Sentences with phrase «standards initiative»

As you might know, the core standards initiative is intended to help associations become better resources for their members.

Its Clean Energy Standard initiative positions the nuclear program as a bridge to a clean energy future because nuclear energy does not produce air pollution.

However, he has high hopes for the common standards initiative underway in 48 states with the support of the Department of Education and many national educational organizations.

The national standards for mathematics have been drafted by the Common Core State standards initiative and I think that the standards look quite good.

Indiana is already on track to exit the national standards initiative with new, state - specific expectations for students.

It includes mapping to terms from other data standards initiatives, including the Genomic Standards Consortium's minimal information (MIxS) and NCBI's BioSample / BioProjects checklists and the Ontology for Biomedical Investigations (OBI).

Indiana, one of the early adopters of the Common Core Standards Initiative nearly four years ago, became the first state to drop the Common Core standards initiative yesterday following Governor Mike Pence's signing of a new legislation.

Pressure by the Obama Administration, using the carrot of incentives (RTTT) and the stick of proposed penalties (denial of access to Title I funding), to induce states to sign on to the common standards initiative raises serious questions about further federal involvement in standards - setting and assessments.

The groups want Walker and Republican lawmakers to stop the implementation of the federal Common Core learning standards initiative.

Apple has focused much of his work on equity in education and said he supports Common Core as an improvement over No Child Left Behind, the George W. Bush - era education standards initiative that he calls a formula for failure, but criticizes its rushed development with limited input from educators and haphazard implementation.

Microgrids also can gain economic benefit by joining utility demand response programs, or by participating in state and federal clean energy programs, such as state renewable portfolio standard initiatives or federal production tax credits.

And in an action important to state and local associations, the Board added to the core standards initiative NAR launched last year.

It's been a year since David Coleman, president of the College Board and architect of the Common Core State Standard initiative, gave a speech to a New York audience, shocking many when he, while discussing narrative writing, said «as you grow up in this world you realize people really don't give a [expletive] about what you feel or what you think.»

The Obama administration had begun to espouse the national standards initiative, in long - time education journalist Robert Rothman's words, «soon after taking office.»

And, possibly most curiously, despite Duncan's earlier warning that a state's unwise use of early ARRA funds would cause it to be tremendously disadvantaged in the RTTT competition, this issue only comprises 1 percent — 5 of 500 — of the total points available (by comparison, not signing on to the common standards initiative would cost a state 8 times the number of points).

The Common Core standards initiative was launched in 2009 but by the time new tests aligned with those standards were rolled out 4 to 5 years later, there was mounting opposition to using those tests to evaluate teachers and schools.

Forty - eight states and the District of Columbia have signed on to support the common - standards initiative.

Indiana's top Republican lawmakers say it's time to move on from the Common Core standards initiative and write state - level expectations for students.

Glenn Beck says the standards initiative is «evil» and an attempt to impose «communism» on America.

It's been a year since David Coleman, president of the College Board and architect of the Common Core State Standard initiative, gave a speech to a New York audience, shocking many when he, while discussing narrative writing, said «as you grow up in this world you realize people really don't give a [expletive] about what -LSB-...]

The executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham institute says if Indiana were to withdraw from the standards initiative now, it would be like eschewing a smart phone for a rotary dial.

«[S] o the large pot of funding that we had to offer was a significant inducement for states to compete,» she writes, adding the surprise number of 46 states willing to sign onto the Common Core standards initiative was due to «our decision to leverage the spirit of competition.»

Will this standards initiative really be different from earlier ones?

But even more important was how the standards initiative put a spotlight on the professional standards of educators.