Sentences with phrase «regarding academic standards»

Regarding academic standards, more than six out of 10 said the expectations for what students should learn is important to school improvement.

NSBA strongly urges Congress to provide maximum authority and flexibility to the states regarding academic standards.

In Massachusetts, the commissioner of education is recommending that the state replace its highly regarded academic standards with the Common Core Standards.

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At Vanderbilt the constituencies were reassured that the university was persisting in its primal Christian commitment because of high standards in academics, or a liberal or broad or thorough curriculum, or freedom from dogmatism, or the cultivation of moral character, or social conscience regarding racial integration or the relief of poverty, or decorum and discipline in fraternities and at football games.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

It is true that a system of uniform academic expectations and assessments would rectify some shortcomings of state - specific standards (chiefly the dizzying discrepancies among them, and the resulting confusion regarding which schools and students are failing or succeeding).

Burch said earlier this week that the policy changes regarding the new standards were still being written after the department received West Virginia University's report from the statewide «Academic Spotlight» review of the standards.

Make no mistake — Indiana's previous academic standards are well - regarded.

First, The MIDAS ™ provides information regarding intellectual development, activities, and propensities not usually available from standard academic tests and most aptitude tests.

Although the academic standards of these schools are rigidly controlled through national matriculation examinations, the country's 600 senior high schools do enjoy some measure of autonomy with regard to their curriculum and administration.

The new faces come at a time of sweeping changes to public education in the city and across Wisconsin with regard to evaluating teachers, academic standards, testing and addressing behavior, among other things.

Beginning this year authorizers will be ranked based on three components: the academic performance of the students in charter schools they authorize; adherence to «quality practices» aligned to NACSA standards; and compliance with applicable laws regarding charter school authorizing.36 Low - performing authorizers can be prohibited from authorizing new schools, or have their authorizing authority revoked entirely.

Academics Scott Rigby and Richard Ryan went on to develop this approach into the «player experience need satisfaction» or PENS model — a commercial standard that games developers can use to determine if a game is meeting a player's needs in this regard.

In light of the student's credentials, scores on standard and aptitude tests, the admission counselor guides the student regarding future course of academics to be pursued.

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