Sentences with phrase «than any individual state»

This federal agency's guidelines are either equal or more stringent than individual State requirements.

PARCC argued that «through the consortium, states are able to ensure a higher - quality assessment than any individual state could by itself.»

Smarter Balanced was created by assessment professionals in state education agencies who determined that by pooling their experience and expertise — and by taking advantage of the federal funds offered by the Department of Education and working in partnership with private sector firms — they could build more sophisticated and accurate assessments of student learning than any individual state could offer on its own.

Recently released results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that Arizona's public charter school students have posted greater scale score gains than any individual state, from 2009 to 2017.

Not exact matches

The main one has been the fact, for better or worse, that the federal government has taken on a much greater role relative to the powers of the individual states than the founders originally envisioned.

«Your individual biology, your health history and ever - fluctuating state of well - being, where you go, what you spend, how you sleep, what you put in your body and what comes out» — that rich - but - messy heap of information, more than anything else, is what's driving these companies together, write Erika Fry and Sy Mukherjee in their terrific cover story for Fortune's April 1 issue («Big Data Meets Biology»), which we're posting online today.

The new jobs push the complex's total more than 6,000 manufacturing jobs — a tremendous economic boost to the state and to many families and individuals.

Despite data from an ABC News poll that indicated only 26 percent of Americans felt they worked too hard, analysts have found that not only do people from the United States work longer hours than individuals in other countries, but they also take less time off and retire later.

You don't think too much about your current state of affairs or your competitors because in the end you'll still be individuals in the Valley and working with each other, more likely than not.

Seven states (Alaska, Florida, Nevada, South Dakota, Texas, Washington and Wyoming) impose no tax on individuals, while several others offer substantially lower rates than a founder in Silicon Valley would encounter.

Per a September report by the Coloradoan, the state has licensed more than 18,660 individuals (and counting) to work in Colorado's cannabis industry, indicating the prospect for new jobs is only growing.

The United States hosts the third - largest population in the world, with roughly 319 million individuals; but did you know that Indonesia has the fourth largest, with more than 250 million people?

Interesting because Cook says that he is writing «on behalf of Apple» (rather than, say, merely stating his own opinion as a prominent individual).

Self - employment is the state where the individual works for one's self rather than rendering services to another person or a company.

All 50 states and the District of Columbia were represented among more than a thousand individual rinks nominated, accounting for nearly 70 percent of rinks nationwide, according to USA Hockey data.

Advisers that do not meet this threshold generally are regulated by the states and investors should contact their State Securities Regulator for information pertaining to individuals managing less than $ 100 million in assets.

Also, individual states may have different tax structures for non-US citizens than they do for US citizens.

[2] For the purposes of the SBIR program, the term «small business» is defined as a for - profit business with fewer than 500 employees, owned by one or more individuals who are citizens of, or permanent resident aliens in, the United States of America.

States usually impose income rather than payroll taxes when raising general revenue, and levy them on the individual side.

In fact, Credit Karma said that out of the quarter million individuals that have already filed their taxes through the company, less than 100 individuals reported a single cryptocurrency transaction to United States tax authorities.

It is also important to state that this industry is made up of self - employed individuals who work as independent contractors or small operators with fewer than three employees.

This was the largest study of angel investment returns ever conducted, analyzing results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539 individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.

Big, national employers are currently subject to only one set of health insurance regulations (federal), while small firms» plans are regulated at both the federal and state level (this is one of many reasons why individual and small group plans are so much more expensive than corporate plans).

NOW YOU KNOW WHAT ORWELLIAN UNITED STATES CONGRESS (USSR # 2 which consists of lawyers or what are liars, physicians / doctors and family members of effected individuals who suffered some sort of brain desease etc.... lawyers, so crime per physicians OR WHAT IS HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION can get away with it) AND OTHER GOVERNMENTS WORLDWIDE ARE SOOO BUSY WITH WHEN PLAYING / CLOWNING (acting) IN FRONT OF CAMERAS ONLY HOW SOMETHING HAVE TO BE DONE (deliberately omitting / delaying facts of genocide as seen on this complain)... NO DIFFERENT FROM ROMNEY WHOSE FATHER EXCELLED AFTER GM WAS DELIBERATELY SCREWED / BANKRUPT LIKE AMERICA TODAY (soon to be success based on deliberate sabotage which is nothing else than grand treason / betrayal with acts of genocide against targeted white population)!!!

Obviously it is much more difficult for us to imagine the first appearance of reflective thought at some point in the history of a phylum or race made up of different individuals than at some point in the series of states making up the life of one and the same embryo.

Not convincing» which is funny circular argument because you state that everyone of that age «average education level of individuals is higher now than in the dark ages» so by your standard nothing of that age can be verified?

Honestly, Nancy, if anyone in this thread meant «divine» in any other way than what it is commonly understood and defined as, then it is up to those individuals to state up front that they are just making things up as they go along to suit their own agendas or whims.

The Church, it was believed, could afford to be more flexibly responsive to the nuances and contours of individual situations than the state, and the Church was believed to possess more finely grained tools of correction than the blunt instruments of law and punishment.

That is, those events which are later than others lie in the same direction as the more evolved stages of the biosphere, the more developed stages of individual organisms, the more entropic states of closed physical systems, or the events of a causal chain which can be the effects but not the causes of a given event on the chain.

Certainly individuals are different than nation states (by this I mean that as individuals our choices are clearer - not that we can not properly discern whether a particular war is or is not necessary - but even then its much much tougher) and matters of war and peace are very much filled with variables men and women as individuals would have an a very difficult task of unwinding to find some acceptable scenario.

Can we moderate Christians tell the world that most Americans don't believe that you should devote your energy to judging others, that you should try to focus to improving yourself; that most Americans want religion protected by keeping it separated from «State» rather than the extremist push to make biblical law the law of the land; that each individual's morality is between him / her and God, not a morality imposed by Christian extremists?

There is a line between a «state sponsored» activity, and a student activity, (from previous court decisions), (am a law student), and if it really is up to an individual student, it's less heinous than it could have been.

Hence, there is no greater importance to be attached to a society, the State, or God, than to a human or non-human biological individual.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), «Without treatment the consequences of mental illness for the individual and society are staggering: unnecessary disability, unemployment, substance abuse, homelessness, inappropriate incarceration, suicide and wasted lives; The economic cost of untreated mental illness is more than 100 billion dollars each year in the United States.»

Such a logic elevates as supreme the abstract notion of the perpetually abiding nation - state, outlasting its citizens and being more valued than the lives of individual humans.

Now we have this wonderful choice (or free will): We can either believe that these desires we were created with had everything to do with a terribly gruesome human sacrifice a couple thousand years ago and plead for forgiveness through that murdered innocent individual in order that we might be chosen to be forgiven for being born this way; or we can be tortured for a ridiculously longer period of time than we were actually alive in this sinful state (that we were unwillingly, unknowingly, forcefully thrust into).

We can dream of a perfectly balanced society, where the difference between individual initiative and solidarity are reduced to a simple state of tension, where human beings are judged because of what they are rather than the added - value they produce, where cultures are considered to be equally valid expressions of being and where scientific and technical progress is oriented towards the well - being of all rather than the enrichment of a few.

A glaring example of the problem this creates is the present state of television news on the TV networks; most people prefer its simplistic presentation over a more complex and demanding one, and, by pandering to this preference, TV encourages the least, rather than the most, from individual viewers.

No one was more influential in the definition of the modern state than Thomas Hobbes, who through the conceit of the «state of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the Sstate than Thomas Hobbes, who through the conceit of the «state of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the Sstate of nature,» portrayed humans as naturally autonomous and individual, with a shared membership solely through one institution» the StateState.

It assumes that states, even more than individuals, are capable of pure altruism, whereas precisely the opposite is the case.

Forgetting where it came from and probably in denial that the individual at whom they are pointing is possibly in far better spiritual state than they were at that point in their lives.

The Lutheran Protestantism which was dominant on the Continent of Europe by long tradition accorded more power to the state than did much of Anglo - Saxon Protestantism and limited the areas in which the Christian spirit might impel individuals, as Christians, to take the initiative.

For the average Protestant, Christianity was less a political movement, an affair of the community and the state, and more a matter of individual experience and commitment than even at the height of the Reformation.

More than 3,700 men and women now reside on America's 39 — one federal and 38 state — death rows; 717 individuals have been executed by lethal injection, electrocution, poison gas, hanging and firing squad since Gary Gilmore's death in 1977, and the 85 individuals put to death last year ranked the United States third in the world, behind China and Saudi Arabia.

God is credited with success rather than the individual who strove to overcome adversity and blame for failure is laid at the feet of a fallen state of man.

It surveyed a number of modern moral theories known as proportionalism or consequentialism, as well as arguments that the real subject matter of moral reflection should be the inner state of the individual rather than his outward behavior.

I stated the type of evidence you asked for, and even addressed why personal experience is not of use to anyone other than that individual.

As a rule, totalitarianism endeavors to do away with the individual subject: his thought is replaced by ideology, his speech is replaced by some dialectical variety of Newspeak, his actions are replaced by the automatic development of Progress, History, or class struggle, supervised by the State or the Party» which, thanks to its «hundreds of eyes» (Brecht, Die Massnahme), is supposed to be wiser and more farsighted than any one of us.

Nikos Kazantzakis in The Saviors of God (Simon & Schuster, 1960) states our ethical responsibility better than most when he describes the individual as seed.

It thus seems possible that if the forces of particularism, what I will call the «ground bass» of Italian society, do not prevent it as they often have before in Italian history, a differentiated pattern of symbols and practices emphasizing individual liberty, social justice, and Christian charity might emerge to underpin a more legitimate and more effective Italian state than has hitherto been known.