Sentences with phrase «standard reform»

And perhaps this is why they are doubling - down on a top - down standards reform that has no political logic to it.

Our team has decades of experience studying standards reform.

We pay special attention to the experience of English language learners and students with disabilities, as well as the progress of standards reform in our partner states — California, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Texas.

The recent standards reform movement offers much promise in reconciling the tension of ambitious instructional practice and pressing curricular demands.

Feldman told members this morning during a live Webcast from the AFT's 76th annual convention in Philadelphia that she is concerned about those students who have not benefited from high standard reforms in their early school years and now lack the basic literacy and math skills they need.

Constructivist learning, which is increasingly important to high standards reforms, requires a more active student role in schooling;

About 160 people made up of mostly teachers and parents of students were fairly unanimous in their disapproval of the rollout of Common Core standards reform for kindergarten through 12th grade.

Common Core standards, like other standards reforms, are unlikely to have much of an effect on this enormous variation in what teachers actually teach, how they teach it, and how effective they are.

If input and deliberation are sought, or decisions are truly decentralized, then it is too easy to block standards reforms, like Common Core.

Constructing, sharing, and contesting models of the natural world is central to scientific inquiry (Latour, 1999) and a central component of current educational science standard reforms in the United States.

C - SAIL Co-Director Mengli Song summarizes the available research evidence on the impact of college - and career - readiness / Common Core standards on student achievement and the challenges related to estimating the impact of standards reform on student achievement.

While there has been a clear schism between reform's free market enthusiasts and its social justice wing, there can be little doubt that the movement's center of gravity has shifted sharply to the left, even though political progressives mostly regard the standard reform agenda — choice, charters, testing, anti-union policies — with contempt.

The common core standards are vulnerable to the same differences in interpretation that plagued the earlier round of standards reform.

Directly following their days at HGSE, Reimers brought the delegation to Washington, D.C. to meet with senior officials in the U.S. Department of Education and other leaders involved in teacher education and standards reforms.

Governor Murphy faces a New Jersey where state aid remains underfunded, where the impacts on classrooms of standards reform and the PARCC examinations are still significant, and where recruitment of new teachers has suffered along with teacher morale.

Choice and competition are not at odds with tenure reform or standards reform.

Although it is not conclusive whether cross-cohort improvement was entirely attributable to the standards reform, we found that students made large gains in proficiency in the years immediately before and after the transition.

Why have two decades of standards reform been mostly inconsequential, and how does C - SAIL propose to change that?

The initial premise of the standards reform movement was quickly translated in some states to a more systemic approach that covered teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, school assessment and student assessment.

Many began to take ownership of the standards reform initiative and, in so doing, changed their perceptions of themselves as professionals and of their ability to contribute to educational reform.

Unprecedented efforts are underway to ensure that this round of standards reform, unlike past efforts, will really make a difference.