Sentences with phrase «standard as a measuring»

The BabyBjorn travel crib is gold standard as it measures 32» x 44» x 24» so it can be used through toddlerhood.

Nutrient density increased with the new standards as measured by mean adequacy ratio of 58.7 (range, 49.6 - 63.1) before policy implementation and 75.6 (range, 68.7 - 81.8) after policy implementation.

Senior Deputy Commissioner John King said, «The data shows that schools responded to the assignment they were given — they worked hard to help students achieve standards as measured by the state tests that were being given at that time.

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

In addition, the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

In 1999, the state legislature amended the law, named after the late Republican state senator John Stull, to require that «the governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: the progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Evidence of effectiveness in teaching the state's academic content standards, including the common core and English language development standards as measured by more than one year of summative and formative assessment data.

«44662 (b) The governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: (1): The progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

In the realm of standards alignment, the performance outcome objective is generally described as demonstration of «proficiency» on the established standards as measured by the state test

Two sections currently mention the use of the tests in teacher evaluations: «44662 (b) The governing board of each school district shall evaluate and assess certificated employee performance as it reasonably relates to: (1): The progress of pupils toward the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a) and, if applicable, the state adopted academic content standards as measured by state adopted criterion referenced assessments.»

Students not at grade level standards as measured by SAGE, DIBELS, and Galileo.

The first two steps ensure that the schools serve all their students well, by using the state proficiency standards as the measuring benchmark.

But surely the juxtaposition of Common Core scores with my school's longstanding track record of producing college - ready students indicates that there is something wrong with the Common Core standards as measured by Common Core - aligned tests.

Clovis and Sweetwater are the only two districts with evaluation forms that «appear to meet all the pupil progress requirements of the Stull Act, including both progress of pupils toward district - adopted and, if applicable, state - adopted academic content standards as measured by state - adopted criterion referenced tests,» the report states.

In school districts with higher percentages of high - need students, smaller shares of students meet or exceed either the new Common Core standards as measured by the SBAC, or the old standards as measured by the CST.

We find that there was the most movement of district scores from the old to the new test among schools that were in the middle of the distribution for the share of high - need students, with a 70 % lower share meeting the standards as measured by the SBAC in comparison to the CST.

We encourage and promote quality in the breeding of pure - bred Boston Terriers, and to do everything possible to bring their natural qualities to perfection, by urging members and breeders to accept the Breed Standard as the measure of excellence.

Although there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes overcrowding, data presented below uses the Canadian National Occupancy Standard as a measure.

Rather than using perfection or a comparison to someone else's high standard as a measuring stick, we are trying to use simplicity as one of our main standards for making decisions.

Not exact matches

We used to consider total number of deals in the pipeline as a standard measure for evaluating sales progress — it turns out, a different metric, pipeline velocity, was actually a much better predictor of monthly and quarterly numbers.

«Since 1850 UK living standards, as measured by GDP per head, have risen roughly 20-fold, a huge gain.

Trump would also instruct the US trade representative to notify Mexico and Canada of the administration's intention to propose amendments to the deal, which, as CNN reported, «could include measures on currency manipulation, lumber, country - of - origin labeling and environmental and safety standards.»

And so their success or failure shouldn't be measured by the same standards as the tech giants, either.

Consumers have high standards for their experience on mobile, and ineffective desktop formats such as banners, interstitials and auto - play pre-roll ads aren't measuring up.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

As for last week's market activity, Jones said that on Thursday we saw a five standard deviation (that's a volatility measure) kind of movement in one day.

Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

These measurers do not have a standard meaning prescribed by GAAP and therefore they may not be comparable to similarly titled measurers presented by other publicly traded companies, and should not be construed as an alternative to other financial measures determined in accordance with GAAP.

Gold has always been the primary standard by which we measure value, thanks to its continued demand as a currency, store of value and speculative asset.

International trade, as measured by our standard global trade statistics, is not the only way for companies to exploit integration opportunities.

It's important to understand that the USCI isn't a random concoction of data, but rather the gold standard for measuring current economic growth, as it summarizes the key coincident economic indicators used to determine the official start and end dates of U.S. recessions; namely, the broad measures of output, employment, income and sales.

To obtain these estimates, each borrower's maximum borrowing capacity is estimated using a measure aligned with APRA's prudential standards and conservative assumptions where possible (such as around minimum expenses).

A 2014 Standard & Poor's report found that «corporate issuers see green bonds as an alternative financing avenue, offering access to a diversified investor base, plus a means of implementing and maintaining efficiency measures considered environmentally sustainable.»

That is why we have zero growth in multifactor productivity (the standard measure of the commercialization of innovation) over the past three decades, as reported by Statistics Canada.

«As measured by standard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 indexstandard deviation, the iShares Gold Trust, an ETF that owns physical gold, has been more volatile than the Standard & Poor's 500 indexStandard & Poor's 500 index.»

It suggests that macroeconomic policies can and have provided a measure of counter-cyclical stabilisation, but that they can't serve as a magic bullet to achieve sustained growth in living standards.

I'm not even sure where the standard of 40 hour weeks came from and there is nothing special about 40 hours that made us choose that as our measuring rod other than it's a standard that is already in place.

After the third longest bull market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key trend - following components within our measures of market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.

They measure changes in analyst earnings forecast dispersion (standard deviation divided by mean) based on data from I / B / E / S as the difference between current dispersion and dispersion two months ago.

These widely used measures of house prices are all less than fully satisfactory in that the quarterly movements are influenced by compositional changes and contain significant lags in recording transactions; the lags arise because most standard indices record prices as at the date a transaction is settled, which is well after the price was determined by agreement on a contract.

As opposed to a standard model of swapping out servers every two years as a preventative measurAs opposed to a standard model of swapping out servers every two years as a preventative measuras a preventative measure.

It compares the return above the risk - free rate earned as compared to the corresponding risk assumed by the portfolio, as measured by standard deviation.

It has become standard to verify tax returns as a quality control measure, according to Strent.

As Matthews explains, the thresholds for individual tax brackets are adjusted according to chained CPI, a lower measure of inflation than standard CPI, which is used currently.

Basic economy is one prong of a broader effort by the largest U.S. carriers to bolster revenue from each seat flown a mile, a standard industry measure that has been battered for about a year, partly because of fare wars with discounters such as Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines Holdings.

Also newsworthy was that members of the committee opined on asset valuations more directly than usual: «Some participants viewed equity prices as quite high relative to standard valuation measures.

Powell has said he wants to keep the U.S. economy from overheating, encapsulating the concern for traders: that the Fed's rate increases might halt the upward trajectory of U.S. stocks that have surged more than 70 % over the past five years, as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.

That Canada still has one of the world's largest economies (15th by some measures) and as high a standard of living as almost anywhere is of less interest to the doomsayers.

His 1875 work, «Money and the Mechanism of Exchange,» defines the four functions of a currency: as a medium of exchange, a measure of value (or unit of account), a standard of deferred payment, and a store of value.

The number of people below the poverty line, measured in terms of minimum necessary nutritional standards, is said to be going down and yet malnutrition as well as severe physical debilities and destitution are on the increase, especially these affecting women and children, the simple physical capacity of the youngest generation to withstand the strains of living becoming ever more unstable and fragile.»