Sentences with phrase «rigorous education standards»

Many state school finance systems are not designed based on the actual costs of purchasing the teachers, support staff and other resources to deliver rigorous education standards, including the additional resources necessary to meet pressing needs in the nation's high poverty schools and districts.

Through this work, ConnCAN has emerged as a leading voice for education reform, built a base of thousands of supporters across the state and secured dozens of policy wins including: the adoption of rigorous education standards, more flexibility to recruit great new teachers and a 50 - percent increase in the number of students enrolled in public charter schools.

Why would a group of Utahns not support the adoption by Utah of more rigorous education standards for our students?

Amidst years of debate in the legislature about how to evaluate and measure the performance of students and schools, the state board of education adopted new, more rigorous education standards in 2010.

Wilson and Conyers explain metacognition and how it equips students to meet today's rigorous education standards.

The Common Core is designed to foster critical thinking and creativity in classrooms by establishing rigorous education standards consistent for all students.

New York Education Commissioner John King visited a Long Island elementary school Wednesday where he met privately with educators to talk about the state's new, more rigorous education standards called Common Core.

Not exact matches

As Muhammed Chaudhry, CEO of the Silicon Valley Education Foundation, recently explained, schools across the country are rapidly transitioning to Common Core Standards, a more rigorous standard of instruction, and as they do, they're investing heavily in technology to help students meet those standards.

Would that the editors of The Chronicle of Higher Education had held Professor Conn's essay up to the rigorous standards of rationality and attention to evidence that he says he wishes to enforce against the religious colleges and universities he regards as benighted.

How can we continue to diversify theological education while developing rigorous standards of excellence?

They effectively urged that theological education should have more rigorous academic standards appropriate to much more highly defined professional education.

Two members of the panel argued that the group's final report, released Tuesday, neglected several controversial issues facing public education, such as the state's implementation of new, rigorous academic standards known as Common Core.

These new more rigorous standards, meant to bring consistently tough education standards across state lines, were adopted in New York state by the Board of Regents in 2011.

New York State Education Commissioner John King says schools across the state have followed a set of standards since the late»90s, but the Common Core standards provide more rigorous guidelines.

On the surface, Common Core sounds reasonable: apply a rigorous standard of education across the board to ensure that American students in every school district are exposed to a common core of subject matter.

She founded Pink Image Thermography in Solana Beach, California, is president and cofounder of the Women's Academy of Breast Thermography, president of the non-profit Pink Bow Breast Thermography research and education, and is actively pushing for rigorous nationwide certification standards for thermography.

The national push for rigorous, measurable standards in elementary and secondary education is no passing fad, because it is being driven by inexorable economic forces that are ratcheting up educational requirements for American workers, concludes a report released last week.

As a result, in 1997 a new State Board of Education called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endEducation called a halt to the movement and approved a set of more rigorous state standards, standards that could not be satisfied by the progressivist textbooks that had won the education establishment's endeducation establishment's endorsement.

Education World: National Board Certification measures a teacher's practice against «high and rigorous standards.»

Some supporters argue a common set of rigorous national standards will transform American education, prepare students for college and careers, and allow our nation to maintain international competitiveness.

Waiver states could either choose the Common Core State Standards, or get their higher education institutions to certify that their standards are rigorous enough.

«Shaping rigorous, world - class education standards» is one of the Hunt Institute's key initiatives, so it has done great work making the Common Core understandable.

Inspired in part by the Massachusetts experience, the Common Core standards were developed by governors and state education chiefs, and today more than forty states, including Massachusetts, have adopted these deeply rigorous academic expectations for students.

The result of these state and local efforts was not always a rigorous education, but they clearly show a trend toward higher standards and quality in response to consumer demand.

«This is a giant step,» said U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who has been pushing states to adopt common, rigorous standards.

But it's far better to have an education destination worth reaching, i.e. rigorous standards set forth with sufficient specificity, clarity, and rich content to provide real guidance to curriculum designers, classroom teachers, test developers and more.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Yes, Margaret Spellings allowed for a «growth model pilot» when she was secretary of education — but schools still had to get all students to proficiency within three years, an unrealistic standard in states with a meaningful (and rigorous) definition of proficiency.

It's also a time to develop some really enriching, fun projects that you can justify as standards - based and rigorous (a popular word right now in education).

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

NCATE claims to be improving the quality of teacher education through its stringent standards and rigorous system of evaluation.

The Arnold Foundation invests heavily in another initiative that promotes rigorous science for medical and policy decision - making, yet they do not seem to apply that same standard of proof to their own education strategy.

The Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities believes it may be swimming against the current, but has nevertheless adopted three resolutions urging «more rigorous» standards for teacher training.

Education Secretary Rod Paige let Texas and Secretary Margaret Spellings let New Jersey, which had adopted more rigorous state standards in 2003 and 2008 respectively, have a «softer trajectory» to meet those 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.

In a practice - based teacher education program with rigorous faculty selection criteria and high admissions standards, the best teachers would train the best teaching candidates.

Proponents of Common Core made their case by arguing that the standards would improve public education and eventually strengthen the workforce: they would ensure that all high - school graduates were «college and career ready,» that America remained «globally competitive,» and that all students had access to a rigorous education «regardless of where a child lives or what their background is.»

It has created rigorous standards for teaching and a system to assess and certify teachers meeting these standards; it has promoted financial incentives to reward National Board - certified teachers (NBCTs) and pushed for their use to leverage improvement in education.

A Department for Education (DfE) spokesman said:» We have introduced a new, more rigorous maths curriculum at GCSE and a gold standard A-level.

Going back to the famous 1983 Reagan administration report «A Nation at Risk,» education experts have noted how students in the United States are falling behind those in other countries and have called for a new focus on «content» and «more rigorous and measurable standards.»

(1) Provides individuals with coherent and rigorous content aligned with challenging academic standards and relevant technical knowledge and skills needed to prepare for further education and careers in current or emerging professions;

Truding added that with the implementation of Common Core standards, all students would be receiving a more rigorous education.

The mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is to establish «high and rigorous standards for what teachers should know and be able to do, to certify teachers who meet those standards, and to advance other education reforms for the purpose of improving student learning in American schools.»

These incentives and lobbying by state - based education advocates led most states to raise standards, embrace choice, and develop fairer, more rigorous systems for evaluating teachers.

Mark Murphy was Delaware's Secretary of Education adopting rigorous educator preparation standards into law, updating the state's charter school law to improve school accountability and support, tackling college readiness and retention challenges, implementing the Common Core State Standards and assessments and promoting school choice.

«I have long admired Success Academy's rich, rigorous, standards - aligned, K - 4 literacy curriculum,» said Andres A. Alonso, Harvard Graduate School of Education professor and former CEO of Baltimore public schools.

«We are at a time in education when teachers, administrators and students are grappling with the changes brought about by many states» move to new, more rigorous standards that will prepare our students for college and work,» said George Bohrnstedt, an AIR Institute Fellow and chairman of NVS's expert panel.

The «entity,» as it has been called since the idea emerged in March at the national education summit, would provide funding for technical assistance and be a source for states and school districts trying to set rigorous academic standards and conduct related assessments of student achievement.

By accountability, we mean that every school or education provider - at least every one that accepts public dollars - should subscribe to a coherent set of rigorous, statewide academic standards, statewide assessments of student and school performance, and a statewide system of incentives and interventions tied to results.

A group of grade - level teachers, physical education teachers and counselors will analyze scholarly resources to determine how to integrate food, nutrition, health and culture (while maintaining Park City School District's rigorous academic standards) into existing curriculum.