Sentences with phrase «core than educators»

The trio found that higher percentages of Louisiana ELA teachers were able to correctly identify practices and approaches aligned with Common Core than educators in other states that have adopted the Common Core or similar standards.

Not exact matches

The Waldorf School of Garden City has more than 47 passionate educators, most with advanced degrees in their core field.

«Certainly, the Task Force's recommendations are a better Holiday present than the lump of coal that was shoved in the stockings of students and educators this past spring when the Governor and the Majority doubled down on Common Core testing and the overemphasis on standardized testing for teacher evaluations.»

The state Education Department announced proposed revisions to the controversial Common Core learning standards after two committees made up educators and parents recommended changing more than 55 percent of the standards

Now more than ever, with Common Core emphasis on critical thinking and problem solving in an ever - changing world of information and technology, there are even many educators who struggle to identify content that is important and relevant.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Properly viewed as an opportunity rather than as a compliance hurdle, the Common Core makes it easier for educators to do what they wanted to do all along.

With the transition to Common Core State Standards, more is expected of educators than ever before.

As educators eagerly await the results of the new standardized assessments aligned with the Common Core standards that more than 3 million students took in the spring, state officials now say they plan to release the scores in early September, later than originally projected.

The Core Knowledge Foundation has partnered with the Civics Renewal Network (CRN), an alliance of more than thirty nonprofit and nonpartisan organizations working to provide free online resources to educators for classroom instruction in civics.

These millions of local officials, educators, and parents often have reasons for holding educational preferences that are different than those dictated by Common Core.

These conversations were very different than the philosophical fights about the advisability of big reforms like educator effectiveness and Common Core.

Our hope, of course, is that this finding — that educators think they are faithfully implementing the Common Core standards for English language arts even though they aren't making the instructional shifts encouraged by the standards themselves — will motivate action now, rather than later.

The projects have served over 2,000 schools in more than 300 urban, suburban, and rural school districts in 36 states and Washington, D.C. Based on the core premise that educators have the greatest impact on student learning across various in - school factors, TIF awards competitive grants to States, districts, or partnerships with non-profit organizations.

The Common Core standards, which were adopted by professional educators representing all school levels and approved by governors and the business community, are nothing more than a set of consistent standards for students.

Common Core concerns raised by teachers were echoed by one local educator, who decided to quit rather than teach under the new standards.

In sum, they amount to less than a full sentence vow to replace Common Core «with better standards and curriculum developed by New York educators, with feedback and input from local teachers and parents, and greater control at the district level.»

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

For example, if fewer than 80 % of students reach grade level expectations according to the screening measure, it is important for educators to improve Tier 1 instructional practices (e.g., core instruction).

Last weekend, more than 1,500 parents, students and educators packed a high school football stadium on Long Island to protest New York's new Common Core exams.

More than 1,500 educators and administrators answered questions in on - line survey about their summer 2012 Core Academy experience.

Together, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced) received more than $ 360 million in federal grants to develop these Common Core — aligned next - generation assessments that will not only measure deeper learning but also evaluate student and educator performance (Gewertz, 2012).

To millions of parents and educators nationwide, the implementation of Common Core still fits that image of confused people with measuring sticks because Common Core and the high stakes tests that have come along with it have created more anxiety and confusion for students and teachers alike than ever before.

This is not entirely unexpected: educators were expecting that some students would find math especially challenging because Common Core math requires more ELA proficiency than California's old standards.4 But it does suggest that, as measured in the first year of the SBAC, high - need students have farther to go — perhaps further than the old standards and assessments indicated.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

The Orchard Park Central School District in New York passed a resolution proposing that this year's state assessments be used for measuring the state's progress in introducing the Common Core standards rather than for measuring for student performance or educator effectiveness.

In addition, they pontificate that students learn best when schools are mandated to use the ill - conceived Common Core standards so classrooms become little more than Common Core testing factories and the teaching profession is opened up to those who haven't been burdened by lengthy college based education programs designed to provide educators with the comprehensive skill sets necessary to work with and teach the broad range of children who attend the country's public schools.

When the State Board of Education champions the Common Core as «far better than anything we have done before» although those standards were written by employees of testing companies, not educators, and contradict literally all research in how children learn best, then we know the end is at hand.

Through the use of the Odysseyware platform, educators and students have access to more than 300 standards - aligned courses and instructional materials in core subjects, enriching electives, CTE courses, and college and career readiness test prep.

This is just more of the same political decision making regarding what children really need rather than listening to educators that has been going on since «No Child Left Behind», «Race To The Top», and now «Common Core» programs / testing have been implemented.

In 2012, Florida decided to drop a contract with a software company that was providing quizzes and lessons connected to the Common Core, leaving educators without a resource to prepare students and teachers for the standards less than a year away from implementation.

Veteran educator Larry Ferlazzo pointed out on his blog recently that the Carnegie report titled «Opportunity by Design: New High School Models for Student Success,» includes data put together by McKinsey & Co. that shows how the Core — a collection of standards considered more rigorous than most states had before adopting them — would affect graduation and dropout rates.

In other words, how would a «holistic, engaging online experience» do something other than increase the already - bloated costs of education and further distract educators for no contribution to universities» core mission?