Sentences with phrase «hold high academic standards for all students»

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The first track is standards - based: Set clear, high expectations in core academic subjects; test students regularly to see which schools and students are clearing the bar; and hold schools (and perhaps also educators and pupils) to account for the results.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

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.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

I am grateful for the work of SAGE Academy to develop life - long learning habits in students, while holding a high standard of academic excellence.

Opponents question the emphasis on raising academic standards, independently assessing students against those high standards, and holding educators responsible for the results.

One major vendor of value - added measures (i.e., SAS as in SAS - EVAAS) long has held that the tests need only to have 1) sufficient «stretch» in the scales «to ensure that progress could be measured for low - and high achieving students», 2) that «the test is highly related to the academic standards,» and 3) «the scales are sufficiently reliable from one year to the next» (see, for example, here).

Holding all students to high academic standards that prepare them for success in college and careers.

An exceptional educational environment will provide a platform for students to support their intellectual growth, develop their leadership capabilities, and maintain a dynamic learning community that holds personal and academic expectations to the highest standard.

ESSA requires that all students have access to a well - rounded education and are held to high academic standards that will prepare them for a successful future.

It will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

He is expected to emphasize his general support for holding all students to high academic standards in his speech to the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

According to its website and news reports, EducationPost will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

The chain's high performance is due to engaged teachers who make children «fall in love with school,» holding adults accountable for the performance of children; rigorous academic standards — and letting students fail sometimes; and innovation.