Sentences with phrase «watering down standards»

We are doing a disservice to ourselves and our clients by watering down the standards of our profession.

This would help prevent districts from undermining the integrity of the teacher evaluation process by watering down standards.

Many states responded to earlier efforts by watering down their standards for learning and lowering expectations for students in an attempt to artificially boost the number of students that reached proficiency.

My personal view is that there is a real danger of examination boards watering down standards.»

The government argued that there was no intention to water down standards and individual countries could retain their standards where they were higher.

Many of those senior scientists — the ones guarding the gates — were trained as staunch disciplinarians, and they take seriously what they see as their obligation to keep out the barbarians who would water down standards and compromise the institution in the name of the latest hyphenated buzzword.

That doesn't mean we should water down the standards.

We have observed time and again where in an effort to meet Adequate Yearly Progress under No Child Left Behind requirements, states have watered down standards and school districts have taken a narrow «teach to the test» view of curricular implementation.

«I'm showing the real stuff and they're showing a watered down standard,» said curator Nigel Jackson.

Not exact matches

Mayor Landrieu's predecessors both attempted to privatize the city's water, arguing it would keep rates down as the city undertook costly repairs to bring the system in line with the Clean Water Act standwater, arguing it would keep rates down as the city undertook costly repairs to bring the system in line with the Clean Water Act standWater Act standards.

should not be a watered - down fair and reasonable commercial standard.»

But rather than just the standard recipe of oatmeal and water, I've come up with a version that not only cuts down on some of the carbohydrates and calories, but also pumps up the fiber and the protein.

Companies such as Patagonia Provisions and Dr. Bronner's are frustrated by the «watering down» of existing organic standards and are now creating their own classifications.

One is very similar to the shade guideline from the 2010 SAN standard — this is the one that has been proposed to be watered down in the upcoming revision of the SAN standards.

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by theU.S.

Some parents are already raising alarms that the food quality has declined this year; that the standards have been watered down; and that Chartwells, with a new contract as of SY 2012 - 2013, is serving food that only nominally meets the requirements.

Would - be swimmers will still get advisories up and down the lakefront letting them know if bacteria levels exceed federal water quality standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The water - resistant PVC - free mattress is easy to wipe down and complies with the federal flammability standard.

In it, writer Sarah Kliff attempts to calm the ruffled feathers of school food reform advocates like myself who are outraged by Congress's watering down of school nutrition standards last week under pressure from food industry lobbyists.

«Second, when I did pay down the mortgage, I was able to claim for some basic and standard bills, like heating and lighting and water.»

«If the Tories» claims about animal welfare were true, they would have ruled out the return of foxhunting months ago, rethought their poorly regulated badger cull, and not tried to water down existing EU standards on animal welfare.»

Animal charities urged their members to use the consultation to ensure that the UK law was not watered down to the EU minimum standard required under the Directive.

The suit claims that the new standards, which allow SUNY - authorized charters to certify their own teachers, will water down the quality of educators in charters.

Lead exceeding district standards was found in 12 water fountains in six buildings throughout the Northport - East Northport school district on Long Island earlier this month, officials said, and those water fountains have been shut down.

Questions have been raised about why the committee watered down an original recommendation from the independent commissioner, Kathryn Hudson, for Miller to repay # 45,000, giving the impression that MPs still appear to be policing their own ethical standards despite the expenses scandal of 2009.

The UFT and NYSUT filed a lawsuit on Oct. 12 to prevent the weakening of teacher certification standards after the SUNY Board of Trustees Charter Schools Committee voted the previous day to allow some charter schools to create their own in - house teacher certification programs with watered - down standards.

The Lagos State Government has shut down two water producing factories in the state, CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science and Technology Company Limited and Figol Water, for breaching safety stanwater producing factories in the state, CWAY Nigeria Drinking Water Science and Technology Company Limited and Figol Water, for breaching safety stanWater Science and Technology Company Limited and Figol Water, for breaching safety stanWater, for breaching safety standard.

And if Flint is the national standard - bearer for water woes, Hoosick Falls seems to be a local surrogate: Last week, officials in Bethlehem, N.Y., a suburb of Albany, tried to tamp down fears about high levels of trihalomethanes, a common byproduct of chlorination in their water.

While the federal standards specify that urinals use no more than 0.5 gallon (4 pints) per flush, California's rules limit them to 1 pint of water per flush, down from 1 gallon currently.

The state and federal water projects will be able to hold back 150,000 acre - feet of water that would otherwise be required to flow down rivers and through the delta to maintain salinity standards.

Why would the NMED allow alternative abatement standards for uranium from 5mg / L to 13mg / L when the Ground Water Bureau (GWB) is proposing to change uranium levels down to.007 mg / L?

I would rather have them drink watered down milk than serve them reduced - fat milk with its extra burden of nitrates and oxidized cholesterol from the nonfat dry milk that is added as part of the industry standards.17 The dry milk also increases the protein content of the milk.

He plays to that here, although there are some overly literary ideas in «The Water Diviner,» too, and some standard Hollywood ones, and they occasionally drag the film down with them.

Summary: Jumanji has heart but the overproduced design and ridiculous final third turn this into a standard, watered - down action adventure fare.

The Institute of Acoustics (IoA) and Association of Noise Consultants (ANC) have expressed serious concerns that section E4 might be withdrawn or watered down without an alternative statutory mechanism for maintaining acoustics standards that carry at least as much weight.

As it is, we've watered down the fitness standards, and they're too easy.

Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.

On the other hand, a single standard, like the goal of 100 percent student proficiency under NCLB, could lead over time to a watering down of CCSS performance standards for all students.

During the 1994 reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which ultimately forced the states to begin developing their accountability systems, Shanker was a staunch proponent of tough standards, and penned a pivotal article blasting a proposal to water down the bill.

Instead, we try to pretend that most, if not all, should be on an almost exclusively academic track, thereby requiring that standards of achievement be lowered and curricula watered down to accommodate the average to below - average ability student.

The NEU also states that more robust evidence is required for another reform of the skills system and the review of level 3 qualifications proposed and that unless T - level implementation is properly planned, resourced and funded, there is a risk that their standards will be watered down to make existing level 2 qualifications «fit».

Research shows that minorities accrue greater premiums from educational credentials that signal high achievement than whites, which means that watering down these signals through grade inflation, abolishing external exams, and lowering standards depletes a key resource for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

You don't water down the common core standards; in fact, you adopt them and you implement them.»

High Achievement New York and the Education Trust - New York called the changes a «watering down» of standards that would ultimately shortchange students.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

While certifiers would face financial pressure to lower their standards in order to certify more schools, doing so would water down their brand.

Supporters rushed the standards» adoption, used whatever political channels were most convenient, eschewed public debate and discussion, and in doing so triggered a massive backlash that either caused states to reject the standards outright or led them to water down the initiative to such an extent that there's little left of the original vision, which called for the careful alignment of standards, tests, curricular resources, and teaching strategies, all to be shared across state borders.

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative session.

-LSB-...] If standards are vague, watered down, or misguided, they can point our schools down perilous paths.

Critics of the Common Core, which the state adopted in 2010, say it waters down Massachusetts's historically strong standards, and strips autonomy from local educators.