Sentences with phrase «common core supporters»

Even strong Common Core supporters realize the name is toxic and have accepted the premise that the federal government should not be dictating curriculum.

None of this helps further public understanding, and it's bad news for Common Core supporters, an eclectic group that includes governors, CEOs, educators and President Barack Obama.

But Common Core supporters say that raising the «minimum bar» the standards set will somehow make maximal differences.

«Cult» also captures some of religious - like zeal that Common Core supporters are exhibiting for the K - 12 experiment.

That media silence was due in large part to a calculated strategy among Common Core supporters: Advocates took pains to stay under the radar, avoid public debate, tightly coordinate their messaging, ridicule skeptics rather than respond to them, and ride the wave of support provided by the Obama administration in those years.

At the same time, reformers and Common Core supporters must mount a campaign to get legislators to reverse their decision on halting implementation.

Meanwhile there are reformers (including Common Core supporters and school choice activists) who want to backslide on subgroup accountability.

Common Core supporters argue that the ballot question does not propose a law or amendment, but rather directs a state board to repeal an earlier action.

It is time for Common Core supporters and the school reform movement as a whole to embrace — and build upon — the strong accountability measures exemplified by the No Child Left Behind Act's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions.

In fact the toughest obstacle lies with the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions and dismantle common accountability that has been inexplicably championed by Common Core supporters.

Common Core supporters have even more to worry about.

Like many Common Core supporters, Leinwand says the «I, we, you» model — where first teachers go through a problem for the class, then have the class work together on similar problems and finally have students work independently on problems — has dominated American math education for far too long.

But it does mean that Common Core supporters must acknowledge the facts at hand.

Thanks in part to the backing of President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Common Core supporters have managed to get the standards enacted by 45 states and the District of Columbia.

He also ridicules the argument advanced by Common Core supporters that the differences in how subjects are taught in different states requires national standardization, noting that the Gates Foundation's namesake «would have a difficult time showing how [Massachusetts and Mississippi]-- or any other two states — treat multiplication of whole numbers in significantly different ways.»

One of the biggest challenges facing Common Core supporters — especially conservative reformers who helped develop the standards in the first place — lies in the opposition from movement conservatives who should be the first to embrace providing all children with strong, college - preparatory curricula.

One of the biggest problems for Common Core supporters has been their unwillingness to actually admit what is plain: That their goal is to essentially create national reading, math, and science curricula.

Given the struggles states have had with matching curricula to standards — largely a consequence of the very cookie - cutter approach of allowing districts and teachers to develop their own curricula to meet them — this is a concern that Common Core supporters should address with greater candor than they have.

Given that trust, the NEA's support has always been a huge feather in the cap of Common Core supporters.

Common Core supporters haven't considered the possibility that their political strategy is flawed because they are trying to impose a top - down reform on a hostile and well - organized opposition of teachers and affluent parents.

Common Core supporters will point to the rise in reading scores in 2017 — nearly 3 points in 4th grade, about 4 points in 8th — to argue that teachers are using better materials and have become more skilled in teaching the new standards.

On Tuesday evening, Common Core supporters attended a forum in Brooklyn, welcoming New York State Education Commissioner John King.

«Common Core supporters argue that this started as a state - based initiative and still is because states can pull out of the standards,» writes Michelle Gininger, spokesperson for the Fordham Institute, in an email.

Public support is dropping, and even Common Core supporters acknowledge it's become a politically toxic brand.

Yes, as Neal McCluskey has doggedly pointed out for years, some Common Core supporters (including some state supes) urged the federal government to create «incentives» for state adoption of these higher standards.

«We Common Core supporters could be in for some more rough sledding.»

About conservative Common Core supporters, Noonan asks «in what abstract universe are [they] operating?»

It's exactly the reality check many Common Core supporters say was desperately needed.

To the immense frustration of Common Core supporters, an eclectic array of critics have raised sustained and impassioned objections about the new standards.

Watch for an attempt by Common Core supporters to change the NAEP math tests.

We Common Core supporters could be in for tough sledding in 2017.

Common Core supporters should take heart.

I told [Common Core supporters] to consider us the control group.

Indiana's revised standards were widely panned — by Common Core supporters and critics alike — for somehow managing to be lower in quality than both the Core standards and those that the Hoosier State had in place before.

In recent discussions about New York education, Common Core supporters and opponents have voiced multiple claims, some being inaccurate.

In this week's education news: Common Core supporters welcome NY State Education Commissioner John King, parents worry about the future of charter schools, and misconceptions about the Common Core are clarified.

She says it was unfairly «stacked» with Common Core supporters.

On Tuesday evening, Common Core supporters attended a forum in Brooklyn, welcoming New York State Education Commissioner John King.

And Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has flatly warned his rivals that a Common Core supporter can not win the Republican nomination.

But, as a visible former Common Core supporter, Jindal has also risked being called a flip - flopper on this issue.

This is the most recent installment of the «Primary Sources» survey conducted by Scholastic Inc. and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (a key Common Core supporter), and it focuses on the new English language arts and math standards, which most states have adopted and are now implementing.

As in New Hampshire, Montana's legislature is entirely controlled by Republicans, but Democratic Gov. Steve Bullock is a Common Core supporter who could exercise his veto power.

Michael Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Common Core supporter, said he anticipates another wave of backlash against the standards in the states — so it won't be helpful to have a president using his bully pulpit to rail against them.

Not exact matches

Supporters of Stop Common Core, who opposed implementation of Common Core education standards in New York, filed 62,000 signatures with the New York Board of Elections, far surpassing the threshold of 15,000 signatures after only two months of work.

I'm now back in a very snowy Washington — waiting to see if the Republican Party's core supporters are as «mad» as the Labour Party's Corbynistas — in both of the most common understandings of that word.

Conservatives and tea party supporters accuse the federal government of intruding into state education policy with the Common Core, which was originally adopted by 45 states.

Singer, and Faso, are both big supporters of common core and tax breaks of Wall Street.

Polacco and Cahill share a core group of supporters: voters in the Sixth Ward where Cahill preceded Polacco on the Common Council.

Hawkins» told local supporters that his platform includes guaranteeing jobs for all — be they private or public sector — a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, fully funded public schools, eliminating the Common Core education standards and providing 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

According to Chalkbeat New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo, a supporter of the Common Core and of stronger teacher evaluations, immediately criticized the new regulation.