Sentences with phrase «over national education standards»

One victim of the controversy over national education standards could be the board designed to certify them.

At a time of increasing global economic competition, continued signs of backsliding in state oversight of schools, and growing impatience with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the debate over national education standards has heated up.

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I've also read the national content standards that have been developed for K - 12 education over the past decade by thousands of scholars, teachers and representatives of professional organizations.

Notwithstanding substantial increases in expenditure on education over the past decade, national and international assessments of student achievement in Australia show little improvement and in some areas standards of achievement have dropped.

Just as the 1996 National Science Education Standards set the direction for science education over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decadesEducation Standards set the direction for science education over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decadeseducation over the last 15 years, these new standards will plot a course for high quality science instruction for decades to come.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eEducation, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eeducation schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education eeducation each year.

People who study education for a living understand what's going on — this is straight out of the standards promulgated by the National Council for the Social Studies, a professional organization that has long prized such «conceptual understanding» over «rote facts and figures.»

WASHINGTON — The National Council on Education Standards and Testing, which has agreed to propose national standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stNational Council on Education Standards and Testing, which has agreed to propose national standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stnational standards for what students should know and be able to do, divided sharply last week over whether to recommend national guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the stnational guidelines for what schools should do to ensure students can meet the standards.

Without a doubt, I was convinced, he will look at this new flat world, where Americans must compete with people not from their own community or state but from all over the planet, and declare our patchwork education system — with its 50 sets of academic standards and tests — no longer up to the challenges at hand and say that the time has come for rigorous national standards and tests, political obstacles be damned.

National standards also risk unleashing negative forces in American education — including further curricular narrowing, harmful effects on states that got standards right in the first place, and the possible rekindling of culture wars over what knowledge and which skills matter most (and who gets to decide).

National standards would strengthen federal control over education while weakening schools» direct accountability to parents and taxpayers.

Over the past two weeks, four national education polls — Education Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual asseducation polls — Education Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assEducation Next, Center for American Progress / Public Policy Poling, The Seventy - Four and PDK / Gallup poll of America's Attitudes toward the Public Schools — provided new information about public attitudes towards high standards and annual assessments.

Over the past several years, Tennessee has ramped up its teacher leadership efforts, with both its department of education as well as local and national nonprofits establishing fellowships for classroom experts to support the implementation of college - and career - ready standards and serve as instructional coaches for colleagues.

These facts, along with the reality that the federal government is barred from developing a national curricula and doesn't have much ability to force states to stick to any promises to enact college - preparatory curricula standards, belies Malkin's argument that Common Core is merely an Obama administration effort to «usurp state authority» over education policy.

We are at the point where for a variety of reasons I believe it has become necessary for us to restore and rebuild the consensus among Texans and particularly our opinion leaders that for over 25 years made Texas the national leader in standards and accountability - based education reform.

According to the Alabama Department of Education, our standards are well over 90 % in agreement with the national standards.

«It will be the largest piece of legislation regarding education that has passed in over a decade,» said Erin Tuttle, an Indiana mom who has gained national attention for fighting Common Core standards and has established herself as an effective advocate on the matter.

Tensions over the Common Core in Louisiana erupted into an intramural battle Wednesday as Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) declared he was withdrawing his state from the national education standards while the state's top education officials insisted Louisiana would keep them.

The problem isn't limited to national legislators; state legislatures in Oklahoma and Wyoming are torpedoing new, state - of - the - art science education standards over their climate change content.