The phrase
"standards movement" refers to a collective effort to establish and improve a set of guidelines or criteria that people or organizations use to measure quality or effectiveness in a particular field. It involves setting up benchmarks or rules that everyone should meet or follow to ensure consistent and reliable outcomes.
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In addition to facing challenges from the right, the
national standards movement had to navigate around objections from some constituencies on the left.
Few states have followed through with the curriculum and professional - support programs promised by the
early standards movement.
So probably over the next couple of years, we have to work through that; if not, the
whole standards movement could get in trouble.
The national
standards movement in the U.S. has coincided with a significant decline in creativity over the last few decades.
As the 1990s progressed, however, and the
state standards movement gained strength, the ambiguity around accountability — for charters but also for other public schools — started to recede.
They share some features with Common Core standards, have the potential to radically change school science, and play a societal role far beyond the classroom, just as the previous
standards movement did.
The paper got the attention of several groups that had latched on to a similar idea, including the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association, one of the original leaders of the Reagan -
era standards movement.
There were plenty of folks feeling frustrated because charters, on the whole, weren't focused on quality from an academic perspective, and in general were somewhat opposed to an increasingly
powerful standards movement.
Shanker saw chartering as a way to create perpetual - motion reform machines that would change school systems from within, a response to the necessary but slow - moving impact of the top -
down standards movement.
«The common
core standards movement seems to be common sense: Our schools should have similar standards, what students should know at each grade.
Only when implemented within a more comprehensive, deliberate school improvement effort will they exert the influence on student success which
past standards movements have failed to achieve.»
The
high standards movement mouthed the goal of equity through excellence — positing lower standards as racist and exclusionary.
Safe To Be Smart: Building a Culture for Standards - Based Reform in the Middle Grades Published by the National Middle Schools Association in November 1998, Anne Wheelock's 200 - page book describes the promises and pitfalls of the
academic standards movement, with a middle grades focus.
If the Progressive Era created the organizational imprint for the rationalization of schooling, a now almost
forgotten standards movement in the 1960s and 1970s reenergized the desire for scientific management of schools, this time at the state rather than the district level.
Before Bill Bennett was Education Secretary he headed NEH so that was his background when he and NGA head Lamar Alexander launched the state / federal
learning standards movement via «Project Education Reform: Time for Results» in the mid-1980s.
Yet as the national
standards movement struggles in the court of public opinion (and in research), schools should be free to choose tests that fit their instructional styles, as long as policymakers can compare student results.
As Utah's Republican delegates consider the competing proposals from these ardent suitors, they would do well to remember the genesis of the recent
educational standards movement.
If you need to use a spell, for example, it's good to go on the defense using
just standard movement and the dodge in order to let the bar refill so you can cast your magic.
In 2005, John wrote the nationally distributed white paper discussing the
professional standards movement in real estate, and his 4 - part series of articles on generational management techniques in the real estate industry is now being published in MANAGEMENT CENTRAL, a management and human resources publication of the Houston Association of REALTORS ®.
Study the state of the
modern standards movement and what changes must be made in K - 12 education to ensure high levels of learning for all.
Why repeat the mistakes of the
state standards movement, in which we demanded that teachers boost their pupils to higher levels of achievement but failed to provide helpful tools or guidance in getting them there?
The golden central X marks both our 10th edition and our evolution from an event with origins in the
web standards movement to our place and purpose now at the intersection of business, technology, design and culture.»
The challenge teachers face is compounded, Meyer says, by the
new standards movement, which demands that every student clear the same bar.
Carol E. Smith, longtime AACTE staffer who deftly guided the Association through the
early standards movement and years of accreditation reforms, died June 6 in Falls Church, Virginia.
The paper got the attention of several groups that had latched onto a similar idea, including the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Governors Association, one of the original leaders in the Reagan -
era standards movement.
New York's outgoing Board of Regents chancellor, Merryl Tisch, says the greatest disappointment of her tenure was being unable to convince suburban parents to «move
the standards movement beyond the rhetoric and politics.»
«It would contribute greatly to the decline of our country to move away from
the standards movement,» Tisch said.
Making your core strong and healthy will improve your everyday life; without a strong core, the flow of your arms and legs is weaker, meaning
the standard movements we rely on to get us through the day and complete almost every task aren't as strong as they should be.
And we should definitely take his advice, as he was one of the best bodybuilders of all time, who trained brutally and often make ingenious improvements to
standard movements (hint: the Arnold press).
While you can use Onnit SteelBells for almost
any standard movement you want, if you want to take full advantage of them, you need to use ballstic and transverse movements including swings, rotations, slams, throws, and travels.
Or simply insert them as assistance lifts in place of «
standard movements» like dumbbell pressing, side lunges, planks, etc..
Concern about this balance is as old as
the standards movement itself.
The standards movement has been a mixed blessing, too.
The accountability movement and
the standards movement have both placed math instruction near the top of the 21st century reform agenda, with math concepts now taught as early as preschool.
She worked on a number of policies revolving around charter schools, the introduction of school uniforms, and
the standards movement, says Josh Greenman, director of strategy and communications — and McCown's colleague — at the Teaching Commission in New York.
If a similar dynamic exists in other states, this does not bode well for the long - term success of
the standards movement across the country.
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the standards movement, and commentaries from five...
The solution to the dilemma came courtesy of
the standards movement.
According to Rebell,
the standards movement «provided the courts with practical tools for developing judicially manageable approaches for implementing effective remedies.»
«
The standards movement has gone astray,» said Samuel G. Sava, the executive director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals, which released the results on the eve of its annual convention here last week.
Instead of devoting so much energy to dismissing
the standards movement, small - schools founders and advocates would do well to engage the discussion and help refine or redefine state standards and statewide accountability systems in the name of equity.
Had the state's schools — once darlings of
the standards movement and prototypes for NCLB — really slipped into decline since Perry took office?
There is no question that, as Michael Heise argues, the accountability and
standards movement is threatened by school finance litigation («Educational Jujitsu,» Feature, Fall 2002).