Sentences with phrase «common academic standards»

Up to $ 350 million from the fund will be carved out to support a recently announced effort by 46 states to develop common academic standards.

Parents see adoption of common academic standards as a step forward for education by 72 percent to 22 percent.

He wants states to use funds to ease limits on charter schools, tie teacher pay to student achievement and move for the first time toward common academic standards.

Forty - six states — representing 80 percent of the nation's K - 12 student population — have formally agreed to join forces to create common academic standards in math and English language arts through an effort led by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

Texas has withdrawn from the Council of Chief State School Officers, an influential Washington organization that is helping lead the push to create common academic standards across states, among its other efforts.

The latest draft of proposed common academic standards offers more - detailed expectations of what students should know and be able to do by the end of high school in math and language arts, but also notes that some decisions about curricula should be left to individual states and schools.

After the states applied for Race to the Top grants and promised to implement common academic standards and assessments, Secretary Duncan announced that consortia of states boasting at least 15 members could receive part of $ 362 million to craft standardized assessments based on the Common Core.4 To be considered, applicants had to submit assurances from each state in their consortium that they would:

In light of the ongoing push to establish common academic standards across states, the authors examined data from the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress to see whether citizen ratings of school quality are responsive to the level of student performance relative to the nation as a whole or only relative to other schools within the same state.

Now, a coalition of state leaders has begun working on a separate effort to craft common academic standards, in the hope of bringing unprecedented cohesion to the reading and math curricula of American schools.

The political sensitivities that have scuttled virtually every previous attempt at common academic standards are very much on the minds of those leading the effort this time around.

This year's special theme — the national debate over common academic standards — is complemented by extensive information on each state's curriculum resources, assessments, and academic standards, drawn from the research center's annual state survey.

A case in point: the push by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers for common academic standards nationwide.

The contest has catalyzed action from coast to coast to expand charter schools, lay the groundwork for teacher performance pay, revise employee evaluation methods and even consider the first common academic standards.

In the run - up to the competition, 13 states changed their laws to create or allow more charter schools in their states, and at least 41 states have agreed to enact common academic standards in English and math.

Their mission: to develop common academic standards in English and mathematics that would help ensure that «all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.»

Publishers in the education realm are gearing up for the shift in the marketing landscape likely to come if and when states adopt common academic standards, with curriculum and assessment changes sure to follow.

States that adopt the proposed common academic standards must use the document word for word, initiative leaders said last week.

The letter asks for the upcoming FY15 funding bill to include language that prohibits the U.S. Secretary of Education from requiring states and districts to implement common academic standards — including the Common Core State Standards — as a condition of approval or competitive preference for an award of federal funds.

Obama and the Gates Foundation share some goals that not everyone embraces: paying teachers based on student test scores, among other measures of achievement; charter schools that operate independently of local school boards; and a set of common academic standards adopted by every state.

Duncan has dispensed plenty of tips: Lift restrictions on the growth of charter schools; build data systems that show individual student progress under specific teachers and principals; seek out new ways to turn around perennially struggling schools; and sign on to efforts to develop common academic standards that are tough enough to withstand international scrutiny.

Consider two areas of current and escalating controversy: educator evaluation and common academic standards.

Previous attempts to implement common standards indicate that such an effort could have gained real traction: Back in 2005, before the Common Core effort began, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont developed common academic standards and tests for grades three through eight and high school that showed real promise.

NSBA supports state - led development and voluntary adoption of common academic standards that ensure U.S. public school students are prepared for college and careers.

States will also be judged on how well they work with other states in developing common academic standards.

Arne Duncan, the U.S. Secretary of Education, said 46 states are cooperating on creating a common academic standard for their public schools and seven states have lifted limits on the number of charter schools that can operate within their boundaries.