Sentences with phrase «while common core»

While Common Core had national implications, it started out as a movement at the state and local levels.

While the Common Core State Standards share many features and concepts with existing standards, the new standards also represent a substantial departure from current practice in a number of respects.

While the Common Core is only in math and English language arts, the English language arts standards do address what kinds of writing and reading students should be assigned in history and science classes.

While the Common Core standards spell out what American school children should learn at each grade level, curriculum and textbook decisions are left to the district.

While the Common Core State Standards might survive in some form without annual standardized testing, the testing consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC), began their work with the support of federal grants almost as soon as the standards were being adopted thanks to financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and federal incentives from the Race to the Top grant program.

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While the Common Core brand has again fallen in popularity — even though now as many people support it as oppose it — the public overwhelmingly supports rigorous, comparable academic expectations, no matter how they are described.»

Let them know that you are aware that you are not required to keep your child at home during the testing windows and that your child should be provided with appropriate instructional activities while the Common Core Testing is taking place.

And while the Common Core SBAC test requires students to meet the Common Cores standards, it now turns out that the new textbooks students in Bridgeport and other Connecticut communities have been given are not appropriately aligned to those Common Core standards.

While Common Core is reducing rigor, the College Board has also lowered the bar on the SAT with David Coleman at the helm.

While the Common Core Standards presents an enormous challenge for administrators and teachers, it will be the students who unknowingly benefit the most from them.

While the Common Core and Common Core testing scheme has obliterated the usefulness of the Math and English Language tests, the traditional testing process is still being used to measure whether students are learning the state's science curriculum.

While Common Core math standards do articulate ten math «practices,» mathematical content dominates the K — 12 expectations.

While Common Core proponents promise the standards will ultimately raise student achievement, the switch has been criticized around the country.

While the Common Core brand has soured in the state, Morgan contends the standards themselves will drive down remediation levels over time and that the legislature shouldn't fiddle with them.

Vicki Phillips, the Gates Foundation's director of college - ready programs, said that «while the common core is having a very positive impact on education, that doesn't mean teachers and schools shouldn't be given more time to adjust.»

The American Federation of Teachers has been a bit more nuanced; it supports the standards, but President Randi Weingarten has called for a moratorium on high - stakes testing while the Common Core exams are phased in.

While the Common Core State Standards are well - written and seemingly simple, CEL has found that analyzing grade - level strands becomes a complex task for teachers who do not have the benefit of assistance.

«The number of topics, for example, with the Indiana Academic Standards is very broad at each grade level, while Common Core is very narrow but very deep for conceptual understand,» Walker told the panel of state lawmakers.

While the Common Core and other new college - and career - ready standards have reinvigorated English Language Arts and reading instruction, the purpose of reading broadly and deeply remains the same.

While Common Core — inclusive of two major subject matters — is a big hurdle, it is by far not the only one included in the state's priorities.

In «Navigating the Common Core,» Michael McShane of AEI argues that while Common Core holds much promise for creating common expectations for students, successful implementation is contingent upon navigating «a field of mines, any one of which could blow the enterprise sky - high.»

Yet the College Board seems to have learned from, benefited from, and largely defused the blowback... while the Common Core's path looks quite different.

While Common Core is meant to have implications for the teaching of reading and writing in the sciences, in social studies, and in technical classes, for the most part, Common Core is about English and math.

While the Common Core initiative is actually a product of state cooperation, the 2014 Education Next survey found that 64 percent of respondents who had heard of Common Core believed that «the federal government requires all states to use the Common Core standards» (see «No Common Opinion on the Common Core,» features, Winter 2015).

While common core is not directly named, it is hard to read that document and not think that it is referring to the common core.

My own sense is that while Common Core — the brand — may continue to loom large in the GOP presidential primaries, it's now more about politics and posturing than strong public feelings.

While the Common Core standards emphasize development of reasoning and critical - thinking skills, the standards» perpetuation of a test - driven accountability system and teacher - directed learning environment compromises children's development of these higher - order skills.

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.

Not exact matches

Hai Hospitality supports each restaurant in a variety of capacities so that each shop has the freedom to grow while still being part of the bigger family — a family that has a common set of core values, a shared vision for food, service, and design, and a collective pool of knowledge and expertise that we can bring to bear regardless of where we call home.

The Rainforest Alliance curricula are unique in that it teaches language arts, math, science, social studies and the arts while addressing the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English language arts and mathematics, and the Next Generation Science Standards.

When it comes to the major education issue of the day, Astorino wants to end the state's involvement in Common Core while replacing it with a new set of standards yet to be determined.

But while we're talking education, its the Democrats and Cuomo continuing to push Common Core.

«While the state legislature works to protect the rights of parents to refuse the Common Core tests, we need our congressional representatives to referee on the federal level and send Secretary Duncan a clear message there will be consequences for penalizing our schools.

The opt - out effort this year has united different political strains: Republicans and conservatives are skeptical of Common Core as it pertains to a loss of local control for school districts, while the state's teachers union is encouraging the movement as well over concerns of how the results will impact performance evaluations.

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

While they support higher standards, they do not necessarily think the Common Core is perfect, Radford said.

While many educators embraced Common Core when it was first introduced, they've since demanded that the state hold off on implementing the new student assessments based on Common Core and the APPR plan until the rigorous curriculum is properly implemented inside the classroom.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

Cuomo in his budget address said that while he supports the Common Core standards being adopted in New York, he took issue with how the state Education Department has handled the roll out.

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While admitting that the rollout of the Common Core was a mistake, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he would not opt his three girls out of state tests if they were younger and eligible to take them.

Greenberg says fewer than one fifth of voters believe Common Core has improved education while 40 % think it's made things worse.

When asked if he would consider using only local measures to evaluate teachers, such as observations, while schools transition to the Common Core, he said: «I'd be open to anything that allows us to do the teacher evaluations faster.»

While Mr. Gamberg and the school board have agreed there are some good elements to Common Core, they've also been one of the more outspoken school districts on the North Fork to oppose the state's mandate that ties teacher evaluations to state assessment scores.

This past year, 96 percent of students passed the Common Core math exams while 55 percent passed the English exams - both scores are well above state averages.

While the state cites Kentucky (in the course of lowering expectations here), critics of Common Core implementation, in particular the main statewide teachers» union, contend that the comparison is flawed.

Many district officials already have told residents they face a squeeze next year between holding down taxes while expanding instructional services needed to prep students for lessons and tests aligned with rigorous Common Core academic standards.

She has consistently empowered students and teachers in our classrooms, supported the Second Amendment while championing commonsense safety reforms that protect our schools, and has opposed big government mandates like Common Core and the NY SAFE ACT.