Sentences with phrase «core standards provide»

New York State Education Commissioner John King says schools across the state have followed a set of standards since the late»90s, but the Common Core standards provide more rigorous guidelines.

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Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

The Food Loss & Waste Protocol Steering Committee is grateful to the Global Green Growth Forum for providing a platform to launch the FLW Standard, and to the following for their core funding of the World Resources Institute, which serves as Secretariat of the Food Loss & Waste Protocol.

The standards within each Core Area now provide a concise framework by which youth sports programs should be designed and executed.

Core Functions and Safety (5 out of 5): The core function of the booster is to provide proper elevation for a child that has outgrown a convertible car seat or fixed 3 - point harness forward - facing seat so that the child can be safely belted in using a standard seatbCore Functions and Safety (5 out of 5): The core function of the booster is to provide proper elevation for a child that has outgrown a convertible car seat or fixed 3 - point harness forward - facing seat so that the child can be safely belted in using a standard seatbcore function of the booster is to provide proper elevation for a child that has outgrown a convertible car seat or fixed 3 - point harness forward - facing seat so that the child can be safely belted in using a standard seatbelt.

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.

Astorino also attacked Cuomo's recent proposal to provide free college education to prisoners and blamed the governor for problems with the Common Core learning standards.

Although new state tests will be rolled out this spring based on demanding Common Core national standards, almost 8 out of 10 New York City teachers surveyed said the city's Department of Education has yet to address the new learning benchmarks, including failing to provide any curriculum or other instructional materials keyed to the new standards.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

The proposal aims to provide a «safety net» to educators whose ratings were affected by the rough transition to the Common Core standards in New York and who could be fired because of it.

«They don't replace the core funding or the core support from the institutes that they involve, but they provide that extra appeal to attract new people and to allow a few individuals to do something beyond what the standard funding would allow,» she says.

«Since the early 1950s the standard random - access memory has been provided by an array of tiny ring - shaped cores made of a ferrite, an easily magnetized material.

Dr. Tarazi and his group have also established several animal models that provide close presentations of the core symptoms of neuropsychiatric conditions, and have efficiently utilized these models for assessing the actions of standard and experimental medications.

To encourage and develop vocabulary in accordance with Common Core standards for English language arts (Vocabulary acquisition and use grades 6 — 12 *), we provide Power Words at the end of each article on the site.

Rapper - turned - actor Ice Cube ably provides the emotional core in this story of a neighborhood barbershop and its assortment of colorful inhabitants, which is a cut above standard hip - hop cinematic fare.

Arts integration goes beyond including art projects in class; it is a teaching strategy that seamlessly merges arts standards with core curricula to build connections and provide engaging context.

In other words ~ the Common Core provides students with the basic skills and thought process to be ready for college and the workplace ~ but the standards were not specifically designed to challenge and provide differentiation for gifted children.

Even with the shift to Common Core standards, our school has been able to increase student growth and proficiency by providing teacher training and programs that allow them to answer DuFour's 4 Essential Questions:

The activity descriptions provide the best mental image I have seen so far as to what the Common Core Standard should look like in work product.

A June 2013 Gallup / Education Week poll of superintendents showed that 58 percent say that the Common Core standards will improve the quality of education in their community, and 75 percent believe that having these standards will provide more consistency in the quality of education between school districts and states.

Providing a more honest assessment of student performance was one of the goals of the Common Core initiative and the new tests created by states that are meant to align to the new, higher standards.

PBL projects provide a space to meet multiple learning targets, whether those are core discipline standards or arts standards.

It's worth pointing out that when the states developed the Common Core State Standards, they provided some important distinctions from current standards and current state tests.

PDK provides more context when it asks whether the respondent had «heard about the new national standards for teaching reading, writing, and math in grades K through 12, known as the Common Core State Standards?»

To motivate states to adopt Common Core standards, the U.S. Department of Education provided incentives in 2009 via its Race to the Top initiative.

The pack is matched to National Curriculum and Common Core Reading standards and provides a range of summer themed games, activities, raps, worksheets and cards (just add a puppet!).

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

These worksheets provide enrichment in basic Arithmetic, Plane Geometry and Algebra 1 concepts, coinciding with Common Core standards at grade 6 and above and requiring no more than a thorough understanding of that material.

As many educators are discovering, Common Core State Standards pose particular challenges for English - language learners in both language arts and mathematics, and yet the standards documents themselves provide little guidance for how teachers can help their ELLs meet the new objectives.

In fact, the Common Core isn't a national policy, though the federal Race to the Top initiative did provide encouragement and funding to states that adopted the standards.

Preparing for Change: A National Perspective on Common Core State Standards Implementation Planning provides insight into the steps states are taking to implement common standards and reports results from a 50 - state survey examining transition planning.

This Traits - Common Core State Standards crosswalk provides a side - by - side comparison between the content of the 6 +1 Traits and the first three CCSS writing standards for grades 11 — 12.

The book provides valuable conceptual tools for analyzing the design of the Common Core national curriculum - content standards.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Three - quarters of public school teachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of Teachers today.

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Read More

When the Common Core State Standards were launched in 2010, former Los Angeles Unified superintendent Roy Romer announced his high expectations for the initiative: «The common standards will provide an accessible roadmap for schools, teachers, parents and students, with clear and realistic goals.»

Provide long - term financial support for the development and implementation of common assessments, teacher and principal professional development, and research to help continually improve the common core state standards over time.

This introduction to the Common Core state standards provides a good background on why and how the standards were developed and key features for ELA / Literacy.

THINK Literacy provides teachers with instruction on what and how to teach, sequenced in units that emphasize student engagement and develop a love of reading, while also building essential critical thinking skills aligned with Common Core standards.

Considering these differing perspectives on the purpose of education provides insight into why opposition to Common Core has been strongest among parents and why national organizations and governors — responding to federal incentives to stick with the national standards and tests — have been slower to reverse course or even reconsider.

Providing a more honest assessment of student performance was one of the goals of the Common Core standards and the tests aligned with them, Mike notes.

This resource provides writing prompts and strategies that align Civil Rights Historical Investigations with the expectations of the Common Core State Standard.

Content standards, tests, and curriculum that had been provided by the states — thus far — will now because of Common Core be provided by federally - endorsed national curriculum - content standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content standards.

The program helps students meet state learning standards in core academic subjects, such as reading and math; provides homework help; offers students a broad array of enrichment activities that complement their regular academic programs; and offers literacy and other educational services to the parents and families of students.

The results of our research suggested that the Common Core are dominated by lower level, artificially contrived, difficult standards and provide few opportunities for creative and strategic thinking.

Quill's curriculum now provides over 40 hours of instruction spanning 42 Common Core standards.

VDOE funds, through a competitive process, projects that provide significant expanded learning opportunities for children and youth, and that will assist students to meet or exceed state and local standards in core academic subjects.

The results suggest that the standards that NJ bureaucrats had in place prior to adopting the Common Core provided more of the Level 3 and 4 higher - order skills cited in education reform literature as necessary capabilities for competing in a global economy.

NEW YORK — Prompted by the new Common Core standards and an increase in English Language Learners in public schools, New York State education officials are moving aggressively to provide better support for bilingual teachers and improve student achievement.

«The new standards provide a platform for innovation, a structure that can support creative strategies for teaching core content in math and literacy.»