Although 39 states have already adopted aspects of competency - based learning, the researchers report that too many districts continue to use the end - of -
year assessments characterized by the outdated mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act, which technically expired in 2007.
Not exact matches
But, he said, the study «clearly could have important implications for better quantifying and
characterizing our
assessment of climate variations over decadal to tens to hundreds of thousands of
years cycles.»
The global surface temperature record for the last 100
years is well
characterized and the attribution of the variations (including the cooling ca 1940 - 1970) is well understood and
characterized in a large number of publications and
assessment reports.