Sentences with phrase «adopted challenging academic»

ECAA: States must «provide an assurance that the State has adopted challenging academic content standards and aligned academic achievement standards,» but states are not required to submit their standards to anyone.

The proposal being designed by the panel's Republican leaders would share a central feature of the Clinton Administration's Goals 2000 strategy — a requirement that states and school districts adopt challenging academic - performance standards and assessments with which to measure students» progress toward meeting them.

It also requires states to adopt challenging academic content standards and entrance requirements for credit - bearing course work in the state's system of public higher education.

The most recent version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which was passed by Congress in 2015, requires states to adopt challenging academic content standards for mathematics, reading or language arts, and science.

Not exact matches

Every state in the union is in the process of adopting rigorous academic standards and challenging assessments.

The OECD challenges governments, academics and practitioners to adopt new ways of sharing and building knowledge.

They found that states have been adopting more difficult academic standards — in many cases, the common core — and then choosing or designing assessments that are more challenging as well.

While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.

Fort Wayne Community Schools has addressed school funding challenges with a three - tiered approach 1) adopting district structures and processes that focus spending on activities that support student achievement, 2) participating in lobbying and other activities at the state level to improve funding and strengthen academic programs and 3) obtaining federal grants to help fill resource gaps.

Each State plan shall demonstrate that the State has adopted English language proficiency standards that (i) are derived from the 4 recognized domains of speaking, listening, reading, and writing; (ii) address the different proficiency levels of English learners; and (iii) are aligned with the challenging State academic standards.

The Senate proposal would still require states to adopt «challenging» academic standards.

ESSA requires that states adopt state accountability systems based on the challenging state academic standards for reading / language arts and math, as well as on ambitious state - designed long - term goals for all students and separately for each subgroup of students.

-- The Secretary shall not have the authority to mandate, direct, control, coerce, or exercise any direction or supervision over any of the challenging State academic standards adopted or implemented by a State.