Sentences with phrase «national education goals»

It led to an announcement of national education goals by the president four months later.

It takes a different angle on the first national education goal of getting children ready to learn in school.

This has driven efforts to more clearly articulate learning outcomes and translate these expectations into national education goals and standards.

Back then the goal was to persuade governors to adopt a set of national education goals.

It's hardly a «national school board,» but yes, it would look a little bit like the old National Education Goals Panel.

Then, in 1989, the governors and President George H.W. Bush held the nation's first education summit in Charlottesville, Virginia, and formulated national education goals for America.

His latest volume offers readers a peerless reconstruction of the sausage factory of federal education policy between 1983 and 2008, with emphasis on the setting of national education goals by Bush I and the governors in Charlottesville in 1989, and subsequent efforts by Bill Clinton and both

Noting that the six national education goals adopted by President Bush and the nation's governors paid scant attention to higher education, the resolution also called on the President, the Congress, the governors, and state legislators to include higher education «in any statement of education goals.»

Without such legislation, the council believes, it will be much more difficult to achieve the ambitious national education goals set out earlier this year by President Bush and the nation's governors.

The nation's Governors and Mr. Bush announced after their education summit in Charlottesville, Va., in September that they had agreed to establish national education goals by the time the Governors convened for their mid-winter meeting in late February.

Washington — The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee last week approved legislation that would create an independent panel to measure progress toward national education goals and issue an annual «national report card.»

In the late 1980s, state governors promoted national education goals and then national education standards and tests because they believed they needed national action after they had done what they could at the state level.

Following is an excerpt from America 2000: An Education Strategy, the plan unveiled by the Bush Administration last week to move the nation toward the six national education goals adopted last year by the National Governors» Association and President Bush:

The Bush Administration indicates that we have a lot of work to do before we reach the first national education goal: «By the year 2000, all children in America will start school ready to learn.»

(Colo.) Five years after 43 states and the District of Columbia officially adopted a new set of national education goals, fewer than half will actually administer assessments this year fully aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Achieve the 1989 Education Summit's National Education Goals by the year 2000: every child should begin school physically and mentally ready to learn; our high school graduation rate should rise from 71 percent to 90 percent, the current international standard; and students should be knowledgeable in math, science, language, history, and geography when they graduate.

So how much progress have U.S. schools made toward the eight goals established by the National Education Goals Panel?

The proposed «goals 2000: educate America act» would formally authorize the National Education Goals Panel, establish a federal role in developing national education standards and assessments, and create a grant program...

Meeting here a week before the National Education Goals Panel was scheduled to decide what its first «report card» would look like, the President's panel discussed ways progress toward the six national goals should be measured.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

The Governor was tapped to chair the panel that would report progress on the national education goals.

Large Schools Should Take Lessons from Small Schools According to the National Education Goals Panel, smaller schools have fewer discipline problems, and large schools can learn a few lessons from those schools.

Washington — National education goals could be tentatively set as early as next month to give President Bush the opportunity to include statements on the goals in his State of the Union Message, key Governors and federal officials said last week.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Goals Panel has appointed a task force of its members to investigate the ways in which various technologies, particularly telecommunications networks, can help students reach the national education benchmarks.

«Ready Schools» and «Principles and Recommendations for Early Childhood Assessments» are available at no charge from the National Education Goals Panel, 1255 22nd St. N.W., Suite 502, Washington, DC 20037; [phone]; or by fax at [phone].

Based on the national education goals, the plan lays out benchmarks, strategies, and performance indicators designed to help improve the 237 Department of Defense Dependent Schools in the United States and abroad.

The first annual «report card» on the national education goals concludes that the nation has met few of the goals and that information is lacking on many of them.

Gov. Paul E. Patton of Kentucky has been named to succeed West Virginia Gov. Cecil H. Underwood as the chairman of the National Education Goals Panel.

The National Education Goals Panel unveils a plan to create a national assessment system to measure progress toward reaching the goals for the year 2000.

The success of the six national education goals, many educators and policy analysts maintain, hinges to a great degree on the first: ensuring that, by the year 2000, all children enter school ready to learn.

ROCKVILLE, MD — Over the past few weeks, the Colorado Department of Education released a study on student performance in geography, an international research organization put out a 32 - nation study of reading literacy, and the National Education Goals Panel issued its second annual progress report.

The report is available for free from the National Education Goals Panel, 1255 22nd St., N.W., Suite 502, Washington, DC 20037; (202) 724 - 0015.

Owens and members of a research team from the Peabody Center for Education Policy at Vanderbilt prepared the report, March Toward Excellence: School Success and Minority Student Achievement in Department of Defense Schools in 2001 for the National Education Goals Panel (NEGP).

WASHINGTON — The second annual report on the national education goals for 2000 shows that the nation has made «modest progress» toward achieving the targets, members of the National Education Goals Panel said here last week.

Below is an indicator from each of the national education goals.

The National Education Goals Panel has approved a resolution to move forward in developing a comprehensive early - childhood assessment system to help gauge children's readiness for school.

The union president also praised Mr. Clinton's work on the national education goals, contending that he led the governors in «forc [ing]...

As the Congress and the National Education Goals Panel begin to take steps to implement the recommendations of the National Council on Education Standards and Testing, educators and policymakers are hailing the council's report as a ringing endorsement of high national standards for student performance and a system of assessments tied to those standards.

WASHINGTON — Despite the lack of a Congressional go - ahead, the National Education Goals Panel plans next month to establish a council to oversee the development of national subject - area standards and a related system of assessments, panel officials said last week.

Some months ago, the order apparently went out: No matter what the subject, every press release and every regulatory announcement emanating from the Education Department shall endeavor to mention America 2000 and the national education goals adopted by the Bush Administration and the National Governors» Association in 1990.

From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind: National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy.

Parent participation in children's schooling is so important that it was established in 1994 as a National Education Goal.

Includes the national education goals and the joint statement from the historic Charlottesville education summit...

She served on the White House Advisory Panel's Resource Group for the National Education Goals, the National Academy's Panel on the Future of Educational Research, the Academy's Committee on Teacher Education, and on the boards of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, the Spencer Foundation, the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education, the Center for Teaching Quality, the Alliance for Excellent Education, and the National Council for Educating Black Children.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Goals Panel last week recommended the development of a national assessment to test the skills of college graduates.

Wilmer S. Cody, former executive director of the National Education Goals Panel, and special assistant to the U.S. Secretary of Education, to director, Southern - region office, National Faculty, New Orleans, La..

The examination — which would resemble the National Assessment of Educational Progress for precollegiate students — was one of two measures adopted by the panel to help gauge progress in meeting the fifth of the national education goals adopted in 1990.

One of the National Education Goals for the year 2000 is that all students be able to show in grades 4, 8, and 12 «competency over challenging subject matter» in a range of subjects.