Sentences with phrase «tests this year helped»

The earliest tests this year helped teachers figure out which students had learned the material and which ones needed that lesson again.

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For years, he'd been administering a test to help board members assess their decision - making skills, as part of a training program he'd developed for corporate directors.

She visited juice bars around the country to sample flavors, and, with help from a woman she knew who had been juicing for many years, rented a test kitchen to develop new varieties.

Thirty years ago, when she was a medical student helping to create in - vitro fertilization babies at Toronto's East General Hospital, and never thought she'd be asked whether or not we should eat hamburgers made in test tubes.

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.

The ensuing years weren't great for Morgan Stanley — its profits have lagged since the financial crisis — but Porat earned plaudits for stabilizing its finances and helping it meet government «stress tests.»

The 35 - year - old company, which helps industrial clients keep their equipment running through a mix of lab testing, consulting and training services, outgrew the space it had occupied for the better part of two decades.

The test is one of several blockchain experiments State Street and other financial institutions have been working on over the past year as Wall Street grows increasingly hopeful that the technology, first developed to run cryptocurrency bitcoin, can help them increase efficiency and cut costs.

«Further testing is required before Song's device could be approved as a treatment for dementia or Alzheimer's, but if it is able to help those patients regain even part of their lost memory function, the impact would be felt not only by the patients themselves, but their families and even the economy at large,» says Science Alert, which notes that Alzheimer's was responsible for a whopping $ 236 billion in healthcare costs last year.

HBC's strategy echoes that of Nordstrom, which bought flash site HauteLook five years ago, helping it win a younger, online - only customer, while testing promotions outside of its main site and better understanding online shoppers» behavior.

This is reflected in the price of bitcoin which is testing the $ 400 short - term resistance level and could help boost trader confidence over the final three weeks of the year.

But when the heart of the act was tested (financing)... the government drew up a blank... No way Obama calls it a tax before an election year... but its quite evident that it is... Secondly, you think that adding another tax on people that cant even afford to pay it will help??? Where is the money coming from??? Yea I thought so...

They passed the toddler test My 3 year old, who helped me make them, took a bite and said «Good.»

After being allergy tested at 12 years old, it was proven that I have a severe allergy to eggs, getting allergy tested helps!

In one study, researchers found that supplementing with this vitamin for a year helped men perform significantly better in general cognitive tests compared to those who received a placebo.

Now in its 16th year of publication, the report is designed to help food manufacturers locate sources for non-GMO grains and ingredients and keep the up - to - date on issues, such as GMO labeling, non-GMO certification and testing, and other topics that impact their businesses.

With the help of a dietetic intern, Denk plans on testing Lunch Box recipes this year.

About a year ago I did an allergy test to try to figure out what was causing it and the moment I found out it is caused by high levels of candida overgrowth I had just found out I was pregnant and couldn't take any of the herbs or antifungals to help get it under control.

Our leak test equipment has helped manufacturers to achieve consistent product quality and testing efficiency for over 15 years.

I'm lucky to have nieces and nephews who want to help with recipe testing, and Kara switches off every other week with Jake, who's been cooking with me for over three years now.

Chestnut has more than 25 years of food safety experience, most recently serving as NSF's Vice President of Supply Chain Food Safety, helping companies throughout the global supply chain strengthen their quality assurance and food safety programs through auditing, testing and certification to the global food safety standards.

Every year, at the first sign of a stuffy nose, the staffers at Bon Appétit head to the Test Kitchen, seeking out Brad Leone for help.

«I'm really looking forward to helping the team, starting next week with the tyre test at Interlagos and I will work harder than ever to learn and develop across the next year.»

A ShotLink - based system that the tour hopes to test before the end of the year and deploy early in 2015, Shedloski said, would help rules officials track each competitor's pace, though players would not be penalized based on any of the data collected.

Baines has been a consistent force at Goodison Park for a number of years but is probably aware that as long as he remains at the club he is unlikely to challenge for major honours and may well never get to test himself at Champions League level but above all else he may feel that a high - profile move would help his chances of pushing Ashley Cole out of the England left - back spot.

Odey in the meantime will remain at the club, and train with the team, and also play test games for both the first team and the reserve team to help build his fitness ahead of his debut next year.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

No special needs just two young girls ages 7 and 9, they love to draw and color play baby dolls 7 is a little difficult with following directions but is a Good child all around she will test your patience's 9 - year - old is very self sufficient loves to help.

Can't help you with much but I do suggest that you and Ben go and look at / test drive a minivan because womg they have updated them so much over the years.

Then there's James — a boy who grew up in a low - income Brooklyn neighbourhood who, despite the fact he couldn't perform well on traditional tests — might be the best 13 - year - old chess player in the U.S., all through the help of an attentive, nurturing teacher.

In our survey, only 49 percent of the respondents were willing to allow their child to be skin tested, and just 44 percent were willing to allow an oral food challenge before a year of age to help facilitate early introduction.

After 3 years of research, design, development, sourcing, testing and a 2nd teething baby; I am happy and excited to know that I am helping other parents and their little ones with the Munch Mitt.

Whether your 2 - year - old is on the verge of a major tantrum, your 10 - year - old is frightened about things in the news or your teenager is anxious about an upcoming test, mindfulness can help them cope.

There are birthday party themes for each age that have been tried and tested over the last 14 years of having toddlers myself or being involved in the helping at birthday parties.

Studying for a test can be scary for young kids, and many educators assume parents will help their kids during the grade - school years.

Cuomo, in a sharp reversal, vetoes the bill he helped negotiate that set the two - year moratorium on use of student test scores.

Erie County's Health Department receives $ 244,000 a year from the CDC to help fund five full - time employees and three part - time employees who refer at - risk children for testing, investigate the causes of lead poisoning and conduct educational home visits.

New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

Tests conducted more than a year later showed levels of PFOA — which has been linked to kidney and testicular cancer and thyroid problems — in the town water supply that are just below the federal warning levels, and the state is now helping distribute bottled water throughout the town.

Two years before helping Donald Trump target prospective 2016 supporters, the now - embattled data firm Cambridge Analytica tested its tools with an array of conservative groups allied with the wealthy Mercer family, including a super PAC run by newly appointed national security adviser John Bolton.

Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia has been reassuring teachers, administrators and parents that computer testing can help ease the fatigue many third to eighth - graders got when taking the year - end state assessments.

Quinn said public school children shouldn't be forced any longer to take private testing companies» field tests, which aren't graded, and which are only intended to help for - profit companies such as Pearson develop questions for the next year's exams.

City school officials say they're working to help students who had trouble with the Common Core tests do better in the coming school year.

$ 10 million in new funding will be used to provide extra help to schools where test scores dropped last year.

Rapamycin, an antibiotic and immunosuppressant approved for use about 15 years ago, has drawn extensive interest for its apparent ability — at least in laboratory animal tests — to emulate the ability of dietary restriction in helping animals to live both longer and healthier.

Veterinarian David Smith at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has spent five years testing this vaccine, which stimulates the production of antibodies against the proteins that the bacteria secrete to help them attach to the gut wall.

But in a more rigorous study — which randomly assigned participants to take either NSAIDs or a placebo daily for several years and administered annual cognitive tests — anti-inflammatories did not seem to help.

In research published last year with one of her graduate students, Katherine Motyl, she tested whether leptin could help mice avert the bone loss that can accompany type 1 diabetes.

Columbia University microbiologist Vincent Racaniello, who helped develop the first artificial virus in the 1980s, cites the stir created four years ago when nearly 5,000 labs seeking accreditation were mistakenly shipped vials of the 1957 pandemic flu strain as part of their test kits.

«After years of collaboration with some of the world's leading prostate cancer researchers and medical institutions who have studied the scientific and clinical benefits of phi, we are pleased that the test is now available to help physicians and patients with an elevated PSA test result, more accurately detect prostate cancer2,» said John Blackwood, senior vice president, Chemistry / Immunoassay Business Unit, Beckman Coulter Diagnostics.