Sentences with phrase «rigorous state content standards»

While mandating that every publicly funded school should meet rigorous state content standards, every state should explore additional forms of school choice, pushing far beyond the boundaries of within - district public school choice.

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The first sentence reads, «Over the past few years, Governors and Chief State School Officers have developed and adopted rigorous academic content standards to prepare all students for success in college and careers in the 21st Century.

Thus, Kress suggests that if a state adopts more rigorous content and performance standards, that state would get a softer trajectory (and hence more time).

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.»

The C3 Framework is not intended to prescribe the content necessary for a rigorous social studies program but is designed to guide states in their efforts to upgrade their social studies standards and to inform the pedagogical approaches of social studies educators across the nation.

Indeed, this is how it works now: despite the fact that all classrooms in a state are theoretically held to the same content standards, not all classes are equally rigorous nor are students within a single class all held to the same absolute expectations.

This primary purpose is similar to the original 1968 Bilingual Education Act, which states that limited - English - proficient (LEP) students will be educated to «meet the same rigorous standards for academic performance expected of all children and youth, including meeting challenging state content standards and challenging state student performance standards in academic areas.»

States must intervene in their lowest - performing schools, for example, in ways that are consistent with the Education Department's «turnaround principles» such as «ensuring that the instructional program is research - based, rigorous, and aligned with State academic content standards.»

Aligned with college and work expectations; Clear, understandable and consistent; Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills; Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards; Informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and Evidence - based.

Study Island combines rigorous content that is highly customized to specific state standards in math, reading, writing, science, and social studies with interactive features and games that engage students and reinforce and reward learning achievement.

Edmentum is proud to offer educators best - in - class online curriculum filled with rigorous and engaging online content, aligned to relevant state and national standards.

Of course, it could be that states with more rigorous prior content standards are states best positioned to continue to profit from higher content standards.

Focus and coherence in state content standards, combined with the standards for mathematical practice require rigorous conceptual understanding and fluency with math.

EL's curriculum, created in collaboration with the New York State Education Department, combines high quality, rigorous, standard - aligned content with effective instructional practice, bringing together the «what» and the «how» of the Common Core standards.

Beyond Common Core State Standards in English / language arts and mathematics, DC has adopted these rigorous content - area learning standards and guides for arts, early learning, health and physical education, science, social studies, technology and world language.

This rigorous, content - rich curriculum meets or exceeds state standards across all subject areas.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) literacy standards for content area teachers provide incentive for teachers to focus on instructional techniques to meet students» rigorous literacy needs across the...

The English Language Proficiency (ELP) Standards correspond to states» rigorous content standards in English language arts, mathematics, and science.

With 48 states and Washington, D.C. now jointly developing common state standards — which are meant to «include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high - order skills» — the concept of rigor will be a mainstay of the education agenda for the foreseeable future.