Sentences with phrase «of national content standards»

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.

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The telecom regulator is holding a week of hearings in Gatineau, Que., as it aims to set national standards for the content and clarity of cellphone contracts.

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.

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As part of a national salt reduction strategy, the Iranian government has reduced the standard of salt content of select food groups, including snacks (from 2.5 % to 1.5 %); canned tomato paste (3 % to 2 %); potato chips (1.5 % to 1 %) and bread (2.3 % to 1.8 %).

All Brain Quest content aligns with national and state standards and is overseen by the Brain Quest Advisory Board, a panel of award - winning educators.

A thorough list of foods and their protein content can be found in the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 18.

When I look up the selenium content of the referenced foods in the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference I find the following per 100 grams of each wheat germ 79.2 mcg raw herring 36.5 mcg butter 1 mcg

Critics see the combination of program accreditation standards, revised by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) in 2000; a growing curricular emphasis on «social justice» issues; and a left - leaning education professoriate as yielding a one - sided approach to teacher education and the certification of teachers based on ideology, rather than teaching skills or mastery of content knowledge.

And that content should be married to national standards of «proficiency» in these subjects at these grade levels, and joined to national exams by which we determine how well and by whom this is being accomplished.

In 1982, when I was the president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, I proposed raising standards for all teaching fields to a level that would assure competence in content and pedagogy.

The Obama administration soon developed an ambitious program of federally guided K — 12 education reform consisting of national curriculum - content standards and national tests based on these curriculum standards.

The new national academic - content standards for English and math are no better than the standards in place in one quarter of the states and weaker than those in a half - dozen states.

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.

Until recently, the content - standards developers had planned to present their work in Washington to Sheldon Hackney, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, one of the major benefactors of the project.

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).

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national 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.

Klein told PBC Newshour in a March 20 interview that one of the most important levers that the report focuses on is the «whole nationalization» of curriculum - content standards through the national Common Core standards for English and math, which are endorsed by the Obama administration and whose implementation is currently being supported by millions in federal funds.

This month, the Council on Foreign Relations issued a report calling in the name of national security for national curriculum - content standards on science, civics, foreign languages, technology, creativity, and problem - solving — for elementary and secondary education.

If the authors of the national common - core standards don't encourage or require content coherence and cumulativeness, writes E.D. Hirsch Jr., they will have done little to improve the unacceptable stasis in American education.

Clearly children's diets need attention, and there have been a number of initiatives to break the unhealthy eating habit, including: The National Healthy Schools Programme (1998 to 2009), which included healthy and nutritious foods being made available in school canteens and vending machines; The School Food Plan, (launched in 2015), which provided a new set of standards for all food served in schools, offering children more healthy, balanced diets, and withdrawing the provision of unhealthy snacks and drinks in school vending machines; and the much - publicised new sugar tax, which will be imposed on companies according to the sugar content of the energy and fizzy drinks they produce.

State policymakers should reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

The book provides valuable conceptual tools for analyzing the design of the Common Core national curriculum - content standards.

Find Library of Congress lesson plans and more that meet Common Core standards, state content standards, and the standards of national organizations.

Although many states moved to adopt the Common Core national standards and tests prior to the 2010 election — an unprecedented surrender of state educational control to Washington — conservative leaders can reclaim control over the content taught in their local schools by resisting the imposition of national standards and tests and preventing their implementation.

The question I would like to address is: Do the Common Core national curriculum - content standards undermine «competitive federalism,» which is a feature of our Madisonian system of federalism?

The Fordham Institute, a strong supporter of national standards and of Common Core, conducted a review of the NGSS and found that it «fails to ensure that that all students will be equipped with sufficient content to make real the option of taking more advanced courses in the core STEM disciplines.»

In any case, national standards and tests will change curriculum content, homogenize what is taught, and profoundly alter the structure of American K - 12 public education.

He was a member of the California State Academic Standards Commission in late 1990s and again in 2010, when the Common Core national curriculum - content standards were under consideration.

This move toward quality control could be the first step back toward renewing the drive for national curriculum standards that flared up and flamed out in the 1990s in disputes over ideology, pedagogy, course content, and control of the public schools, speculated Bruce Johnstone, former chancellor of the 64 - campus State University of New York.

Content standards, tests, and curriculum that had been provided by the states — thus far — will now because of Common Core be provided by federally - endorsed national curriculum - content standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content staContent standards, tests, and curriculum that had been provided by the states — thus far — will now because of Common Core be provided by federally - endorsed national curriculum - content standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content stacontent standards, federally - funded tests, and curriculum (some of it federally funded) based on those tests and curriculum - content stacontent standards.

Since 2009, Pioneer has led the campaign against Common Core national education standards and federal control of K - 12 education policy, publishing a series of reports showing that the state's adoption of national standards weakens the quality of academic content in Massachusetts» classrooms, and raising serious questions about the legality and the costs of Common Core.

I propose that a broad - based group — made up of educators, elected officials, community leaders, and experts in pedagogy and particular content — come together to take the best academic standards and make them available as a national model.

Today, the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) released the second installment of its now - segmented Teacher Prep Review, this time grading undergraduate programs preparing secondary teachers based on a document review of their admission standards, content requirements, and field experiences.

The project is designed so that teachers and library media specialists see a direct connection between national information literacy skills, core content skills, and the technology skills that will be outlined in the revised computer standards of learning.

To further complicate this problem, the growing availability of technology adds increasing pressure on classroom teachers to find creative ways to use technology to teach content mandated in state and national standards.

The U.S. Department of Education presupposed that educational improvement should begin with an agreement on content standards that could be implemented at both the national and state levels.

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

How do schools and school districts respond to the ever - increasing challenge of meeting state and national standards in the content areas, while at the same time improving students» literacy skills?

We are leading the way in customizing content to state and national standards, and we are committed to maintaining a tight alignment to K - 12 state standards and meeting the ever - changing needs of schools and districts to improve student outcomes.

He has facilitated and participated in over 400 program reviews and led the revision of over 40 sets of professional and content program standards at the state level as well as participated in the construction of certification assessments that align to national and state standards.

For example, a focus on literacy across the content areas is now considered best practice and is standard in many school districts, but many programs need to strengthen coursework on literacy instruction for prospective teachers seeking a content - area certification.16 Furthermore, all teacher preparation programs have yet to coalesce around a common understanding of accomplished practice, though the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, or the National Board, has taken steps to provide teacher preparation programs with access to model teaching lessons.

Content and lessons that reflect National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning FNational Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) developmentally appropriate practice (DAP); Service - Learning Standards for Quality Practice; Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics; national standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Fnational standards in social studies, science, fine arts, technology, and health; and Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework

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.

At the heart of the continuum is National Board Certification, a process designed for teachers to demonstrate, through standards - based evidence, the positive impact they have on student learning as a result of their deep and abiding understanding of students, content knowledge, pedagogical practice, ongoing reflection and participation in learning communities.

Since one of these options is National Geographic, it again proves its worth to students across the country — easy access to academically accepted content just for buying a device that works just as well and costs less than half the price of the industry standard iPad?

The National Research Council, the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve all partnered to create standards that emphasize both content and practice.

The United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/) is a useful resource to determine the calorie content of human foods if used as treats.

The problem isn't limited to national legislators; state legislatures in Oklahoma and Wyoming are torpedoing new, state - of - the - art science education standards over their climate change content.