Sentences with phrase «national standards debate»

The video of that throwdown is now online, and watching it will greatly reward viewers on any side of the national standards debate.

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Labour has set up a living standards and sustainability policy commission whose findings will be debated and agreed by the party's national policy forum in July.

A new bipartisan House bill would require members of Congress, as opposed to taxpayers, to pay for settling sexual harassment claims against them, the latest legislative response to the #MeToo movement that's sparked a national debate over workplace standards of conduct.

Cuomo, who once said he intended to be the lobbyist for students, has mostly kept out of the debate, saying he understands that big changes can have a rocky start, but that he supports the national shift to the Common Core standards.

The qualifications and training standards for health or wellness coaches, as well as their skills and competencies, are under debate although some initiatives are underway to develop national standards and certifications to legitimize this profession.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

ED in ’08 may also have contributed to Obama's decision to press forward with national standards and performance pay for teachers once he was in office... Teacher effectiveness and national standards [would] come to dominate the Obama education agenda and the education debate for the next four years.

If we have an open and vigorous debate about whether it is desirable for our large, diverse country to have a uniform national set of standards, curriculum, and assessments, I am confident that they would lose.

We still don't have anyone who was willing to debate in favor of the national adoption of Common Core based on the quality of the standards.

In the often heated national debate over the Common Core, opponents have cast the standards as a threat to teacher autonomy and students» intellectual creativity.

This essay was originally published by the Wall Street Journal as part of a debate on the value of national standards with Chester E. Finn.

In other words, a broad consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

It took six years of debate, planning, and development of the standards and assessment process before the first group of teachers was certified by the National Board.

Washington politicos continue to debate whether the federal government alone or the states together should write these national standards.

It's no longer a focused national debate about high standards; it's hundreds of local debates, about everything from student privacy rights to cursive handwriting to computerized testing to the value of Shakespeare.

As governors and legislators debate the fate of the Common Core, they hear repeated five impressive claims that Core advocates lay out: that their handiwork is «internationally benchmarked,» «evidence - based,» «college - and career - ready,» and «rigorous,» and that the nations that perform best on international tests all have national standards.

Moreover, with states having to decide if they will adopt proposed national standards released the same day as our forum — and having to make that decision by August 2 to help compete for Race to the Top funds — Americans can no longer wait for this debate to go national.

With the Common Core State Standards Initiative likely to release the final version of its English and mathematics standards in early June, and states having to decide whether or not to adopt them, a crucial question has been neglected in the public policy debate: Is there good reason to believe that national standards will improve educational outcomes?

It may be that the debate over national standards has been so energetic over the past year that the public now is more aware of the issue, whether or not the phrase «Common Core» is mentioned.

The veracity of the debate convinced us to take a step back and determine how well the standards align with the landmark publication This We Believe, published by the National Middle School Association (now the Association for Middle Level Education).

As the debate about the need for national standards heats up, it's helpful to remember this is not the first time the issue has been raised.

This issue of ASCD Express looks at the complex debate on national standards and asks if creating such a set of standards is even a viable option for the U.S. education system.

In other words, a consensus remains with respect to national standards, despite the fact that public debate over the Common Core has begun to polarize the public along partisan lines.

For thirty years, the national education debate has focused on standards, testing, and choice.

National standards won't magically boost learning in the U.S., and if this debate distracts attention from more effective reforms, then public education will be worse off.

Once enjoying bipartisan support, the controversial standards have become the epicenter of a heated national debate about this approach to educational improvement.

Twenty years ago on the pages of Educational Leadership (February 1993), our authors debated the merits of having national standards.

The biofuels / ethanol debate has moved over to National Journal's Energy Experts Blog, with this week's posts addressing whether the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) that mandates biofuel use should be left alone, amended or repealed.

An appeal to corporations and foundations to help CCNF advance climate literacy on a national scale, establish a new brand and new standard of climate journalism, and facilitate an unprecedented national dialogue and bipartisan debate based on sound science and shared values regarding what can or should be done as a nation.

And glaringly absent from that debate are references to recent, well - respected national standards.

Consumers and others can be assured that despite the proliferation of pseudo-professional organizations and groups posing as legitimate professional home inspection associations, there is ONE national, strong and valid certification that exists to rigorously evaluate and test inspectors based on actual occupational standards that were developed through thousands of hours of study and debate.