Sentences with phrase «lack of quality curriculum»

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Despite the obvious new age mood of the sessions, some of the discussion had a déjà vu quality to it, brought home by education historian David Cohen, the University of Michigan professor with long gray hair and backpack, who bemoaned the lack of a national curriculum and praised the efforts of the common core crowd.

The key mistakes identified include: late publication and frequent changes in the middle of the year; inappropriate content; lack of clarity on standards and contradictory guidelines; a focus on tick - box skills rather than the quality of work; lack of time to implement the new curriculum; and serious errors on the design of a reception baseline, leading to its cancellation.

More importantly, the lack of strong statements from Rhee and Henderson about the alleged test cheating also casts a dark cloud on what both can claim to be successes in crafting policies and practices that will help D.C. children get high - quality teachers and strong, comprehensive college - preparatory curricula for decades to come.

While it is nice to have data on teacher absenteeism (and the information illuminates the extent of the problem), the lack of information on chronic absenteeism — a key indicator of whether a student is on the path to dropping out — means that we don't know how poorly schools are doing in providing high - quality instruction and curricula to the students in their care.

D.C.'s waiver request was granted in spite of concerns that its transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.

I constantly worry about his academic needs — the school's curriculum, the lack of accountability within the classrooms, the poor quality of his teachers and the ongoing need for additional instruction time for his struggling classmates.

After NCTQ boss Kate Walsh tore into ed schools for lacking rigor in their teacher training curricula — especially in special education — and state teacher certification agencies for their cozy ties to those schools and their parent universities, AACTE's Jane West accused Walsh of making «sweeping statements» that were «off the mark», as well as attacked its underlying methodology for evaluating ed schools (especially in Texas, the site of NCTQ's latest ode to teacher quality failure).

As Dropout Nation has noted within the past year, those very review boards have raised significant concerns about many of the plans submitted by states such as New York as well as by the District of Columbia; D.C., one panel was particularly concerned that D.C.'s transition plan to embrace Common Core math and reading standards was not «realistic and of high quality», and lacked a «high - quality plan» for ensuring that English Language Learners and special ed students could get strong, comprehensive, college [preparatory curricula.