Sentences with phrase «reports measure progress»

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The Report measures our progress toward reconciliation against five dimensions: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance.

Launched by Reconciliation Australia, the Report measures our progress toward reconciliation against five dimensions: race relations, equality and equity, institutional integrity, unity, and historical acceptance.

Not exact matches

According to a Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Report, fewer than half of all companies in the Harvard survey said they measured employee progress toward a goal.

While Japan has made progress on economic participation and opportunity for women — one of the report's four gender equality measures — it's seen a reversal in women's political empowerment.

Then, figure out how to extract reports from your data sources that will measure your progress towards these key performance indicators.

It's not enough to set targets, you also have to determine how you'll measure and report progress against them.

They're not our pathway to God, or our status updates to the Most High, our measuring sticks or progress reports, our star charts in the sky.

report every five years to the Murray - Darling Basin Authority on the achievement of environmental outcomes at a Basin scale, by reference to the targets to measure progress towards the environmental objectives in Schedule 7 (Basin Plan Schedule 12, item 7).

She noted that CSWA's program recently marked its first decade with publication of a 2012 Progress Report and the third edition of the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook and release of a new Performance Metrics tool for measuring vineyard and winery use of water, energy and applied nitrogen, and greenhouse gas emissions.

RMAC is responsible for the development of the Meat Industry Strategic Plan (MISP) which provides the overarching strategic framework that enables the direction, measuring and reporting of overall industry progress for government and industry stakeholders.

Smurfit Kappa's sustainability report, which measures year - on - year progress with a focus on five priority areas (Forest, Climate Change, Water, Waste and People), shows that over the past ten years the packaging giant has also achieved a significant reduction in the amount of waste sent to landfill and has invested $ 60 million in water treatment plants.

We report annually on our CR program and initiatives, including our progress against the United Nations Global Compact principles and our measures to prevent modern slavery.

This second annual progress report assesses advances by governments and companies over the past 12 months relative to a three - step approach for reducing food loss and waste: target, measure, and act.

Given the magnitude of food loss and waste globally, the report recommends nations, cities and businesses in the food supply chain move quickly to set reduction targets, measure progress and take action to reduce food loss and waste.

Below is a quote from Page 12 the report about the progress in improving breastfeeding rates and malnutrition in Maharashtra mainly due to measures such as increasing well trained staff and sustained political commitment.

In its address to the Assembly, IBFAN cited the progress made in establishing effective measures to implement the International Code, as documented in its 1998 report, State of the Code by Country.

OLAF was invested with a broad remit covering investigation, facilitating co-operation between states, providing technical assistance, preparing progress reports to the Commission, and suggesting proposals for new measures to tackle fraud.

The newspaper reports that a website measuring their progress against a voluntary target to cut sugar by 20 % within five years is one of the options being considered.

The Obama administration released a lengthy report this morning on the progress individual states have made on the implementation of the health care law approved in 2009 and, rather impishly, quotes Republican Sen. James Seward saying the measure has the backing of business.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

«Use this report as a way to measure the progress and better address the issues that remain,» he urged.

«That this house notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters, and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian causalities; using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government's will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.»

On Governance, the report noted that, although the Office of the Special Prosecutor was established to help combat corruption and Public sensitization carried out in 2017, little progress was made on other anti-corruption measures on governance issues in the first year.

Adding to a system that includes ELA and Math tests from 3rd to 8th grade, the New York State Report Card and AYP ratings (Adequate Yearly Progress), New York State is incorporating the new Annual Professional Performance Review or «APPR» which measures teacher performance based, in part, on standardized state tests.

In addition, adds the report: «The lack of a detailed plan or management information meant that the department has never been able to measure its progress effectively against what it is trying to achieve.»

Many researchers have reported recent progress in identifying possible blood biomarkers for concussion — an advance sought because diagnosis is currently limited to cognitive measures that can be subjective.

The report's authors conclude that continued and expanded measures are necessary if progress is to continue.

The concordat commits organizations to a number of measures to increase the visibility of their operations and requires them to report annually on their progress.

«These reports give us benchmarks about the recent past, and green yard sticks to measure progress in the future.»

The National Low Emissions Coal Council, which advises Australia's ministries, in its recent progress report said the cost of climate measures «is increasingly being built into companies» investment planning decisions.»

The new study supports previously reported data showing that corrective measures, including switching back the city's water source and instructing residents to use filtered water for drinking and cooking, made significant progress in children's blood lead levels.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress should be broadened to gauge how American youths are faring on a range of academic, social, health, and cultural indicators, contends a report that calls for new measures of educational outcomes and equity.

The reports nearly always present a rosier picture of the student's progress (and by implication of the teacher's effectiveness) than other measures might reveal.

Meeting here a week before the National Education Goals Panel was scheduled to decide what its first «report card» would look like, the President's panel discussed ways progress toward the six national goals should be measured.

The participants agreed at that time to establish an independent, nongovernmental body to measure and report annually on the progress being made to achieve these commitments.

In March 1996, the nation's governors met in Palisades, N.Y., and called for an «external, independent, nongovernmental effort» to measure and report on each state's annual progress in raising student achievement and improving the public schools.

Throughout the year, we teachers are required to write up reports that document our progress, incorporating data measuring student and professional growth, evidence of professional collaboration and contributions, and snapshots of successful and extensive family engagement.

Schools should be permitted to use multiple, locally created assessments instead of «one shot» tests to measure student progress for accountability purposes, according to a report released last week by a panel of experts convened by the Forum on Educational Accountability, a group that includes some of the most vocal critics of the 5 - year - old No Child Left Behind Act.

Hard to choose but I think my favourite article from last year was either he interview with Andreas Schleicher on the impact of technology on learning outcomes (Research Files 14) or the story on how Nossal High School has shifted their reporting practices away from A-E grading and towards progress measures (Removing grades from student reports).

States are required to measure the extent to which all students have highly qualified teachers, particularly minority and disadvantaged students, adopt goals and plans to ensure all teachers are highly qualified and, publicly report plans and progress in meeting teacher quality goals.

A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

A 1995 study by Carl Glickman, a University of Georgia professor, of 820 high schools and 11,000 students reported that schools in which active learning methods were predominant had significantly higher achievement as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational 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 educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»

In this report, we use 2007 test - score information to evaluate the rigor of each state's proficiency standards against the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), an achievement measure that is recognized nationally and has international credibility as well.

But Summit has reported first - year results for SLP partner schools: Growth on the Northwest Evaluation Association's Measures of Academic Progress (NWEA MAP) exceeded national averages in reading and, very slightly, in math.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

This allows teachers to objectively measure and report on each student's progress, and provide appropriate interventions or enrichment as needed.

American students lag academically behind their European counterparts largely because they lack any real incentive to achieve and because schools have no benchmarks against which to measure student progress, a report by the American Federation of Teachers says.

Child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on an individual child from one or more valid and reliable assessments of a child's status and progress, including but not limited to direct assessment, structured observations, checklists, staff or parent report measures, and portfolio records or work samples.