Sentences with phrase «tougher curriculum standards»
The governor has said he would consider removing Common Core - aligned test scores from consideration in teacher evaluations temporarily to account for the flawed rollout of the tougher curriculum standards.
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«We have to deal with the issue of the effect of Common Core testing on teacher evaluations,» Cuomo said Tuesday at a news conference on the state budget, referring to the tougher curriculum standards adopted by the state that produced sharply lower scores on standardized tests in New York last year.
Not exact matches
Anger and confusion over implementation of the Common Core standards, a set of tougher curriculum guidelines for English and math, has led lawmakers to demand change.
If state standards are up to par with national science standards, writing a curriculum that denied climate change would be tough, said Julie Lambert, an associate professor of science education at Florida Atlantic University.
As the focus intensified and the groups began having tougher conversations about standards and curriculum mapping, she hired a consultant.
Support for the Common Core curriculum, designed by participating states to create tougher national standards, has steadily eroded.
Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to start seeing a bump soon, at least at the fourth grade level.
Ms Morgan also used her speech to tell the conference that the Tories had «raised the bar on standards in schools with a rigour revolution», for example by ending grade inflation and introducing a «tough new national curriculum».
At that time, another generation of school reformers argued that differentiated curriculums and instruction had sent U.S. schools downward in international rankings on tests; through the 1980s and 1990s, they pressed for uniform curriculum standards, common assessments, and tough accountability rules for schools, teachers, and students.