Sentences with phrase «statewide academic standards»

When states create statewide academic standards, collect information about whether students are meeting those standards, and use that information to improve outcomes, they can get better results for underserved students.

By accountability, we mean that every school or education provider - at least every one that accepts public dollars - should subscribe to a coherent set of rigorous, statewide academic standards, statewide assessments of student and school performance, and a statewide system of incentives and interventions tied to results.

(The number is only 49 because Iowa declined to create statewide academic standards per the 1994 law's requirements.)

This emphasis has yielded statewide academic standards and evaluation methods, as well as considerable federal aid and pressure.

The most obvious and even - handed way to do this is through statewide academic standards and assessments in core subjects.

Nebraska's enactment last week of a new plan of statewide academic standards and assessments leaves Iowa as the nation's lone holdout in the movement to embrace at least some variety of uniform state testing.

Not exact matches

In spring 2015, the boycott grew so large — with parents pulling more than 200,000 students out of testing in English language arts and mathematics, about 20 percent of those eligible statewide — that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called for a sweeping review of the state's academic standards and exams.

ALBANY — State education commissioner John King said Republicans who plan to run for statewide office on a ballot line called «Stop Common Core» are spreading «mythology» that the academic standards represent a power - grab by the federal government.

The push for uniform statewide (and now multi-state) academic standards that, it is claimed, will cause every child to become «proficient» (in NCLB lingo) or «college and career ready» (in today's preferred terminology).

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

Jackson: Statewide tests should not set academic standards.

Moreover, the aspects of civics that can be spelled out in academic standards and accurately assessed through statewide tests are almost entirely cognitive: well worth learning, to be sure, even a necessary precondition for successful adult life, but not exactly what people have in mind when they say that schools should forge «responsible citizens.»

The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for meaningful differentiation in school performance.

In 1995, California initiated a process that led to comprehensive K - 12 academic standards, a statewide norm - referenced test, and the development of a criterion - referenced exam aligned to the standards.

The district's opinion stems from a Federal waiver granted LA Unified and seven other California school districts, allowing them to to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards — measures used to determine whether a school is failing.

Burch said earlier this week that the policy changes regarding the new standards were still being written after the department received West Virginia University's report from the statewide «Academic Spotlight» review of the standards.

It was unclear Friday how greatly the new standards — which Clayton Burch, chief academic officer for the state education department, called a «complete overhaul» and improvement over the current standards — differ from West Virginia's current standards, which were first implemented statewide last school year after a roughly four - year phase - in process.

The state sets academic standards, and the objectivity of an independent, statewide exam helps state, city, district, and school leaders know if students are progressing and on track.

Better Together brought together educators at 33 locations statewide to simultaneously share strategies, classroom victories and mistakes about the new academic standards in math and English language arts...

Accountability for funding tied to standards - based reform and student assessments: The Act ordered the development of statewide curriculum frameworks in all core academic subjects.

The Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs and MTAS) Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs) and alternate assessment, Minnesota Test of Academic Skills (MTAS), are the statewide tests that help districts measure student progress toward Minnesota's academic standards and meet the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education ActAcademic Skills (MTAS), are the statewide tests that help districts measure student progress toward Minnesota's academic standards and meet the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Actacademic standards and meet the requirements of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA).

Accountability — Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achievement.

We have a long - standing tradition going back to the 1980s of establishing statewide academic goals (also known as «standards») for each grade and subject.

These standards are to be used as a minimum threshold by every school district in the state in order to establish some consistency in academic content statewide.

«The statewide accountability system shall be based on the challenging State academic standards for reading or language arts and mathematics to improve student academic achievement and school success.

The student is or will be participating in his or her statewide alternate assessment based on alternate academic achievement standards.

The following year former Superintendent John Deasy argued that the district was exempt, for one year, from the parent trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law that allowed LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

Former Superintendent John Deasy had argued that the district was exempt from the Parent Trigger by a federal waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law, allowing LA Unified and seven other California school districts to create their own metrics for academic performance in the temporary absence of statewide standards.

The ACE program continues to identify opportunities to assist students in achieving academic success, particularly with a newly developed statewide standardized assessment that is aligned to the state's college and career ready standards.

The latest statewide assessment scores reveal that students and educators across New Jersey are rising to the challenge of higher academic standards and building year - over-year on the impressive progress they've made.