Sentences with phrase «actually read the standards»

If one takes the time to actually read the standards, it is hard to find anything controversial in them.

While I sympathize with fellow conservatives over the lack of public input into the adoption and implementation of the Common Core, I do agree with those teachers... who have actually read the standards and find them to be «well written.»

Not exact matches

What actually happens is that the eye reads the light as standard and sees how the object affects that light: it reads the relation between the light coming in and coming off, and reads the other colours in relation to a chosen colour and in relation to its own adaptive state.

Try to read what people are actually saying rather than strawmanning their points to fit a standard you set up for everyone else.

You've got patients reading all kinds of bias information on the internet & essentially risking their own lives, when they have qualified doctors who could be helping these patients test the treatments more safely & then use any beneficial treatments to help other patients, but it seems most doctors are more afraid of risking their own careers than actually helping patients, so they just prescribe the «Standard of Care» treatments, which we all know has a very low survival rate.

That's all very nice, but isn't the «strong research» supporting the standard supposed to show that knowledge of the five components actually leads to improved reading by students?

Consistent with Wixson and Dutro's (in press) recommendations, they found New York State standards reflected the national standards in orientation to reading process and learning, and actually went beyond national standards to provide a level of specificity that helps teachers know what students should know and be able to do at different developmental levels.

Let's take the time to actually read and review the standards.

Over a few months starting in the summer of 2009, as governors and schools chiefs sought the input of their school boards, Coleman, Zimba and other experts worked on reading and math committees to actually write the standards.

Between 2005 and 2007, some 15 states actually lowered their proficiency standards in reading or math, according to a report from the Education Department.

Graduation rates are still important, but if you're trying to make a judgement call about your current school or one you're interested in, try to get other information like how many kids are actually reaching the standards in reading, math, and science, and which groups of kids are making progress or falling further behind.

According to a big report from the Education Department, between 2005 and 2007, some 15 states actually lowered their proficiency standards in reading or math.

New standards and tests with a myopic focus on text without regard for the reader (i.e. the child actually doing the reading), without regard for their interests, knowledge, and passions, will serve to further disengage children from the splendor of reading and give students more reasons to see school, and reading, as irrelevant.

But, as in the case of the for - profit college sector, the lax oversight of the vouchers, along with the loosening of standards for providing them to students, has perpetuated the kind of fraud that can be as damaging to special ed students — many of whom likely were really struggling with reading than actually learning disabled — as condemning them to traditional school ghettos.

What many are criticizing as a national curriculum — as thought it was wrong to determine that every US high school graduate would meet the same standards for education — actually... [Read more...]

Click on a book you like and you'll get the standard Amazon book page, along with an added «Read for Free» button, just above the option for actually buying the book (you can still do that too, naturally).

Actually, it was two gigs: first of all, a 90 - minute talk about how to self - publish to a professional standard, as part of the university's Reading Series of public lectures, followed by a 75 - minute seminar with MA students talking about blogging for authors.

I have a NColor and a Nook Touch both rooted but after a while I discovered that actually I only used the standard apps as I bought them to read not to play.

Interestingly, Digital Book World reported on a brief study conducted in 2011 that showed that while children preferred to read identical content in electronic form over paper with the same level of comprehension, the level of recall actually was less when comparing an enhanced ebook to a standard digital edition.

Whether or not you choose to read it is something I can't control, but I hope it will help persuade you to do so when I can assure you that I'm one of those that, going by your standard, is actually a real author.

The individual book listings actually provide you with more info at - a-glance in a more sensibly organized way than on the Kindle Store in the desktop browser, and you can try a sample of any book in the Amazon e-book library, which loads up right in the standard Cloud Reader reading interface.

If you want to believe that our government is actually making sure dogs aren't being abused in facilities bearing their stamp of approval, go to the USDA web site and read the minimum standard of care.

Billing realization rates («that percentage of standard rates actually billed... Continue Reading

You can click the link above to actually open and read the consumer brochure for the Recovery Care II policy from Standard Life & Accident.

While they serve the same purpose which is to get an employer to read an accompanying resume, they may actually be longer than standard cover letters.