Sentences with phrase «test the policy so»

But if you are serious about making people believe that you can fix things and offer solutions and not platitudes, you need to do deep, critical thinking; you need to reach out to those pesky experts that know stuff and can help; and stress test the policy so you know you won't dissolve in to a shambles on the third question of any interview.

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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.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Because to do so brings back evidence and testing to a law which is intended to eradicate them from drug policy.

«So we're shortening the tests at every grade level,» said Elia, mentioning a new policy that she previously announced.

Redwood should have a real role in road - testing the policies, now, so when it comes to briefing the civil servants, there are fewer holes and gaps for them to have to cover with difficult compromises and messy law.

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

With a variety of needs, structures, and progress represented by these institutions, NSF has a rich test - bed on which to analyze the kinds of policies and practices that work and to define the settings in which they do so.

Possibly so; but, in view of the recent extensive and successful use of the aeroplane in European maneuvers and, also, of the fact that other nations are spending many millions of dollars for aeronautical purposes, it might not be unwise for our Congress to depart from its usual policy of economy by appropriating a million dollars to enable the army and navy to fully test this new arm.

So, while it is unclear what policy shift caused the FDA's recent change of heart, the announcement it published is jam - packed with caveats, highlighting the limitations of 23andme's now approved DTC test.

Sometimes, I wonder why I don't buy all my shoes from Nordstrom when there return policy is so generous and I can return any pair of shoes that does not pass the comfort test.

After you finish taking the test, you will not be able to change any details, so the best advice I can give you is that honesty is the best policy, it is also a virtue you may be looking for in other people you meet on EliteSingles.

So, I think almost every credible researcher would agree that the vast majority of ways in which test scores are used by policymakers, regulators, portfolio managers, foundation officials, and other policy elites can not be reliable indicators of the ability of schools or programs to improve later life outcomes.

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

Policy makers revere the seeming objectivity of these tests, but the truth is that the exams are not adept at determining either how well teachers have taught or students have learned — and test makers themselves will tell you so.

With a better understanding of why it is so inane — and destructive — to evaluate schools using students» scores on the wrong species of standardized tests, you can persuade anyone who'll listen that policy makers need to make better choices.

The paper grew out of their work on a National Academy of Education steering committee, chaired by Singer, that studied the purposes, methods, and policy uses of so - called international large - scale assessments, or ILSAs — tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

All states need to develop accountability systems that deal thoughtfully and usefully with test results, that deploy educational resources so as to aid teaching and learning, and that involve families in educational policy and in schools.

A Senate proposal does not go quite so far, but it would allow states to create their own test - refusal policies.

Shaun Johnson, an education professor at Towson University in Maryland and administrator of a national Opt Out Facebook group, tells StateImpact that few other nations use test scores to so closely dictate education policy as officials in the U.S do.

A rethinking of promotion and enrollment policies so that high - stakes decisions for students are made using multiple measures and not a single test score.

The report recommended that: policy makers ensure curriculum and assessments are aligned at state, district and local levels; districts survey teachers on test prep activities and keep those that are highly rated, while dropping those that aren't; districts expand access to technology so students can develop skills before taking tests and teachers can support them; and districts only use interim tests aimed at predicting performance on end - of - the - year tests, if teachers believe they are high - quality.

So could its emphasis on personality testing similarly reshape education policy and school practices?

But last week, the same group of researchers produced a follow - up study on the Florida students, published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and it showed something startling: the charter students might not have produced higher test scores when they were in school, but years later, when they were in their mid-twenties, the charter school students earned more money, and were more likely to have attended at least two years of college (although still only half of them did so).

WHEREAS, the so - called «reform» initiatives of Students First, rely on destructive anti-educator policies that do nothing for students but blame educators and their unions for the ills of society, make testing the goal of education, shatter communities by closing their public schools, and see public schools as potential profit centers and children as measureable commodities; and

LL: I initially picked testing and assessment because I thought teachers could really take a stand on the policies surrounding testing, whereas not so much on climate and culture.

Obama's «Race to the Top» policy — the brainchild of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, the former «CEO» of Chicago Public Schools — further codifies high - stakes testing by allocating scarce federal resources to those states most aggressively implementing these so - called accountability measures.

There are layers of not - so - subtle issues that need to be aired as a result of national and state testing policies that are dominating children's lives in America.

While the brunt of the psychic damage of high - stakes testing falls on children, the true targets of these so - called «student - centered» policies are adults.

«Early years policy must always, without exception, have the needs of the child at its centre - but with baseline tests, this is simply not the case,» said Mr Leitch, who warned that he remained «extremely concerned that the proposed tests focus so heavily on the narrow skills of language, literacy and numeracy».

So long as education policy continues to be shaped by the interests of corporate profiteering and not the interests of our public school children, we will resist these unjust testing laws.

More importantly from a long term policy perspective, how is a program limited to 20,000 or so children in a single city, being served almost entirely by non-profit entities, a test of market education?

So that's — and the third one is just getting the research into the hands of the policy makers, because I believe that teachers and educators, when they see these connections that it's true that you can keep kids in school, pursue an alternative method of discipline and improve test scores, improve climate, improve graduation rates.

Governor Malloy went so far as to make it clear that he doesn't mind a policy of teaching to the test, as long as test scores go up.

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&ratest.»

The Times can say that using standardized test scores to evaluate teachers is a sensible policy and Obama can say it and Education Secretary Arne Duncan can say it and Emanuel can say it and so can Bill Gates (who has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to develop it) and governors and mayor from both parties, and heck, anybody can go ahead and shout it out as loud as they can.

However test scores are simple, readily available measures; so policy - makers embrace them, even when they are inappropriate.

And yet, the education policy discussion has devolved into a near exclusive debate about common core standards, testing, and access to higher education when so much more needs to be considered.

Union leaders generally have to preserve an ability to speak with policy makers, so a degree of caution in promoting a movement that aims to pull the rug out from under test based accountability and spark a confrontation with those implementing that policy is expected.

It is unlikely that we will see high - stakes testing policies repealed, but we can evolve our practices so that they are more fair and valid assessments for all learners.

We're now in the implementation season, and things have heated up a bit, but the main arguments against the standards are more about issues like federalism, test policy, President Obama's education preferences, data mining, and so on (Strauss, 2013).

Since I'm so good at prognostication: I predict that state test scores, in New York and elsewhere, will continue to be used as a basis for important policy decisions, despite the fact that test scores tell us just a little bit about the things we care about.

These members of the Deformer «advance force» parrot a regressive agenda of union - busting, tenure - smashing, and teacher - demonizing, paired with an obsessive devotion to standardized testing, «data driven decision making», charter school expansion, and privatization as the «answers» to the «crisis in public education» — while remaining seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was their policies that manufactured the crisis they claim to be addressing, and which are paying off so handsomely for the investors who fund their charter schools and pay their generous salaries.

Indeed, they were so confident in their position that one, in response to a rather pointed cry in the face of this no - test - drives policy, invited me, in the harshest terms, to sodomize myself, immediately.

At the time, Chevrolet's policy was that as a company, it did not race the cars it built, so CERV 1 was used not as a race car, but as a test - bed for Arkus - Duntov's Corvette developments.

An effective drug and alcohol testing policy covers all the required material and is written in plain English so that employees can understand their rights and responsibilities

We know that millions of our readers have already invested in earlier Kindle models or in the dazzling new Kindle Fire HD models, but given the fact that Amazon has a no - questions - asked 30 - day - return policy, it may be worth your while to order the Kindle Paperwhite now so that you can test - drive it in late October and thus be in a position to make an educated decision about whether it belongs on your 2012 holiday gift list, either outgoing or incoming.

Local: In order to better help our partners create new Healthy Parks, Healthy People policies and programs, we're creating a testing ground here in our own backyard so we can deepen our knowledge of how these partnerships really work and can contribute back to the national and international community of practice.

So essentially, I put the arguments of both sides «to the test», and arrived at the conclusion the theory is real, that the models have validity, that there is a need to consider what they mean, and what the tradeoffs are for different policy choices for mitigating it.

So, in a period of a few decades we have moved from the tried and tested climate policy that has stood the test of time since the Bronze Age, and attempts are being made to replace it with quasi-religious political madness which — if not stopped — will pale into insignificance the combined activities of Ghengis Khan, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot.