Sentences with phrase «then national education standards»

In the late 1980s, state governors promoted national education goals and then national education standards and tests because they believed they needed national action after they had done what they could at the state level.

Not exact matches

In a system where the responsibility is on individual schools or groups of schools to deliver high standards of education, without local or national government interference, then the leadership of those schools becomes central.

If, on the other hand, national standards attempt to impose their particular vision of a proper education on those with differing visions, then national standards are oppressive and likely to face high levels of resistance and non-compliance.

The Finnish National Board of Education defines the courses and standards, municipalities then write an aligned curriculum, and teachers write the lessons and assessments.

«If you draw the conclusion that all the children in your state are the responsibility of the state's education system irrespective of the geographic accident of birth... then you don't want there to be widely variable standards» on a national level, he says.

Then came the 1980s, with a stern warning in 1983 from the National Commission on Excellence in Education that we were «a nation at risk» because of the low standards and low expectations in our schools.

National standards won't magically boost learning in the U.S., and if this debate distracts attention from more effective reforms, then public education will be worse off.

Under Phillips and deputy education director, Harvard professor Tom Kane, the Gates Foundation has pursued a very different strategy: attempting to identify the best standards, curriculum, and pedagogy and then imposing those best practices through a national system of standards and testing.

Smith convinced Basam Shakashiri, then director of the Education and Human Resources Directorate at the National Science Foundation (NSF) to use the concept of systemic reform for a grants competition for states to take on building standards - based reform in K - 12 science.

When the Obama administration pushed states to adopt the Common Core national education standards, states then adopted curricula aligned to those standards.

Under Bush, David Kearns, the former chair of the Xerox Corporation, was hired by then Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander to develop national academic standards, and during the Clinton administration, corporate executives endorsed the creation of a National Skills Standards Board as part of the Goals 2000 legislation, and similarly supported the School - to - Work Opportunitinational academic standards, and during the Clinton administration, corporate executives endorsed the creation of a National Skills Standards Board as part of the Goals 2000 legislation, and similarly supported the School - to - Work OpportunitiNational Skills Standards Board as part of the Goals 2000 legislation, and similarly supported the School - to - Work Opportunities Act.8