Sentences with phrase «from other state standards»

For example, how are Texas» college - and career - readiness standards similar to and different from other state standards, and how does their policy system differ from other states?

Not exact matches

From the gold - exchange standard to the Treasury - bill standard to «free credit» anarchy Indeed, the standoff between the United States and other countries at the IMF meetings in Washington this weekend threatens to cause the most serious rupture since the breakdown of the London Monetary Conference in 1933.

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday announced a lawsuit by California and 17 other states against the Trump administration to protect national vehicle emission standards from being rolled back by the federal government.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The signatories of this letter warn against the potential for trade agreements like NAFTA to restrict Canada's ability to enforce its own environmental regulations, maintain labour standards, and keep jobs and pollution from leaking to other states with weaker policies.

The way in which Virginia approached the question of religious liberty was very different from the path chosen by Massachusetts and other states, but the Virginia way has become the standard by which American liberals today measure the relations of church and state» and even of religion and society.

Huffington Post: Pope: Others should be held to same abuse «standards» Pope Benidict XVI told bishops from New York State that «all other institutions» in society should be held to the same «exacting standards» as the Roman Catholic Church in preventing and reporting sex abuse.

Using the standard spiel of proponents of legalized betting on jai alai and other sports, Senator Friedland renewed the call for building frontons in Jersey by claiming that the revenues the state would derive from the pari - mutuel betting would «be dedicated to helping the elderly and the medically and physically handicapped.»

Manhattan state Sen. Marisol Alcantara got the message loud and clear after she blasted Felder last month for pushing to exclude yeshivas from academic standards required of other schools.

Researchers from Healthcentric Advisors collaborated with Rhode Island health care providers, health plans, state agencies, and other stakeholders to develop communication standards and then worked with 10 hospitals to monitor adherence to the standards.

State of the World 1993 from the Worldwatch Institute is up to the same high standard as all the others — a series of reviews that combine environmental science with economics and politics in a truly interdisciplinary way.

The Standard American Diet is worsening, and falls far from the CDC goals for minimal fruit and vegetable intake, with some states doing worse than others.

American citizens are more protected by the state from an economic crisis or other factors that negatively affect standard of living.

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.

To simplify presentation, we have given each state a mark of A to F, depending on the strength of its standards relative to all other states in all years for which information is available, from 2003 to 2011.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Once good standards and decent tests are in place, states should release test scores (and other revealing information such as graduation rates) every which way, and they should rate their schools on an easy to understand scale, ideally from A to F, as Florida started doing under Governor Jeb Bush.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

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.

«When that ballistic missile comes from the back of the room, it's a good reminder that the question doesn't just belong to state school boards, authors of textbooks, writers of curriculum standards, and other elite,» he says.

Power Point presentation, 28 slides, Explaining how the area under any graph can be calculated using integrals defined from one point to another; State other properties of definite integrals and show some worked examples how to use theses properties, based on IB Standard Level Syllabus.

For now at least, Louisiana remains a laboratory from which other states can learn as they evaluate their own efforts to make more rigorous standards stick.

The question assumes, as in the case of a food - standards specialist for the state of Oregon whose job was eliminated amid tensions with her boss, that the worker isn't protected by a union contract or as a member of a group shielded from employment discrimination based on race, sex, or other protected classes.

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.

In Chairman Alexander's words, ESSA «specifically prohibited the U.S. Department of Education from requiring or even incentivizing any state to have Common Core or any other academic standard.

Let me now revisit a fifth potential asset, which is also the main reason that small - government conservatives should favor the Common Core or other high - quality «national standards»: This is the best path toward getting Uncle Sam and heavy - handed state governments to back off from micro-managing how schools are run and to return that authority to communities, individual schools, teachers, and parents.

In 2009, Austin Circle Rock students outperformed the other Austin neighborhood schools on the composite (reading, math, and science combined) Illinois Standards Assessment Test (ISAT), with from 68 to 76 percent of students in grades 4 through 8 meeting or exceeding the state standard.

Just 39 percent of Maryland students in grades three through eight met the reading standard set by a governing board of educators from Maryland and about 10 other states.

A math standard stating that by the end of second - grade students will know how to subtract one three - digit number from another three - digit number does not mean students will learn it at their own pace, with some mastering the idea in second grade and others taking two or three more years to learn it.

Oregon is not alone: from California to Massachusetts to Alaska, results on the Smarter Balanced, PARCC, and other new state tests show significant numbers of schools struggling with the higher standards.

Instead of states mandating a single curricular approach within their geographic boundaries — much less a single national approach such as Common Core — states should empower local school systems and other educational providers to select quality standards and aligned tests that fit their instructional philosophy, while also empowering parents to choose from among different schools the one which best meets the needs of their children.

The charge to the teachers and administrators from eight school districts seemed simple enough: Create an activity, called a performance assessment task, that would show, when solved, that students understand a unit covering Common Core standards that California and 45 other states and the District of Columbia have adopted.

The state's reading tests should include not just fiction and poetry but nonfiction readings on those topics and others culled from those specific curriculum standards.

The Common Core standards being adopted in the District, Maryland and most other states grew in part from the work of E.D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar who persuaded many advocates like Petrilli that children often don't learn to read very well because they have not been taught enough facts about their world to understand what they are reading.

First, it mentioned that Common Core differs from other standards, for example, in its heavy focus on writing; therefore, «assessments that truly measure the Common Core will likely look different from current state tests.»

Meanwhile, 44 other states will be implementing the Common Core, learning from common experiences, sharing curriculum and assessment materials and efficiencies while holding themselves accountable to a national standard of performance.

But it's not inevitable, as we have learned from other states with high standards but lackluster achievement (Indiana and California, especially).

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

The work of developing the standards began with a study of research on effective school boards, review of standards statements from other states, Iowa law and board practices according to Lisa Bartusek, IASB executive director.

A bill halting the rollout of the nationally - crafted Common Core standards — among other things — and a proposal to expand the state's private school voucher program both await votes from Indiana lawmakers (as of post time) as the General Assembly works to wrap up its 2013 session early.

; terminate implementation of the Common Core standards; direct the State Board to replace these standards with the Math and English courses in use immediately prior to Common Core; convene Course of Study committees to update these standards and improve upon them using the pre-common core standards from states whose national scores ranked no less than the top 10 %; implement these proven, improved standards and aligned assessments; prohibit imposition on Alabama of other such national standards or assessments that cede control away from Alabamians.

As a first step, you will need to gauge your basic knowledge of the standards — asking yourself if you are informed about the standards themselves, your state / district's approach to implementation, recommendation from experts, models from other states, and national updates and trends.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

Learn from experts and researchers in the field as well as other state teams to better connect state efforts to support educators and the implementation of high standards in the classroom.

Massell's (2008) analysis of education policy activity in the early 1990s, for example, suggested that, for many states, K — 12 education standards represented «a central framework guiding state education policy and practice» (2), as compared to other states where policy initiatives did not stem from any significant internal standards - based reform impetus.

97 And while diversity was encouraged, the percentage of diverse teaching candidates lagged far behind the percentage of diverse students in Rhode Island classrooms, just as in most other states.98 With support from the governor and the state's board of education, the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) began an extensive information - gathering process in 2011 that culminated in new standards for educator preparation.

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

Agile Mind's founding research and development partner, the Charles A. Dana Center at The University of Texas at Austin, has been involved from inception in the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics (CCSSM), the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), and other key college readiness standards — and in the deeper learning they represent.

In other words, North Carolina will continue to move forward with the Common Core Standards but the state may be prohibited from revising or implementing assessments or offering professional development and training for teachers and administrators who are responsible for educating students to these standards.