Sentences with phrase «turning around test»

Rocky Mount's Williford Elementary is one of six schools included on a short - list for the Innovative School District (ISD), which could allow for - profit, charter management organizations to ink five - year contracts with the state in hopes of turning around test scores at selected low - performing schools.

When Appalachian State University opens its Academy at Middle Fork to 300 chosen elementary students in Winston - Salem this August, by some accounts, it'll be one of several pioneering, university - led efforts bound to turn around test scores for lagging North Carolina children in the coming years.

Not exact matches

And it passes each test by automatically slowing down and yielding or navigating around the few twists and turns on the closed course.

At its most basic, a franchise business is an operation where the services or products have been tested regionally, nationally, and even around the world — marketing, selling, in - house operations, etc. — have been streamlined to offer potential franchise owners the most «turn key» business opportunity available.

Technical outlook and chart setups: Silver is testing the resistance - turned - support line of a consolidation around $ 14.25.

During the test, with a person sitting in the driver's seat but not touching the wheel, the car drove itself around an unlit track with the headlights turned off.

While there are several disadvantages to in - house testing, the main benefit is the ability to deliver a rapid turn - around time.

We brought Glazer and Jacobson to our HQ — the BA Test Kitchen — and had them take turns blindfolding (a.k.a. putting a sleep mask on) each other and tasting their way through some of our favorite foods around NYC.

The state gives water to Nestle for pennies on the dollar, against almost everyone's wishes, and they'll get to turn around and sell it to the poor people of Flint at obscene profits, it still poisons them (recent tests show that bottled water is often contaminated with plastic particulates from the bottling process) and where all those plastic bottles end up is someone else's problem.

It's a tough test for Arsenal and Arsene Wenger, but it's vital we turn our season around before its too late.

Sunday's lunchtime kickoff against Chevo will be the test to see whether Juve can turn things around before the Champions League returns again.

The new test would also replace the «reverse around a corner» and «turn in the road» manoeuvres with more real life scenarios, such as driving into and reversing out of a parking bay.

The state labeled Hughes a «persistently low - achieving» school in early 2010 because of its low test scores, and despite an infusion of state funding and efforts to turn it around, it has not markedly improved, district Chief Academic Officer Laura Kelley said.

All of your friends are going out while you're stuck, still battling your way towards passing your driving test and waiting around for the day you finally turn eighteen.

Klein sought to turn it around on the Democratic conference, saying being supportive of abortion rights could be a Democratic litmus test.

The state committed to adopting the Common Core standards, tying teacher evaluations to test scores, turning around or closing low - performing schools and increasing the number of charter schools, among other things.

«In effort to treat rare blinding disease, researchers turn stem cells into blood vessels: Patients around the world contribute skin samples to test potential new therapy.»

After the opening scene - setting chapters, the reader is well rewarded with many nuggets: the story of his tramps around France mapping its geology; his fortitude in redistil - ling pure water for 101 days to prove that it would not turn into «earth» (he later proved that it consisted of hydrogen and oxygen); his marriage; his tests for tobacco adulteration; his brush with death at the gunpowder factory; his examination of mesmerism; his tragic final years; and, of course, his main discoveries and contributions, including his exchanges with the English scientist Joseph Priestley.

«There had been a decline in the use of animals, and genetic modification technologies turned that around,» says Thomas Hartung, director of the Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

Testing can be done either at LabPMM laboratories or entirely in an investigator's own facility, with the bioinformatics analysis done on customer's own computers, ensuring rapid turn around times as well as data protection.

Evan turned everything around in a few days just by proper testing and proper treatment.

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The two times in my life that I have tested ferritin and found it to be low, I've been able to turn things around by simply using Floradix for 1 - 2 months.

they can be tested for this and interventions can turn this around), they should not be inflammation - causing.

I spent the next few months testing out materials to make decoration from, researching what grade of helium I needed to seek and turned my basement and kitchen table into a balloon lab with my experiments floating around.

Then, with a wink and a grin, the film turns around and tests out its own ideas on us, bouncing on the implicit trust between audience and filmmaker, daring us to see just how far we'll go along with it.

Even the possibility of sequels turns out to be a question that distracts from a successful product: A little too bombastic for a leitmotif, Monty Norman's now - familiar «James Bond Theme» follows our hero around as if testing the waters, toying with the possibility that this character could support a series.

Free Play is also available so you can test drive around each lap and master every turn and corner for the best result.

Duncan said of the results, «There's dramatic change happening in these schools, and in the long - term process of turning around the nation's lowest - performing schools, one year of test results only tells a small piece of the puzzle.»

The Every Student Succeeds Act pushes states to move beyond test scores in gauging school performance and gives them all sorts of new flexibility when it comes to funding, turning around low - performing schools, and more.

Given how resilient test - based accountability has proved in the face of the bad news that has been accumulating for fully a quarter of a century, it's easy to be pessimistic that this ship can be turned around.

You can't throw a rock inside a school without hitting a standardized test; every time your son or daughter turns around, they are taking some test designed by some far away bureaucrat or testing company.

The Chicago Public Schools first brought in AUSL in 2006 to turn around eight schools in which test scores, attendance, discipline issues, and graduation rates made it clear that the students were not getting the education they needed.

The Educational Records Bureau, a Wellesley, Mass., research and subject - matter testing group for private schools and suburban public schools, will jump into the admission market with an exam promising a better candidate profile, a timed essay, and a 72 - hour turn - around time on test scores, among other features.

Rather, Duncan's much - touted «loose - tight» proposal entails jettisoning NCLB's overdone remedy cascade for most schools in return for a more prescriptive federal role in «turning around» schools that score in the bottom five percent on tested achievement.

Urban school districts in particular have begun to show considerable progress in raising test scores and turning around low - performing schools.»

«I will be more than happy if the results of these tests light some fires under some people and help turn around failing schools,» Riley adds.

The ARRA specified only that the federal government should encourage states to improve data systems, adopt «career - and - college - ready» standards and tests, hire great teachers and principals, and turn around low - performing schools.

For example, if you left your last job because the boss gave you assignments that were boring or tedious, then turn it around and tell the interviewer that you left your last position because the work simply wasn't challenging enough and you are looking for projects that test your mettle and expand your skill sets.

The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.

Maybe you can all do it as a class if you need to take a break, to turn the day around, or to get ready for a test.»

Since NYC has been seen as the leader of the so called «reform» movement, the fact that our City Council took action will be regarded nationally as a critical moment — turning around a 12 year failed experiment, said Dani Gonzalez, Co-chair of Time Out From Testing.

This attempt to turn around an existing large and troubled school was unlike anything it had attempted before, marking the first true test of whether a charter's formula for success might be applied to regular public schools.

The results so far: Nearly all 24 of the participating schools have been successfully turned around, with single - year state test scores up as much as 20 points.28

To be eligible, states had to agree to adopt new common standards and tests (the Common Core State Standards); expand the number of charter schools; evaluate the effectiveness of teachers in significant part by the test scores of their students (and remove any statutory barriers to doing so); and agree to «turn around» their lowest - performing schools by taking such dramatic steps as firing staff and closing the schools.

The turn - around time for the dissemination of test scores needs to be more rapid.

Many new ventures opened to advise schools on how to meet NCLB testing tar - gets, how to analyze NCLB data, how to «turn around» failing schools, and how to meet other goals embedded in the legislation.

Still, Robinson says EdPower is on track to turn the school around by 2016, the deadline set two years ago ago when the state intervened for low test scores.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.