Sentences with phrase «national standards efforts»

A fundamental problem with national standards efforts, like Common Core, is that they are attempting to impose a single vision of a proper education on a large and diverse country with differing views.

He became the lead governor in bringing the National Governors Association into the national standards effort.

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Over the past decade, several high - profile 401 (k) fee lawsuits and DOL efforts to implement a fiduciary standard for professional investment advice have put 401 (k) fiduciary responsibility in the national spotlight.

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Restaurant chains with more than 15 locations will be required to comply with the mandate, but the National Restaurant Association (NRA) is fighting back, saying the mandate works against its effort for a national labeling sNational Restaurant Association (NRA) is fighting back, saying the mandate works against its effort for a national labeling snational labeling standard.

Further complicating efforts to move towards adoption of the PPE Monograph as a national standard is the recent issuance by the National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of national standard is the recent issuance by the National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of National Athletic Trainers» Association of a position statement (Conley KM, et al. 2014) recommending the use of its own version of the PPE.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

The American College of Nurse - Midwives and the North American Registry of Midwives recommend that midwives should at minimum meet the standards of midwifery established by the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), which include completion of a formal midwifery education program, national certification, and licensure in the local jurisdiction of practice.32, 33 Certified professional midwives (CPMs) may achieve certification through apprenticeship and portfolio evaluation without obtaining a formal midwifery degree; within CPM professional organizations efforts are under way to uniformly adopt ICM standards.33, 34 Oregon has followed this trend; in 2015 licensure became mandatory for attendants at out - of - hospital births.

Now, just as she has successfully implemented national nutritional standards for all federally funded lunch programs, she could see her efforts dissolve.

The new nutrition standards are largely based on recommendations by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, as part of efforts to curb childhood obesity.

«The bottom line is that SUNY intends to create an insulated and self - regulated system, which would contradict and undermine state and national efforts to raise standards and accountability in teacher preparation and certification.»

«We have seen workers sacrifice and work at the highest international standards and not only have these combine efforts brought back the crippled national asset from the brink but have also restored national fuel security.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of class room instruction.

After the ribbon cutting, Mr. de Blasio — whose first year in office was dominated by an effort to reform police - community relations after Garner's death and a subsequent City Hall feud with police union leadership — said he agreed some kind of national standard should be set.

Meanwhile, New Yorkers are unsettled about recent trends in education, particularly the state's implementation of what's known as the new Common Core standards, part of a national effort to raise the level of classroom instruction.

Expressed opposition last year to national standards for education, but said he supports efforts to emphasize STEM education, saying, «These technical skills are the infrastructure of innovation.

It is widely recognized as the first step toward ambitious national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve national standards in science for all students and a major influence on current efforts to reform science education in the U.S., including the National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve National Research Council's A Framework for K - 12 Science Education (2012) and the Next Generation Science Standards released by Achieve in 2013.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

In light of such issues and efforts, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands convened our group to examine ways to remove some of the current disincentives to high standards of integrity in science.

But efforts to unify higher education standards have always played second fiddle to powerful regional and national sentiments.

«The president is opposed to mandatory caps on greenhouse gases, opposing a mandatory 10 -[mile - per - gallon] increase in cars and trucks, opposing a national renewable electricity standard, opposing state efforts to cut emissions from cars, and pushing for new sources of dangerous pollution from liquid coal,» said Rep. Ed Markey (D — Mass.), chairman of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, in a statement released after the speech.

--(A) To support the development of consensus standards that may provide the basis for national energy efficiency building codes, minimize duplication of effort, encourage progress through consensus, and facilitate the development of greater building efficiency, the Secretary shall provide assistance to recognized developers of national energy codes and standards to develop, and where the relevant code has been adopted as the national code, disseminate consensus based energy efficiency building codes as provided in this paragraph.

At a Science Committee hearing held earlier this year, NSF Director France Córdova agreed with a legislative effort to uphold a national interest standard for taxpayer - funded research grants.

«But these data are still very fragmented, so we really will need a national effort with standards for data collection and sharing.»

And because the standards have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, cross state and national efforts, which could not have happened when each state developed its own standards, are now possible (see Figure 1).

Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

While state - level efforts are under way, national organizations and firms are also engaged in developing materials and preparing educators to revamp instruction and supervision around the common core standards.

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).

Despite Mike's best efforts, I'm afraid that national standards and assessments still sound like a really bad idea.

The Washington - based American Association for the Advancement of Science has announced a new effort to design and build a collection of test items in mathematics and science that provide «explicit evidence that a student has or has not learned a specific idea or skill» in state or national standards.

P.E. 4Life's Flannery says her organization has mobilized support for the program and advocates that a review of physical education standards be part of overall national education reform efforts.

WASHINGTON — To many of the educators keeping a careful eye on national efforts to set curriculum standards for students, the proposals in the Clinton Administration's education - reform bill present a mixed bag.

The Common Core State Standards Initiative, an effort launched by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers in 2009 to establish uniform standards, initially proved so popular among policymakers that 45 states had, by 2011, agreed to participate.

The International Technology Education Association announced last week that it will head an effort to set national standards for students to understand, use, and control technology.

Systems that adopt content - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to research to support their efforts, while child - centered approaches are more likely to appeal to the opinions of practitioners as expressed by the professional organizations to which they belong (as with the standards for developmentally appropriate practice of the National Association for the Education of Young Children).

WASHINGTON — Nearly two years into the full - scale national effort to set standards for what students should know and be able to do, leaders of nine of the projects involved have begun to search for common terms to describe what standards are.

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.

Federal officials have awarded more than $ 855,000 in grants for efforts to set national standards for student achievement in geography and civics.

Detailing Phase I of the RAND - Qatar effort, which spanned 2001 — 04, the authors explain the creation and implementation of curriculum standards, national testing, independent government - funded schools, annual report cards, and parental choice.

The experience in the 1950s and 1960s definitely led to the prohibition of such efforts in federal statutes — prohibitions that the Obama administration has violated in recent years by endorsing national curriculum standards and funding national tests and national curriculum frameworks together with related teaching materials and lesson plans.

Hess and Finn, in hard - hitting chapters that bookend the volume, call on Congress to set realistic expectations for student performance based on national standards, to provide districts with initial flexibility when intervening in failing schools, but to establish tough consequences for superintendents and principals if those efforts are unsuccessful.

But members of the goals panel, noting that both chambers had passed versions of the legislation, said that the death of the bill does not represent a setback in the effort to establish a set of voluntary national standards...

Just because the public favors reauthorization of NCLB does not mean that it opposes efforts to amend the act by establishing a single national standard.

Backers of the latest high - profile push for common standards believe it can succeed where previous national - standards efforts have failed, partly because it comes at standards from a different direction.

A number of national organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - frenational organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - freNational Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - free terms.

Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,

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«These measures, coupled with our efforts to reduce workload, form a key part of our national mission to raise standards, reduce the attainment gap and deliver an education system that is a source of national pride and public confidence.»

Manuel, Washington Post - «How Gates Pulled Off The Swift Common Core Revolution»»... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration... The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers... Read More

But he insists things are different than they were in the 1990s, when an effort at national standards failed.