Sentence examples for determined promotion from inspiring English sources

Civil War buffs who know all about the battles but little about the home front will find something new in Mrs. Livermore's determined promotion of the great Chicago Sanitary Fair, a fund-raiser at which the original of the Emancipation Proclamation was auctioned for $3,000 to help Union troops.

Finally, Washington's determined promotion of democracy compromises its credibility because doing so is often at odds with its own policies.

She also began to see disparities in the jobs people were assigned and the system of points that determined promotions.

Whether Welsh perk up or not, the play-off system which determines promotion from the Championship must surely come under increasing scrutiny.

Several reforms resulted, including eliminating high test scores from determining promotion and driving responsibility and decision-making down the chain of command.

Such claims are easier to make when employers lack an objective set of criteria for determining promotion, and rely instead on "the subjective judgment of supervisors".

But, at a time when nearly half the states are phasing in tests intended to determine promotion or graduation, 66percentt of teachers said they were concentrating on the tests "to the detriment of important areas of learning," the survey found.

Re "Gains in Houston Schools: How Real Are They?" (front page, Dec. 3): Tests are questionable proxies for skills we want kids to demonstrate in real life, but high-stakes tests that determine promotion or graduation are particularly harmful.

The accusations join a growing list of investigations in at least half a dozen states in what experts see as an inevitable outgrowth of the expanding use of standardized tests to determine promotion, scholarships, teacher pay and school financing.

Mr. Massey once led a protest against the Education Department's use of standardized tests to determine promotion into fourth grade, but Ms. McKenzie has increased the amount of test preparation in the curriculum, teachers and parents say.

Heralded by President Bush as a centerpiece of his campaign, the legislation comes amid growing opposition to the expanding use of tests to determine promotion, graduation, merit pay and school evaluations.