Sentences with phrase «year assessments entirely»

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«By autumn this year, schools will have introduced new safeguarding advice in staff recruitment, ensured their practices comply with new freedom of information policies, made decisions on new pay policies, adopted new codes of practice for special needs pupils, introduced an entirely new curriculum, redesigned assessment and ensured every primary school is ready to offer free school meals to infants regardless of existing kitchen facilities,» he said.

That was 2012 and it's now two years later, but even if you give the state a pass on timing, the substance of that passage flies in the face of Washington's current stance — that the inclusion of statewide assessments is entirely left to local decisions.

Summative assessments are taken at the end of the school year, are entirely computer based, and are used in the state accountability system.

This is not entirely unexpected: educators were expecting that some students would find math especially challenging because Common Core math requires more ELA proficiency than California's old standards.4 But it does suggest that, as measured in the first year of the SBAC, high - need students have farther to go — perhaps further than the old standards and assessments indicated.

First, education leaders will have to curb the natural inclination to compare the new scores with those from prior years; these are completely new assessments based on entirely new standards and, as such, will set a new benchmark for student performance.

Merkel's assessment that the renewable sector was not capable of filling the energy gap if Germany was entirely rid of nuclear power was directly in line with the coalition's newly unveiled «Energy Concept» — the ambitious energy policy with a 40 - year trajectory that called for, by 2050, greenhouse gas cuts of at least 80 %, increasing renewables to 80 % in electricity supply, and a 50 % reduction in primary energy consumption compared to 2008 levels.

One of the claims of the most recent assessment before this one, that the Himalayan glaciers were set to disappear within 40 years, has since been retracted, and skeptics have seized upon such predictive errors to invalidate the IPCC's findings entirely.