Sentences with phrase «national content standards»

Six months later, NCEST issued a report recommending national content standards and a national system of assessments based on the new standards (NCEST, 1992).

Policymakers and reform advocates alike have rallied around introducing a set of national content standards, suggesting that this will jump start the stagnating achievement of U.S. students.

Because some teachers are reluctant to devote so much class time to a project, however, care is taken to see that UrbanPlan conforms to state and national content standards for high school economics.

There's a disconnect between what the administration is promising — a set of voluntary national content standards — and what we the people will receive — a standardization of the public school system.

Maryland also asserted that it uses ACEI standards, which will be revised in 2013 with revisions mandatory for use in 2015, and noted that it has a rigorous teacher preparation evaluation and monitoring process in place that includes national content standards and outcomes as part of the content preparation for all teacher candidates.

I've also read the national content standards that have been developed for K - 12 education over the past decade by thousands of scholars, teachers and representatives of professional organizations.

Enter project - based learning, designed to put students into a students - as - workers setting in which they learn collaboration, critical - thinking, and written - and oral - communication skills along with the values of a strong work ethic, all while meeting state or national content standards.

Enter project - based learning, designed to put students into a students - as - workers setting where they learn collaboration, critical thinking, written and oral communication, and the values of the work ethic while meeting state or national content standards.

It is based on best teaching practices in writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, and reading, and it is supported by state and national content standards.