Sentences with phrase «learn a new language instead»

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Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

In 2014, AB 484 requires that districts give a preliminary or «field» test in the Common Core standards — new, nationally aligned learning goals the state is implementing — instead of tests on state standards in math and English language arts.