Sentences with phrase «rigorous standards of education»

The following Credentialed Collaborative Professionals have satisfied rigorous standards of education and training, demonstrated substantial case experience, and have passed a confidential peer reference process: Julian Schwartz from San Antonio, Deborah Lyons from Austin and Larry Hance from Dallas.

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.

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?

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.

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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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.»

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.

Funded by the U.S. Department of Education, the Northwest Comprehensive Center (NWCC) provides high - impact training and technical assistance to SEA staff in planning, implementing, monitoring, and sustaining initiatives in priority areas such as college and career readiness, educator effectiveness, school improvement, and rigorous, college - and career - ready standards implementation.

More and more school districts are turning to Blended Learning, an education model where students learn part through online math delivery of lessons and part through the traditional classroom, to implement the rigorous standards of 21st century learning.

While nearly all students improved nationwide, one group seems to have benefited the most from more rigorous standards and tests — third - graders, who have been taught to rigorous standards for most of their education.

«We believe Indiana's growth model is the best student growth measure in the nation, and we believe we can develop an accountability system that uses clear labels, incorporates student growth, and still maintains rigorous standards,» Indiana Department of Education spokesperson Alex Damron said Friday.

This is still critical, of course, but today's rigorous college and career readiness standards also emphasize the development of students» conative skills to prepare them for higher education and the global workplace.

Higher education can be a key validator of these standards if they are rigorous enough to align with entry level expectations.

«In defining accomplished teaching within career and technical education, the revised standards are rigorous, elegant, and move the field forward in significant ways,» said Kristin Hamilton, NBCT, director of standards at the National Board.

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.

Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who described overall performance as modest, credited those particularly large gains in some states to the introduction of the new, more rigorous «Common Core» standards and other initiatives the Obama administration has promoted, including new teacher evaluations.

Those were among the findings of the Department of Education's own Institute of Education Sciences, which used rigorous standards to measure statistically significant improvement.

In a timely op - ed in The Hechinger Report, NISL CEO Bob Hughes and the Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro, argue that improving the effectiveness of school leaders is even more critical in the current climate of tight budgets, rigorous standards, and increased accountability.

For educators unfamiliar with it, the mission of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards is to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do; provide a national voluntary system certifying teachers who meet these standards; and to advocate for related education reforms that integrate National Board Certification in American education and to capitalize on the expertise of National Board Certified Teachers.

In the second of four major policy speeches on the priorities for the «Race to the Top» Fund, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced last night that the Department of Education will commit up to $ 350 million of the $ 4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund to support states in the creation of rigorous assessments linked to the internationally benchmarked common standards being developed by states.

Nicky Morgan, education secretary, said: «This is the first year we have assessed pupils under the new more rigorous system and it is no surprise that this year's results look different to previous years, but despite that the majority of pupils have achieved above and beyond the new expected standard.»

Our recent research examines the evaluation of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education (SAGE) program (Molnar, Smith, and Zahorik, 2000; Molnar et al., 2001; Zahorik, Molnar, Ehrle, & Halbach, 2000), an initiative that requires participating schools to maintain the student - teacher ratio in K — 3 classes at 15:1 and develop rigorous, standards - based academic curriculums.

The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday retreated from new, more rigorous graduation standards out of concern that huge numbers of students would fail to earn diplomas.

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.

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.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

More rigorous preparation programs based on the National Educational Leadership Preparation (NELP) standards, which are being developed to align with the recently - revised Professional Standards for Education Leaders (PSEL), are essential for the preparation of beginning - level school building and district leaders.