Sentences with phrase «standardize education across the country»

Yet especially with Republicans taking office in statehouses and governorships since the commitments were made, the standards have been perceived by some as a political liability: a potentially big - government - seeming program that appears to standardize education across the country when state control has long been Conservative currency.

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I will be the first to say that I wish midwives were better regulated and their education would be standardized across the country.

Philander Claxton, the commissioner of education in the United States, reached out to students across the country — not about standardized tests or preschool for all, but about something he called «joyous» and «useful»: school gardens.

Heritage Foundation education fellow Lindsey Burke calls it «an effort to impose a uniform, standardized curriculum across the country.»

While Bill Gates may have been central to funding the development of the Common Core State Standards, we simply would not see them in classrooms across the country with standardized testing rolled out already and teachers» evaluations connected to those tests without Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his signature initiatives.

As students across the country buckle down for standardized testing season, the recent backlash against implementing the Common Core State Standards has illuminated a pressing problem for educators and students alike: our education system's emphasis on curriculum.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.