At Tuesday's meeting, Pryor and his staff reported on progress made in key reform areas, including a new teacher evaluation system and a new set
of academic goals called the Common Core State Standards.
Not exact matches
The students are therefore
calling on the government to desist from delays in payment
of scholarship allowances in order to fast track the achievement
of academic goals.
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).
On April 6, 2018 the Aspen Institute hosted the launch
of the «Youth and Family
Calls to Action,» which are ambitious
goals and demands emanating from the Aspen Institute's National Commission on Social, Emotional, and
Academic Development.
«The new law is designed to remove financial incentives for placing children in more separate settings when they could be served in a regular classroom, and it [
calls for] including regular classroom teachers in the meetings at which the
academic goals of children with disabilities are set.
Education leaders who worked on the state plan
call the
goals — which would require
academic performance
of black students to improve about four times as quickly as it is now — ambitious but doable.