Sentences with phrase «adoption of similar standards»

The Republican revolt against the Common Core can be traced to President Obama's embrace of it, particularly his linking the adoption of similar standards to states» eligibility for federal education grants and to waivers from No Child Left Behind, the national education law enacted by President George W. Bush.

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To speed progress, the group calls for the adoption of a «professional standard» — similar to a code of ethics — that facilitates immediate, easy sharing of cultivars and other breeding material.
In much the same way that vendor adoption of developer standards such as LTI would improve interoperability in a plug - and - play ecosystem, a similar standard - driven strategy for learning data could ensure 3rd party apps, the Learning Management System, and Student Information Systems (SIS) all deliver uniformly structured data events to a central location, like a Learner Record Store (LRS).
Last September, he all but required adoption of the Common Core or similar standards approved by state higher education officials if states want to receive federal waivers from the 2002 No Child Left Behind law.
Although Indiana was one of CCSS» first adopters, Indiana's Gov. Mike Pence signed a law that banishes Common Core, but doesn't prohibit adoption of academic standards that look very similar to CCSS.
According to National Review, «Lawmakers have tied $ 4.35 billion in Race to the Top grants to the adoption of standards similar to those found in a significant number of states, and they've made the adoption of Common Core a major factor in securing a No Child Left Behind waiver.»
Capacity for direct comparison of MCS data with published data from similar large, general population samples was limited for the other scales owing to modification from the original response formats to a standard three - choice format, adoption of a standard method of summed total scores for all scales and by minor alterations to the wording of some items.
Hawaii became the first state to set a goal to achieve 100 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) by 2045 — requiring the adoption of renewable energy statewide — while Vermont set a similar goal of 75 percent.
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