Sentences with phrase «ambitious academic standards»

Higher education leaders across the country are stepping forward to advocate for more ambitious academic standards in high school because better prepared students are much more likely to succeed in college.

Higher education leaders across the country are stepping forward to advocate for more ambitious academic standards in high school because...

For example, high - scoring countries tend to recruit and retain talented teachers and help them continually improve their classroom skills; they also combine clear, ambitious academic standards for all students with a strong degree of autonomy at the local school level, argues Schleicher, of the OECD.

The three core components were more money (mostly to the urban schools), ambitious academic standards and a high - stakes test that students had to pass before collecting their high school diplomas.

But states find it difficult to gain consensus on a coherent set of substantial and ambitious academic standards, to align their tests with those standards, and to get strong accountability systems working.

Not exact matches

«By making apprenticeships a gold standard option for ambitious young people, we are sending a message that technical excellence is as highly valued as academic prowess,» Mr Cameron said.

But no if this turns out to be its own unrealistically ambitious federal regulatory scheme, no if it amounts to a bunch of plan writing and plan reviewing that yields no real change on the ground, and no if it further complicates what is already a hugely challenging transition in most states to higher academic standards and new forms of assessment.

First, they're good, solid — indeed very ambitious — academic standards for primary and secondary schooling, at least in the two essential subjects of English and math.

The disappointing track record of this approach in achieving its ambitious goals resulted, in 2009, in its adherents proposing national — rather than state — academic standards and testing: Common Core.

One of the most ambitious educational improvement projects in recent years was the adoption of new, more rigorous college - and career - ready academic standards by more than 40 U.S. states.

But she raised a lot of questions for «eggheads» like us who have pushed for these ambitious new academic standards:

New Jersey, for example, defines an SGO as «a long - term academic goal that teachers set for groups of students and must be: Specific and measureable; Aligned to New Jersey's curriculum standards; Based on available prior student learning data; A measure of what a student has learned between two points in time; Ambitious and achievable» (for more information click here).

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.

A new set of academic standards developed to replace states» individually designed learning goals, the Common Core math standards are like earlier math reforms, only further refined and more ambitious.

The new ambitious outline for learning is staged to help England meet the academic standards of some of the highest achieving countries in the world, but is also designed to help keep the students as educationally prepared as possible to go into the higher maths and sciences at the secondary school level.

• Highly experienced and ambitious Infant Teacher with over 5 years of experience in creating and implementing core infant care curriculums, according to federal and academic standards.