Sentences with phrase «one's peers in other states»

These technical assistance liaisons also facilitate linkages with peers in other states who are facing similar challenges.

Believing that informed policymakers create better education policy, Education Commission of the States works with state education leaders to provide unbiased policy research and reports, targeted technical support and the opportunity to learn from peers in other states.

The trend threatens to erase the performance edge Indiana's charter schools have enjoyed over their public and charter school peers in other states, according to David Harris, CEO of The Mind Trust, an education reform group based in Indianapolis.

This work has enabled teachers to collaborate with peers in other states — something that would not have been possible when each state had its own standards — and to build and refine powerful lessons.

The Barnett governmet is more popular with small business than either the federal government or its peers in other states.

Since the last judicial pay increase, New York State judges» salary levels have fallen precipitously behind those of their peers in other states, and New York currently ranks near the bottom of national judicial salaries.

SUNY Chancellor Nancy Zimpher was surprised by criticism from Cuomo's office that top SUNY administrators and professors are earning more than their peers in other states.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 4th and 8th graders in Colorado are more likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where a school official reports that a lack of parent involvement is not a problem or is a minor problem.

White students in Massachusetts outperform their peers in other states; 58 percent are at or above the math proficiency level.

White students in Massachusetts outperform their peers in other states; 58 percent are at or above the proficient level in math.

Meanwhile, students connected with their peers in other states via Skype to talk about how election plans were unfolding in different communities.

Why should students in one state be introduced to a topic such as fractions as 1st graders, to cite a common example, when their peers in other states won't cover that mathematics topic until later?

Compared with their peers in other states, Washington's 4th graders are among the most likely students in the country to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences.

And our students will watch their peers in other states pull away.

John Fensterwald, EdSource California teachers, more than peers in other states, feel empowered to voice their opinions and say they have influence over decisions and policies in their schools.

Delaware is transitioning to use testing aligned with Common Core that is intended to present parents, students, teachers, and school administrators with an assessment that is less politically - motivated and instead allows for a better understanding of how students compare to their peers in other states.

So it's hard to compare Indiana students to their peers in other states where expectations are different.

While Duncan celebrated the differences in design between the consortia, he also championed elements that would unify states — every state in each consortium would adopt the same «cut scores,» the number of questions a student has to correctly answer to be deemed proficient, making it possible for the first time to compare students to their peers in other states.

Common Core will make it much easier to compare the performance of Wisconsin students to their peers in other states and around the world.

In contrast with their peers in other states, Massachusetts» eighth - graders tied for best in the world in science in the 2007 Trends in International Math and Science Study.

These invitational online events facilitated by CST staff members provide information about issues related to school turnaround and the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), giving SEAs the opportunity to discuss these issues with their peers in other states.

According to the article, students are performing about as well as they did in 2003 when compared to their peers in other states.

The second frequently cited justification for the multi-state assessment is to give parents a better understanding of how our children perform academically as compared with their peers in other states.

In Tennessee, for instance, the credential is licensed veterinary medical technician, completely isolating technicians in the state from their peers in other states.