The current tests were introduced between 2000 and 2003, amid concerns about the standard of teachers' literacy, numeracy and ICT.
Schools are already making professional judgements about the quality of teaching and learning, the standard of marking and the preparation and planning of individual teachers.
Whatever you think about the merits of the classical gold standard (and I think this article by Barry Eichengreen has it about right) and however dissatisfied people may be with the economic performance delivered by the Federal Reserve, there are no grounds for believing this proposal would provide the U.S. with sound money and economic stability.
Zero-tolerance law-and-order rhetoric about the immigration issue has become the standard for talk radio and other conservative circles, and I think that this fact puts much of the conservative movement at odds with two of its most important foundations: a view of compassion derived from the Biblical tradition, and a commitment to economic freedom and limited government as an optimistic upward path to prosperity.
When a drug is likely to cause a severe side effect--say, an increased risk of heart attack, an allergic reaction that causes the skin to burn or liver failure--the standard practice is to warn patients and doctors about the product's labeling, and to send out warning letters to physicians who might prescribe the medicine.
And we used our existing authorities in new and interesting ways through the Department of Transportation and EPA to establish the new efficiency standard that Secretary Chu was talking about.
He's tapped into groups that want to abolish the IRS, people who want the U.S. out of the U.N. and back on the Gold Standard, activists who want marijuana legalized and those who write long essays about the trilateral commission.
These require companies to make uniform assumptions about investment returns and apply the reporting standard across the entire company.
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There are still important unanswered questions about the Standard Model and we have to verify that this remarkable theoretical house of cards can stand on its own.
Go back and read the back issues of almost any of the various tech publications from Internet Bubble 1.0--the late, great mags like Business 2.0, the Red Herring, Upside and The Industry Standard--and you will find an endless array of simply loopy ideas about what the world was then creating.
And what is fair about more poverty, and a declining standard of living for the middle class, as we see today?
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She called on the NAHT to produce evidence to back its claims and said complaints about GCSE marks were being dealt with in the standard way.
The British Chambers of Commerce, and the Standard Chartered Bank have also said that unemployment could reach about 3 million before the recession ends.
Starting with Greece and likely to spread, markets are starting to question whether governments can maintain the size and standard of their public sector, Jennings told the audience of about 100 Renaissance clients who had gathered at the Mandarin Hotel in tony Knightsbridge to hear the investment case for Africa.
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Anyone using the handset for anything more than the built in applications, some light web browsing, and a few pictures while out and about is going to realise the HTC 8S falls far short of the standard of the HTC 8X and many other Windows Phone 8 devices.
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The great thing about what the companies are getting today is the knowledge and the certainty of the standard and an understanding of what they have to do to meet those standards and whatever technological advances, research and development have to be made in those intervening years to meet those goals.
Hayek himself, out of a deeply-rooted (and honestly earned) pessimism about government opposed the gold standard.
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Conservative AMs Andrew RT Davies and Nick Ramsay asked Mr Jones about the Wales Food Standard Agency report which said that Wales had failed in a number of areas on food health.
Mr Speaker, in the midst of all the rancour and recrimination about expenses, let us seize the moment to lift our politics to a higher standard.
And about eight million or so were due to high levels of lead, and that exceeds the government standard for lead paint on toys.
But fellow Conservative MP Peter Lilley was scathing about the suggestion that renewable energy would stimulate the economy and argued that humans had enjoyed a higher standard of living as a result of using fossil fuels.
In particular, the questions about mandatory licensing, the standard of living, the definition of monopoly, and free trade do not specifically challenge leftist sensibilities.
The simple rule about market bubbles is to get in and out before they pop, and by that standard the news that Groupon is moving towards an IPO makes all the sense in the world.
Her tips go beyond the standard meeting advice about starting and ending on time, setting an agenda and sticking to it.
On the plus side, battery life seems to be very good, clocking in at almost six hours with the standard six-cell battery and about nine with an optional nice-cell model.
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Sure, her agency missed warnings about the grand thievery of Bernie Madoff, the 2008 meltdown and failed to enact a pro-investor fiduciary standard for brokers, but she can say that she revived the agency at a time when it needed to re-assert itself.
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Just about every other cell phone and tablet maker uses the industry standard and interchangeable micro-USB cables.
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It's been so many years, in fact, since Allen told us to "go backwards when forward fails" that the notions of forward and backward no longer seem relevant, and neither do any of the standard ways of thinking about art generationally.
Yet on the face of it, there is precious little that is new about The White Stripes' music, with a repertoire that includes Dolly Parton's Jolene and the Bacharach and David standard, I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself.
The required standard includes teaching about British institutions and services and different cultural traditions.
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