Sentences with phrase «on common standards»

What's your advice for developing formative or benchmark assessments based on the common standards, given that the official common - core - aligned assessments are still under development?

``... Bill Gates was de facto organizer, providing the money and structure for states to work together on common standards in a way that avoided the usual collision between states» rights and national interests that had undercut every previous effort, dating from the Eisenhower administration....

Released last week, the report by the Washington - based research group makes a case for states, as they collaborate on common standards, to use national and international benchmarking to make cutoff scores more demanding and improve the descriptions of what it means for students to be...

Proponents of CCSS not only want to raise state standards; they also want states to converge on a common standard.

Once you have narrowed your vendor pool to three to five providers, insist that they base their presentations on a common standard of your choosing (for example, in 7th - grade math, «Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems»), data reporting questions, or both.

Also, starting in 2014 - 15, all students will be taking a new online assessment based on common standards adopted by Wisconsin and most other states.

Interstate comparisons or nationwide definitions of proficiency based on common standards might never materialize, but we do not have those now either.