Sentences with phrase «education standards called»

New York Education Commissioner John King visited a Long Island elementary school Wednesday where he met privately with educators to talk about the state's new, more rigorous education standards called Common Core.

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USA Today: Ruling lets S.C. students earn credit for religion classes In a ruling that advocates called «a tremendous victory for religious education,» a three - judge panel of the 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the right of a school district to award high school credit for religious courses, as long as they meet secular standards.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

Rep. Chris Gibson, touting new federal education legislation that, if passed, would put many policy decisions back in the hands of the state, urged Albany to roll back the Common Core learning standards, essentially calling out Cuomo.

During a conference call on Wednesday with reporters, Elia reiterated her support for the Common Core education standards.

That's why Tristram Hunt's emphasis on school standards, and Ed Miliband's call for a renewed focus on the «forgotten fifty per cent», including compulsory English and Maths up to the age of 18, is critical to ensuring our education system equips everyone to get a job.

ALBANY — Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch said Tuesday that critics of the state's implementation of new, more difficult curriculum standards should «tone it down,» and charged that calls for education commissioner John King to step down are purely about «politics.»

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher has joined a national coalition of 200 colleges in 33 states, called Higher Ed for Higher Standards, advocating for the continued use of Common Core standards for primary and high school education.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

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.

Trump called to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, protect the Second Amendment and end Common Core education standards.

Magee ousted a three - term incumbent, and teachers held a symbolic vote of no confidence in Education Commissioner John King, over what critics call a botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards.

Lawmakers, calling the roll out of Common Core a nightmare and a mistake, grilled state Education Commissioner John King and asked for more time to adopt the new federal standards.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.

WHITE PLAINS — State Senate candidate Bob Cohen (R, I, C — 37th District) today called on Senator Oppenheimer to quit protecting the special interests bankrolling her political campaigns and use her full authority as Senate Education Chair to launch a comprehensive investigation into the unexplainable decline in education performance standards in receEducation Chair to launch a comprehensive investigation into the unexplainable decline in education performance standards in receeducation performance standards in recent years.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

Three things happened to the TEKS and all - science education standard that called for teaching the strength and weaknesses of theories, which had, back in the last time biology text books were adopted in the mid»90s, had been used as a club to beat publishers over whether or not they included weaknesses of evolution; by which they may enlist creationists and their claims, was taken out by the writing committees and attempted to be put back on several occasions actually by the school board members.

As a result, in 1997 a new State Board of Education called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endEducation called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endeducation establishment's endorsement.

President Bill Clinton has called for national education standards and voluntary achievement testing.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

One instance: When there was an attempt in the Kentucky state legislature to «blow up» what had been accomplished and start over, Adkisson appeared before a senate committee with the head of the state teachers union and the state commissioner of education, with all three calling for the state to stay the course on the standards.

The charity also called for the introduction of more free schools in areas of low standards to give parents more control over their children's education.

Proposals have been drawn up by associations to create a new organisation called the Foundation for Leadership in Education, which would seek to develop new leadership qualifications and set standards.

John H. Hollifield, in his letter to the editor, called the Scholastic Aptitude Test «the specific measure that we use to judge all... high schools («An «Effective» School That Fails To Meet the Standard Measure of Effectiveness,» Education Week, March 21, 1984).

The idea was that expert inspectors would comment on standards of pupil achievement, the strength of the principal's leadership, the use of school resources, and the quality of what we called, rather quaintly, «social, moral, spiritual and cultural education.»

NAEP, called «the nation's report card,» is managed by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics and is currently the «gold standard» of assessments.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

These new science standards are called the Next Generation Science Education Standards not Common Core science.

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

Los Angeles — In a speech to Hispanic school - board members here this month, Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell criticized the nation's school boards for paying too little attention to instructional issues and called on them to take a leadership role in upgrading educational standards.

According to a recent article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the bill calls for doubling the standard deduction for taxpayers, and reducing the number of people who can itemize their charitable contributions.

The grant would have trained teachers to use a middle - school program called Connected Math, one of several, Hoven learned, that was funded by the Education and Human Resources Division of the NSF and based on standards developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

Another bit of good news: the single greatest force currently shaping American education — the new Common Core standards, now in place in forty - five states — explicitly endorses Hirsch's ideas and calls for the kind of curriculum that he favors:

In its submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, the LGA has called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

Curriculum - content standards are what people in education policy - making call a formal list of topics that teachers are expected to teach and students are expected to learn.

This month, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report calling in the name of national security for national curriculum - content standards on science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving — for elementary and secondary education.

The FEA has called for more to be done to achieve consistently good education standards, and recommends overhauling careers guidance and increasing efforts to promote pupils» wellbeing.

WASHINGTON — A federal advisory panel last week called for continued federal recognition for the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools» Commission on Higher Education, despite that regional accrediting agency's controversial policy of requiring colleges and universities to meet a cultural - diversity standard.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

A Call for Evidence has been launched to ask for the views of parents and local authorities on how to ensure children receive the expected standard of education at home.

By the early 1990s, attempts to improve public education had morphed into the standards - based education reform agenda, often called test - based accountability.

WASHINGTON — The standards - based education reform movement calls school change «the civil rights issue of our time.»

Going back to the famous 1983 Reagan administration report «A Nation at Risk,» education experts have noted how students in the United States are falling behind those in other countries and have called for a new focus on «content» and «more rigorous and measurable standards.»

High Achievement New York and the Education Trust - New York called the changes a «watering down» of standards that would ultimately shortchange students.

«In our submission to the Treasury ahead of the Autumn Statement, we have called on the Government to take advantage of councils» unique position in the community and give them a clear and strategic role in overseeing local schools systems, accompanied by appropriate resources, powers and flexibilities, so that they can support local school improvement and hold schools to account for education standards.

In addition, what the U.S. calls «gifted education» would be considered standard for all... and a few years behind... in Europe and Asia.

During a mid-day news conference, Jindal called on the Legislature and state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to come up with «Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test» to replace Common Core, the country's biggest education change in a geEducation to come up with «Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test» to replace Common Core, the country's biggest education change in a geeducation change in a generation.

The Office of Technology Assessment, a nonpartisan analytical agency, expressed its concern at a hearing here on the recently released report of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which called for national standards for student performance and a system of assessments to gauge performance against the standards.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

The Indiana General Assembly unanimously passed the measure, which called on state education officials to craft robust reading standards for Indiana students.