Sentences with phrase «academic standards so»

All students need rigorous academic standards so that they can succeed in college and careers.

This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement.

The accountability system, policy experts argue, is largely responsible for the law's most negative consequence: Allowing states to «dummy down» their academic standards so that more students could be classified as proficient each year.

Not exact matches

And the academic standard is so high at Covenant that the Citadel in SC loves to receive their students.

Andrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, «The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?»

When colleagues at academic conferences marvel at the latest of my seven pregnancies, my immediate reaction — so they don't think I am the world's worst professor and colleague — is to tell them that I have never, ever taken standard maternity leave.

Pastors and parents need a seat at the table for district and state decision making so we can advocate for high academic standards in every school.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

I remember that while the fans were certainly upset over the Stallings hire, there was some intrigue with his recruiting because he had been handcuffed quite a bit by the academic standards at Vanderbilt, so there was at least a glimmer of hope that coming to an ACC school with lowered standards would help open doors to recruits he didn't have a shot at when he was at Vanderbilt.

Social - emotional development is equally important, if not more so, to meeting academic standards at an early age, she says.

Grade trackers make it clear where your child is meeting academic standards and where they aren't, so your child will know where to apply extra effort.

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

For the first 5 years of her daughter's life, Katerina Michaelides, a senior lecturer in hydrology at the University of Bristol, had to keep her full - time workload to the standard hours of professional child care so that she could look after her daughter in the mornings and evenings as sole parent while her academic husband spent his weeks working at a university approximately 650 kilometers away.

For more than a century, resources had been distributed unequally among the races, so the college's facilities, its academic standards, and the academic preparation of its students could not match those of selective white colleges.

We recognize and share the frustration that many have expressed, and we are committed to work with the Office of the President and the Academic Senate to reform the University's disciplinary processes, criteria and standards so that in the future we have different and better options for discipline of faculty.

What's important is that students take assessments aligned to their state standards so that parents and teachers received valuable and honest information about their academic performance.»

In addition, business leaders committed to change their hiring practices so that a potential employee's academic transcript is considered in the hiring decision, and to give high priority to the quality of a state's standards when locating or expanding their businesses.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

It does so by boosting the ranking of teachers who are assigned more students whose family backgrounds and language and disability statuses are associated with lower academic achievement — much like the standard practice for scoring competitive diving, in which the raw score of the judges is multiplied by the degree of difficulty of the dive.

Perhaps, so the argument goes, rather than finding agreement on the academic content, states should merely lay out a set of college - and career - ready standards.

Designed to raise student proficiencies so the United States can better compete in a global market, the standards were drafted in 2009 by a group of academics and assessment specialists at the request of the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

With extended school days, rigorous academic standards, and a firm disciplinary code, expectations are high, but so is the commitment to help every student succeed in school, in college, and beyond.

So we need more focus on what research shows works in improving academic standards, addressing essential life skills and preparing young people for higher education and apprenticeships.

Fitzhugh also sees himself as setting a «varsity - level» standard for academics so scholars can garner the same recognition athletics receive.

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.

The Common Core site also states that «these standards define the knowledge and skills students should have within their K - 12 education careers so that they will graduate high school able to succeed in entry - level, credit - bearing academic college courses and in workforce training programs.

The new standards focus so much more on academic language and literacy, and I really have fewer students who struggle with language after they leave my class.

Gov. Bobby Jindal has said he is willing to withdraw Louisiana from a consortium of states developing the assessment associated with the Common Core academic standards if the Louisiana Legislature doesn't choose to do so on its own.

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

We sought out «early - implementer» districts that have moved with fair speed to implement the new academic standards — most of them well ahead of their own state timelines for doing so — in the hope that they would reveal lessons worth sharing with the broader field.

Hawaii's» charter schools must meet the state's academic standards and, like the traditional schools, many have had problems keeping pace with the No Child Left Behind Act, the federal law that requires schools to make annual progress so that all students are proficient by 2014.

Pence suggested Indiana could reject the nationally - crafted academic standards and tests, but «mimic Virginia, which has not adopted Common Core or corresponding national tests, but has compared its education standards to Common Core so teachers can use Common Core materials...

Coleman and Wilhoit told the Gateses that academic standards varied so wildly between states that high school diplomas had lost all meaning, that as many as 40 percent of college freshmen needed remedial classes and that U.S. students were falling behind their foreign competitors.

Horton is among the three or so dozen state education officials, K - 12 teachers and professors who spent Thursday hammering out the details of Indiana's next 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.

The standards were so concise, so jargon - free, so clear that the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., had Catholic schools in the nation's capitol teaching Indiana Academic Standards.

If the old Indiana Academic Standards and the Common Core are so similar, why adopt new standards at all?

The CSUSA educational model is so successful because the standards for academic, social, and personal growth are rigorous and clearly defined.

I would agree with you that if the new Charter's have to run a certain standard, those charter's already in place should be required to comply with the new standards in a certain period of time (perhaps 1 - 2 academic years after passage so that the charter school may properly adjust).

Every state should insist on K - 12 academic standards that adequately prepare students for college and careers so that every young person has the opportunity to pursue postsecondary education, or quality training and careers, after high school.

Plus, college and career readiness standards promote academic language and literacy instruction in every classroom so we support this shifts in our work.

As we learned from the 1990 - 2005 era of systemic state standards - based reform, when academic standards change, so do policies related to student assessment and school accountability.

Social awareness is so important that the next generation of standards often calls for skills that aren't considered academic but are necessary nonetheless.

His stories reveal how these «soft skills» can be honed while meeting and exceeding academic standards of 21st century learning and redefine the purpose of the work you do so you will aspire for nothing short of excellence!

The Obama administration, in response, announced that it would waive the law's academic requirements so long as states adopted Common Core standards, a national set of learning goals for students.

By age 23, Delhagen was part of a group of young teachers starting a high school in a chain of so - called «no excuses» charters, with a rigorous discipline code and high academic standards geared toward passing standardized tests.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Our mission is to build academic rigor, relevance and standards while developing the personalization so critical for school success.

Through the Race to the Top initiative, for example, the Obama administration succeeded in incentivizing states: Even with relatively small pots of money — just $ 4 billion, or less than 2 percent of federal education spending — the administration encouraged states to prioritize innovative teacher and principal reforms and develop rigorous academic standards.22 Thirty - four states modified their policies in response to the federal initiative, even though only 19 states received federal funding to do so.23

Part of this is because so many foundations and funders have found common cause in supporting what they hope will become «90/90/90» charter schools: Ones where at least 90 percent of students are low - income, 90 percent are minorities, and 90 percent meet set academic standards.