Sentences with phrase «said about evaluations»

The meeting was notable not for what Wakelyn said — his comments hewed closely to what the governor has said about evaluations in recent weeks — but because it happened at all.

Yet the Bible does have much to say about evaluation.

Not exact matches

He said Verizon is «absolutely evaluating (the breach) and will make determinations about whether and how to move forward with the deal based on our evaluation of the materiality.»

The title sets the question of Christian evaluation of homosexuality in a different context from a title such as: «What does the Bible Say about Homosexuality?»

You Said:» «as we discuss different religions as we do here on the blogs, making strategic evaluations about people and groups, without over-generalizing and labeling them, is a useful and valuable skill to have»... Of course that's true.

There's a lot to be said good and bad about life in the rural South, and a fair evaluation would find both progress and decline in the exurbs.

Like, I'm going to be wrong about players projections sometimes, but I was pretty sure I wasn't wrong this time, and calling him a bust was kinda like saying my evaluation skills were trash.

«Zubi's transfer policy has not been popular,» said Barcelona blog Barca Blaugranes about their director of football's firing, «and his talent evaluation skills were subpar.»

She spoke with parents, students, teachers, and school and district leaders to hear what they had to say about the State's learning standards, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and principal evaluations.

«If I were a betting person, I would bet that part of the regulatory language that we will put forward by June 30 will include a process by which we will have an ongoing conversation across this state about how to improve evaluation,» Tisch said.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

Lifton said she began hearing Monday afternoon and evening about Cuomo's plan to tie districts» increase in state aid to their ability to negotiate a new evaluation plan and obtain state approval by November.

Following a three - year study that involved about 3,000 teachers, analysts said the most accurate measure of a teacher's effectiveness was a combination of classroom observations by at least two evaluators, along with student scores counting for between 33 percent and 50 percent of the overall evaluation.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

If New York State is serious about improving education, it must move forward with a better teacher evaluation system,» said Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

The governor said he's open to temporarily changing the state's teacher - evaluation system to account for concerns about the Common Core, but said a full moratorium would be «overkill.»

That said, there has been an about 180 - degree about - face on the governor's part when it comes to the controversial Common Core curriculum, the opt - out movement and linking test results to teacher performance evaluations.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said state leaders might leave any concerns about teacher evaluations to the State Board of Regents, an education policymaking panel.

«I think it's fair to say about Common Core that we all agree that we need real standards for our students, a meaningful teacher evaluation system.

«I would bet that part of the regulatory language that we will put forward by June 30 will include a process by which we will have an ongoing conversation across this state about how to improve evaluation,» Tisch said.

He says there may be disagreements about implementation and the teacher evaluation law, but the Common Core standards themselves are beneficial to students.

Regent's Chancellor Emeritus Robert Bennett echoed King saying the state will continue to tweak the standards as necessary and advise the legislature about changes to the teacher evaluation law.

«It is a comment and a sentiment that should not have been expressed and should not have in any way, shape or form be part of this important and complicated debate about teacher evaluation and I was proud to sign onto the letter,» Quinn said.

«The teacher evaluation moratorium just delays the implementation of a fundamentally flawed policy that is more about punishing disadvantaged communities than educating their children,» Jones said.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Mulgrew has become so irate about Bloomberg and Black's statements about eliminating seniority privileges that he withdrew his name from an agreement he and Black signed saying they would work collaboratively on hiring, evaluation and retention issues.

«The BTF looks for whether he follows through on returning control to the local districts as opposed to control by the state,» he said, pointing to concerns about teacher evaluations and the role of charter schools.

«Regarding rumors about teacher evaluation, there are a number of proposals floating around and none of them have been agreed to,» DeRosa said.

State Department of Education commissioner Maryellen Elia said in a statement that her office is currently reviewing the new law and has «a number of questions» about evaluations, assessments and accountability.

Dr. Tisch said she believed that the anger about the standards was stoked by the state teachers» union, which fought the evaluation system, and noted that most of those who opted out came from wealthier suburban districts.

She said this is not about teacher evaluations or over testing.

«Never once did anyone say to me anything other than, «We have to think about the evaluation system.

Flanagan said his colleagues «have a deep and abiding concern» about Cuomo's original proposal for amending the evaluation system, which would have increased the ratings» reliance on standardized testing to 50 percent.

«Most of the people who do talk about it, they're not actually doing an evaluation of the science,» Jacobson said.

«If there are [budget] cuts, the rules... and the process should be clear,» says Carlos Fiolhais, a researcher at the Center for Computational Physics of the University of Coimbra who wrote about the evaluation extensively on his blog De Rerum Natura.

NIH officials were mum about the number of cases and most other details but said at least one violation involved «reciprocal favors» — a term that typically means an applicant offered a favor to a reviewer in exchange for a favorable evaluation of a proposal, or vice versa.

Federal law requires that the administration undertake a formal evaluation of the rule before a decision is made about whether to rescind the regulation, the senior official said, adding that the review would likely take a «long time to get through.»

«Most of the time, when people talk about delaying gratification, they talk about basic processes of evaluation and self - control,» said Laura Michaelson, a CU - Boulder doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and co-lead author of the new study appearing in the online journal Frontiers in Psychology.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

«Booster seats seem less technical and complicated than installing an infant seat, which may lead parents and families to worry less about using them incorrectly,» says senior author Michelle L. Macy, M.D., M.S. of the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit (CHEAR).

«Early referral to transplant evaluation and access to information about living donor kidney transplantation is key to a successful timely transplant and to improved long - term outcomes,» says Mark Stegall, M.D., a professor of surgery at Mayo Clinic and senior author of the manuscript.

«Before use in clinics, tremendous evaluations about the safety of the material are needed,» he says.

In a 23 May debate about collaboration between academia and industry, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said he was worried about the impact of Valeca's decisions and expressed his full support for having researchers from abroad on the research councils and grant evaluation committees.

Although hair loss is common among American - American women, Dr. Lenzy says, this problem often goes undiagnosed because patients don't know they should visit a dermatologist for evaluation; the vast majority of survey respondents (81.4 percent) indicated that they had never seen a physician about hair loss.

That is the question facing a new panel to be assembled by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) in Amsterdam, a composite board of many of the world's national scientific bodies, such as the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S. «This will be an independent review,» says physicist Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the IAC co-chairs, about the evaluation requested by the U.N. and the IPCC.

Lynn says she takes the evaluations «very seriously» and talks to the students about the evaluations to get more feedback and specifics.

That said, as the purpose of NSS is to inform student choice and provide reassurance about the quality of UK higher education, it really shouldn't be long until any useful evaluation of distance learning considers LMS reliability and usability, the quality of course materials such as e-books, HD videos, case studies, and audio files, as well as the level of tutor support and supervision received.

Some rich folks get concerned about testing, President Barack Obama makes a speech, says there is too much testing, and states start rolling back not just testing but also the evaluation systems tied to it.

The evaluation found teachers were anxious about providing sources of evidence and in focus group interviews they said they opted for face - to - face activities because they could get a certificate of attendance and they knew this was a valid source of evidence.

Our own evaluation studies have shown that in small schools students say their teachers know them better, care about them more, and have higher expectations of them.

The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked conversations about effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that teachers say makes their work more appealing.