Sentences with phrase «standard benchmarks on»

We were in the upper tier of states, meeting nine out of 10 quality standard benchmarks on a well - regarded rubric from — guess who?

Not exact matches

Brent, the ocean - going tanker standard, shot up to US$ 116 on fears of supply disruptions, even as West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the North American benchmark, had not yet crossed the $ 100 threshold.

But even on that benchmark their interpretations vary — evidence, perhaps, of the depth and complexity of the legal questions raised with the finalization of the Labor Department's new fiduciary standard.

Hybrid indexes may be on the rise but the traditional benchmarks — the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the Dow Jones Industrial Average index or the Barclays Bond index — still dominate.

Accordingly, these plan sponsors will be required to understand the EHB benchmark standards for the state in which their plan operates in order to review their plan to ensure that it does not illegally impose lifetime and annual limits on EHBs.

This year, 252 employers scored high enough to earn honors — the top 150 workplaces, ranked based on employee feedback scores and by size — and another 102 National Standard Setters, which exceeded a national benchmark but didn't score high enough to crack the rankings.

«Investors and originators alike tend to use the 2001 - 2003 mortgage origination vintages to establish underwriting standards and to benchmark base case default expectations on newly originated loans.

«Borrowings are from financing subsidiaries of ExxonMobil Corporation and carry interest rates based directly on industry standard benchmarks including a risk - based spread.

While many industry benchmarks, food laws and standards exist, our mission is to deliver on your brand promise by leveraging our expertise in manufacturing science, advanced analytics, emerging issues management, and vendor supplier relationships.

[126] Nevertheless, given that independent retailers must compete with major supermarket chains in their vicinities, particularly Woolworths and Coles stores, Metcash encourages the independent retailers it supplies to «benchmark» their standard shelf prices according to the standard shelf prices charged by Woolworths or Coles, particularly in relation to «key value items» that represent particular products whose prices are known and used by consumers to assess the value on offer from a particular store.

To meet GFSI benchmarking requirements, FSSC 22000, a certification scheme based on the food safety management standard ISO 22000 - 2005, adopted Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 223, which provides guidelines to implement prerequisite programs and design requirements for manufacturers dealing with the packaging of food products and beverages.

You will ensure that all your units, lessons and materials focus on the Language Arts standards and benchmarks.»

According to Standard and Poor's Global Platts benchmark for Gasoline and Gasoil, prices of both products recorded increments on the international fuel market.

Announcing the joint collaboration on the irtec scheme, Nick Jones, Chief Executive, SOE, said that a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organisations now paves the way for improved skills levels and greater recognition of a benchmark standard of competence in the commercial vehicle and passenger transport maintenance and repair industry:

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

The project focused on the rights to health and to food, and the background research on the environmental factors affecting the realization of particular human rights became a resource for the human rights and environmental communities undertaking the development of standards, benchmarks, and indicators.

Instead of a concrete curriculum or a test that students must be able to pass, the science and engineering standards lay out benchmarks for what concepts students should know at particular grade levels, each year building on those before it.

On 29 September, IBM's «Blue Gene» knocked NEC's Earth Simulator from first place in the world rankings, performing at a speed of 36,000 gigaflops (36 teraflops) during a standard benchmark test.

Today, Sentient released five papers and a web portal reporting significant progress in taking this step, focusing on three areas: (1) DL architectures are evolved to exceed state of the art in three standard machine learning benchmarks; (2) techniques are developed for increasing performance and reliability of evolution in real - world applications; and (3) evolutionary problem solving is demonstrated on very hard computational problems.

We validated FFId based on a public benchmark dataset, comprising a yeast cell lysate spiked with protein standards that provide a known ground - truth.

But then it goes on to say something about «modernizing the teaching force, benchmarking academic standards, and aligning assessments and creating new models for math and science education.»

Base projects directly on state benchmarks as well as career - readiness standards for engineering and technology.

The President also called on parents to insist that states and school districts provide ways of showing how children are doing compared to national standards and international benchmarks.

But whatever one thinks of NAEP's definition of proficiency, nothing in Harvey's article begins to touch on the central point of our essay: U.S. states, by committing themselves to implement Common Core State Standards, have promised to set standards benchmarked at international levels, while in fact they have put into place actual standards at diverse — and embarrassingly low — proficiency levels.

Previous reports (most recently «States Raise Proficiency Standards in Math and Reading,» features, Summer 2015) show that states, on average, established proficiency benchmarks that were much lower than those set by the NAEP and that state standards varied widely.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Instead of comparing students to each other, based on arbitrary timetables, students can be compared against performance standards and benchmarks.

«In the United States, now we're talking a lot about international competition, internationally benchmarked standards and so on.

From the other side of the political spectrum, Harvard's Caroline Hoxby, a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education, has also proposed benchmarking against NAEP, with the added wrinkle that states with tougher standards would receive extensions of the deadlines in NCLB.

After they gave the formative assessment halfway through — a ten - question assessment modeled on the upcoming benchmark exam — they analyzed the results and planned how to reteach the components of the standards students were struggling with.

Quality standards: A set of agreed - on benchmarks that after - school programs identify as being important to their success.

Many districts have also developed benchmark exams that are given a few times a year to measure students» progress towards mastering these power standards; that way, schools don't have to wait until August to find out how students did on the big, standardized state tests.

A first - year teacher had 87 percent of her fifth graders benchmark on three standards.

With the ADP benchmarks and recommendations in hand, states can set the right standards and put students on pathways to success.»

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

Many conservatives signed on to a clever strategy that asked them to endorse, not the specific standards, but the idea of high «internationally benchmarked» national standards.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

When North Carolina implemented new curricular standards back in 2010 (which included the Common Core), educators anticipated that test scores would drop when students were examined for the first time based on these new benchmarks.

Utilizing a benchmark assessment based on standards provides teachers with a baseline for where students are individually as well as where the class is as a whole at selected checkpoints throughout the year.

She also commented on the mediocre quality of Common Core's English language arts / reading standards in grades 6 - 12 and their lack of international benchmarking:

Instead of focusing on what we expect of our students upon graduation, the discussion of standards has become complicated by political agendas, teacher evaluations, school rankings, the challenges of computerized test platforms, and a myriad of topics that distract from the original goal, which is to establish benchmarks for student learning.

Other efforts to embrace Common Core State Standards include classroom assessments based on standards, student and parent conferences and MAP, the district's universal screener / benchmark assessment, to support more differentiated instruction and identify students for targeted supports.

«Many times precious time is spent on teaching the fundamentals of learning, from holding a pencil correctly to learning basic personal hygiene, yet we find a way to still teach the grade - appropriate standards and benchmarks,» she wrote.

The poll also suggested that Americans still aren't sold on the Common Core State Standards, a set of internationally benchmarked standards in math and English adopted by 45 states.

In the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the «Race to the Top» Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $ 350 million of the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund to support states in the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by states.

Usually administered on a regular, preplanned schedule, they evaluate student progress on common content standards, or benchmarks, that students must master to be on track to reach end - of - year learning goals.

Only 2.7 % of students who failed to meet a basic third grade English Language Arts (ELA) standard went on to meet or exceed the benchmark in eighth grade.

The teacher has standards and expectations based on achieving projected «benchmarks,» but the learner does not achieve the benchmarks, even when the teacher tries to add stronger reinforcement for reading faster.

The standards — which are internationally benchmarked and based on the National Research Council's Framework for K — 12 Science Education — identify science and engineering practices and content that all K — 12 students should master to be prepared for college, careers, and citizenship.

For these analyses we focused on the 14 states providing standards and benchmarks at the individual grade levels K - 3.