Sentences with phrase «early critic of standards»

Professor Ellen Brantlin of Indiana University was an early critic of standards based education reform (SBR).

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Later in life, Ebert became an early adopter of blogging and using Twitter before it became standard platforms for critics.

Many Democratic critics say that while they don't oppose the idea of national standards, the Common Core is not based on research and that parts of it ignore what is known about how students learn, especially in the area of early childhood education.

But support began to wane when critics from all sides of the political spectrum began to emerge with concerns on a variety of fronts, including problems with the content of the standards and the developmental inappropriateness of those for the earliest grades, the design of the new tests, how the new exams were written and by whom, and the federal government's funding of new standardized tests aligned to the Core.

Critics on the left have taken issue with a number of things surrounding the standards (you can read a post about eight problems with the Core here), saying that there was not enough input from educators into the drafting of the Core, that the standards are not based on any research, that they ignore what is known about early childhood development and much more.

But critics say that the standard IPO process is designed to minimize volatility in the early days of trading.