Sentences with phrase «tougher academic standards»

«The results show our starting point as a state, a window into where California students are in meeting tougher academic standards that emphasize critical thinking, problem solving, and analytical writing,» California's Superintendent of Public Instruction, Tom Torlakson, said in a statement.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

The most controversial part of the evaluations has been sidelined since the 2012 - 13 school year during the state's move to tougher academic standards, including Common Core.

To improve students» chances at success, a majority of teachers surveyed said they would like to see tougher academic standards that are the same...

A joint effort by Detroit businesses, educators, and community groups to provide jobs for high - school graduates who meet tougher academic standards has been delayed by infighting over the amount of responsibility to be shouldered by companies and schools.

Their reasons for opposing the tougher academic standards are very different, though.

Not exact matches

The research that Tough explores also undercuts claims by Klein, Rhee, and other signers of the Education Equity Project manifesto that we can get impoverished students where they need to be educationally through higher standards, stronger teachers, and other academic reforms alone.

This for a place that promised longer days (an hour more than the regular public schools), an extra 25 days of school per academic year, tough discipline, uniforms, and rigorous academic standards.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

The AFT had always backed tough disciplinary standards (which was clearly in the self - interest of teachers), but the new focus on academics would require much more of, and place greater pressure on, rank - and - file teachers.

He had just told a gathering of state superintendents of education that «white suburban moms» were rebelling against the Common Core academic standards — new guidelines for math and language arts instruction — because their kids had done poorly on the tough new tests.

Many will have very tough decisions to make in meeting the requirements and expectations of the new school financing law, implementing multiple new academic standards, preparing for a new state assessment in math and English language arts and balancing the requests of their many stakeholders (parent groups, teacher bargaining units, community and business leaders).

Duncan has dispensed plenty of tips: Lift restrictions on the growth of charter schools; build data systems that show individual student progress under specific teachers and principals; seek out new ways to turn around perennially struggling schools; and sign on to efforts to develop common academic standards that are tough enough to withstand international scrutiny.

City schools» pass rates on state reading and math exams took a hit last year with the introduction of tougher new academic standards called the Common Core.

Lawyers go through the standard academic legal training, pass the bar exams, nothing that unusual about that, but finding one that truly understands insurance law well is tough.