Sentence examples for push for performance from inspiring English sources
This enormous "push for performance" unleashed a whole new focus on testing, and on generating positive test results.
"The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money and Today's Push for Performance," released this week by Oxford University Press, chronicles the steep increase in ADHD diagnoses in the United States over the last two decades.
Dr. Stephen Hinshaw, author of The ADHD Explosion: Myths, Medication, Money, and Today's Push for Performance, said that the uptick could be attributable to factors like the increased survival of low birthweight babies who are then more at risk for ADHD, and increased demands for academic performance among young children.
The day it takes effect in 2003, the law brings 20 states into this new push-for-performance scheme.
They revamped teacher evaluations, pushed for performance pay, and supported the expansion of charter schools.
There he promoted charter schools and merit pay, pushed for performance standards — and so infuriated the teachers' union that it overwhelmingly gave him a vote of no confidence two months before he left for Chicago.
"We're going to push for the performance levels but it's also the mentality you need," he said.
A holistic, or combined qualitative/quantitative approach, values both the employee's "fit" while also pushing benchmarks for performance.
To Rhee, whose plan was to boost student learning by boosting the quality of the teacher standing in the front of classroom, those firings -- roughly 400 teachers were fired or pushed out for performance reasons during her time there -- were unavoidable.
But the push for high-performance military aircraft accelerated the emergence of a design philosophy that was premised primarily on theory and modeling, rather than simply building something and seeing if it would fly.
If the contract is approved, it could prompt other districts to push for pay-for-performance, by suggesting that merit pay is no longer so symbolic a fight among the rank and file.
