Sentences with phrase «common core advocates»

However, perhaps recognizing that states might not have signed on if they were subject to transparent coercion, Common Core advocates were remarkably laid back about what states would actually be required to do when it came to policing test conditions, accepting mandatory passing scores, or establishing strong oversight boards.

An added gem is that Common Core advocates excitedly announced that the new tests will be harder to pass, giving even open - minded teachers reason to fear that the combination of new tests, stricter scoring, and new high - stakes evaluations was designed to put them in the crosshairs.

Common Core advocates who are serious about ensuring that the initiative is a «state - led» effort consistent with federalism ought to welcome this opportunity to set matters straight.

First, Common Core advocates have been battered with bad press over poorly designed class assignments.

Instead, Common Core advocates rushed to push near - universal adoption of their new paper exercise.

Common Core advocates, however, thought that relying on NAEP was an unsatisfactory, makeshift solution.

He emphasized, «This is a clear message to Common Core advocates that the state of Texas has our own standards and we will protect them from being undermined by national interests.»

Common Core advocates routinely insist they have no desire to dictate curriculum or how teachers teach and then, in the same breath, go on to explain that the standards will help drive instruction.

The Common Core advocates badly lost the political battle on Twitter, but won the policy war.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

Don't be fooled by the claims of the Common Core advocates.

Common Core advocates are counting on two mechanisms to produce success: high - quality professional development and improvements in curriculum.

Common Core advocates Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a murky plan to offer students a variety of methods (assistive technology) to get to the standards.

Anti-Common Core advocates on the right are equally dubious, calling the #PJNET botnet nothing more than a «new boogeyman» for Common Core advocates.

That variation has not declined, defying happy talk from Common Core advocates.

The governor has recently said he wants to scrap the educational benchmarks and its associated testing in Louisiana, though Common Core advocates doubt he has the authority to do so, now that the Legislature has declined to help.

«It was not a good week for Common Core advocates,» said Hess.

Like Hess, Ray Salazar, an English teacher in Chicago and parent of two, thinks that Common Core advocates missed an opportunity to explain the goals of the standards and the tests.

Starting in 2009, it had begun ramping up its grant - giving to local nonprofit organizations and other Common Core advocates.

I asked my students (my «historians») to work with primary documents and make what today's Common Core advocates would call evidence - based claims.

The first victory for Common Core advocates came on a snowy evening in Kentucky in February 2010, when the state's top education officials voted unanimously to accept the standards.

Common Core advocates insisted that the design process had already been exhaustive, that all legitimate questions had been heard and answered back in ’08 and» 09, and that there was no point in discussing further revisions.

Right now, school districts, states, and Common Core advocates don't have an answer for any of this.»

For over a year, I've been encouraging Common Core advocates to stop endlessly re-litigating the standards and instead to focus on getting implementation right.

In 2011, I cautioned, «Common Core advocates accomplished a remarkable feat in getting 40 - odd states to adopt the new standards... [But if advocates] believe that early success means they can stop making the case for what they're doing, I think they're making a huge mistake.»

The flame jumped the «firebreak»: The giant strategic error for the Common Core advocates was their refusal, from 2009 through much of 2012, to actually take the critics seriously.

In retrospect, it's fair to say that most Common Core advocates now wish Obama hadn't been quite so helpful.

That is merely an evasion, like all the other evasions Common Core advocates have thrown up to obscure the federal power grab that has been driving Common Core.

In fact, even though Common Core advocates conceded that Massachusetts» standards were at least as good as those of the Common Core, they mounted a furious (and successful) push in 2009 and 2010 to get Massachusetts to adopt the Common Core — precisely because of the state's symbolic importance.

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

Despite my sympathy for Common Core advocates» position, a change in NAEP should not be made because of Common Core.

Common Core advocates accomplished a remarkable feat in getting 40 - odd states to adopt the new standards.

Some Common Core advocates consider union criticism of the new tests, which replace multiple - choice, fill - in - the - bubble exams that reflect low expectations, to be deeply hypocritical.

Senechal is a frequent Common Core critic, but she's exactly right when she observes, «Common Core advocates are zealously repeating the mistakes of their predecessors.»

Common Core advocates should keep all of this in mind as they glibly extol the virtues of embracing common standards, of setting a national bar for excellence, of following an exquisitely crafted set of learning goals fashioned by experts.

I'm sure many Common Core advocates on the left will continue to ignore Will — oh, he's a conservative Neanderthal — and by extension the case he's made.

«Instruction with complex text at all times is not what is called for, even by Common Core advocates,» Liben takes care to note.

Common Core advocates also need to talk about this aspect of the initiative as central to its purpose and success.

Common Core advocates hailed the scores as an honest accounting of school and student performance, while others worried that they reflected problems with the tests, inadequate support for educators, or a lack of alignment between what schools are teaching and what's being tested.

Second, the Common Core advocates were tripped up by their own impatience.

Common Core advocates are busy explaining that the goofy homework questions and worksheets don't accurately reflect their handiwork.

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

If I was a staunch Common Core advocate, I would be worried.»

Not exact matches

Identifying common concerns and challenges, a core group of 12 physicians formed Physicians Advocating Breastfeeding (PHAB) and scheduled their first conference for the summer of 1994.

At 11 a.m., Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, other lawmakers and violence prevention advocates introduce the «Jessica Tush Teen Dating Violence Prevention Program,» a pilot Common Core education program scheduled to begin this month at K. 558 Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design, 257 N. Sixth St., Brooklyn.

Serino has faced questions from local political advocates when it comes to scaling back the state's controversial Common Core standards, an issue she ran heavily on.

Common Core, I have nothing to do with it,» when in fact, you know, he signed things with the National Governors Association putting New York into that program and appointed John King, who's been a very — the state education commissioner, who's been a very forceful advocate for that.

He said during a news conference in Albany on Tuesday that he would advocate a home - grown set of standards, like what the Board of Regents began developing in 2008 before they were shelved in favor of the Common Core.

A third Cuomo ad advocates delaying implementation of new testing of the Common Core learning standards, which Cuomo says has been «premature».

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has joined a national coalition of 200 colleges in 33 states, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards, advocating for the continued use of Common Core standards for primary and high school education.