Sentences with phrase «test pilot schools»

Training at test pilot schools is required for this role.

Pilots at the US air force test pilot school flew this supersonic T - 38C jet to the right place at the right time so that NASA could capture this photograph of the jet's shock waves.

He is also a Flight Test Engineering graduate of the USAF Test Pilot School, a registered Professional Engineer, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School and the Defense Systems Management College, Program Manager's Course.

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Working both with innovators and researchers across the various schools of the University as well as promising startups from around the country, Dr. Rao helped guide and refine the process for vetting and integrating pilot programs to test new technologies within the clinical venue.

In addition to the Barrow Brainbook education module, the full program piloted by the five Bay Area high schools will incorporate a formal exam, which students will need to pass before beginning a sport, as well as ImPACT cognitive testing.

A school in North Carolina just tested a pilot program to alleviate traffic at school drop - off.

Those are, I think, serious issues that groups like the Rudd Center should be discussing with representives of school food service professionals, who, as we speak, are swarming over Capitol Hill trying to convince their lawmakers that this particular provision of the child nutrition re-authorization should be put on hold and pilot tested.

A pilot procedure to test a hot lunch program at two elementary schools was approved this week for Indian Prairie School District 204.

Secondary school pupils across England and Wales could face random drug testing after a pilot scheme was found to help children resist peer pressure.

Three Long Island schools were selected as among the best in two states — New York and Colorado — in a pilot program honoring campuses that «put students, not test scores, first.»

That's a pilot program in ten Buffalo schools, testing serving foods from local farms and suppliers in the lunch room.

Richard Platt of Harvard Medical School, leader of the ongoing Mini-Sentinel pilot program (a testing ground and warm - up for the larger Sentinel Initiative), hopes that hd - PS will accurately sniff out health concerns, or else put them to rest.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

Bogie is a WWII bomber pilot who goes from running a flight school to testing a top secret new fighter jet.

In September 2013, after the pilot testing, 468 schools showed up for the beginning of the first Arete fall competition, and Kelley soon had 10,000 kids on the platform weekly.

We advised the School Food Plan's Standards Expert Panel and pilot tested the new standards with schools and caterers.

During the four - year pilot period, A + schools showed growth on North Carolina's accountability tests, relative to the state, as well as improvements in organizational capacity and community partnerships, and increased channels of communication.

It is based on the beliefs that: • Evidence is most powerful when generated locally • To be useful, evidence must be generated quickly and cheaply • Piloting and testing should be a natural part of the way that school agencies make decisions.

Rather than bet their legacy on a single idea such as universal pre-school or school choice, Kane argues that state policymakers should use the ESSA evidence requirements to create the infrastructure for piloting and testing interventions.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

The Delaware Performance Appraisal System, or DPAS II, has been pilot - tested in two districts since the 2005 - 06 school year.

We had 25 high schools participate in the pilot administration of the OECD Test for Schools (based onschools participate in the pilot administration of the OECD Test for Schools (based onSchools (based on PISA).

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

If California wants to simply identify underperforming schools on the state's dashboard, as its accountability plan suggests, or if Arizona wants to allow schools to use any standardized test that fits their needs rather than a statewide test, as ESSA's pilot option also allows, DOE should move out of the way of these state laboratories.

«This school year we are engaged in pilot testing, because we have to show that the tool is useful in the classroom to gradually convince teachers.

It would sponsor the creation of innovative designs, pilot test them in a select group of schools, and decide whether they were effective enough to warrant wide dissemination.»

The CORE is a consortium of nine California school districts that implemented a pilot to create a comprehensive accountability system by assessing school performance through a variety of measures that go beyond academic achievement tests.

It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»

If charter schools are to increase achievement through competitive forces, that theory must be pilot tested.

The tests are set to be piloted in approximately 80 primary schools over the summer, with a wider roll out expected in 2017.

The group last month completed a pilot test of the two - semester, 160 - hour program of instruction in chemistry and physics that it is developing in conjunction with a dozen secondary schools across the state.

During the pilot we will work with four schools from inner - city Sydney and Western Sydney to test some of the content we have developed.

«The Ferryway School is where we pilot test all the new ideas.

I suspect the pilot may get more attention for reducing the number of tests students take and for spreading them out over the school year, so that students are assessed immediately following a unit's completion, leading to a cumulative score.

Ultimately, the goal is to draw upon the pilots that have been completed to date to further develop, refine, and test a set of kernels that can be deployed and effectively integrated into the structures and daily practices of schools and schooling.

Some pilot schools opt out of the BPS assignment mechanism and admit students using tests or auditions.

The variable Sigt is the years spent in a charter or pilot school as of the test date, counting any repeated grades, and counting time in all charter and pilot schools, not only the ones in our lottery sample.

Our lottery - based analysis of pilot effects looks at elementary - grade outcomes as well as test scores from middle and high school.

Some schools piloted the tests last year.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

More importantly, the federal pilot program's focus should be to allow schools to choose the best way to educate their students and measure progress, not just require all students to take the same test.

One K — 8 pilot school opened too late to contribute middle school test scores from K2 applicants.

After three years of development and pilot tests, the effectiveness ratings begin for all 178 Colorado school districts this fall.

A charter or pilot school contributes application cohorts to our lottery analysis when the school is over-subscribed and therefore runs a lottery, has complete lottery records, and, in the case of pilots, uses a lottery to select students instead of tests or an audition.

With EcoXPT — now being tested in classrooms (see a video from a pilot site below), and available to educators perhaps as early as the fall of 2018 — middle school students use a virtual reality program to investigate why all the large fish in a virtual pond have died.

This spring we are pilot testing the first 5,000 items and tasks we have developed with about a million students, engaging more than 5,200 schools drawn from all 21 of our governing states.

After piloting the collection of measures of those skills in a small number of schools during the 2013 - 14 school year, including conducting multiple experiments to compare the performance of alternative survey items, CORE conducted a broader field test involving more than 450,000 students in grades 3 - 12 the following spring.

Some schools in both states piloted programs in which student work instead of multiple - choice tests was used to evaluate their academic progress.

Two groups of university - based researchers, working independently, have developed models for giving schools financial incentives to improve students» test scores, and one of the schemes will be pilot - tested in Tennessee beginning this year.