Sentences with phrase «rigorous learning standards»

I suggest five strategies that can be implemented in early learning classrooms and beyond, to support children's long - term success with rigorous learning standards.

All states had to develop rigorous learning standards and assessments of student performance, and individual schools are required to be on a path leading to universal proficiency by 2014.

In the era of high - stakes national, state and local accountability, and with the advent of common core standards and NCLB, teachers across the nation face the daunting task of ensuring mastery of increasingly rigorous learning standards in increasingly diverse classrooms.

All Brooke scholars are expected to meet rigorous learning standards in four areas: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science and Social Studies.

States should adopt and continuously improve rigorous learning standards — in both reading and math — and should require not fill - in - the - bubble tests, but rather aligned, high - quality tests that measure higher - order thinking skills.

So far this month in education news, a California court has decimated rigid job protections for teachers, and Oklahoma's governor has abolished the most rigorous learning standards that state has ever had.

Our latest white paper, Different Paths Up the Same Mountain, details Goalbook's 5 - step process for designing individual and whole - class instruction using rigorous learning standards and the Universal Design for Learning framework.

In a letter to the editor in the Bellevue Reporter titled, «Student assessments ensure students gain needed skills,» Bellevue, WA businessman Peter Raulerson writes about the need to challenge students with rigorous learning standards and high - quality assessments, like Smarter Balanced.

Rigorous learning standards will help get us there.