Sentences with phrase «state school officers»

A group of chief state school officers is forming a consortium that would collaboratively develop new assessments and standards for student performance.

When the country's chief state school officers met here last month to discuss education policy, they talked a lot about national academic standards.

The Republican trend in this year's elections extended to the eight races for chief state school officers that were decided last week.

The «Tool Kit on Teaching and Assessing Students With Disabilities» was released April 26 at the annual legislative conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington.

CCSS were developed between 2009 - 10 by the National Governors» Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Council of Chief State School Officers announced Hayes» selection last week following a rigorous selection process.

Wilmington, Del. — The Council of Chief State School Officers last week agreed to seek a major role in the affairs of the national accrediting body for teacher education.

Ms. Spellings» 2005 endorsement of what are called growth models as a way to gauge academic progress under the law turned out to be «disappointing,» the Council of Chief State School Officers says in its latest annual evaluation of the Department of Education's NCLB policies.

The Council of Chief State School Officers released a «list of school improvement principles that states may want to use to guide their ESSA work.»

(The National Governors Association [NGA] and Council of Chief State School Officers [CCSSO] have spearheaded that process, using private funds.)

And a recent report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, comparing the new tests with older ones, indicated that the PARCC and Smarter Balanced exams had the strongest matches with the criteria that the Council of Chief State School Officers developed for evaluating high - quality assessments.

Washington, DC — Chief state school officers from around the country and CCSSO Executive Director, Gene Wilhoit will join U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, educators and leaders from across the world at the first ever International Summit on the Teaching Profession (Summit) in New York City, March 16 - 17.

We conducted research in conjunction with the Council of Chief State School Officers as part of a larger project to understand commonalities and opportunities for collaboration across state lines in key areas of educator effectiveness.

In 2009, with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers formed a consortium that established the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), curricular standards that outline what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.

Educators should be able to use school - meal income data to identify needy children and target them for additional programs and services, the Council of Chief State School Officers urges in a resolution expected to be forwarded soon to the Congress.

So when the Council of Chief State School Officers held its recent annual summer meeting, it turned to help from a team from the Harvard Executive Leadership Program for Educators (ExEl).

And here is what a non-American member of the Validation Committee wrote to the Council of Chief State School Officers when declining to validate the standards:

The push to create national standards gained momentum in March of 2009 when a coalition led by the National Governors Association and the National Council of Chief State School Officers got education officials in 49 states on board and drafted standards for what U.S. high school graduates should be capable of in math and science.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers jointly created the standards.

In 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers began developing new academic standards in English language arts and math.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers called for them in their 2008 report «Benchmarking for Success,» and some supporters reportedly worked with the administration in formulating Race to the Top.

Nancy Keenan, Montana's superintendent of public instruction, began a one - year term as president of the Council of Chief State School Officers at the group's annual meeting, held in San Francisco Nov. 5 - 7.

Responding to this, the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers started discussing whether common, higher standards could be forged in the basic subjects of reading and math.

The content for the AASA National Principal Supervisor Academy is based upon the Council of Chief State School Officers Principal Supervisor Standards, the latest research on adult learning and leadership development, as well as promising practice from districts across the country.

Kirsten Baesler, state superintendent of the North Dakota Department of Public Instruction, responded to U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos» recent remarks at the Council of Chief State School Officers Legislative conference in an Education Week op - ed.

NIEER Senior Co-Director Ellen Frede Ph.D. discussed research and critical state experiences concerning equity and high - fidelity implementation of pre-K in New Jersey during the Council of Chief State School Officers summit in January 2018.

Description: Videos created by the Hunt Institute and the Council of Chief State School Officers help educators, policy makers and parents understand the Common Core and how to use it most effectively.

The Secondary School Redesign Project website at the Council for Chief State School Officers includes the Adolescent Literacy Toolkit.

This report by the Council of Chief State School Officers discusses the revised school leadership standards created by the Interstate School Leader Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) in 1996.

The Council of Chief State School Officers believes that strong criticism and prescriptive feedback from the feds is going against the intent of ESSA — that the states, and not the federal government, should be dictating school accountability.

As part of its annual meeting, the Council of Chief State School Officers brings its members to Appian Way to meet with HGSE faculty.

But groups like the National Education Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers forcefully objected.

A high turnover among top state school officers nationwide is posing a challenge for recruiters seeking people with the right mix of educational acumen and political savvy to fill the vacant or soon - to - be-vacant spots.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

Long considered one of the nation's most influential education groups, the Council of Chief State School Officers wants to carve out a new path for itself.

A new report from the Council of Chief State School Officers explores the emotional needs of recently arrived immigrant English learners and offers advice to state and local education agencies.

Indianapolis — The most protracted debate at this year's meeting of the Council of Chief State School Officers occurred over an unlikely topic — the idea of allowing students to use calculators in mathematics courses.

As a result of those discussions, council members endorsed the use of competency tests for teacher - education candidates prior to admission and graduation; «rigorous selection proce3dures» to screen out unqualified applicants for teacher - education programs; and maintenance of «high - quality standards» by all chief state school officers regardless of teacher...

The Council of Chief State School Officers finally withdrew its ancient hostility to interstate comparisons, the Southern Regional Education Board piloted some comparisons among its member states, and the Alexander - James commission (chaired by then - Tennessee governor Lamar Alexander) recommended that NAEP take this on.

Governors and chief state school officers launched the official push for the standards.

With the Council of Chief State School Officers sponsoring the creation of national standards in math and English language arts, many people are raising customary objections to the very idea of national standards.

The recent report of the Council of Chief State School Officers found that state program - approval policies for preparation programs, both those for «traditional higher education programs and for new pathways, suffer from weak and inconsistent regulation.»

Williamsburg, Va. — A study commission of the Council of Chief State School Officers drafted recommendations here last week urging states to provide a wide range of services, beginning at birth, for children at risk of school failure.

«So, governors and state school officers really matter, because without their active involvement and their empowerment to execute effectively, the best ideas that become bills and then become laws can be killed by a thousand cuts or be implemented in the wrong way.»

Information about the National Teacher of the Year Program can be found on the Council of Chief State School Officers National Teacher of the Year Program Web site.

And why — just yesterday — a representative from the Council for Chief State School Officers explained to officials at the Department of Education: