Sentences with phrase «tougher standards for grading»

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Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

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».

In the last few days, the new set of tougher math and English language standards for grades K - 12 has suffered a spate of bad publicity that could undermine its very purpose — and turn off an already skeptical public.

When Mr. Fulop takes office on July 1, Jersey City could join New York City, Newark and Bridgeport, Conn., as another local laboratory for a national movement known as education reform that emphasizes tougher standards for teachers, uses test scores to grade schools and educators and promotes alternatives such as charter schools.

Regulators were faced with allowing the «unfairness» of a tougher grading for pupils taking the exams in the summer in order to protect GCSE standards.