Sentences with phrase «peers of a similar standard»

It is designed to see if they are able enough to learn in a grammar school environment with peers of a similar standard.

Not exact matches

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

I also should note that researchers in this study clearly conducted this study with similar a priori conclusions in mind (i.e., that the Common Core should be saved / promoted); hence, future peer review of this piece may be out of the question as the bias evident in the sets of findings would certainly be a «methodological issue,» again, likely preventing a peer - reviewed publication (see, for example, the a priori conclusion that «[this] study highlights an important advantage of having a common set of standards and assessments across multiple states,» in the abstract (p. 3).