Sentences with phrase «old curriculum»

The authors of A Nation at Risk were opposed to «more of the same»: more spending on the same old curriculum without fundamental changes in expectations and time use.

It contains old curriculum levels but could easily be adapted.

They also create and innovate, connect with and inspire students, and breathe new life into old curriculum — but these things hardly ever get a headline.

Will the multimedia, gaming, case study and discussion tools available to you, simply taking your same old curriculum and putting it online means you're missing an opportunity to get your learners involved.

Denominations encourage this illusion in their continuing efforts to produce and market a new curriculum every three to four years — sometimes without even evaluating the effect of the old curriculum on learners.

This defense was also inevitably intertwined with defending the Christian character of the old curriculum and of the tightly disciplined collegiate life.

But, pace Scruton, neither St. John's nor Thomas Aquinas practices «the old curriculum» nor takes a simply «traditional» approach to education; they are distinctly American institutions, and therefore democratic.

One book will cover about a year's worth of learning, so being the equivalent of two ACE workbooks and score keys in the old curriculum — about a month and a half's worth.

Preparing our students for the requirements of Kindergarten, our 4 - year - old curriculum, (4's), is rich in weekly thematic instruction.

In the Winter 2011 issue of Ed Next, Mike Petrilli wrote about how one Montgomery County school is attempting to teach high - performing and low - performing students using the old curriculum.

You might select some students to be taught using the new curriculum and compare their progress with that of students who stayed with the old curriculum.

In some places, the new standards were in place, but with the old curricula and tests.

Principals of struggling schools «felt pressure to switch because they knew they would be held accountable if they kept their old curricula and their students» performance did not improve,» Sahm notes.

The old curriculum - driven juggernaut has failed.

Currently, many teachers feel their districts have done little beyond label their old curriculum as «Common - Core aligned,» without substantive changes.

Back in August, NFER researchers Jennie Harland and Claire Hodgson discussed the provisional national curriculum assessment results for KS2, focusing on reading moving from its position as the subject with the highest performance under the old curriculum and assessment regime to the lowest under the new one.

So that's meant larger class sizes, higher staff turnover, older curriculum, technology that is not up to date, and kids getting less individual support.

How ironic — let's tests these kids under the «new, more rigorous system» despite teaching them the old curriculum for most of their primary years... Marvellous!

The old curriculum was often criticised for being boring and only encouraging use of software rather than understanding and creation.