Sentences with phrase «while reading a standard»

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While 5,400 RPM hard drives seem to be the standard for external drives, some people need faster read and write speeds.

Many merchants — especially in Canada — are already equipped with NFC terminals for reading chip - enabled credit cards, while the technology is quickly becoming standard on smartphones.

Reading more of the ICI findings, it is fairly apparent why the rule seeks to over-regulate annuity advisors who are subject to the rules - based and highly regulated suitability standard while under - regulating fee - only advisors by holding them to a subjective, principles based fiduciary standard: to pander to the employer - sponsored plan providers and keep money from rolling over.

In any event, I was recently reminded of my encounter with that woman — those women, rather — while reading Boris Jakim's new translation of Notes from Underground (Eerdmans 2009), which is quite splendid and which should certainly now be regarded as the standard version in English.

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A higher standard is held to rice used for brown rice protein because while heavy metal levels may read as «undetected» in rice, that does not mean their levels are zero but rather that they are below the small levels the test can detect.

Well, it was a beautiful relationship while it lasted... Ever since the School Nutrition Association (SNA) stunned child health advocates with its flip - flop on school nutrition (supporting strong standards in 2010, then urging their roll - back two... [Continue reading]

Sarah, while it's been a while since I've read that Cochrane review, my remembrance is that you are talking about «randomized» trials... the gold standard in research.

While Londoners were reading Joey Barton's political views in the Evening Standard on the tube home, Ed Miliband was hosting another #AskEdM session on Twitter.

He says he finds it «incredible» that more than 95 % of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

He says he finds it incredible that more than 95 percent of teachers were rated as performing properly, while two thirds of New York's school children in grades 3 through 8 have been deemed inadequate in math and reading standards.

«While the «gold standard» screening tool is the M - CHAT questionnaire, it must be read and completed by parents and then interpreted by a health care provider,» said lead author Carole A. Samango - Sprouse, EdD, and Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

In an order issued 23 January, US District Court Judge Lawrence O'Neill denied a motion filed by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to stay the injunction on the enforcement of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) he had ordered in the earlier decisions of 29 December 2011 while ARB... Read more →

While it has yet to supplant Maq as the de facto standard for Illumina / Solexa processing, Bowtie remains one of my favorite short read aligners.

While everyone has a different standard for what their personal best is, I think we all hope to have the muscular strength that allows us to feel our most capable, and a body composition that keeps our hearts, organs, joints and body systems functioning at their... [Read more...]

«Eat less, move more» is standard mainstream advice for weight loss, but while this Read More

Some couples will stick to the standard department store gift list, while others will look... Read more»

«Silver Surfer» is normally an inventive and fun comic, and — while the Allreds» work on the issue is up to their high standards — there's little for people who read the last issue to get excited about.

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Three schools participated in the Opening Minds through the Arts curriculum, which incorporated music, opera, dance, theater, and visual arts into reading, writing, math, and science, while the other two schools used standard teaching methodology.

For example, a 2011 survey by William Schmidt of Michigan State University of mathematics teachers in 40 states found that, while the overwhelming majority of teachers had read the standards and liked them, some 80 percent said they were «pretty much the same» as previous state standards.

While standards are rising in Key Stage 2 reading, writing and mathematics, Ofsted warned that it is still well below the national average.

The authors of the Common Core Standards wisely anticipated this misconception and they caution against it: «While the Standards delineate specific expectations in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, each standard need not be a separate focus for instruction and assessment.

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Eventually, 43 states and the District of Columbia fully adopted Common Core, while one other state, Minnesota, adopted only the reading standards.

However, a review of evidence relating to the accessibility of the 2016 key stage 2 reading test, which acknowledges concerns raised by teachers, states that «while standards were set appropriately in 2016, the review suggests that the test seemed to be more challenging than the sample materials provided».

The results of our analysis of these «switchers,» which continues to take into account the difficulties associated with moving between schools, again indicate that students make smaller gains while enrolled in charter schools, by nearly 0.10 standard deviations in reading and 0.16 standard deviations in math.

I thought about this standard while reading a recent evaluation of an on - demand computer - based professional learning application.

But this morning, while reading a new account of supposedly mounting state - level opposition, it hit me: at least for the moment, the common element of recent Common Core news is the resilience of the standards themselves.

Under the shift to Common Core standards, reading programs are explicitly expected to teach strong foundational skills, including phonics in the early grades, while building background knowledge and vocabulary, which are especially important for low - income children most at risk of reading failure.

Students attending a district school co-located with a charter school perform 0.08 standard deviations better in math and 0.06 standard deviations better in reading, while those in district schools within a half - mile of a charter school perform 0.02 standard deviations better in both math and reading.

Read about how four teachers fit PBL into their curriculum through scalable projects that challenged and enriched students while meeting the standards.

Students in the US showed a 36 per cent increase in oral reading fluency when exposed to high - intensity light, while those in standard lighting conditions increased by only 16 per cent.

The average combined reading and math test scores one year prior to the management change at schools assigned to for - profit and nonprofit entities were 0.39 and 0.13 standard deviations below the Philadelphia average, respectively, while the pre-intervention scores of the full set of 142 regular public schools were 0.19 standard deviations above the district average.

This resource guides teachers in how to meet the changing needs of today's readers while still meeting today's rigorous standards, and provides teachers with the best practices for teaching reading to 21st century students.

Wit & Wisdom helps you meet the expectations of the new standards while celebrating the joy of reading and writing with your students.

While the Standards delineate specific expectations in reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language, each standard need not be a separate focus for instruction and assessment.

THINK Literacy provides teachers with instruction on what and how to teach, sequenced in units that emphasize student engagement and develop a love of reading, while also building essential critical thinking skills aligned with Common Core standards.

It explains the rationale for key standards and puts them in context of what students will learn, while providing... read more

A new NCES report finds that, while some states have raised their standards for proficiency in math and reading, most states still fall far below the «basic» level on NAEP.

Indeed, while elements of Common Core's ELA standards emphasize «close reading» and «finding evidence» and imply the teaching of reading skills in a manner disconnected from the knowledge embedded in and presumed by the assigned texts, other parts of Common Core firmly reiterate the premise that «knowledge is intimately linked to reading comprehension ability» (see Appendix A, p. 4).

The standards push us to raise the rigor of texts while decreasing the amount of scaffolding, and educators are wondering how to best support students who read below grade level.

In eighth grade reading, Missouri had the highest standards, though its proficiency rating was well below NAEP's, while Texas set the lowest bar for proficiency.

Tennessee had the lowest standards in 2009 for fourth grade reading, while Massachusetts had the highest.

In reading, 71 per cent achieved the standard, compared to 66 per cent last year, while 75 per cent met the standard in maths, up from 70 per cent.

After a two - month period (40 consecutive school days) implementing this poetry lesson plan, Ms. Eikenberry found that her third graders made over a year's worth of growth in reading achievement as measured by the i - Ready reading comprehension standards, while her fourth grade students made more than three - quarters of a year's growth.

While the Common Core and other new college - and career - ready standards have reinvigorated English Language Arts and reading instruction, the purpose of reading broadly and deeply remains the same.

While Minnesota moves forward with the new national standards for reading and writing, state officials opted out of the math standards.

While I sympathize with fellow conservatives over the lack of public input into the adoption and implementation of the Common Core, I do agree with those teachers... who have actually read the standards and find them to be «well written.»

Based on national and state standards, StrongMind Language Arts nurtures an appreciation for literature while developing a proficiency in reading comprehension, writing, grammar usage, spelling and vocabulary.