Acknowledging that the nation's educators face large challenges in preparing students for more rigorous academic standards and tests, Arne Duncan, the secretary of education, told state education officials on Tuesday that they could postpone making career decisions about teachers based on performance evaluations tied to new tests.
Hearsay Social, a startup backed by New Enterprise Associates and Sequoia Capital, has tried to solve many of the challenges facing large brands that need to manage the social media presence of local branches or franchises.
Nobody has ever tried this on such a large scale, and critics worry these new investors could face big challenges managing large portfolios of dispersed rental houses.
Although the Internet facilitates information gathering and processing, investors still face great challenges given the large number of projects available.
We describe here the rationale and methodology behind one phenotyping pipeline, EMPReSSslim, that was designed as part of the work of the EUMORPHIA and EUMODIC consortia, and which exemplifies some of the challenges facing large-scale phenotyping.
Considering these advances, the challenges facing large-scale single-cell genomics are increasingly computational.
The two major challenges facing large-scale supermatrix phylogenetics are assembling large data matrices from databases and reconstructing trees from those datasets.
Franklin D. Gilliam Jr., dean of UCLA's Luskin School of Public Affairs, said Garcetti's emphasis on internal city operations is "small ball" at a time when Los Angeles faces large-scale challenges — substandard schools, high unemployment and an affordable housing shortage.
We also face a large challenge in rebuilding an efficient, competitive private mortgage market, an area in which commercial bank participation is needed.
Mr. McCain still faces a large challenge from his right in the fall, as many conservatives suspect he isn't really one of them.
