Sentences with phrase «testing policies while»

Upgraded testing policies while maintaining company standards and complying with necessary regulations

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While reading through your test's privacy policy, note who has access to both kinds of information.

Tree — who said the policy change restored a price support for growers by reintroducing a «federal risk premium» — told Business Insider that while consumers in states were marijuana was legal were probably used to a high - quality and tested product, he suspected cracking down on legal marijuana production and sales would incentivize trafficking of lower - quality marijuana to states where the drug is still illegal.

While genetic testing can't prevent you from getting health insurance, life - insurance policies can use the information to deny your application.

The Brookline policy goes further than the Commonwealth's concussion safety law by requiring baseline neurocognitive tests at least once a year, and by requiring that concussed athletes be advised to get rest while symptomatic.

Four non-parties to the treaty are known or believed to possess nuclear weapons: India, Pakistan and North Korea have openly tested and declared that they possess nuclear weapons, while Israel has had a policy of opacity regarding its own nuclear weapons program.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

But while most of the attention went to negotiations about teacher evaluations and standardized tests, new policies also were put in place for dealing with failing schools.

While the education fight last year was largely waged over the policy of testing and teacher evaluations, the debate this year is broadly over funding.

offers a useful summary of the effects of commonly - abused drugs, while making it clear that seafarers may be subject to testing for drugs under individual company policies..

In addition to the lack of antimicrobial stewardship programs, the researchers also found a widespread lack of written policies to test patients for C. diff infection when they developed diarrhea while taking antibiotics or within several months of taking them.

While many nations have made great strides in the past four years in terms of gay marriage, in other nations sodomy remains a crime and other discriminatory policies remain in place, making even getting tested for HIV a potentially dangerous ordeal.

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.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

While researchers often shy away from using rankings in serious statistical analyses of test scores, they can have a substantial impact on political rhetoric, and consequently, education policy.

Recently, mounting evidence has suggested that measures of individual cognitive skills that incorporate dimensions of test - score performance provide much better indicators of economic outcomes — while also aligning the research with the policy deliberations.

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.

But the notion of paying teachers on the basis of their ability to improve test scores, often termed «merit pay,» while earnestly debated by education policy researchers, is strongly opposed by teachers unions and is a political nonstarter in many parts of the country.

This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

While refutation texts have been widely used to correct misconceptions about controversial science issues (e.g., global warming, GMOs), to our knowledge they have never been tested to correct misconceptions about policy.

The reports show educators at all levels struggling to implement a dramatic and extremely complex change in federal education policy, which radically alters the role of federal and state governments while imposing unprecedented responsibilities and accountability for test score gains.

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

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.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

Elementary schools can allocate up to 50 percent of seats to students within a defined neighborhood, while high schools have no geographic boundaries; all open - enrollment schools with available seats must admit students at any time of the year; selective schools can employ test - based admissions; and expulsion policies (but not all discipline policies) are standardized.

While policy elites fret about international test scores, college - and career - ready standards, and STEM, parents worry about bullying, what's on the lunch menu, the bus schedule, and the dress code.

And with regards to closure, while I surely disagree with middle class Californians on many policy issues, I'm not sure that I think I know enough about their children to close schools that have modest negative test impacts but high enrollment demand.

(While we prefer state assessments as policy, we think any widely respected test that allows for ready comparison against other schools or districts is a reasonable compromise);

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan defended those policies in a call with reporters Tuesday, saying that massive changes in schools often lead to a temporary drop in test scores while teachers and students adjust.

This helps account for at least some of the trauma and disruption caused by the storms, the quality of schools students attended in other regions while their local schools were closed, and any changes in the state tests and state education policies that affected both groups.

While more studies need to be conducted, preliminary research has found that improvements to the voucher program combined with the test - based accountability policies provided schools in Chile with incentives to operate more efficiently.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

While state education agencies are responsible for implementing federal programs, in many states the governor and the legislature, not the chief state school officer and the state education agency, are in charge of testing and accountability policy.

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.

The council would, among other tasks, evaluate the effectiveness of the common - core assessments; help set performance - level benchmarks for cross-state tests; provide professional development for teachers and the public on how to use different tests; and develop and study policies and protocols to protect students» privacy while allowing the use of assessment data for research.

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.

If some districts or classrooms administer only the summative assessments while others avail themselves of all the resources in the SBAC toolkit, won't some students have a testing advantage based solely upon local policy decisions, the CORE group excluded?

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know.While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know.while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

While ESSA was designed to reduce unnecessary standardized testing, the new educational policy requires that schools take an annual statewide assessment.

In a recent interview with Ed Surge, Linda Darling Hammond, founder of the Learning Policy Institute, argued that while strong schools are present in the United States, new state plans under ESSA could «become punitive if they rely on a test - based approach with sanctions» or...

E4E - New York Teacher Policy Team member Maura Henry calls for improving testing in schools, while not forgetting the value that high quality assessments can...

While the profession may not be in full - blown crisis, teachers report being concerned and frustrated with shifting policies, an outsized focus on testing and a lack of voice in decision - making.

«While researchers are often frustrated when journalists equate test scores with school quality, journalists are not alone in this — parents and state and federal policies often — mistakenly — consider test scores as measures of school quality.»

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.

To be sure, the policy here — keep the NCLB law's schedule while trimming back local and state tests to the bare minimum — isn't exactly contradictory.

While there are no legal penalties for refusing the tests, at the moment, North Carolina state policy calls for refused tests to be graded as though they had been taken.

While it can take time and some resources, having a system of checks and balances in school districts and at the state level for state testing are critical to having a system of assessment and accountability that will build public trust and provide policy makers with guidance for what works.

While New York's new commissioner is clearly far more experienced and far more understanding of how education consists of intersecting and overlapping stakeholders that policy must consider, her record is no less devoted to the core elements of «reform» — Common Core Standards, standardized testing, use of testing to rank and sort schools and teachers — than her predecessor's or her new Chancellor's.

While our new Commissioner is preparing to go on a speaking and listening tour of the state, she would do well to try to understand exactly why New York is the current leader in the nationwide Opt Out movement against today's standardized testing policies, having seen test refusals jump from nearly 60,000 in 2014 to 200,000 in 2015.

Duncan defended those policies in a call with reporters Tuesday, saying that massive changes in schools often lead to a temporary drop in test scores while teachers and students adjust.