"We've said all along that students should not be penalized for the UFT's failure to negotiate, and our goal has been and continues to be a fair and effective evaluation system, " Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson said Thursday.

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But the most effective new power has been the risk evaluation and mitigation system (REMS).

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It would be far more cost-effective to support local farmers in their breeding and evaluation of selected varieties already in community seed banks.

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Dr Marcus Flather, consultant cardiologist at the Royal Brompton and director of its clinical trials and evaluation unit said hospitals needed to boost the use of these effective treatments.

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Starting in 2009, the Gates Foundation supported a project known as the Measure of Effective Teaching, or MET, which worked with 3, 000 teachers to come up an evaluation and feedback system that helped teachers improve.

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