Sentences with phrase «toward national goals»

Washington — Charging that an emphasis on multiple - choice tests could «undermine many of the educational reforms which the governors and President Bush wish to achieve,» a coalition of three dozen education and civil - rights groups last week urged those leaders to use alternative forms of assessment to measure progress toward national goals.

Wegmans is proud to stand with the USDA and EPA as we work together toward the national goal of 50 % reduction of food waste in the US by 2030.

The Billion Mile Race online platform provides free tools and resources to help your school get started, and when you share miles toward the national goal your school will earn eligibility for awesome grants and prizes.

If the government is to make meaningful progress toward its national goal to extend a constant supply of electricity to every household in the coming years, it will need to learn from and adapt its current financing structures for off - grid solar (and other renewable energy) technologies.

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They first began working toward this goal in the 90s, when the government taxed fossil fuels and put 3.5 % of all that money towards its national forests.

Urge Congress and the president to work toward the goal of committing 1 % of the gross national product to the assistance of the poverty - stricken countries.

At the launch of the initiative, President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum creating the first - ever Task Force on Childhood Obesity to conduct a review of every single program and policy relating to child nutrition and physical activity and develop a national action plan to maximize federal resources and set concrete benchmarks toward the First Lady's national goal.

To assess progress toward the Healthy People 2010 goals, Scanlon and her colleagues looked at data from the National Immunization Survey for children born from 2003 to 2006.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee and the Republican National Committee are theoretically supposed to be working toward a shared goal of growing the party.

On Tuesday, national AFL - CIO president Richard Trumka said that Obama and Malloy are working toward the same goals.

First, we're partnering with Sister District, a national organization whose goal is to direct volunteer energy from deep blue districts like ours toward competitive races around the country.

In a similar vein, the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB National Science Foundation's (NSF's) Task Force on National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB National Workforce Policies for Science and Engineering (NWP) is expected to present a draft report to the National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB National Science Board (NSB) in November that includes recommendations to «guide national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB national policy toward the goal of drawing more U.S. citizens into careers in science and engineering, while continuing to compete globally for scientific talent,» according to the minutes of the October NSB meeting.

The National Nanotechnology Initiative is a great example of cross-agency cooperation working toward shared goals and priorities that has allowed the U.S. to gain global leadership in the field.

Toward that goal, Sandia National Laboratories is testing strains of algae for resistance to a host of predators and diseases, and learning to detect when an algae pond is about to crash.

A small but important step toward this goal has been achieved by an international collaboration of researchers from China's Tsinghua University and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) working at the Advanced Light Source (ALS).

A research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering reports now in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that it has accomplished the first step toward this goal by converting the CRISPR / Cas9 genome engineering system into a genome surveillance tool.

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Ekaterina Dobryakova, PhD, research scientist at Kessler Foundation, received a grant for $ 408,000 from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society to study factors influencing disabling cognitive fatigue in the MS population, toward the goal of developing novel endogenous treatments.

So how much progress have U.S. schools made toward the eight goals established by the National Education Goals Pgoals established by the National Education Goals PGoals Panel?

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Reimers is working toward the achievement of these goals in his capacity as co-chair of the Global Education Advisory Council of the Massachussetts Department of Education, and as a member of a panel of the National Academy of Sciences reviewing 14 federally funded programs to promote the internationalization of American universities.

About three years later, at a National Governors Association conference in Washington, King had a related, «very stark, somewhat scary insight» — that all the governors were working toward the same goals of opportunity and prosperity for their constituents in the same way.

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Owens and members of a research team from the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Vanderbilt prepared the report, March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools in 2001 for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).

WASHINGTON — The second annual report on the national education goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here lanational education goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here last goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here laNational Education Goals Panel said here last Goals Panel said here last week.

In the latter years of the 20th century, the federal government not only became far more involved in civil rights, surveillance of behavior and misbehavior on educational sites, and financing of education for the less wealthy; in conjunction with the governors of many states, the federal government also played a significant role in testing of students, evaluation of progress toward national educational goals, and even support for the creation and evaluation of curricula and pedagogical approaches, both live and online.

National Board Fellows will work toward this goal by growing accomplished teaching across the country.

Several groups of individuals and institutions interested in interprofessional education — training people in child - serving fields to work toward common goals — have formed a national network.

In the 25 years since the passage of Public Law 94 - 142, significant progress has been made toward meeting major national goals for developing and implementing effective programs and services for early intervention, special education, and related services.

Washington — The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved legislation that would create an independent panel to measure progress toward national education goals and issue an annual «national report card.»

And it raised the importance of the National Assessment, requiring the Department of Education to increase the frequency of its administration in math and reading to once every two years, to help Americans monitor progress toward the goals of universal proficiency and the elimination of the achievement gap.

The MTA also believes when a test is mandated at the state or national levels it should only be used to evaluate programs toward meeting state or national standards and / or goals.

The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic, released annually, by the Alliance for Excellent Education, America's Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020.

The Building a Grad Nation Report: Progress and Challenge in Ending the High School Dropout Epidemic shows detailed progress toward the GradNation goal of a national average on - time high school graduation rate of 90 percent by 2020.

Knowing that students will rely on their foundational skills in literacy and math for years to come, we support students in making progress toward individual academic goals while meeting or exceeding U.S. national standards.

These efforts coalesced into a national strategy after a 1989 bipartisan summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, between governors and President George H. W. Bush, where leaders looked to standards as the first step toward achieving lofty national education goals.2

The transportation field is transitioning toward a performance management approach, which tracks performance outcomes to measure progress toward achieving national transportation goals and uses this information to inform transportation decision making.

The ASPCA is a founding signatory to the Asilomar Accords, developed in August 2004 to express the shared mission of a group of national animal welfare industry leaders to collaborate with one another toward the common goal of significantly reducing the euthanasia of dogs and cats in this country.

«The National Animal Supplement Council comprises a great group of animal supplement companies that are all working toward a common goal — to do what's best for our animals,» says Stephany [Herbsmith Inc. is a member of the NASC].

The progress seen at COP22 and over the past year on various fronts including transport, agriculture, buildings, energy and resilience, as well as among the business community, can provide an essential complement to national government efforts toward achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement.

«Today the Anniston Army Depot, with the help of many, will take one more step toward meeting and striving to exceed the Army's goals of renewable energy while enhancing national security,» said Phil Trued, chief of staff at the depot.

«With this project, we are making great strides toward meeting the President's goals for creating new jobs for American workers, reducing carbon emissions, promoting energy independence and strengthening our national security.»

Defined as a «tendency to sustain interest in and effort toward very long - term goals,» her research has correlated grit with educational attainment, grade - point average in Ivy League undergrads, retention in West Point cadets, and rank in the US National Spelling Bee.