Sentences with phrase «past standards movements»

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I would argue that MI theory has offered an important check on the standards - based reform movement that has dominated American education for the past decade.

For the past 16 months, Partners for has worked in collaboration with the National Coalition for Community Schools to engage and support the local and national Community Schools movement in developing national community schools implementation standards.

In fact, the entire movement toward standards - and - accountability - based reform over the past twenty years confronted its most significant opposition when it began to extend accountability for student achievement to the educators and their preparation programs, primarily the traditional colleges of education.

There are some promising developments recently, such as the movement toward more formative assessments and the NCLB waivers, but overall CCS seems to be cut from the same cloth as past standards - based reforms.

Historical volatility is the annualized standard deviation of past stock price movements.

Written By Attorney Lester Rosen, Founder & CEO of Employment Screening Resources (ESR) The «Ban the Box» movement that seeks to eliminate questions about past criminal conduct on initial job applications is quickly heading towards becoming a national standard and will be a hot issue for employers in 2014.