the draft standard because, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization - the governing body for both the men's and women's game - has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

The new standard is likely more a function of the fact that, without an established standard in place to regulate the headgear that has come on to the market in recent years (none of which, according to US Lacrosse, has been developed based on scientific testing, and none of which the organization has endorsed), consumers are essentially «buying a pig in a poke»: in other words, without a clue as to whether the product they are buying has any safety value at all.

I've had many many blood tests over recent years but unfortunately this was one of the few that my (needle - phobic, rather squeamish) husband was also at.

While computerized neuropsychological testing has become increasingly popular in concussion management in recent years, its use, particularly the need for baseline NP testing, remains controversial and, if anything, the trend appears to be away from recommending routine testing of all athletes, or even all athletes in contact or collision sports with a high risk of concussion.

neuropsychological testing has become increasingly popular in concussion management in recent years

However, the N.Y.U. researchers knew that in recent years, trainers working with athletes in sports such as boxing and mixed martial arts, where concussions are common, had begun supplementing the Standardized Assessment with a simple vision exam, known as the King - Devick test, during which someone reads slightly jumbled lines of numbers printed on three cards as quickly as possible.

Many of the methods have been tested for hundreds of years, while others are more recent.

Rolling Meadows has been broadcasting a magazine show on Continental Cablevision's Channel 6 for about a year, including air time for candidates in recent trustee races, but Buffalo Grove just started testing the waters this month with its round - table talk show - minus the round table.

In recent years, DNA tests designed for genealogists have been used by adult adoptees to identify biological relatives.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) may have weathered a storm in recent years as they fought to make powersharing work, but they now face a tough test to make progress in Northern Ireland's Westminster elections.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

This year, Teacher Appreciation Week comes amid a daily drumbeat of criticism of the recent grades 3 - 8 English - language - arts and math state tests — and of standardized testing in general.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

The vote — an abrupt about - face in policies pushed by Cuomo and the Regents in recent years — was the latest in a series of state responses to rising public opposition against Albany's direction on school curricula, testing and educator evaluations.

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.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

While there has been appreciable improvement in Nigeria's electoral process in recent years, every election no matter how small usually serve as a litmus test towards...

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday announced that the state has been more efficient in recent years at testing evidence in DWI cases.

In recent years, as many as 20 percent of students across the state opted out of these tests, led by parents and teachers who criticized the way the state handled standardized testing.

It is a campaign Cuomo waged from the start of his tenure as governor in 2011, but eased off of in recent years due to significant backlash from teachers unions, suburban parents upset by high - stakes testing, and others, like AQE.

The tests have become controversial in recent years after being tied to teacher evaluations and the new learning standards, prompting many parents to skip them in protest.

The agency failed to conduct required lead - paint testing for four years — and Olatoye lied to the feds about it, a recent report by the city Department of Investigation revealed.

Revelations that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration knew about elevated levels of the toxin PFOA in the water in Hoosick Falls a year and a half before they warned residents has led the Assemblyman who represents the village to call for a federal investigation, as well as a public forum to explain to residents the results of recent blood tests.