Sentences with phrase «academic benchmarks now»

Then came the professional development meetings this summer where she was told to teach the Common Core State Standards, a new set of academic benchmarks now being adopted by the majority of U.S. states.

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The new law significantly reduces the legal authority of the education secretary, who is now legally barred from influencing state decisions about academic benchmarks, such as the Common Core State Standards, teacher evaluations and other policies.

The exercise was part of a practice test aligned to the Common Core State Standards, a set of academic benchmarks that Tennessee adopted in 2010 and began using with success in classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year but may now abandon.

The standards were an attempt to raise expectations by establishing a new set of rigorous K - 12 academic benchmarks, and the CAP analysis underscored the need for more rigorous standards, Read more about Do Schools Challenge Our Students Now?