Word: performancy
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NCLB aims to improve the achievement in secondary schools through standards, assessments, and specific requirements of accountability. It demands that all students perform at a proficient level in reading, mathematics, and science by the year 2014 . It requires that the adequate yearly progress (AYP) of each school increase at such a rate to attain proficiency by 2014 . It even provides sanctions for schools that do not meet their AYP as defined by each individual state. However, NCLB does not require each state to have a viable plan for improving schools standards beyond quick fix solutions...
...More importantly, all agents involved—from home borrowers to investment institutions to hedge fund clients—need to take their own initiative to perform due diligence. With a little more financial responsibility, these hopelessly overstretched home loans would never have defined a national and international financial crisis...
...heterosexual activity accounted for only 3 percent of transmissions. These statistics no longer hold true. As of 2004, HIV cases arising from male sex dropped to 42 percent, and those arising from heterosexual sex rose to 31 percent. Even more importantly, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now perform two tests on all blood donated in order to detect the presence of HIV (by testing for antibodies and the virus’s genetic material), and the probability of HIV-positive blood going unnoticed after passing through these tests is about one in two million. In light of such...
...19th century to house a 450-foot wide and 50-foot tall painting of the battle of Gettysburg. It does seem appropriate, then, that it should host a show that comments on another war. But maybe not this one.“The Divine Reality Comedy,” performed at the Cyclorama from Feb. 4 to 10, is a complex production by the Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater, featuring both masked and unmasked actors, elaborate props, and the occasional puppet. It’s a modern adaptation of Dante’s “The Divine Comedy...
...break dancing in Elliott’s videos to a unique style that the average, rhythmically-capable person can imitate. With the “Soulja Boy” rapidly approaching obsolescence, the advent of a new dance that’s actually pleasing to watch as well as perform is innovation at its best. So peep the video, with or without 3-D shades. Not because it’s visually amazing, but because if you don’t, you’ll be the only loser at the party that doesn’t know...