Sentences with phrase «national academic standards»

Some of the foundation's other education efforts in the state include helping schools adopt the new national academic standards and supporting colleges to improve their graduation rates.

His research found that using «Common Core» in an opinion poll triggers a negative response even though most people say they are in favor of national academic standards as a concept.

When the country's chief state school officers met here last month to discuss education policy, they talked a lot about national academic standards.

Some of the country's largest subject - matter groups are worried they will be ignored in the process of setting national academic standards that is now under way.

Since then, President Clinton has been campaigning for national academic standards and a test that would enable parents to see how their students, states and school districts measure up.

The Badger Exam was built around the controversial Common Core national academic standards by a group of states called the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium.

President George H.W. Bush raised the idea of creating national academic standards, ranging from English language arts to history.

Indiana is one of 45 states that have adopted the Common Core, which proponents say will create rigorous national academic standards and align curricula across the states.

That's because the WKCE is expected to give way in a few years to tests based on new national academic standards proposed last month that could become final this spring.

The Nation's Report Card provides us the best national snapshot on student academic achievement we can find... until we finally get our act together and adopt and enforce national academic standards.

They are also correlated to state and national academic standards including Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards» three - dimensional approach.

As many liberals and conservatives push for national academic standards and other centralizing education reforms, this situation brilliantly illustrates why government schooling is totally antithetical to a free society, and why the more centralized the power, the greater the danger.

The state Board of Regents adopts the Common Core national academic standards.

As reported by Stephanie Simon of Reuters, the venture capitalists were told to «Think about the upcoming rollout of new national academic standards for public schools... If they're as rigorous as advertised, a huge number of schools will suddenly look really bad, their students testing way behind in reading and math.

The first Bush administration briefly tried to create national academic standards, but the effort to do this from Washington soon fizzled.

During his tenure as New York State's education commissioner from 2011 to 2014, King pushed for more stringent student testing tied to teacher evaluations as part of adherence to the Common Core national academic standards, stirring widespread controversy.

Classroom lessons address state and national academic standards that lead to high school graduation and success in postsecondary education.

They said the state's 714,000 students will continue lessons aligned with the national academic standards and its associated tests.

Other questions covered teacher merit pay, national academic standards (also known as the «Common Core»), immigration and English immersion in school, computers in school and Muslim students and after school clubs.

Read what states have chosen to call the national academic standards locally.See state names for the Common Core.

Read what states have chosen to call the national academic standards locally.

The district is currently trying to lengthen the school day and also incorporate the new national academic standards.

But even Bennett acknowledged Wednesday his ardent support for the Common Core State Standards — national academic standards being implemented in Indiana and most other states — undercut his re-election bid.

The drop in test scores is attributable to the transition to new national academic standards that have yet to be aligned with the state assessments — and that's lead some to question the new standards or call for a moratorium on testing.

As assistant secretary of education and counselor to U.S. Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander from 1991 - 1993, Ravitch led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards.

«California should be spending more per student than other states to allow all of its students to reach state and national academic standards,» the report said.

January 14, 2015 • Some states have been quick to drop the new national academic standards — but North Carolina is taking its time before deciding the Common Core's future in 2015.

The activities are multi-disciplinary, teach core subjects (especially STEM, reading, writing, and social studies), and are correlated to state and national academic standards, including Common Core and the Next Generation Science Standards» three - dimensional approach.

The New York University scholar, who lives in Brooklyn, was an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, pushing unsuccessfully for national academic standards, and a member of the National Assessment Governing Board in the Clinton and second Bush administrations, helping to oversee testing policy.

Those trade - offs are worth accepting, said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, in order to achieve the goal of measuring student achievement aligned with common national academic standards, which most states have adopted this summer.

In 1991, Lamar Alexander, the first President Bush's secretary of education, made her an assistant secretary, a post she used to lead a federal effort to promote the creation of state and national academic standards.

Global Connections: Forests of the World provides a structured alignment to national academic standards.

The curriculum at Harriet Bishop Gifted and Talented Elementary School aligns to all state and national academic standards, as well as the program standards of the National Association of Gifted Children.