Sentences with phrase «testing policies into»

It is then no wonder that employers are keen to introduce drug and alcohol testing policies into the workplace.

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As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

James Hazel, a post-doctoral research fellow at Vanderbilt University's Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, has been looking into the privacy policies of consumer genetics tests.

The bottom line is that the American public is being fed a carefully crafted mythology (no doubt «market tested» on «response groups» to see which images fly best) to mislead the American public into misunderstanding the nature of today's financial problem — to mislead it in such a way that today's policies will make sense and gain voter support.

It's an important early test of Trudeau's economic policies: Resist the bailout request, and he'll go a long way to silencing critics who've claimed he can't be trusted with the nation's finances; cave to Bombardier's demands, and his new government will be born into the original sin of corporate welfare.

The research provides insight into the policy options under consideration in Ottawa and how federal officials are testing various ways that those ideas could be sold to the public.

Nonetheless, the abolitionists seem to have breathed new life into some tested and sensible ideas, including bail - bond reform, suspended sentences, work release, and liberalized probation and parole policies.

Certainly the university's efforts to turn Erickson into a scapegoat for the failure of your drug - testing policy is itself a plea of guilty to the most - dreaded charge a university administrator can face from the NCAA: «lack of institutional control.»

Under the current policy, any NFL player who tests positive for marijuana will be entered into the league's intervention program.

Gates today are made under much more stringent policies of safety and often are tested to make sure that your baby can't get into any imminent trouble.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, however, was a supporter of the project — seeing it as a test case for his new mandatory inclusionary zoning policy, which requires developers to insert affordable units into new developments as a precondition for construction.

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.

On April 9, the DOE announced that a new promotion policy that takes into account teachers» and principals» recommendations rather than students» test scores would take effect this school year.

In presentations here to a committee of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for NAEP, the groups outlined in competing issues papers the types of changes they believe are necessary to bring the test into better alignment with the latest research in the field, as...

In short, those states passing high - stakes testing policies must always take into consideration the full range of capacity issues that are necessary for student success.

Most states have already dramatically increased their spending on education and have poured considerable resources into testing programs - changes driven by earlier federal initiatives, state - level policy, and court decisions, not NCLB.

Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).

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.

While the policy idea is often attributed simply to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), 44 states already had some form of test - based accountability when the 2002 federal accountability law came into existence.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

For our 2015 March - April Education Insider survey, as asked Insiders to provide insight into a range a K - 12 and higher education policy topics, including Common Core testing consortia, ESEA reauthorization timing, student data privacy legislation, competency based education, and the role of the private sector in education.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which goes into full effect in the 2018 — 19 school year, rolled back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher quality to low - performing schools.

One of the key policy decisions that cut into support for President Clinton's plan for new national tests was that the reading test be given only in English.

Peter Smyth, a retired educator and administrator, and also a co-founder of Community Voice, says, «After a career in education and research into educational reform, I have come to these conclusions: while South Carolina Superintendent Zais has applied for a waiver to No Child Left Behind, his proposals reflect those of Secretary Duncan and the current and previous administrations, policies which have not achieved their goals and have made raising test scores and graduation rates, rather than meaningful learning, the default goals of American education.

Measurement - driven reform expanded the role of assessment into the policy arena in two important ways: a) it focused attention on what students should learn (outcomes), and b) it made teaching toward the test a valued instructional strategy.

This work involves (1) hearing about the strategies BMTN teachers are testing and refining, and having teachers the leaders are working with test out the strategies in their classrooms; (2) sharing resources and strategies that BMTN teachers might use in their improvement projects, (3) providing insights into policies that might affect the instructional work of the network; and (4) helping recruit additional teachers and instructional leaders to the network.

But as it has been put into place, it has faced increasing backlash, both from politicians, who argue that it infringes on states» independence to determine education policy, and from parents and teachers, who object to the more stringent testing that has come with the new guidelines.

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Speakers opposed to the state's new public education policies whipped an audience of hundreds into a furor at Comsewogue High School on March 29, 2014 as Opt - Out supporters, preaching from the stage in the auditorium, vowed to «starve the beast» — calling on parents to have their children skip the rigorous standardized tests and deprive the school system of the data upon which the system depends.

This type of misleading comparison of test results persists and is now baked into the CT State Department of Education policy on reviewing and renewing charter schools.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.

But it's the false rhetoric of success that's fueling the propaganda machine which has successfully convinced a lot of policy makers to get on board with the drive to dismantle teachers» unions, privatize public schools, and turn teaching into testing.

«The tests we see today are a result of the General Assembly's requirements that were passed into law over the past several years, and the result of the federal No Child Left Behind law,» State Superintendent of Public Schools Dr. June Atkinson told N.C. Policy Watch last year.

Changes to federal education policy signed into law earlier this month by President Barack Obama did not alter the requirement that 95 percent of students participate in testing.

According to the National Council of Teachers of English, «Well over a decade into federal education policy that endows significant consequences to single tests of student achievement too late in the academic year to lead to any action, teachers might be pleased that the term «formative -LSB-...]

Because current state policy requires that refused tests be given the lowest possible score, the scores of 1 given to refused tests are calculated into the growth rates used to evaluate individual teachers.

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.

The same is true here in Connecticut where the Governor, the Connecticut General Assembly and the State Board of Education need to understand that their policies are turning our schools into little more than testing factories.

At the same time, the test's administrators and analysts cautioned against reading too much into one snapshot of the data or blaming any particular policy or party, keeping in mind that scores have improved significantly over the years.

Since President Barack Obama came into office, his administration has upheld and advanced policies that have increased the stakes of standardized testing, arguing that student progress ultimately matters above all other concerns.

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.

Since unethical government policies lead to unethical actions, it was only a matter of time before some education official turned the whole Common Core SBAC testing farce into something even more reprehensible.

Research finds that test - based assessment and placement policies assign many students into remediation unnecessarily.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

Both NCLB and RttT institutionalized the destructive corporate education reform policies that are turning our public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories dedicated to «test prep» around a narrow curriculum, rather than a broad - based, comprehensive education the ensures every child is provided with the knowledge and skills they will need to live more fulfilling lives,

Rand Education, however, recently waded into years of research to identify and analyze the key issues and answer two fundamental questions: How has testing influenced instructional practice, and what conditions and policies have will make the impact of new assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards more positive for teachers and students?

But in the current policy environment, the reality is that SEL will be taken more seriously and implemented more conscientiously if fully integrated into the academic curriculum, especially into the tested subjects of English and maths.

Simply put, it was the test and development Miura built by Lamborghini test driver Bob Wallace; effectively a race car for the road but one which would never race — Ferruccio Lamborghini had written a «no racing» policy into the by - laws of the company.

These tests dictate how much premium can be paid into a policy and how quickly the cash values can build up inside of a cash value policy before the policy is no longer treated as a life insurance policy.

The 7 - pay test basically places a cap on the amount of money you can put into a policy for the first seven years of its duration — pump in more money than the cap allows, and your policy becomes an MEC, which is subject to both normal income taxes and an additional tax penalty whenever loans are taken out on the policy before age 59 1/2.