Sentences with phrase «old state standards»

Union leaders hailed the Common Core as a welcome opportunity for teachers nationwide to throw off the «stifling» strictures of old state standards and focus on more «authentic» learning, while reformers cheered the promise of more difficult tests that would push teachers to ensure student mastery of tested skills.

As schools swap out old state standards for new Common Core academics, educators are warning about an overlooked casualty of progress — cursive handwriting.

The district said switching from the old state standards to Common Core would mostly be a matter of adding a few things and moving material around.

While it is true that many of the oldest state standards only asked kindergarten students to count to 20, more recent standards went higher, to «at least 20» or «at least 31» or up to 100 (see Washington D.C., Georgia, Minnesota, Virginia, and Washington).

Coughanowr says she still uses many of the same activities she taught under the old state standards.

For example, according to Compton - Lilly, whereas under the old state standards, reading comprehension largely was about being able to regurgitate what an author said, the new standards require students to be able to break down and understand the author's argument.

Some schools, like the one that Carol runs, have adopted International Baccalaureate programs or advanced placement courses to supplement the old state standards, but we can't rely on visionary principles like Carol — or a patchwork of programs to close our nation's gaping achievement gaps or prepare future generations to compete with China.

In 2010, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C., called Mississippi's English standards «mysterious,» and «among the worst in the country» in a report that compared the old state standards to the Common Core.

An independent review found that California's old standards are pretty similar to the CCSS.2 The new standards cover fewer topics at each grade but require a deeper understanding than the old state standards.

Torlakson and the State Board of Education took the position that the transition to the Common Core standards required a clean break from tests under the old state standards, so that teachers and districts could concentrate on preparing for the new assessments and Common Core.

In the final year that students were tested using CST — and on the old state standards — 67 % of fourth - graders scored proficient or higher.

The bill, which Gov. Haslam signed much to the chagrin of Huffman, meant teachers and students in Tennessee would once again be responsible for teaching to the Common Core's more difficult standards while preparing students for the old state tests based on the old state standards.