Sentences with phrase «require early testing»

These infants require early testing — and thyroid testing is included in the standard heel stick test for various health issues that most newborns undergo.

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«If testing were required in all of these cases, PFOA in the Village of Hoosick Falls water system would have been detected much earlier.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

While thousands of public housing tenants were told last year that lead paint inspections were necessary, the city did not disclose the reason: It had stopped doing the required tests four years earlier.

State Education Commissioner John King reversed an earlier decision requiring 36 schools to give the tests to kids as young as 4.

Electrophysiological testing to measure peripheral nerve conduction properties is not a viable alternative because current methods lack the sensitivity required to detect damage to small, unmyelinated fibers, especially in early stages of disease.

A DNA test could provide sex information earlier in the pregnancy than an ultrasound can, but would require lab analysis.

And results still won't be required for early trials, known as phase I, which test a product's safety.

Plant drought - tolerant species in years with strong El Niño forecasts, particularly during Pacific Decadal Oscillation warm phase; plant trees that require sufficient water during establishment in La Niña years and during Pacific Decadal Oscillation cool phases Focus planting more in spring as fall planting becomes more difficult with reduced soil moisture and test different planting timings as springs shift earlier

Both assessments test spatial learning and require proper activation of the hippocampus, a brain structure that is one of the regions affected earliest in Alzheimer's disease.

Diseases of the retina may offer an early test bed for hiPSC - derived cells, in the form of retinal pigmented epithelium, given the relative isolation of the tissue, and the small number of cells required [14].

The site offers the right settings required for gay dating, the profile section is quite detailed, and a matchmaking system is complemented with a personality test, which also makes a great icebreaker in early conversations.

Commercially - operated schools and colleges running minibus transport will need to operate with a PSV Operator's licence (only issued by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), previously known as the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), and all drivers will be required to hold a full PCV D1 entitlement and a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (DCPC), which as stated earlier can only be obtained by passing a second test in a minibus.

Catherine Snow: Incorporating Rich Language in Early Education Educations Funders Researchers Initiative, November 18, 2013 «Taking on the task of improving reading skills, for all children and especially for those scoring at the bottom of the skill distribution, requires three simple things: first, we must provide all children with experiences designed to ensure a broad knowledge base and rich language before entry to kindergarten; second, we must redesign post-primary instruction to focus on discussion, analysis, critique, and synthesis; and third, we must redirect resources from testing children to assessing what is actually going on inside classrooms,» writes Professor Catherine Snow.

In the early 2000s, educators were facing a deluge of data generated by tests required by the No Child Left Behind Act.

Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham told ABC News the compulsory tests would not be «confronting», but an assessment that allows parents, teachers and students to ascertain if early intervention is required.

Even though controversy has sprung up around the new International Early Learning and Child Well - Being Study, our 2017 EdNext poll found that 48 percent of parents support requiring students in publicly funded preschool programs to take state tests.

Even though controversy has sprung up around this new test, our 2017 EdNext poll found that 48 percent of parents support requiring students in publicly funded preschool programs to take state tests of early reading and math skills.

Test - score gaps open up early, so sending a message to students that readiness for college requires studying hard and mastering certain material has to be part of the program.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

The report of the Committee to Study Certification, released earlier this month, also details recommendations to raise the state's certification standards and improve the quality of the teaching ranks, such as by requiring periodic testing of teacher candidates during their training.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James C. Chalfant had ordered L.A. Unified to show that it was using test scores in evaluations by Tuesday after ruling earlier this year that state law required such data as evidence of whether teachers have helped their students progress academically.

Implementing the Smarter Balanced assessment system includes teaching parents and educators about how assessments work, communicating early and regularly about testing, and shifting curriculum and instruction to reach the depths of learning students require.

Some states not only tested children in grades 3 through 8, as NCLB required, but started testing children in the early grades and in prekindergarten to ready them for the testing that began in the third grade.

After the evaluation deal collapsed, other dominoes fell: earlier this year, the Board of Regents, led by opt - out ally Betty Rosa, did away with a rule requiring potential New York teachers pass a literacy test.

So, for assessments that are used for formative or interim / benchmark purposes, alignment to the standards will require that tests include items that are likely to be taught and mastered early in the instructional sequence as well as, items that reflect the highest levels of mastery for that standard.

Analogous to the Common Core standards incentivized by Race to the Top and the federal mandates for statewide standards and tests required by the 1994 version of the ESEA, there is a rapid spread of statewide or federal early learning standards and early childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizatearly learning standards and early childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizatearly childhood assessment incentivized by the 2011 and 2014 Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizatEarly Learning Challenge (ELC) Grants and mandated by the 2007 Head Start and 2014 Child Care and Development Block Grant reauthorizations.

Earlier versions of the bill required the use of state test scores, drawing opposition from teacher unions.

As Barnes & Thornburg partners Kyle Kirwan and Scott Witlin argue in the brief (and in an earlier demand letter to the district), the Stull Act required L.A. Unified to use data from the state's «criterion reference test» in evaluating teachers.

Earlier this month, the Utah State Board of Education voted to seek a waiver from an ESSA provision that would require the state to count students who opt out of statewide testing as zero scores for school accountability purposes.

Before the early 1970s, the Dallas school district was not required to give the Iowa Test of Basic Skills exam to minority students.

Although, states will still be required to test students annually in mathematics and reading in grades three through eight and once in high school, as per NCLB's earlier provisions.

Regulation 8 VAC 20-131-80 of the Standards of Accreditation requires that schools shall maintain an early skills and knowledge achievement record in reading and mathematics for each student in grades kindergarten through grade 3 to monitor student progress and to promote successful achievement on the third grade Standards of Learning tests.

Content Test Requirements: North Dakota requires early childhood education candidates, who are licensed to teach elementary grades through grade 3, to pass the new Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) tTest Requirements: North Dakota requires early childhood education candidates, who are licensed to teach elementary grades through grade 3, to pass the new Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) early childhood education candidates, who are licensed to teach elementary grades through grade 3, to pass the new Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) Early Childhood Education (5025) testtest.

Those get added to a series of diagnostic tests the state requires for early grades, starting in kindergarten.

It does not appear that early childhood teacher candidates are required to pass a content test.

This was because early versions of SB 1403 contained provisions that would have eliminated the minimum salary schedule, required annual appraisal of all teachers, and required that the commissioner adopt an evaluation framework that set the stage for a tying teacher evaluations to student test scores.

Require all early childhood candidates who are eligible to teach elementary grades to pass a subject - matter test designed to ensure sufficient content knowledge of all subjects.

Although the state requires appropriate testing for elementary teachers teaching on an elementary certificate, North Dakota creates a significant loophole by not holding early childhood teachers who teach elementary grades to the same requirements.

North Dakota requires early childhood education candidates, who are licensed to teach elementary grades through grade 3, to pass the new Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) early childhood education candidates, who are licensed to teach elementary grades through grade 3, to pass the new Praxis II Early Childhood Education (5025) Early Childhood Education (5025) test.

But earlier this week, Governor Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education, Dianna Wentzell, told the Hartford Courant's Kathy Megan that the decision about whether to follow the SBAC Test Protocol when it comes to whether children who have been opted out are required to remain in the testing room is a «local management decision.»

The Standards of Accreditation Regulation 8 VAC 20-131-80 requires that schools shall maintain an early skills and knowledge achievement record in reading and mathematics for each student in grades kindergarten through grade 3 to monitor student progress and to promote successful achievement on the third grade SOL tests.

Earlier this week Rep. James «Jimmy Boy» Edming, R - Glen Flora, introduced a bill that requires Wisconsin students to correctly answer at least 60 of 100 questions on a civics test that is drawn from the exam people seeking U.S. citizenship must take.

Unfortunately the vast majority of hip surgeries are performed on mature dogs that have developed severe arthritis, are painful, and have not responded adequately to medical management since early detection of hip dysplasia can be quite difficult and require specific tests.

Dogs can be tested as early as puppies, but a prerequisite is required.

The history and clinical signs can help, but an earlier confirmatory diagnosis is usually required based upon laboratory testing.

Many of the chronic diseases in senior dogs and cats are slow to progress, therefore early recognition is important and requires diagnostic tests.

Dogs must be at least 12 months to be eligible for testing, but it is never too early to begin preparing for the required exercises.

When cats are finally are brought to the vet, their illness may then require more diagnostic tests and treatments than if their illness had been caught early.