Sentences with phrase «education standards across»

The education secretary's speech comes days after he confirmed further plans to drive up education standards across England and increase opportunity in the areas that need it most.

A look at the not - so - new, but gaining speed, push for common education standards across the country.

These new more rigorous standards, meant to bring consistently tough education standards across state lines, were adopted in New York state by the Board of Regents in 2011.

Not exact matches

As Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, recently explained, schools across the country are rapidly transitioning to Common Core Standards, a more rigorous standard of instruction, and as they do, they're investing heavily in technology to help students meet those standards.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

This new, diverse system will raise standards across the board — which should be the main objective of any country's education system.

In state Senate races, antipathy toward Common Core education standards and annual state tests cuts across party lines: both Democrats and Republicans find reasons to pile on to statewide criticism.

Major education stakeholder groups across the country argue the higher standards are necessary to prepare students for college and the modern global workplace.

«It is clear that if the quality of governance is to improve across the education system, basic minimum standards of governance should apply across all publicly funded schools, not just to those in the maintained sector.»

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly are both calling for a minimum two - year moratorium on further implementing Common Core in schools across the state, a proposal that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has called «premature» until an education commission can come up with recommendations to change the standards by the end of the session in June.

The movement to put the brakes on the national education standards known as the Common Core is gaining momentum across New York State.

In a statement, Speaker Carl E. Heastie said that the two regents have a demonstrated commitment to maintaining the highest standards of education and providing every child with the most equitable high quality education across New York State.

Hundreds of teachers and parents from across western New York got their chance to address concerns about Common Core testing standards with New York State Education Commissioner John King.

New York State Education Commissioner John King says schools across the state have followed a set of standards since the late»90s, but the Common Core standards provide more rigorous guidelines.

On the surface, Common Core sounds reasonable: apply a rigorous standard of education across the board to ensure that American students in every school district are exposed to a common core of subject matter.

Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

Cities that exemplify cooperation are resolving inequitable funding, developing cross-sector strategies for special education, creating common accountability standards across school type, co-training leaders, and partnering on other critical endeavors.

BESA Research At BESA, our recent «Resources in English Maintained Schools» research (January 2012) carried out in association with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that schools are still investing in furniture, and hopefully adhering to the BSEN 1729 Standard, with an estimated # 78m spending across 2012/13.

A team of standards experts from across the country visited the state to critique the unfinished documents, showing education officials how Oregon stacked up against others» efforts and giving the state the opportunity to improve the final product.

Education Business analyses Reform's Academy chains unlocked report, which presents results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives, and recommends reform to the funding and oversight of chains to raise standards across the country.

Monkey Music founder, Angie Coates, herself a teacher of music, values her own experience of working with children and teachers in a school environment and this is testament to Monkey Music's pioneering curriculum and teaching style which has become the template and standard for pre-school music education across the UK.

«This government is committed to making sure schools are funded fairly so all pupils have access to a good education - a key part of our core mission to raise standards across the country and make sure every child reaches their full potential.»

These Principles of Procedure may be instructive to providers of professional development and training across all sectors of education and further, they are principles that are congruent with the mandated frameworks of professional standards published by AITSL.

It is clear that there is an inextricable link between the newly proposed professional standards and the professional education of teachers and principals across Australia.

The 2017 EdNext Poll — including the Trump Effect on public opinion about education Charter schools lose favor but opposition to vouchers declines; Opposition to Common Core plateaus and support for using the same standards across states gains ground

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

In addition to compiling the actual coverage across the nation, the Koret Task Force identified five issues it thought deserved greater media attention — teacher pension costs, common core standards, U. S. achievement in comparison with other countries, online or digital learning, and the education reforms in Louisiana.

During his twelve - year tenure at NAS, he played a key part in developing the National Science Education standards that are now used in schools across the country.

Education Week developed a comprehensive grading across grade - specific standards, testing, and the accountability that goes with them in each state.

Following months of lively debate among education, civic, and political leaders, the Massachusetts board of education approved plans Tuesday to replace the state's own English / language arts and mathematics standards with a common set of teaching guidelines now being approved in states across the nation.

The Center for Civics Education has specific standards that all teachers can use across all grade levels.

The handy reference guide «Ofsted Inspection Key Findings Quickbook» provides key information from details published by the education standards» watchdog about dozens of providers across the country.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

Welsh Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced plans to set up a new National Network of Excellence for Mathematics to help boost standards in schools across Wales.

Spielman has been recommended because of her «impressive breadth of experience across the education sector» and her «proven commitment to raising standards for children and young people».

Higher standards and greater expectations are driving reforms in teacher education across the United States, and more of the 1,200 plus colleges and universities that prepare teachers are doing a better job than they have in the past.

«This means that, with teachers and schools across the country, we can continue to raise standards and give every child the best possible education, and the best opportunities for the future.»

The opportunity for off - site construction to help the Department for Education improve the standard ofschool buildings across the UK is immense, as these projects will demonstrate.»

A chartered accountant and chair of Ofqual since 2011, Ms Spielman, has been recommended for the post because of her «impressive breadth of experience across the education sector» and «proven commitment to raising standards.»

Every decision made in every Board of Education, administrative, teacher leadership, data team, and faculty meeting in every school building across the country either reinforces the standard, or creates space for radical change.

Sixty - one CSSS members across 38 states responded to our survey and reported that their work most frequently involves activities that attend to key components of their state's education systems, including: reviewing and developing state science standards, designing state science assessments, and designing or conducting teacher professional development.

The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — groups that have clashed in the past but became vocal backers of the standards....

According to a new analysis highlighted in an article at Education Week, though 21 states are revising the Common Core standards or have already done so, most of the changes are minor: «Nearly 70 percent of the changes that were made in either math or language arts across all grades were simply wording or format clarifications to make the standards easier for educators or the public to understand.»

When the PDK / Gallup questions on standards are put next to the Education Next findings on the Common Core, the responses are not out of alignment, Peterson said: People are generally in favor of setting higher expectations for students across states but they also want local teachers to have leeway in how those goals are met.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

They have been expanding across the US in recent years, with supporters seeing them as a way of re-energising standards in state education.

Five academy sponsors will be handed grants totalling nearly # 5m to «drive up standards» in schools across the north of England, education secretary Nicky Morgan will announce tomorrow.

Latest figures show academies are driving up standards at primary and secondary, transforming the education of millions of pupils across the country.»

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «Our plan for education is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English aEducation said: «Our plan for education is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English aeducation is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English and maths.