Sentences with phrase «stop using the test»

Vermont's State Board of Education followed with a resolution carefully reviewing the evidence on testing; calling on the federal government to reduce testing mandates and to stop using tests to evaluate teachers; and calling on state and national organizations to broaden educational goals and ensure adequate resources for schools.

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The Washington Post suggested on Wednesday that it may change its drug policy so as to stop testing staff members for marijuana use.

Falsely linking morality to a particular religion or to some political or military ideology is a time - tested «three card trick» uses to stop people from asking the hard questions which might lead to an abandonment of the relevant faith.

That was a very interesting read many comments caught my attention I've recently been diagnosed with Bipolar I have hallucinations and hear voices in my ear's when I hallucinate it's likes they are trying to get me thousands of them I can only describe them as dark shadows and they are trying to get me just as they are about to get me a brilliant white light surrounds me and there's three entities humanly shaped but like this brilliant white light they are also glowing this brilliant whiteness I can't understand what they are saying the only way I can explain it is emotions comfort joy love is what I feel emanating from these entities the voices I hear aren't evil telling me to do bad things to people when I get put into a mode of fear I live in a rough area of Scotland and everytime I've got into a fight something possesses me I know this for a fact as I can't control myself I'm an observer watching my family / Friends say I change they say my eyes change and I look evil I personally do think possibly through my own personal experience I» am possessed as I act out of character I've lost interest in many things I've recently I decided it's time for change I've lost my faith I've been trying to connect with God and feel his love which I used to feel the presence of the holy spirit everytime I try connect I get a feeling of abandonment I just think if I am possessed could these entities stop me connecting with «God» I can say from my heart of hearts «JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN THE FLESH» I think it's more to do with the persons own personal fears which I have noticed my fears have changed if I had to be truthfully with myself I fear God which I know I'm not supposed to just I can't explain it I guess if you ever need a test subject I'm up for the challenge like I said I'm on journey to find myself and my travels have brought me hear I'm going to hang around for a wee while there's lots of good information to be plundered loll

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions about the transparently silly aspects of the faith (s).

Falsely linking morality to a belief in the supernatural is a time - tested «three card trick» religion uses to stop its adherents from asking the hard questions.

The fast - food chain also stopped using margarine on its breakfast sandwiches, started testing kale in breakfast bowls and remove hard - to - pronounce ingredients from the grilled chicken.

Unfortunately I stopped using stevia (you can read why in this post) so I can't test the recipe using it.

Apart from permanently stopping the field testing of Bt talong, it also declared the Department of Agriculture's administrative order No. 8 - 2002 null and void resulting to a halt on the application for field testing, contained use, propagation and importation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pending the promulgation of a new administrative order.

This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks at a moderate pace without prolonged rest, instead of sprinting from rest stop to rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.

Arsenal, who conduct their own medicals after they stopped using an outside company, will thoroughly test Higuain's joints, muscles, blood, and respiratory system.

What does trouble me is BPI's use of a raw material which by its very nature is highly pathogenic, such that we all might be endangered in the case of human error (as when BPI's ammonia system stopped working for sixty seconds in 2009, leading to 26,000 + pounds of infected meat)(http://nyti.ms/56MIYK) or a new strain of E coli — not part of BPI's admirably advanced testing protocol — emerges (as one did in Germany last summer, killing 345 and sickening 3,700 +.)

In September 2010, CPSC and FDA issued a strongly worded warning urging parents to stop using this product and rely on tested methods to reduce the risk of SIDS — back sleeping, bare crib, non-smoking household among others.

Choose an obstetrician or health care provider Interview potential doctors Contact health insurance company about coverage Start and pregnancy and birth budget Discuss financial effects of pregnancy and baby with partner Stop smoking Stop drinking Stop using street drugs Talk to your physician about any prescription medications Drink at least 8 glasses of water every day Visit the doctor at least once per month or every 4 weeks Do not dye or perm hair Stop drinking coffee and other caffeinated beverages Exercise daily Start taking prenatal vitamins Eat foods rich in folic acid Eat iron rich foods Increase daily intake of whole grains, fruits and vegetables Nap as much as possible as fatigue is common Eat fish with low levels of mercury no more than 2 days per week Do not eat undercooked meats Do not eat unpasteurized dairy producs Do not eat cold cut deli meats Allow someone else to clean out the kitty litter, if applicable Limit exposure to chemicals Try to limit stress and tension Complete all prenatal tests — HIV, Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, Anemia, Blood Typing, Sickle Cell Anemia, Urine Screening and Rubella.

Finally, we perform a set of industry standard safety tests, along with our own proprietary tests for braking and stability, to weed out any models that might topple over or fail to stop during use.

He said the Regents were attempting to «delay» the rating system, but the proposal would not have stopped the evaluations or removed testing from the evaluations; rather, it would have stated explicitly that educators could use a Common - Core defense during disciplinary proceedings, an option unions said was already available to teachers and principals.

«It's time the government stopped blaming parents and accepted the case we've been making for a new focus on teaching reading using tried and tested methods, with a test after two years in primary school to ensure our children are being taught properly.»

No rapid, reliable test for previous dengue infection is available, so the new guidelines mean that the vaccine can't be widely used; that could lead the company to stop making the vaccine.

These new markers and tests could also be used to assist in treating drug dependence, in determining appropriate therapeutic levels of medical marijuana, and for monitoring women who want to stop using cannabinoids during pregnancy.

The study, published in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, provides evidence that using the non-invasive technology as a first - line test can rule out the need for further liver tests, and could stop patients having unnecessary biopsies.

Using an extinction protocol, which is similar to exposure - based therapy, the researchers repeatedly presented the tone without the shock to test whether the mice could unlearn the association between these two events and would stop freezing in response to the tone.

To identify the brain regions involved in canceling a decision, the new study recruited 21 subjects for a modified «stop signal task,» a commonly used neuroscientific behavioral test that involves canceling a planned movement.

The next step will be to test it with live cells and the researchers hope eventually to, for example alleviate pain, stop epileptic seizures, and reduce the symptoms of Parkinsons disease, using exactly the required dose at exactly the affected cells.

One is using cells derived from human embryonic stem cells to treat spinal cord injury (although funding problems have stopped the trial enrolling new patients) and another is testing a treatment for age - related macular degeneration.

Yet tests, clearly, have not stopped its use.

Should I stop using it during the test?

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I think this came together kind of symbiotically in a sense that we had started to test and play around with the thought of doing some stop motion clay stuff, LCB saw us working on it and proposed the idea of doing a music video for them using that medium.

A German psychologist is developing a test that he hopes can help to stop psychopaths from using online dating services.

It tells the chronological account of his career and his amazing stop motion animation and the film that they were in, using a combination of interviews from Harryhausen, photos, old test footage, concept art, original props, film footage, and interviews from other prominent directors, authors, and historians.

They've stopped trying to use tests to improve schools, realizing this strategy makes as much sense as trying to improve government by giving legislators a multiple - choice test.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

Their movement may not stop the use of the tests.

The state, which promised to improve education school accountability in its Race to the Top grant, has since stopped publishing the results in anticipation of the state's new teacher evaluation process, which will use student test scores to rate teachers.

It is time that we stop testing students using antiquated fill in the bubble» forms, and begin to align our assessment methods with standards that will better prepare students for college and careers,» Bonilla said in a statement Thursday.

Now, if we could just get schools and districts to stop using standardized tests — which have ALL THE SAME PROBLEMS — for such high - stakes purposes as student promotion and retention, graduation, and teacher evaluation, we'd really be getting somewhere.

Her team's plan was to stop doing their benchmark tests using a -LSB-...]

The school districts changed course after the Sewerage and Water Board questioned the testing method, the lab that would analyze the results, and the lead level that would cause them to stop using water from a particular water fountain or faucet.

The tests are not designed to place a criminal label on an offender but to serve as an intervention to help put a stop to teens who have decided to use drugs, The substances that will be detected in the tests include Meth, cocaine, marijuana, oxycodone, ecstasy and pharmaceutical - strength steroids.

Unfortunately, the US Department of Education has ruled that the district has to stop using this system because the system does not link its ratings of teachers to student test scores — a condition of Maryland's federal «Race to the Top» grant.

Test scores have been dismal and the state tests have drawn opposition from families who questioned the amount of testing at school — part of a national movement that has prompted some states to stop using the PARCC exams.

In addition, as Anne Manusky points out, the Connecticut legislature should stop funding the failed SBAC testing program and use those funds to preserve some of the vital services that Connecticut's most vulnerable citizens need and deserve.

It's been one of the biggest dramas of this spring's legislative deliberations, with momentum building for several bills that would slow, if not stop, the state's use of new testing tied to the Common Core standards in evaluating teachers and schools.

In addition, the State Board failed to use their meeting as a venue to instruct a group of local school superintendents to stop forcing children who have been opted out of the test from being required to stay in the SBAC testing rooms during the testing periods.

The state tests have drawn opposition from families who questioned the amount of testing at school — part of a national movement that has prompted some states to stop using the PARCC exams, which are based on Common Core standards.

Excellent teachers getting «developing» regardless that their students have IEPs, are special needs or are English Language Learners and have difficulty with testing... But the beat of bullying administrators, harassment, and the demand for data continues... And nowhere do I see our union leaders apologizing for supporting this agenda and calling for an immediate stop to its use.»

As Connecticut policymakers confront a large and growing state budget deficit, veteran Hartford educator James Mulholland correctly recommends that the $ 17 million in taxpayer funds that are being wasted on the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme should be used, instead, to stop the disastrous cuts that will actually hurt and limit opportunities for Connecticut's poorest children.

Some states have decided to stop administering the new Common Core tests, while others have chosen to walk away from using the Common Core standards altogether.

Amplifying the Call to Stop the Use of Test Data for Educator Evaluations (At Least for Now)

Despite repeated requests that they use today's State Board of Education meeting to instruct Interim Commissioner of Education Wentzell and her senior staff to stop misleading parents about their fundamental right to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Test, the state board failed to address the issue in any way what - so - ever.