Sentences with phrase «leader over the assessment»

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Whether that's a fair or unfair assessment of Klein's influence over Republican Leader Dean Skelos is almost beside the point.

The leader of the Buffalo teachers union is outraged over the Buffalo School District's Sit and Stare policy for students who opted out of state assessments this week.

The Liberal Democrat leader was attacked for his disparaging assessment of the media as «self - appointed detectives» yesterday, as the row over harassment allegations against Rennard continued.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

But nobody knows how stable the CCSSO / NGA arrangement will prove over time — their leaders, priorities, and bank accounts are changeable — or whether their joint venture is the optimal governance and management for national standards and assessments over the long haul.

Over the next three to five years, education leaders and policymakers should develop a robust, coherent, and aligned system of standards and assessments that measures student progress toward challenging state standards.

Over a six - month span, researchers at the Center for American Progress interviewed dozens of parents, teachers, school leaders, system leaders, advocates, assessment experts, and policy leaders in an attempt to identify what can be done to ensure that tests are being used in service of teaching and learning.

Now that the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has resolved the struggle over the federal role in education, leaders in the remaining Common Core states can refocus attention on the standards, the assessments, and the supports teachers and students need to succeed on them.

«Some state leaders are concerned over whether the assessments will be ready on time, while others may become more confident in developing their own Common Core assessment,» he says.

Gates is the leader of education philanthropy in the United States, spending a few billion dollars over more than a decade to promote school reforms that he championed, including the Common Core, a small - schools initiative in New York City that he abandoned after deciding it wasn't working, and efforts to create new teacher evaluation systems that in part use a controversial method of assessment that uses student standardized test scores to determine the «effectiveness» of educators.

The district's program to enhance teacher evaluations, institute market - based and performance - based pay, and develop a top - notch balanced assessment system hold the promise of improving learning over the long haul — and should cement Dougco's role as a cutting - edge, effective education leader.

3 - 3:50 p.m. SESSION 6: Proven Planning Process for Classroom Instruction Based on a backwards design planning process and field - tested with educators over 10 years, learn how Strategic Design for Student Achievement guides teachers and school leaders through specific steps to unpack content standards, align assessment and instruction, and understand the depth of comprehension required of students for mastery.

Over eight years, we collected hundreds of hours of interviews with district leaders, school leaders, instructional coaches, and mathematics teachers, as well as survey data, videotapes of teachers» classroom teaching, and assessments of teachers and coaches» understanding of mathematics and mathematics pedagogy.

Based on a backwards design planning process we developed and field - tested with educators over several years, Strategic Design guides teachers and school leaders through specific steps to unpack content standards, align assessment and instruction, and understand the depth of comprehension required of students for mastery.

Despite the cacophony over the Common Core State Standards, new assessments, teacher evaluation, portfolio districts, and other hot - button issues, education leaders are bearing down ever harder on tried - and - true school reform strategies.

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But I think if you were to go by the stand of political leaders all over the world, I think the evidence is very clear, and more than that, I think if you ask the scientific community where barring a small minority is involved, we have absolutely no reason to feel that there isn't solid support for the scientific assessment that we have carried out.

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