Sentences with phrase «rigorous setting»

It was an academically rigorous setting where all us knew why our classmates were there.

One of Facebook's key business innovations is a «growth team» — today made up of hundreds of people — that designs tactics for various parts of the company, relying on a rigorous set of metrics to gauge success.

The New York City area, with its many interest rate - sensitive industries, has prospered when decision - makers in the public and private sectors could have confidence that the Federal Reserve was committed to a rigorous set of policies that promoted price stability, in a growth - oriented economic environment.

The standard is a rigorous set of environmental, social, and economic criteria that promote sustainability on farms around the world.

To ensure superior quality, we evaluate each prospective member against a rigorous set of criteria to ensure brand - safe content, quality aesthetics and compelling calls to action.

The Evenflo Tribute LX passes a rigorous set of tests to make sure it is safe for your child.

Burstein said part of the funding will be used to develop a rigorous set of pain management and opioid prescribing guidlines for health care providers.

UFT representatives filed suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court today to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from creating a new and less rigorous set of certification standards for some of the state's charter schools.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

She passed a rigorous set of exams and was chosen for China's team for the International Biology Olympiad, where she won a gold medal in 2004.

Thorold Theunissen, a postdoctoral fellow in Jaenisch's lab and co-first author of the study, says «Our work provides a rigorous set of criteria for comparing naïve human stem cells to their counterparts in the early human embryo.

To become a Licensed Naturopathic Doctor one must complete a Bachelors degree with a pre med emphasis, a 4 year post graduate medical degree in Naturopathic Medicine, pass a rigorous set of board exams, and stay current on continuing education requirements as well as in good standing with their professional licensing board.

They developed two rigorous sets of Educational Standards for both Nutrition Consultants and Natural Chefs.

To ensure superior quality, we evaluate each prospective member against a rigorous set of criteria to ensure brand - safe content, quality aesthetics and compelling calls to action.

They aim to establish a rigorous set of academic achievement benchmarks for all kindergarten through 12th - grade students.

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Teachers need their own version of boards — a rigorous set of requirements that would include exams of content and pedagogical knowledge, observations of teaching, and examinations of students» work — which would certify teachers as having successfully completed their training and earned their membership into a demanding and highly skilled profession.

A federal judge is questioning whether a new exam for aspiring teachers in New York is discriminatory against minorities, a case that could derail the state's efforts to create a more rigorous set of tests for entry into the profession.

However, just in case you need a little clarification, the Common Core State Standards are a rigorous set of state - driven educational standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that were designed to bring consistency to student expectations in kindergarten through 12th grade.

The unifying reason for the changes is the end of the No Child Left Behind era and the national move toward a more rigorous set of standards for what students are expected to know at each grade level, said Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW - Madison.

«This is a much more rigorous set of expectations,» Cook said.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

With CEL's help, Shelby County not only interviewed candidates, but took them through a rigorous set of tasks: developing a 10 - minute presentation on the role of the ILD; evaluating a teacher based on a videotaped lesson; creating a professional development plan for a principal based on a case study.

In assessing Civil Rights in the USA 1865 - 1992, the challenges for the Early Tudors and the nature of early 20th century Russian turbulence, our A-level students follow a balanced and rigorous set of topics as part of their OCR course.

To accomplish this, it's essential that our teachers have a rigorous set of standards to guide them.

The state of Washington, where I was educated from home for several years, has a rigorous set of standards for home - school families.

DeVos could simply require that states use that money to expand voucher programs and then reject grant applications that spell out too rigorous a set of academic standards for private schools that benefit as a result.

Uses personalized action planning, resource allocation, and coaching / consultation — based on a rigorous set of outcomes for each design phase — as the mainstay of its programmatic model

E3 Rochester used a rigorous set of criteria developed with the advice and guidance of major national foundations and charter school experts.

In a remarkably short period of time, 45 states and the District of Columbia have come together around a more rigorous set of college and career - focused common state standards, reflecting a «ground up» effort to establish important baseline expectations associated with the knowledge and skills that are demanded in today's (and tomorrow's) workforce.

The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core.»

The Common Core standards for language arts and math are a more rigorous set of standards for all kids to reach.

The Center was asked by the state of Illinois to lead the state Legislative Task Force on School Leader Preparation, resulting in a 2010 law which closed all existing Illinois principal preparation programs after 2012 and required programs to reapply for a new P - 12 state Principal Endorsement under a far more rigorous set of outcome - based criteria.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, which counts more than 800,000 teachers as active members, blames Race to the Top, and its «fixation on data and testing,» for squelching the enthusiasm that initially accompanied a new, more rigorous set of common standards.

To ensure that our warnings are properly documented, and also to screen out fake complaints or writers» sour grapes, we maintain a fairly rigorous set of standards for data collection.

Credit card companies operate under a far more rigorous set of repayment requirements.

Graham channelled his strategies into a rigorous set of rules to be checked before any money was committed to a new investment.

Also, ETFs must accommodate a much more rigorous set of transparency requirements than mutual funds, which means that more information about the fund's size and portfolio are readily available to individual investors.

We adhere to a rigorous set of standards when evaluating a potential home.

The VCS employs a rigorous set of criteria to ensure that actions taken by project proponents actually did preserve the forest, and CCB provides further tests to ensure the project doesn't harm people or habitat.

Passive house standards are a rigorous set of design standards for buildings that require little to no energy for heating or cooling.

185 and 186 which impose a different and more rigorous set of requirements for the authorization of the interception of private communications.»

Google, if you want your M&A contracts to be free of shortcomings of the sort manifest in the Google — Motorola merger agreement, I suggest that you enlist some like - minded companies and form a consortium to create a rigorous set of document - assembly M&A templates.

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Because the popularity of the BlackBerry exploded, the company didn't have the ability to set up a rigorous management structure in which everyone had clear responsibilities.

Contractors routinely go back to their clients with demands for more money to cover unexpected complexities in the building process; Gillam has set up rigorous risk - management systems to provide more accurate cost estimates.

Psychologists noticed this too and set about proving that this everyday insight holds up under rigorous scientific scrutiny.

I don't like pouring over every fine detail and setting up a rigorous schedule to follow in Microsoft Excel.

So Bloom set out to conduct his own, rigorous study.

There's no set formula, but the most recent rigorous study into the issue, the 2008 WorldatWork survey, found 80 percent commission and 20 percent salary was the most popular formula.

MSCI Style Indexes categorize value and growth securities using clear and consistent sets of attributes and a rigorous methodological framework.