Sentences with phrase «setting national academic standards»

Some of the country's largest subject - matter groups are worried they will be ignored in the process of setting national academic standards that is now under way.

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Last year, at the National Education Summit, governors and business leaders concluded that «efforts to set clear, common... academic standards for students in a given school district or state are necessary to improve student performance.».

It wants to use the national discussion paper consultation to establish a set of agreed principles for teaching sport and physical activity, and is working with academics to develop an Australian Physical Literacy Standard.

Arguing that academic standards for students will mean little unless educators are adequately prepared, the National Staff Development Council last week released a set of standards for effective professional development.

Moreover, it is clear that the vast majority of states have set their academic achievement bar far lower than federal standards, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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 «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.

In spring 2009, the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) began work on the Common Core State Standards initiative, a state - led effort to establish a shared set of academic standards for English language arts and mathematics.

The Obama administration, in response, announced that it would waive the law's academic requirements so long as states adopted Common Core standards, a national set of learning goals for students.

By following the basic academic standards set by the states or the national subject area standards, parents have a rich framework from which to develop challenging curriculum.

At the same time, efforts to develop a set of academic standards had been taken on by governors and school administrators at a national level, leading to what is now known as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), which are guidelines for what students should be able to know and do in English and math.

Bill Gates called the Common Core academic standards a «very basic idea» to set national standards for what students should know at various grades.

LAS VEGAS - «Canine Care Certified, a national, voluntary program that sets rigorous standards for professional breeders, was developed after three years of research at Purdue University's Center for Animal Welfare Science and was peer - reviewed by animal scientists and canine welfare experts from major academic institutions.»

Canine Care Certified, a national, voluntary program that sets rigorous standards for professional breeders, was developed after three years of research at Purdue University's Center for Animal Welfare Science and was peer - reviewed by animal scientists and canine welfare experts from major academic institutions.