Sentences with phrase «ready standards adopted»

The new college - and career - ready standards adopted by most states were designed to improve instruction in America, but new standards demand new and better educational resources.

To maximize their chances of winning part of $ 4 billion, states had to sign on to college - and career - ready standards adopted by «a majority of states,» a definition met only by the Core.

Not exact matches

Nothing about these learning pathways is in conflict with the call for higher career - and college - ready standards, such as the Common Core State Standards adopted by 45 states and new science standards adopted so far by a smaller number.

Will such a state have to instantly adopt its own college - ready standards, or else risk losing the right to regulatory relief?

Adopting «college - and - career - ready» standards was among the recommended reforms.

And the Administration floated the idea of requiring states to adopt college and career ready standards, but not necessarily these standards.

These insights were embedded into college - and career - ready standards that most states adopted in 2010.

We were naïve to think that we could thread the federalism needle — that because the standards had been developed by the governors and state superintendents, and because there was no federal mandate to adopt them, and because there was an escape valve (states could develop their own college - and career - ready standards), we would avoid the political problems that sunk previous attempts at «national standards.»

The ARRA specified only that the federal government should encourage states to improve data systems, adopt «career - and - college - ready» standards and tests, hire great teachers and principals, and turn around low - performing schools.

What we meant by «tight» was that Washington should require states to adopt «college - and career - ready standards,» either developed with other states (i.e., the Common Core) or unique to themselves.

The other $ 4 billion was intended by Congress to fund grants to help states improve in four key areas: building data systems, adopting «career - and - college ready» standards and tests, hiring great teachers and principals, and turning around low - performing schools.

States have demonstrated this by adopting Common Core or adopting college - and career - ready standards that have been approved and certified by each state's network of institutions of higher education (IHEs)(examples include Indiana, Virginia, Texas, and Minnesota).

Back in 2009 and 2010, when the Common Core was adopted by a host of states ready to promise pretty much anything in exchange for Race to the Top funds, it was fueled by twin promises: It would «raise standards» and it would make it easier to compare how schools and states were faring in reading and math.

The groups say that this role must be maintained in any bill to reauthorize the ESEA, along with ensuring that each state adopts college and career - ready state standards, aligned statewide annual assessments, and a state accountability system to improve instruction and learning for students in low - performing schools.

To qualify, they had to either adopt the Core, or have their standards certified as «college - and career - ready» by a state college system.

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

States must either adopt the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) or formulate a set of standards that are deemed «College - and Career - ready»; implement a plan to improve the lowest performing schools; and design an evaluation program for teachers and principals.

Rep. Todd Rokita of Indiana, the top Republican on the subcommittee overseeing K - 12 policy, also asked about language in the administration's budget request that would provide $ 389 million in assessment grants to states that have adopted college - and career - ready standards.

The pause proposal that passed the General Assembly this spring keeps Indiana's current assessment, the ISTEP, in place until the State Board of Education has reaffirmed its support of the Common Core or adopted other college - and career - ready standards.

Indiana's universities will have to sign off on whatever standards education officials adopt next to certify students leaving the state's K - 12 schools will be ready for college - level coursework.

What they are: The Common Core State Standards are a set of academic standards in language arts and math that have been adopted in more than 40 states and intended to be the guideposts for children from kindergarten through 12th grade to ensure that they are ready for college and employment.

It's possible to have college - and career - ready standards without adopting the Common Core.

But there's concern that just pausing implementation could put Indiana's No Child Left Behind waiver in jeopardy, as states had to adopt of college - and career - ready standards to win approval.

If Indiana doesn't adopt college - and career - ready standards, the state would lose its federal No Child Left Behind waiver, which could cause even bigger problems than the fight over the Common Core.

There are two ways to have college - or career - ready standards: Adopt the Common Core, or have Indiana's institutes of higher education certify the state's K - 12 standards will prepare students for college.

To even be eligible for funding, states had to promise that they would fully adopt a set of common college - and career - ready standards supplemented with only 15 % of their own standards.2 Applicants also had to demonstrate that they would expand their state's longitudinal data system to be in the same format as other states and to contain new data including student health, demographics, and success in postsecondary education.3

adopt a common set of college - and career - ready standards «substantially identical across all States in a consortium» by December 31, 2011, and implement the standards by the 2014 — 15 school year;

Supporters of the Common Core have emphasized that the Department of Education never specified that the Common Core was the «college - and career - ready standards that states needed to adopt.»

It also used Race to the Top, its competitive grant program, as an inducement, saying that states adopting «college and career ready» standards had a better chance of winning federal dollars under the program.

In exchange for relief, the administration is requiring a quid pro quo: States must adopt changes that include meaningful teacher and principal evaluation systems, make sure all students are ready for college or careers, upgrade academic standards and lift up their lowest - performing schools.

The feds didn't exactly back off, but they did remove the term «Common Core» from the guidelines, requiring instead that states adopt «college - and career - ready standards.»

For example, 44 states and the District of Columbia adopted the Common Core, the «college and career - ready» standards created by states but promoted by Duncan.

To gain a waiver, states will have to adopt college - and career - ready standards and tie state tests to them, adopt a differentiated accountability system that focuses on 15 percent of their most troubled schools, and craft guidelines for teacher - and principal - evaluation systems that will be based partly on student growth and be used for personnel decisions.

In order to qualify for a RTTT grant, states had to promise to adopt college and career ready academic standards — and the CCSS was one set of standards that qualified.

That being not enough, he then decreed that states could apply for flexibility waivers to get out of the terrible mandates of NCLB as long as they agreed to the terrible mandates of Arne Duncan: to adopt the Common Core state standards, the common core national tests, link teacher and principal evaluations to standardized test scores, and, instead of all students being «proficient» by 2014, assure that all students will be «college ready» by 2020.

The Senate Democrats» proposal would also require states that haven't already adopt college - and career - ready academic standards do so.

The waivers have the same purpose and are handed out on the condition that states, among other things, adopt college and career ready standards.

States were awarded points in the grant process for adopting a specific set of reforms, such as teacher evaluations that included evidence of student growth and a set of «college and career ready standards» (i.e., the Common Core).

In exchange, states were forced to agree to a US DOE school improvement agenda that focused on overhauling low performing schools, adopting more rigorous teacher evaluations and new college and career ready academic standards known as Common Core.

But in doing so, Duncan largely bypassed Congress to mandate that states adopt landmark changes — policies such as closing achievement gaps, and implementing teacher evaluations and college and career ready academic standards.

In both cases states had to adopt college - and career - ready standards, such as the Common Core, though they had the option to develop their own alternative.

(Fla.) Although most states have adopted college and career ready standards, many are still grappling with the issue of setting student proficiency levels on new state assessments — something both Illinois and Arizona have recently addressed

Adopted in 2010, the new content standards in English language arts are now called the Kansas College and Career Ready Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History / Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects.

Adopting and protecting college and career ready standards and aligned assessments at a time when states across the country were rolling back progress on this front.

Nevertheless, Peter Cunningham, who worked for former secretary Duncan, wrote recently, «Under the new law, every state must adopt «college - and career - ready» standards.

The new assessments will be designed for a wide range of students with significant cognitive disabilities and will be aligned to the common set of college - and career - ready standards that were recently developed by governors and chief state school officers and have been adopted by 35 states and the District of Columbia.

They're also expected to adopt college - and career - ready standards; link teacher, principal, and student - achievement data; and identify persistent achievement and graduation rate gaps.

Although most U.S. states have now adopted the common core college - and career - ready standards for all their students, many high schools continue to operate on an old premise — that only the best and the brightest will go on to college, with the rest needing a lower dose of academics sprinkled with some occupational training.

It has already «adopted college - and career - ready standards in reading / language arts and mathematics» and administer «tests aligned» with these standards.

States and districts across the country have adopted college - and career - ready standards.