Sentences with phrase «testing policies do»

Many workplace drug and alcohol testing policies do not define «refusing to test» and provide no disciplinary consequences for it.

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A company that designs tests that it uses only in its own labs, as Theranos does, doesn't need to get them approved, but the FDA is considering changing its policy.

Other than making vague promises to place more police officers on the streets, encouraging DNA testing for death - row inmates and calling for the need to reduce recidivism by investing in «proven community - based law - enforcement programs,» the Democrats» policy solutions over the past eight years have done little to dismantle the carceral state that they helped create.

Why, in circumstances where Canada's security, policies and companies are already as fully protected as they can be, do we maintain a net - benefit test that does not show a bottom - line impact on Canada, imposes an unnecessary burden on investors and gives Canada a dubious (if generally undeserved) international reputation?

Neither does it survive a basic common - sense test: Buying insurance against a market crash from other market participants is no different than buying a policy against a crash of the insurance industry from an insurance company.

Did the Washington rally that cheered Martin Luther King's dream that his children would be judged by the content of their character and not the color of their skin suspect that enthusiasm for policies judging by skin color would shortly become the litmus test for devotion to the civil rights cause?

A total of 16 pupils were affected by the school's policy of «grade exclusion» because they didn't achieve at least three B - grades in their first year tests.

Now Ohio State is saying its school drug and alcohol policy doesn't apply to a DUI breathalyzer test?

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.

Another study done by the Environment California Research and Policy Center tested 5 popular baby bottles: Avent, Dr. Brown's Evenflo, Gerber, and Playtex.

These policies need to pass the «can we actually do it» test, but also appear flexible enough to cope with the fast changing global economic situation.

If a policy met that test, and if she thought it could be done politically, she would support her ministers and put her authority behind the idea.

Some foreign policy experts have taken Kim's announcement last week that North Korea would no longer test nuclear weapons as a positive sign, but the leader also said his country didn't need to continue the testing because he already knows how effective the weapons he has are.

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

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.

Jared Walczak, a senior policy analyst at the Tax Foundation, has argued that they do not pass muster and said New York was «most likely to form a test case.»

Among his many failures Blair did not establish clear ministerial oversight of post-conflict strategy, or ensure ministers took decisions to address it, or seek adequate reassurances that the UK could meet its obligations, or test British strategic objectives against anything but best case scenarios, or press Bush for definite assurances on US policy or seek advice on the absence of a satisfactory plan for UK objectives.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

The governor in New York does not directly control education policy, but earlier this year Cuomo inserted into the state budget the requirement that new teacher evaluations be more dependent on standardized tests.

Elsewhere the Labour frontbencher insisted he did not «rubbish» Labour policy, following a separate recording in which he said one of the party's «six tests» on Brexit was «b ****** s».

Being on the side of those who work hard and do their best has to be the political test for all policy initiatives, and especially for the March Budget.

But the rote memorization of facts, formulas or rules that can lead to high scores on such tests do not a good 21st century scientist or engineer make, notes Alan Friedman, a member of an independent, bipartisan board established by Congress to set policy for NAEP.

In fact, some of them didn't even mention it, being far more upset by a comment attributed to Watson a couple of sentences earlier: He was «inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa,» Watson had told The Sunday Times, because «all our social policies are based on the assumption that their intelligence is the same as ours — whereas all the testing says not really.»

The automatic - attitudes test indicated that the students tended to prefer the politician who did not want to raise taxes to fund environment - friendly policy initiatives.

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.

They do social science, health, philosophical, policy, or legal research on topics such as privacy, confidentiality, the psychological impact of genetic information, informed - consent issues in genomics research, commercialization of genetic products, genetically modified foods, behavioral genetics, gene testing, and gene therapy.

Fortunately, we have consumer watchdog groups like the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy that did the testing and research and discovered this fact.

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.

I only mention it to suggest ways in which over-relying on test scores and declaring with confidence that we know what works and what doesn't can lead to big policy mistakes.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.

Those rates could rise in the coming years, since 16 states and the District of Columbia have enacted policies requiring that students who do not demonstrate basic reading proficiency when they first take state tests in third grade be held back.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

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The results do suggest, however, that the aggregate test scores on the 4th - grade NAEP could well be inflated by the retention policy.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

These were: well - being and welfare — insisting upon the adoption of well - being policies in all education settings; empowering and enabling — identifying the balance between empowering and overburdening staff; freedom and flexibility - reversing the trend for testing and increasingly structured curriculum frameworks and trust and train teachers to do their job with a focus on reflective practice; and celebrating success — making sure we all better celebrate the amazing experiences and achievements of teachers to help stem a current tendency for public pessimism.

We can therefore estimate the impact of NCLB's accountability mandates by comparing test - score changes in states that did not have NCLB - style accountability policies in place when the law was implemented to test - score changes in those that did.

Since the state department of education not only designs tests but constructs numerous other policies that affect operations both in New York City and elsewhere in the state, it is of interest to learn whether New York City students do as well or better than students across the rest of the State of New York.

• Anya Kamenetz education reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington Bureau

While these laws require nondiscriminatory policies, including providing «reasonable accommodations» for students with disabilities to demonstrate their knowledge on tests, they do not require the use of accommodations that fundamentally alter what the test measures.

And teachers do seem to respond rationally to accountability policies by focusing more on the grades and subjects that are tested.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

Researchers from Boston College's Center for the Study of Testing, Evaluation, and Educational Policy, found paper - and - pencil writing tests did not accurately measure the abilities of middle school students who were accustomed to doing most of their writing on a computer.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

The new report did not capture a precise measure on what proportion of tests were required by teacher evaluation, but it does point out that many states have put in place new assessments «to satisfy state regulations and laws for teacher and principal evaluation driven by and approved by U.S. Department of Education policies.»

Accordingly, any policy that drives charters into old molds - making them, in effect, «look and act familiar» as worthy expressions of the existing «system,» producing students who do well primarily on tests organized in ways that reflect this system - undermines the sound intent of the charter idea.

If it hasn't already been done, schools should implement strict password policies and consider trialling «penetration testing» by an external company in order to identify any areas of weakness in the system that could be seen as a «way in» by hackers.

In Shanghai, for example — which had the highest mean PISA score of any jurisdiction in mathematics in 2012 — 27 percent of students in the target population of 15 - year - olds did not take the test, due in part to internal migration policies that prevented enrollment; in the United States, that exclusion rate was around 11 percent.

Such policies also create incentives for schools that do accept voucher students to change their educational programs to match what the state tests.

An increased share of disadvantaged students could affect overall district test scores, but with a gradual demographic shift, changes might be small or imperceptible from year to year and don't necessarily indicate changes in school quality, said Michael Hansen, director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution.