Sentences with phrase «standard of education across»

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.

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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.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

This new, diverse system will raise standards across the board — which should be the main objective of any country's education system.

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.

«It is clear that if the quality of governance is to improve across the education system, basic minimum standards of governance should apply across all publicly funded schools, not just to those in the maintained sector.»

Lawmakers in the Senate and Assembly are both calling for a minimum two - year moratorium on further implementing Common Core in schools across the state, a proposal that Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office has called «premature» until an education commission can come up with recommendations to change the standards by the end of the session in June.

In a statement, Speaker Carl E. Heastie said that the two regents have a demonstrated commitment to maintaining the highest standards of education and providing every child with the most equitable high quality education across New York State.

Hundreds of teachers and parents from across western New York got their chance to address concerns about Common Core testing standards with New York State Education Commissioner John King.

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.

Over the past two years, state legislators across the country have launched an unprecedented series of initiatives aimed at lowering labor standards Education and parenting articles offer expert tips and information on raising kids.

A team of standards experts from across the country visited the state to critique the unfinished documents, showing education officials how Oregon stacked up against others» efforts and giving the state the opportunity to improve the final product.

Education Business analyses Reform's Academy chains unlocked report, which presents results from the first survey of academy chain chief executives, and recommends reform to the funding and oversight of chains to raise standards across the country.

Monkey Music founder, Angie Coates, herself a teacher of music, values her own experience of working with children and teachers in a school environment and this is testament to Monkey Music's pioneering curriculum and teaching style which has become the template and standard for pre-school music education across the UK.

«This government is committed to making sure schools are funded fairly so all pupils have access to a good education - a key part of our core mission to raise standards across the country and make sure every child reaches their full potential.»

These Principles of Procedure may be instructive to providers of professional development and training across all sectors of education and further, they are principles that are congruent with the mandated frameworks of professional standards published by AITSL.

It is clear that there is an inextricable link between the newly proposed professional standards and the professional education of teachers and principals across Australia.

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

Following months of lively debate among education, civic, and political leaders, the Massachusetts board of education approved plans Tuesday to replace the state's own English / language arts and mathematics standards with a common set of teaching guidelines now being approved in states across the nation.

The handy reference guide «Ofsted Inspection Key Findings Quickbook» provides key information from details published by the education standards» watchdog about dozens of providers across the country.

As Education Next reported in an study co-written by Harvard Graduate School of Education Associate Professor Martin West, support for the Common Core declined noticeably between 2013 and 2014, threatening to undermine the baseline rationale of the project — that shared academic standards across states are a good idea, a notion that still wins wide support in principle.

Welsh Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced plans to set up a new National Network of Excellence for Mathematics to help boost standards in schools across Wales.

Spielman has been recommended because of her «impressive breadth of experience across the education sector» and her «proven commitment to raising standards for children and young people».

Higher standards and greater expectations are driving reforms in teacher education across the United States, and more of the 1,200 plus colleges and universities that prepare teachers are doing a better job than they have in the past.

A chartered accountant and chair of Ofqual since 2011, Ms Spielman, has been recommended for the post because of her «impressive breadth of experience across the education sector» and «proven commitment to raising standards.»

Every decision made in every Board of Education, administrative, teacher leadership, data team, and faculty meeting in every school building across the country either reinforces the standard, or creates space for radical change.

Sixty - one CSSS members across 38 states responded to our survey and reported that their work most frequently involves activities that attend to key components of their state's education systems, including: reviewing and developing state science standards, designing state science assessments, and designing or conducting teacher professional development.

The Gates Foundation spread money across the political spectrum, to entities including the big teachers unions, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, and business organizations such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — groups that have clashed in the past but became vocal backers of the standards....

According to a new analysis highlighted in an article at Education Week, though 21 states are revising the Common Core standards or have already done so, most of the changes are minor: «Nearly 70 percent of the changes that were made in either math or language arts across all grades were simply wording or format clarifications to make the standards easier for educators or the public to understand.»

When the PDK / Gallup questions on standards are put next to the Education Next findings on the Common Core, the responses are not out of alignment, Peterson said: People are generally in favor of setting higher expectations for students across states but they also want local teachers to have leeway in how those goals are met.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

They have been expanding across the US in recent years, with supporters seeing them as a way of re-energising standards in state education.

Five academy sponsors will be handed grants totalling nearly # 5m to «drive up standards» in schools across the north of England, education secretary Nicky Morgan will announce tomorrow.

Latest figures show academies are driving up standards at primary and secondary, transforming the education of millions of pupils across the country.»

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «Our plan for education is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English aEducation said: «Our plan for education is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English aeducation is to raise standards across the board so all children leave school with a good standard of English and maths.

Drawing from the work of educators across the country, the book demonstrates that manageable standards — when married to practical approaches to instruction and assessment — can prepare students to perform well on state tests while preserving the democratic traditions of U.S. education.

«The idea of a common set of standards across the country has wide appeal, and the Common Core itself still commands the support of a majority of the public,» the Education Next report says.

We advocate & promote standards - driven Media Arts education across the United States of America.

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

There's a pretty good chance Scott Walker doesn't know much about Common Core, the new set of education standards for kindergarten through high school being adopted by states and school districts across the country.

The Department for Education said the results showed schools across the country were «rising to the challenge of raised standards and expectations for all pupils».

The «battle against mediocrity» must be fought to improve school standards across all parts of England, says the head of education watchdog Ofsted.

This certainly seemed to be the case in the initial phase of the Common Core State Standards, when the idea of «fewer, clearer, and higher» standards that were consistent across states was supported by an unprecedented coalition of business, civil rights, government, and labor groups (see McDonnell and Weatherford's (2013) article «Evidence Use and the Common Core State Standards Movement: From Problem Definition to Policy Adoption» in the American Journal of Education for a detailed explanation of the varying reasons why so many different groups initially supported the Common Core).

While focusing on tactics and strategies educators across the nation can use to implement the new standards, this report delves deeper into the needs, input, and activities of educators in four states diverse in location and education practice — Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and Utah.

Regardless of the qualifications one might add to this number, this represents the continuation of an increasing trend in graduation rates over the past 20 years of standards and accountability based reform in Texas public education, and we should applaud educators across the state for this achievement.

It's unfair these students — about 98,000 across the state with conditions ranging from dyslexia to severe cognitive impairments — are entering society unprepared, said former Kentucky Education Commissioner Gene Wilhoit, a longtime supporter of the Common Core standards.

Standards exist for all content areas, and in the last decade and a half technology standards have also been established not only by state departments of education across the nation but also by professional organizations such as the International Society for Technology in Educatioeducation across the nation but also by professional organizations such as the International Society for Technology in EducationEducation (ISTE).

The new faces come at a time of sweeping changes to public education in the city and across Wisconsin with regard to evaluating teachers, academic standards, testing and addressing behavior, among other things.

As president of New Jersey PTA, Acerra led efforts to include cameras on school bus extension arms to deter cars from speeding past; create a fairer state education funding formula; and require higher academic standards for all students across the state.