Not exact matches
A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high -
quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and
quality rather than on
traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.
The study's authors speculate on four potential explanations for the large negative effects that their program evaluation found: misalignment of private school
curriculum to the Louisiana State Standards; differences between serving scholarship students with achievement gaps and
traditional private school students; success of other education developments, especially in New Orleans; and the overall
quality of private schools willing to participate in the program.
And
traditional districts would essentially be let off the hook for failing to provide high -
quality teaching and
curricula to poor and minority students.
Either we will have low - standards tests driving
curriculum and instruction (as in Texas) or we can attempt other means to ensure high -
quality curriculum and instruction than through
traditional standardized tests (including most of the current ones with open - ended questions)[see also Neill, «States Flunk»].
Putting an end to
traditional enrollment counts — and only providing districts with dollars based on whether the student is actually attending school — will force districts to look at the underlying reasons why chronic truancy is a problem in the first place, as well as address the issues by providing children with high -
quality teaching and strong, college - preparatory
curricula.
Our
curriculum ensures that students receive a high -
quality academic and
traditional education.
Make
quality curriculum and instruction accessible to students who have different abilities and needs, and to those who can not attend a
traditional campus due to medical or disciplinary reasons.
Thanks to AYP,
traditional districts — especially those in suburbia — have been exposed for failing to provide high -
quality teaching,
curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).
As with black and Latino families from the middle class, poor families of all backgrounds move into suburbia thinking that
traditional district schools in those communities will do better in providing their kids with high -
quality teaching and
curricula than the big city districts they fled.
If they did, they would know that Alexander's plan would all but solidify the Obama Administration's move over the past few years to eviscerate No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provisions, which have exposed the failure of
traditional districts to provide high -
quality teaching,
curricula, and school cultures to poor and minority children (as well as those condemned to the nation's special ed ghettos).
At Liberty, we believe a
quality legal education can only be achieved when
traditional courses are integrated with a comprehensive practical skills
curriculum that's built on the solid foundation of a Christian worldview and a stable understanding of the Western legal tradition.