Sentences with phrase «core standards stress»

Instead of focusing on the ability to compute and solve, Common Core standards stress the understanding of underlying mathematical concepts.

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However, with the Common Core standards, and the four Cs, which are peppered throughout them, stressing the importance of communication is no longer limited to English class.

The Common Core State Standards are among the first standards to stress the crucial link between knowledge and reading comprehension — something that will, if faithfully implemented, force many teachers to rethink whether their preferred reading programs meet the content and rigor demands of the CCSS.

What I like in the ELD standards are the different stages of students» use of language from lesson to lesson, really stressing that academic vocabulary, which I don't think is stressed enough if you have Common Core only.

Much to the delight of writing enthusiasts, the curriculum standards known as the Common Core stress the importance of students» putting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard) across all subject areas.

Often compared with the Common Core standards for math and English language arts, the new science standards stress the deeper learning of broad scientific concepts over the memorization of facts, and place a greater emphasis on introducing students to the workplace practices of scientists and engineers.

He stressed that the teachers union supports the Common Core, but he said the state is pushing the new standards without needed support and sufficient funding.

The Common Core and the draft history frameworks stress exploring topics in depth, while the existing state history and social studies standards require covering a breadth of topics.

The Smarter Balanced test is aligned with the new Common Core standards and its scores are not comparable to the old API scores, officials have stressed, but Cynthia Lim, LA Unified's executive director of the office of Data and Accountability, conceded that the gaps remain regardless of what test is being administered.

«It's heartening that both Commissioner King and Ms. Weingarten stressed how important it is to come together around Common Core standards, and support schools to effectively implement them.»

In 2013, he briefly suggested that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was «impolitic» to place opposition to the Common Core State Standards upon «white, suburban moms» who don't want to find out that their children are not brilliant — just before he jumped in and declared that Secretary Duncan was right to be concerned that «a laudable set of guidelines» would be rejected for making kids work too hard, characterized most opposition to the standards as «welling hysteria» from the right and left wing, and chided parents concerned about the increasing lack of joy in school with declarations that portions of school ought to be «relatively mirthless» while blaming stories of students breaking down from stress upon their parents.

Partly because of RTTT, 44 states adapted the untested Common Core standards, a national rubric for teaching reading and math that stresses rigor.

Common Core ELA content standards stress greater emphasis on challenging texts and increasing the level of text complexity.

One of the core premises of the standards was that preventive efforts must be stressed and receive attention at least equal to that directed toward the assessment and treatment of suspected or actual incidents of child abuse and neglect.