Sentences with phrase «high academic standards»

In a report set for release today, a nationally - recognized charter advocacy group will call for higher academic standards for incoming charters on a wide range of indicators.

At the end of the fifth grade, students understand, speak, read and write in both Spanish and English and meet high academic standards in all subjects.

The movement toward full inclusion and the requirements of high academic standards for all students ensures that all teachers need to be knowledgeable of promising technology uses with students with disabilities.

The original goal of all students achieving high academic standards by attaining proficiency or better in reading and mathematics by the 2013 — 2014 school year was missed by a mile.

Many education experts, and lay people alike, argue that you must set high academic standards in order for students to excel at school.

Maintained high academic standards for all student athletes and enforced academic discipline.

That's why districts are adopting higher academic standards for students.

Instead of constantly jumping through procedural hoops, charter school leaders can focus on setting and reaching high academic standards for their students.

One approach emphasizes holding all students to the same high academic standards, delivering research - based instruction and rigorous assessment with accurate feedback, and giving students multiple opportunities to meet standards.

Discuss how «minimally necessary» structure supports high academic standards while simultaneously providing adequate freedom.

Groups that spent decades urging the country toward higher academic standards worry about returning to empty talk of self - esteem, accepting low achievement as long as students feel good.

During class I always set out clear instructional goals to those I teach, promote a culture of excellence at every opportunity and hold my students to extremely high academic standards.

We have had countless customers who used our paper writing services to gain high academic standards, with each paper matching the exact instructions of the customer.

This would give teachers time to learn the instructional shifts required to teach for higher academic standards while some of the issues around measuring student performance are worked out.

Despite facing higher academic standards and budget cuts, urban schools are continuing to see gains on assessments in reading and mathematics, a national study released last week has found.

One of the reasons I am optimistic about the future of public education is that all 50 states now have embraced high academic standards.

ACA's impact extends well beyond the building itself, creating higher academic standards and achievements through a unique corporate - family - school partnership.

But frequent and early testing have taken over the public's image of Common Core — the initiative promoting higher academic standards — and pushed it to the brink of collapse.

Good high schools hold high academic standards for all students; great high schools have a high proportion of all students actually meet those standards.

Beginning with three year olds, our program combines high academic standards with a kind and friendly atmosphere celebrating cultural, national, and linguistic diversity.

Similar questions could be generated to explore high academic standards, healthy, ethical, responsible, innovative, and global.

In particular, funds are used to provide continuous, ongoing training that helps teachers understand academic subjects and learn strategies to help students meet high academic standards.

Our work fosters growth in teachers as instructional leaders, in parents as support partners, and in students as learners who can meet the challenge of high academic standards.

The plan's primary goal: ensuring that all students achieve high academic standards.

We do know that if, as a nation, we are serious about ensuring that all students reach high academic standards, education labor relations must be in tune with that goal.

We have had countless customers who used our paper writing services to gain high academic standards, with each paper matching the exact instructions of the customer.

High Point Academy (HPA), a K — 8 public charter school in Aurora, CO, was founded on high academic standards as well as character education and community involvement.

Bloggers touch on this through topics such as high academic standards, accountability for struggling schools, high - quality charter schools, educational equity, college access, first - generation students, and other challenges faced by Black, Latino, Native American and other traditionally underserved demographics.

«The most important thing is that children in Louisiana have gone back to school this year with high academic standards in place in their classrooms to help prepare them to succeed in college, career and life,» spokeswoman Dorie Nolt said.

The goal of government should be to create varied learning opportunities for diverse students and set high academic standards in return for the taxpayers» investment.

The state should support the adoption of high academic standards by developing quality aligned instructional materials to help teachers deliver rigorous and engaging instruction and by providing professional development at scale focused on the implementation and use of these materials and on actual student work.

In recent weeks, there's been a growing debate over whether or not states should roll out higher academic standards known as the Common Core and it turns out that Massachusetts provides some key lessons on why we need more rigorous goals for our kids.

Monitored academic performance of team members to ensure eligibility requirements are met and encouraged high academic standard among student athletes

«[Welch's] method of developing high academic standards have worked at other schools,» she said.

As the day has progressed, I have reflected on the similarities between the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and high academic standards such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Those who push high academic standards for all students are scolded for supposedly forcing poor children to drop out of school.

The strategies of that era — including high academic standards for all students, measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.

We do need to demand high academic standards from as many lessons as possible, and I think it's the kind of core academic skills in literacy and numeracy, which actually are the truly vocational qualifications.

The Legislature defines quality education in establishing high academic standards but it hasn't provided enough funding so that all students can meet those standards, Mayer said.

In fact, the new Smarter Balanced / PARCC tests finally seem to offer a better, more reliable way to measure higher academic standards.

But while the debate around higher academic standards has sharpened national focus on the reading of complex, discipline - specific informational texts, educators have been grappling with how to help content - area teachers support student literacy for decades.

From the seasoned editors here I have learned (among many other things): that maintaining high academic standards does not constrain one to dullness, that writing is as much about personality as it is about noble thoughts and proper grammar, that both faith and editing require a discerning and critical eye, but neither can be done without a degree of gentleness.

KEMP AND CREMINS Sir: Jan Kemp's story (This Case Was One For The Books, Feb. 24) should inspire all those educators who struggle daily to instill high academic standards in their students.

On one side: the informal network of advocates, philanthropists, educators, and nonprofit organizations that all back higher academic standards, greater accountability, and improved teaching, and who saw the city as a potential proof point for their theories of how to improve student outcomes.

Some of the root causes debated by MP's were the clear link to children's online habits which are keeping them isolated, sleep deprived and stuck in a dependence mode with low self - esteem, low self - confidence and fear of failing; along with too much pressure from a young age to pursue high academic standards; frequent cyberbullying and sexting; increased obsession with body awareness; and lack of skills that prepare children for life - such as resilience, within the curriculum.

The 1986 Carnegie Report made a case for the idea that the economic challenges the nation would face in the years ahead could not be met unless students were held to much higher academic standards and the nation did what would be necessary to fully professionalize its teaching force, much as medicine had done a century earlier.