Sentences with phrase «advocates of the common core»

Advocates of the Common Core are counting on PD to equip teachers with the instructional capacity to actualize the standards.

So much of the discussion by the advocates of Common Core Standards is filled with references to steps which have to be taken or events which have to take place without identifying specifically how and by whom it happens.

Advocates of the Common Core hope that the standards will eventually produce long term positive effects as educators learn how to use them.

She also resorts to the tiresome tactic of attributing false claims around closing achievement gaps to advocates of Common Core so she can shoot them down.

Central to the thinking (and rhetoric) of the advocates of Common Core on education reform was the idea that state performance standards were already on a downward slide and that, without nationalization, standards would inexorably continue on a «race to the bottom.»

The last year has found critics and advocates of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) duking it out in the political arena.

As testing opt - out loses steam and students make large gains in reading and math, advocates of the Common Core State Standards have greater confidence that more students are achieving to higher standards.

Gates was himself one of the most fervent advocates of the Common Core standards, but they will no longer be a focus of the foundation's work, Gates indicated in his speech in Cleveland.

By taking a promising idea and making a hash of things, advocates of the Common Core paid homage to a long tradition in American education.

They are 4» x 8» messaging cards, with key messages on the front and critical facts on the back, to be shared with other advocates of the Common Core State Standards and common assessments.

Advocates of the Common Core State Standards are hopeful.

Even the most fervent advocate of the common core state standards would acknowledge that the standards themselves will not ensure that students graduate from high school ready for college and careers.

The poll results suggest there could be ongoing difficulties for advocates of the Common Core initiative as they face challenges to the standards across the country.

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Identifying common concerns and challenges, a core group of 12 physicians formed Physicians Advocating Breastfeeding (PHAB) and scheduled their first conference for the summer of 1994.

He said during a news conference in Albany on Tuesday that he would advocate a home - grown set of standards, like what the Board of Regents began developing in 2008 before they were shelved in favor of the Common Core.

A third Cuomo ad advocates delaying implementation of new testing of the Common Core learning standards, which Cuomo says has been «premature».

Rosa has garnered support from the state's teachers unions as well as test refusal leaders, but Common Core advocates are fearful that Rosa will undo the work of her predecessor, Tisch, who championed the Common Core and the use of student test scores in evaluating teachers.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has joined a national coalition of 200 colleges in 33 states, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards, advocating for the continued use of Common Core standards for primary and high school education.

An organized effort formed, led by high - profile unions and advocates that focused on the state's «botched» implementation of the Common Core rather than the standards themselves.

Jenny Sedlis, executive director of StudentsFirstNY, a group that advocates for the Common Core, among other issues, said in a statement: «Commissioner King has fully demonstrated his commitment to listening to parents across New York State as he goes about the necessary work of bringing rich and rigorous content into the classroom.»

«I look forward to continuing my efforts to save our children's education from the mismanaged roll - out of the Common Core curriculum, advocate for women's equality and make smart investments to create good local jobs in Dutchess and Putnam counties.»

In a rare show of unity on a controversial issue, leaders of both the State Senate and Assembly last week advocated a two - year moratorium that would decouple Common Core - aligned test scores with teacher evaluations and student - placement decisions.

In response, UFT President Michael Mulgrew denounced King's flawed rollout of the Common Core and noted that the UFT has advocated for similar initiatives for several years.

They should publicly concede that the feds played a significant facilitative role, that the Common Core exercise has been inevitably imperfect, that reasonable people may be nervous about the power seemingly being wielded by unaccountable associations, and that advocates facing a window of opportunity may have focused too much on the ambition of the project and not enough on allaying practical concerns.

But if you look at the data in Amazon books, you will see that the bestselling books about the Common Core are «skills - centric» ones that claim to prepare teachers for the new language arts standards by advocating techniques for «close reading» and for mastering «text complexity» as though such skills were the main ones for understanding a text no matter how unfamiliar a student might be with the topic of the text.

Common Core advocates hailed the scores as an honest accounting of school and student performance, while others worried that they reflected problems with the tests, inadequate support for educators, or a lack of alignment between what schools are teaching and what's being tested.

Common Core advocates also need to talk about this aspect of the initiative as central to its purpose and success.

In anticipation of the conference, I spent some time pondering my best arguments for why education advocates should invest their time and political capital in pensions, as opposed to everything else they might want to work on (like Common Core, teacher prep, charter schools, school funding, etc).

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Senechal is a frequent Common Core critic, but she's exactly right when she observes, «Common Core advocates are zealously repeating the mistakes of their predecessors.»

Some Common Core advocates consider union criticism of the new tests, which replace multiple - choice, fill - in - the - bubble exams that reflect low expectations, to be deeply hypocritical.

It may be that common core will usher in a new regime, with substantial benefits for student learning, that stops short of its advocates» ideal.

Charter operators and advocates have generally not been engaged in the Common Core assessment discussion and are largely unaware of the track down which the exercise is rapidly progressing.

Greene finds that philanthropic investments have the greatest impact when they create constituencies that advocate for change, but this didn't happen in the case of Common Core.

Despite my sympathy for Common Core advocates» position, a change in NAEP should not be made because of Common Core.

As educators work to help students meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards in English / language arts and mathematics, many arts education advocates are making the case that the arts can be a valuable partner.

Humanities teacher and blogger Jonathan Olsen advocates in favor of print over digital media, with specific examples of how regular newspaper reading helps his students meet the Common Core Standards.

Advocates of an increase in online and blended learning often point to the Common Core State Standards initiative as a very positive step that will allow providers to more easily work across the country.

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As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

One operated a charter school, and whenever Beck turned to him, he advocated for a return to the kind of classical education that America's founders would have received in the 18th century, and accused Common Core of trying to brainwash children with «progressivism.»

Common Core advocates continue to insist that Common Core does not usurp local control of curriculum, but in practice high - stakes tests keyed to the Common Core standards ensure that curriculum will follow.

That's the entire Indiana movement that is advocating for a halt to the Common Core State Standards,» the Chamber of Commerce fumed.

Though she now says she's opposed to the Common Core, she once advocated for it alongside Jeb Bush, one of Trump's biggest foes.

The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don't learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading.

In fact, even though Common Core advocates conceded that Massachusetts» standards were at least as good as those of the Common Core, they mounted a furious (and successful) push in 2009 and 2010 to get Massachusetts to adopt the Common Core — precisely because of the state's symbolic importance.

Teachers unions and traditional public school advocates accused him of not listening to them, of failing to slow down and assess what was and wasn't working as the state implemented the Common Core (which was first introduced by his predecessor).

It seems clear that some of the very elements credited for the Common Core's initial success (e.g., that nobody «owned» it or that Race to the Top fueled rapid adoption) have hampered the ability of advocates to respond constructively to critics.

The flame jumped the «firebreak»: The giant strategic error for the Common Core advocates was their refusal, from 2009 through much of 2012, to actually take the critics seriously.

It's not so much embarrassing for him, since he appears to be proud in his ignorance, as it is embarrassing for the Gates Foundation that pays for his work and the supporters of Common Core who rely on Tucker as one of their principal architects and advocates.