Sentences with phrase «rigorous set of standards»

We adhere to a rigorous set of standards when evaluating a potential home.

To ensure that our warnings are properly documented, and also to screen out fake complaints or writers» sour grapes, we maintain a fairly rigorous set of standards for data collection.

The Common Core standards for language arts and math are a more rigorous set of standards for all kids to reach.

The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core.»

The state of Washington, where I was educated from home for several years, has a rigorous set of standards for home - school families.

To accomplish this, it's essential that our teachers have a rigorous set of standards to guide them.

The unifying reason for the changes is the end of the No Child Left Behind era and the national move toward a more rigorous set of standards for what students are expected to know at each grade level, said Adam Gamoran, director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research at UW - Madison.

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The standard is a rigorous set of environmental, social, and economic criteria that promote sustainability on farms around the world.

«We were the first dairy processor to elevate milk from a commodity to a specialty food by establishing the North Coast Excellence Certified (NCEC) program — setting some of the most rigorous standards in the dairy industry which surpass those of the state and federal governments.

JPMA offers a certification program to manufacturers allowing them to obtain an additional safety certification by going through an extra set of rigorous testing above the standard requirements.

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UFT representatives filed suit in Manhattan State Supreme Court today to prevent the Charter Schools Committee of the State University of New York from creating a new and less rigorous set of certification standards for some of the state's charter schools.

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.

Lawmakers also moved to reduce the burden on students from tests aligned with the more rigorous set of curricular standards known as the Common Core.

We look forward to continued advances in 2017 that support the rigorous, ethical standards set forth in the 2016 Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation, and help address issues of human health around the world.

Director and screenwriter Peter Berg sets a high standard for his own film to meet by beginning with a lengthy sequence of what appears to be documentary footage of Navy SEALs undergoing rigorous training.

So rather than try to engineer our way around that, Slated designed its process to harness that subjectivity by applying the same set of rigorous standards to the way readers assess every script, based on the same objective criteria that buyers and reps themselves use to judge material.

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 endorsement.

It may imply that we've set unrealistic expectations about the number of students who can feasibly reach rigorous graduation 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.

«For the first time in this country, we have agreement among 45 states and D.C. on a set of language arts and mathematics standards, which is critical in allowing us to share a common focus and implement a far more rigorous academic environment.

Now that we've got a set of stable, rigorous standards; challenging, honest assessments; and fair, transparent school ratings, the action is in helping schools help kids make progress.

If the percentage of students identified as proficient in any given year is essentially the same for both the NAEP exam and for a state's tests, it may be inferred that the state has established as rigorous a proficiency standard as that set by NAEP.

And, to their credit, the states are working to meet this challenge with a set of rigorous standards for reading and math that were developed by governors and state superintendents, not by the federal government.

The change in vocabulary has been striking: loud language touting the «rigorous scientific standards» set forth in statute emanates constantly from IES, relentlessly pressing the importance of randomized, controlled trials as the «gold standard» for judging whether and how a given intervention is effective.

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) marked a new level of federal oversight by requiring states to set more rigorous student evaluation standards and, through testing, demonstrate «adequate yearly progress» in how those standards were met.

These English and math standards have been adopted by forty - five states and the District of Columbia, and represent (in our view) a rigorous, coherent set of expectations pegged to college and career readiness in those two important subjects.

The promise and potential of standards - and accountability - driven reform is that, by setting clear and rigorous expectations for what students should know and be able to do, teachers can better prepare students for the more advanced work that they will be asked to do in later grades, in college, and beyond.

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.

The Common Core State Standards did a good job of cumulating to college and (they said) career readiness by the end of high school, but that's only helpful if states use those or equally rigorous academic standards and if the assessments based on such standards are truly aligned with them, have rigorous scoring standards, and set their «cut scores» at levels that denote readiness for college - level work.

An examination of assignments given by middle school teachers appears to show that most of the work asked of students does not reflect the higher, more rigorous standards set by Common Core.

True, standards that are truly rigorous can set teachers up for criticism (when students fail to meet them), and achievement tests can provide a devastatingly precise means of conveying the bad news.

The first of those ten points was to «set rigorous national standards.»

Now, with the advent of the Common Core, a set of rigorous reading and math standards for students in kindergarten through 12th grade that has been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, educators say the pressure to prepare young children is growing more intense.

But it can not make anyone set rigorous standards, select good tests, establish reasonable «cut scores» (part of the Texas formula involved slowly raising those targets), or successfully intervene in failing schools or districts.

To be sure, any set of rigorous standards could set off this positive chain of events, just as Massachusetts's standards did in the Bay State.

Yet, in calling for the University of California (UC), which has authority to evaluate whether credit - recovery courses meet admissions standards, to set «clear and rigorous rules governing how much time and effort students must put into make - up courses in order to earn credit,» the editorial board makes the common mistake of equating time spent with actual learning.

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.

But perhaps the strongest objection to national standards that we have repeated at JPGB (here, here, and here) is that even if the current set of proposed national standards is an improvement for some states (and less good than others), there is strong reason to fear that people opposed to sensible, rigorous standards will gain control over the newly created national standards infrastructure and be in a position to impose their nonsense on everyone.

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.

Those high - performing schools did things like «set measurable goals on standards based tests and benchmark tests across all proficiency levels, grades, and subjects»; create school missions that were «future oriented,» with curricula and instruction designed to prepare students to succeed in a rigorous high - school curriculum; include improvement of student outcomes «as part of the evaluation of the superintendent, the principal, and the teachers»; and communicate to parents and students «their responsibility as well for student learning, including parent contracts, turning in homework, attending class, and asking for help when needed.»

Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards and through annual assessments of student achievement.

However, just in case you need a little clarification, the Common Core State Standards are a rigorous set of state - driven educational standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics that were designed to bring consistency to student expectations in kindergarten through 12th grade.

NCATE accreditation is a nationally recognized standard of excellence in the education profession and indicates that a university has met the following rigorous standards set by the profession and members of the public.

Texas's rigorous curriculum requirements as a default curriculum for all students and the role of the post-secondary system in setting high school graduation standards.

While the federal government should not require states to adopt a specific set of standards, such as the Common Core, it makes sense for NCLB to mandate that states use academic standards that are independently validated as rigorous, clear, and coherent.

«In response to the need to improve state standards and create a common set of expectations for children across the country, Wisconsin was among the first of 48 states and territories to adopt the Common Core State Standards, a set of rigorous new standards that are benchmarked against the standards of high performing countries.»

New approaches, such as a set of rigorous standards recently adopted by the state, also mean that his teachers and administrators need constant help figuring out how to adapt.

Accountability — Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achievement.

Despite the unpopularity of Common Core in some circles, the simple truth is that the standards are more rigorous, raise expectations and student achievement, and provide a clearer set of standards than the North Carolina Standard Course of Study that was in place prior to their adoption.