Sentences with phrase «academic standards across»

It promoted common academic standards across schools and required «remedies» for «failing» schools — concentrated in impoverished communities of color — such as converting them to charter schools or having them run by private firms.

Plans are in motion to begin holding students to the same set of academic standards across much of the nation, including Indiana.

Chief among them: using data to track students and improve their achievement; spreading uniform, rigorous academic standards across states; improving teacher quality; and turning around the worst - performing schools.

Through the seamless integration of technology, combined with rigorous academic standards across the curriculum, improved student learning will be achieved.

The announcement today is part of the government's plans to raise academic standards across the country, helping more people to secure a good job, an apprenticeship or go on to further study or training.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a state - led effort to apply nationalized academic standards across the United States, eschewing the disparate standards of the past.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

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The senior management team of the Rotman School consists of leaders who are accountable for ensuring high standards of excellence across academic, program, operations and advancement functions.

A state task force will hold simultaneous public hearings on controversial Common Core academic standards, testing and curriculum Friday in Stony Brook and at four other sites across the state, amid complaints by many parents, teachers and others that the late - afternoon format will hinder attendance.

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree.

On 27 July, the regents of the University of California (UC) took a step unprecedented in U.S. history, one that laboratory safety experts believe is likely to help raise the customarily lax safety standards that have prevailed until now in many academic labs across the country.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

This special report examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

On average across all schools, the impact of having a principal 1 standard deviation more effective than the average principal is as much as seven additional months of learning in a single academic year.

The Prime Minister will say: «For those young people who do not go on to academic study, the routes into further technical and vocational training today are hard to navigate, the standards across the sector are too varied and the funding available to support them is patchy.

The objective of the Common Core State Standards Initiative is to establish similar academic standards and comparable tests across all states for students in grades K - 12.

Adherence to standard textbook - based teaching means that nothing is being done to challenge this perception when it's all too clear that unlocking curiosity and wonderment across all academic disciplines is not only essential to the mastery of tests, but also key to ensuring that more students are inspired enough to pursue further study and even pursue teaching as a career later in life.

Across all tested students in online charters, the typical academic gains for math are -0.25 standard deviations (equivalent to 180 fewer days of learning) and -0.10 (equivalent to 72 fewer days) for reading.

«Across all of the Trust's schools we have a focus on high academic standards.

Academic standards varied widely across the country, and few fifteen - year - olds reached the ranks of top scorers.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

Gibb continued: «Thanks to our reforms and the hard work of teachers, academic standards in our primary schools are rising across the country.

Religious Diversity in the Classroom, a free webinar series produced by Teaching Tolerance and the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding, examines how teaching about religion across grade levels and subject areas can help meet academic standards.

The growing number of states that are choosing to give their own exams, coupled with the different definitions of «proficient» on PARCC tests, is unraveling one of the central promises of the Common Core academic standards — the idea that states would have the same math and reading standards and use the same tests, making it possible to directly compare student performance across state lines.

Academic standards in core subjects would be the same across the land, as would tests and other gauges of performance.

Traditionally, across the country each state set their own set of academic standards.

«GCSE results suggest that converting already high - performing schools to academies has little effect on their academic performance, so it's not true to think that academy conversion raises standards across the board,» says Mr Hannay.

Parents across the country are trying to make sense of Common Core standards, a set of academic expectations that call for less focus on memorization and more focus on explaining how solutions were found and, in English, a deep probe of text.

The recent pushback over social - emotional standards also has included a wariness of collaborative work across state lines, an attitude that contributed to the state's decision to scrap the Common Core academic standards for math and reading in favor of «homegrown standards» that Tennessee will roll out in 2017.

EDMOND, Okla. — Educators in this Oklahoma City suburb jumped into action when state leaders in 2010 adopted the Common Core academic standards that were sweeping states across the country.

«And since Achieve3000's solutions are customized to meet each state's academic standards and build literacy in the content areas, our teachers can use them in all fifty - two of our regions, across many grade and ability levels, as they work to meet the individual needs of each learner.»

Both competitions will fund projects across five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; helping implement rigorous academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

The Student Level — Standards Report now shows detailed, real - time data on how a student is progressing toward proficiency against a whole slew of academic standards — and across grade levels.

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.

Meeting the requirements of high standards such as the Common Core State Standards and College and Career Ready Standards across the United States requires academic rigor for all students.

The University of Washington Center for Educational Leadership (CEL) in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has launched a new website resource to help school districts across the nation with their implementation of higher academic standards.

«Unfortunately, we've seen all across the country urban districts get very excited about credit recovery programs and we have very little confidence that they are maintaining academic standards while catching kids up.

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.

JACKSON, Miss. — Educators across Mississippi say the already - lagging state will «move backwards» if Gov. Phil Bryant and Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves throw out the Common Core academic standards and create new ones.

As president of New Jersey PTA, Acerra led efforts to include cameras on school bus extension arms to deter cars from speeding past; create a fairer state education funding formula; and require higher academic standards for all students across the state.

Busy teachers across the country work hard every day to help their students meet high academic standards.

Higher education leaders across the country are stepping forward to advocate for more ambitious academic standards in high school because...

Higher education leaders across the country are stepping forward to advocate for more ambitious academic standards in high school because better prepared students are much more likely to succeed in college.

Our programming reinforces and enhances learning across all academic disciplines, is foundational to bullying prevention and intervention, and is integral to nationally recognized learning standards like the Common Core State Standards and 21st Century Learning Standards for success in a globally competitive workforce.

These standards represent a unified set of expectations across the country of what academic content knowledge and skills are required for students to be ready for credit - bearing college courses and careers.

For the first time this year, state officials are asking Indiana kindergarteners to meet the same academic standards as kindergartners across much of the nation, from Hawaii to Kentucky.

In recent years, states across the country have put in place new, rigorous academic standards and assessments.

The latest statewide assessment scores reveal that students and educators across New Jersey are rising to the challenge of higher academic standards and building year - over-year on the impressive progress they've made.