Sentences with phrase «academic standards movement»

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There were plenty of folks feeling frustrated because charters, on the whole, weren't focused on quality from an academic perspective, and in general were somewhat opposed to an increasingly powerful standards movement.

The 1983 report «A Nation at Risk» launched the modern education standards movement with its plea for stronger academic preparation.

In what became known as the «excellence movement,» states like Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Virginia took steps to raise and refine academic standards and introduce more reliable standardized testing.

Within the accountability movement, teachers often complain that the states» new academic standards are not clear or detailed enough to guide their instructional planning.

That's because, in response to the national push for academic standards and accountability, movements fueled by philanthropy, states now are required to test students and report on the results.

Nebraska's enactment last week of a new plan of statewide academic standards and assessments leaves Iowa as the nation's lone holdout in the movement to embrace at least some variety of uniform state testing.

In addition to providing rich detail to support his main conclusion — that the so - called «excellence movement,» with its emphasis on increased academic standards, has failed to improve the schools — the book urges a larger agenda to carry the «struggle to reform» through the 1990's.

Such reforms, with their focus on testing and higher academic standards, are the precursors of today's controversial accountability movement.

First, given the popularity of the accountability movement, states may require voucher schools to follow state academic standards and administer standardized tests.

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.

Schools of education have often kept a distance from the movement to raise academic standards.

Richmond testified before Congress as to the need to ensure that charter schools are more closely monitored for their admissions standards, financial stewardship, and academic standards in order to ensure that the charter school movement is not harmed by the lax standards.

The original intent of the standards movement was to ensure that all students would have access to a much more challenging curriculum and therefore, would perform to higher levels of academic achievement.

The movement toward full inclusion and the requirements of high academic standards for all students ensures that all teachers need to be knowledgeable of promising technology uses with students with disabilities.

Colorado's system of academic standards and assessments started in 1995, making 2015 the 20thanniversary of the standards movement.

The standards - based movement has devoted most of its energy and resources to ensuring that every student, regardless of demographics, can exit K12 with a strong set of basic academic skills.

Founded in 1999 to advance the movement towards a more economically - just and environmentally - sustainable society and away from single bottom line capitalism, CSRwire has paved the way for new standards of corporate citizenship, earning the international respect of thought leaders, business leaders, academics, philanthropists, activists and the media community.

Since the early days of the movement, several state boards of education and several countries have approved standards for social and emotional learning, and researchers continue to study its impact on children's academic and personal success.