Sentences with phrase «benchmarking standards in education»

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From the other side of the political spectrum, Harvard's Caroline Hoxby, a member of the Hoover Institution's Koret Task Force on K — 12 Education, has also proposed benchmarking against NAEP, with the added wrinkle that states with tougher standards would receive extensions of the deadlines in NCLB.

These standards are drawn from Content Knowledge: A Compendium of Standards and Benchmarks for K - 12 Education; 3rd and 4th Editions and have been provided courtesy of the Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning in Aurora, Colorado.

Frequently, arguments in favor of maintaining this particular benchmark as the desired goal for American students and education institutions are couched in terms of establishing demanding standards so the United States becomes more competitive internationally.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the voluntary benchmarks were strongly pushed by the Obama administration through its $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top education - grant competition, which rewarded states bonus points in their applications if they instituted changes like «college and career ready» standards.

«I think in many ways (Common Core is) a very good idea,» said UW - Madison associate education professor Catherine Compton - Lilly, who has studied the language arts half of the standards (the other half is math) and described the Core as a set of benchmarks.

In the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the «Race to the Top» Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $ 350 million of the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund to support states in the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by stateIn the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the «Race to the Top» Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $ 350 million of the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund to support states in the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by statein the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by states.

Secretary Duncan urged the nation's governors and state education leaders to continue the movement toward adopting internationally benchmarked standards for public K - 12 education during his keynote address at the 2009 Governors Education Symposium in education leaders to continue the movement toward adopting internationally benchmarked standards for public K - 12 education during his keynote address at the 2009 Governors Education Symposium in education during his keynote address at the 2009 Governors Education Symposium in Education Symposium in Cary, NC.

Additionally, the lack of standards and benchmarks in distance education courses may have led to serious misconceptions about the quality of online and distance learning.

This new set of standards can replace the various state benchmarks for learning that have dominated K - 12 education policy in the United States for at least two decades.

Model school library standards were approved Thursday by the California State Board of Education, creating new benchmarks for K - 12 resource management in a world dominated by electronic communication.

Next Generation Science Standards are a set of K — 12 academic standards in science that are designed to provide all students an internationally benchmarked science education.

That benchmark lies somewhere in the intersection between your savings objectives (retirement, education, a new car), the performance of widely - accepted benchmarks (the US Standard & Poor's 500 index, the DAX, the price of gold and more) and your investments.

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The National Quality Standard (NQS) sets a high national benchmark for early childhood education and care and outside school hours care services in Australia.

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