Sentences with phrase «old reading curriculum»
We've already excitedly huddled a few times, looking at the brand new math curriculum, the old reading curriculum, and all the project - based learning stuff we love to do, and we started plotting out a plan.
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Even the Center for Civic Education, a 40 - year - old nonprofit organization whose National Advisory Committee reads like a Who's Who of democratic values and traditions (including a dozen current and former members of Congress and a couple of Supreme Court justices), does not explain in its curriculum standards that civil disobedience is rooted in fundamental principles as opposed to personal preferences.
A quarter of British 11 - year - olds still leave primary school unable to read well enough to deal with the demands of the secondary - school curriculum.
It is encouraging news, from Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute, that New York City's three - year - old pilot project testing the content - rich Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum in ten low - income schools has proved so far, as the Daily News headline has it, «a brilliant experiment in reading.»
She is collaborating with Oxford and Cherwell Valley College and Reading College to design the curriculum for a new University Technical College for 14 - 19 year olds, due to open in Reading in 2013.
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.
Mr Williams added: «For the minority of boys with underdeveloped literacy skills and a less resilient self - confidence, accessing a wider curriculum that relies so heavily on effective reading and writing can be daunting and, particularly as they get older, result in detachment and disengagement.»
Books reviewed in the «Older Readers» section are evaluated in terms of their relevance to junior - high and high - school students and recommended for individual recreational reading or curriculum - related use and reference.