Sentences with phrase «lowered standards of education»

Edye and I knew that the country was fast losing its competitive advantage, and we firmly believed that the cause was lowered standards of education.

Since they say that they can't improve these schools, why should you and I who live in the community, let these fools continue to run and produce this low standard of education?

Don't get how you required an explanation, but I'm going to blame the low standards of education in the school systems.

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It has become socially acceptable to denounce the Catholic Church even in savage, vulgar, and offensive terms, and all this is occurring against a backdrop of low standards in education and increasing violence and drunkenness in our towns and cities.

Unfortunately, this leaves meeting with organizations whose standards of breastfeeding management and education have caused an epidemic of feeding complications in breastfed newborns, a lower priority.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

The lower court's 2016 ruling had mandated a sweeping overhaul of the state's education system, including changes to teacher evaluations, educational standards and special education services.

State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says it's not a lowering of standards.

«I think I would want to get a lot more understanding of how the government thinks that areas where education standards are too low are going to opt for selective schools and why they think those selective schools would make a difference to all children in that area,» she told ITV News.

Today «it's the right - wing reformers who are lowering standards,» says Diane Ravitch, a former assistant secretary of education and leading critic of the corporate education - reform movement, noting that Tony Bennett's final act after losing his re-election bid, last November, as Indiana superintendent of public instruction — he was recently appointed education commissioner in Florida — was to weaken the state's requirements for new teachers.

Steiner notes matter - of - factly that Black «lacks evidence of knowledge» in a host of «critical areas» confronting New York City's public schools, including education standards, curriculum and turning around low performing schools.

Germany has lower rates of family break - up and a better education system, less immigration and a more durable record on skills, higher living standards and less housing volatility.

The Department of Education accused the UFT of trying to «politicize» the issue after it argued that the lower scores undermined the mayor's claims of educational progress and showed that the DOE had not done enough to train teachers for the new standards.

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

Living in these areas was associated with a low Human Development Index score, which measures education, standard of living and health, suggesting that children will have a hard time developing to reach their full potential in the current conditions.

Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

The singular contribution of the education reform movement has been a moral one, making it unacceptable for schools and teachers to admit to holding any child — particularly low - income, black, and brown children — to lower standards.

The West Virginia Department of Education is handing out awards to low - performing schools that apparently need a morale boost after falling short of federal standards under the No Child Left Behind Act.

The improvements are raising academic standards (including better assessments for limited - English - speaking and special education students), more transparent data collection and reporting, better distribution of good teachers to low - performing schools, and investments to turn around the worst - performing schools.

The licensing exams are simple, and standards for passage are generally so low that the Education Trust concluded they exclude only the «weakest of the weak» from classrooms.

The charity also called for the introduction of more free schools in areas of low standards to give parents more control over their children's education.

Unhappy with the low level and wide variation in state standards, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, with the financial backing of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the political support of the U.S. Department of Education (ED), formed a consortium in 2009 that invited each state to join in an effort to set Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Since the U.S. Department of Education has waived many NCLB regulations in exchange for states» engaging in alternative reform strategies, states are under less pressure to keep their proficiency standards at a low level.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

To see whether states are setting proficiency bars in such a way that they are «lowballing expectations» and have «lowered the bar» for students in 4th - and 8th - grade reading and math, Education Next has used information from the recently released 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) to evaluate empirically the proficiency standards each state has established.

«Everybody wants appropriately high standards,» said state Assemblyman Steven Sanders, the chairman of the education committee in the legislature's lower house, «but what we're hearing is it is ultimately unfair and ultimately arbitrary... having every student in the state having their abilities defined by one particular exam on one particular day.»

WASHINGTON — Asserting that the current education system has produced expectations for student performance that are «simply too low,» a Congressionally mandated panel last week called for high national standards for student achievement and a national system of assessments to gauge their attainment.

During her appointment, she set a high bar, and had a powerful track record: 95 percent of Richmond's lowest performing schools achieved full accreditation under Virginia's Standards of Learning reform legislation, and the district improved from 18 percent to 91.7 percent of all schools meeting this standard as measured by the State Department of Education.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

«If we want to match standards in some of the world - leading nations and secure greater equity in our education system, more must be done to raise the attainment of our lowest, and often most vulnerable, pupils.»

Mr. Steiner unveiled his research here last month to the delight of those who have long criticized education schools for their low standards and tight hold on entry into teaching.

Then came the 1980s, with a stern warning in 1983 from the National Commission on Excellence in Education that we were «a nation at risk» because of the low standards and low expectations in our schools.

Meanwhile, the findings conclude that the U.S. Department of Education rewarded two states that have historically implemented among the lowest standards in the country — Tennessee and Delaware — with highly competitive Race to the Top (RttT) funds.

Yesterday, the editorial board of the Baltimore Sun urged the state board of education «to be patient and not be panicked into rushing to lower standards because of one year's disappointing test results.»

In his talk, Canada touched upon many education reform topics of the course — particularly the achievement gap, the standards movement, and the bad rap that schools in urban, low - income communities often receive.

Each of the applications will be subject to peer review in the context of five priority areas: supporting effective teachers and principals; promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics education; supporting the implementation of high academic content standards and high - quality assessments; turning around low - performing schools; and improving graduation rates in rural schools.

As Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in TEducation Committee and later as Senate Speaker Pro Tempore, Jamie was a key leader in efforts to identify and support effective teaching, overhaul Tennessee's K - 12 education funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Teducation funding formula, raise academic standards for Tennessee students, turn around low - performing schools, and expand high - quality public charter schools in Tennessee.

In New York, Commissioner of Education David M. Steiner and the state board of regents this month put forward a broad package of changes that would include revamping the state's standards - and - assessment system, raising the cap on the number of charter schools, allowing additional institutions to train teachers and principals, and setting new demands for districts to turn around low - performing schools.

We are alarmed by the section of the law that allows states to authorize the establishment of alternative - track teacher education academies, with lower standards and accountabilty for teaching qualifications.

The standard charter model has become an enabler of a two - tiered education system, with an upper tier for the wealthier and more privileged and a lower tier for those minorities that accrue sympathy but not equal opportunity.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

NCSECS advocated and helped influence the law including a provision raising the bar a bit higher to ensure high standards for special education students by limiting their participation in tests based on alternate (lower) academic achievement standards to 1 % of students tested (and not just limiting the reporting of their scores on such tests, as was done under NCLB).

Tom Sherrington, a former headteacher and education consultant, said that both floor and coasting standards are «essentially a ludicrous concept» because they are tied to a «de-facto competitive grade system» that always gives a proportion of pupils» low grades.

The push to raise standards and increase student outcomes has placed state education agencies (SEAs) at the center of efforts to improve the performance of the nation's lowest - performing schools, but few are well positioned to deliver on that imperative.

When Texas put into place the most rigorous education accountability system in the country in 2009, we thought we were at the culmination of a journey of over 20 years toward a Texas high school diploma that truly represents post-secondary readiness, but somehow we lost our courage and the pushback to that enhanced rigor has been relentless, resulting in a lowering of expectations and a gutting of the standards.

«Teachers in LAUSD have uncovered the unanswered question about Common Core implementation — how do we raise the academic standards for all students when our most vulnerable children, those in special education and our English Learners, have historically struggled to meet the lower bar set by previous standards,» said Ama Nyamekye, executive director of Educators 4 Excellence - Los Angeles.

Americans believe the most important national education program should be improving the quality of teaching, which they rate significantly higher than developing better standards, creating better tests, and improving the country's lowest - performing schools.

Reviewers must have expertise in education evaluation or at least one of the program's absolute priorities (increasing educator effectiveness; improving low - performing schools; strengthening science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education; boosting academic outcomes for students with disabilities and English language learners; encouraging parent and family engagement; promoting effective use of technology; serving rural communities; and implementing college - and career - ready standards).