Sentences with phrase «report card grades of»

In April, several leading organizations issued a report card grade of D + to your administration on the issues of climate change and energy.

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The board's researchers gave Canada a grade of D on an innovation report card, putting it 14th among 17 industrialized nations, placing behind the likes of the United States, Japan and Germany.

ManuelJesus Bautista, Governor, Central Bank of Honduras won an «A» grade in Global Finance's annual Central Banker Report Cards 2017.

Ever since ASCE began issuing its «National Infrastructure Report Card» in 1998, the nation has gotten a dismal grade of D or D +.

Because this was an update to Budget 2017 - 18, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade did not issue a letter grade or report card.

VANCOUVER, B.C. — On behalf of its thousands of Members across the Lower Mainland, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade has assigned an overall grade of «B» on its 2017 Federal Budget Report Card.

The feature allows one to view the grade «A» report card of the little girl Holmes had declared an imbecile, and optimistically concludes that «one can never predict where genius will arise.»

When I was a kid I went to the kind of elementary school where there was no homework, no tests, no report cards, no grades (are you still with me?)

Whether your child has one bad grade or an entire report card of bad grades, it's important that you demonstrate to your child that you still care.

Instead of focusing on one bad grade or even a report card full of grades, try to point out the positive aspects of your child's report card.

Up until about the sixth grade the child's progress is monitored not by way of tests and report cards.

Regardless of the grading system that your child's school uses to report on student learning, there are some universal truths about modern student report cards that every parent needs to know.

New York got mixed grades on its annual cancer prevention report card, which pointed to serious deficiencies in funding for smoking cessation programs and failure to enact strong policies on indoor tanning salon use, an affiliate of the American Cancer Society said.

In 2012, the Public Advocate's office collected and scrutinized information on more than 10,000 FOIL requests, resulting in a «Transparency Report Card» that graded each of the City agencies on their adherence to the law.

While each program may have its own method for tracking this, some suggestions are to develop relationships with the staff at the schools you serve, to speak with teachers or counselors about your youth, to request youth participants to bring in a copy of their report cards, a call home to parents, or having youth self - report if they have successfully moved on to the next grade level.

Lujan received a score of 42 out of 100 in the 2012 report card for a grade of D - according to the Goldwater Institute's grading scale.

Barto received a score of 67 out of 100 in the 2012 report card for a grade of B + according to the Goldwater Institute's grading scale.

The lowest grade on New York's report card was a D - for roads and the group notes that 45 percent of Syracuse's roads are in poor or mediocre condition.

The American Society of Civil Engineers issued gave New York's infrastructure and gave an overall grade of C - on its 2015 report card.

He cited a «report card» from the American Society of Civil Engineers, which earlier this year gave the nation's infrastructure a D + grade, then declared that failing is no longer an option.

Gould received a score of 74 out of 100 in the 2012 report card for a grade of A - according to the Goldwater Institute's grading scale.

In addition, the state Department of Financial Services will post on its website a report card on insurance companies, grading companies on the number of claims handled and closed, average home inspection times and the number of consumer complaints, among other factors.

Allen received a score of 71 out of 100 in the 2012 report card for a grade of A - according to the Goldwater Institute's grading scale.

On the 2013 Report Card, 31 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico saw improvement in their preterm birth rates between 2011 and 2012, earning seven — Alaska, California, District of Columbia, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky and New Jersey — better grades.

This map shows each state's grade on the 2013 March of Dimes Premature Birth Report Card.

The percentage of 12th graders taking courses in biology, chemistry, and physics since 8th grade increased to 41 % in 2015 from 34 % in 2009, said Mary Koppal, Project 2061's communications director, citing the most recent results for science from the National Assessment of Education Progress, which serves as a national report card on student achievement.

Just in time for Valentine?s, Harlequin publishing has released their 2012 Romance Report card with the resulting grade of,?

For just the second time since we started grading the studios in these annual report cards, one of the six majors finished the year with an average Metascore of 61 or higher (the cutoff we use to indicate generally positive reviews from critics).

This year's grades are listed below, and they have something in common with report cards from previous years: the major studios are nowhere near the head of the class.

On a first - ever report card of its kind, 13 out of 20 states earned a grade of C or lower for the quality of the standards they have set to assess whether teachers now in the classroom have adequate knowledge of subjects they teach.

In the midst of the last - mnute dash to complete curriculums, administer exams, update grade books, and complete report cards, few teachers have time for time for — or an interest in — attending professional development sessions.

Several years ago, the superintendent of a school district in Pennsylvania, proposed that teachers issue report cards grading parents on how involved they are in their children's education.

Instead of focusing on the grade, have them discuss what their parents will feel if they brought home a successful report card or how would they feel if they could make their parents proud.

Students receive not simply a letter grade on their report cards but also a breakdown of their performance in terms of the eight intelligences.

A parent in the ECS analysis observed that one report card provided «not much reference or explanation of the «B» grade.»

Thirty Chicago public schools agreed to hand out the parent report cards along with student grades last week, in an effort led by United Neighborhood Organizations of Chicago.

I have seen apathetic students change to students who are excited, enthusiastic learners; students who were failing every subject become engaged in learning and making better grades; students who, in the past, avoided talking with me about their grades, come... waving their report cards in their hands to show me their improvement; students who thought of themselves as incapable begin to think of themselves as capable learners; and students who thought that dreams were for others, begin to dare to dream about the world outside their school and community and how they can contribute.

Choosing this test as a basis for considering the impact of high - stakes tests on students in the 4th and 8th grades (ages 9 and 13, respectively) is a sensible idea, because the validity and reliability of NAEP, often called the «nation's report card,» are well accepted.

The school uses two student - led conferences in place of report cards, said Teresa Glenn, an eighth grade humanities / reading - writing workshop teacher.

Federal law also mandates the periodic administration of tests in selected subjects to a representative sample of students in 4th and 8th grade as part of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often called «the nation's report card.»

As the New York Times notes, these encouraging results stand in stark contrast with those from the Grey Lady's own «analysis» of the effectiveness of the principals from the APP, an analysis which was based on the district's A-through-F report card grading system.

When she announced her intention to overhaul the school report cards last year, Fariña promised «the first balanced picture of a school's quality,» one that «reflects our promise to stop judging students and schools based on a single, summative grade.»

With 85 percent of a school's grade based on test scores — and 60 percent of the total based on test score growth — the report cards, for good or for ill, left little room for doubt that testing was king.

In its latest «report card» on the subject, the health watchdog group graded the nutritional quality of the elementary school lunches served in 18 of the largest school districts participating in the federally funded National School Lunch Program.

We enter students grades into the systems report card feature, explained Principal Teri Stokes of Weatherly Elementary School in Huntsville.

On its surface, the question of report card reform in the elementary grades is a simple one: What format will provide the best information about a student's progress?

But it also includes entries like the School of Arts and Sciences in Tallahassee, Florida, which features interdisciplinary learning, portfolios, and multi-age classrooms, and does without grades, report cards, or kids sitting in rows.

On the Nation's Report Card's main tests, 4th and 8th grade reading and math scored gains in 49 of 50 states.

Today, report cards featuring each of those reporting formats — skills» lists, letter grades, and teacher narratives — can be found in schools across the country.

Finally, in the latter half of this century, as issues of competition, comparison, and self - esteem were raised, some elementary schools began to replace the letter grade report card with one featuring teacher comments and individualized assessment, in which students were evaluated according to standards that reflected their achievement in relation to their own effort and ability.