Sentences with phrase «toward college and career ready»

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Is the NRC also against the movement of many states toward increasing the required amount of math or moving to college and career - ready standards?

The Common Core State Standards have shifted the focus in education away from basic proficiency toward preparing students to be college and career ready.

The bill also eliminates goals and performance targets for academic achievement, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting disadvantaged students, does not address poor quality tests, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.

The draft also eliminates performance targets, removes parameters regarding the use of federal funds to help improve struggling schools, does not address key disparities in opportunity such as access to high - quality college preparatory curricula, restricts the federal government from protecting underprivileged students, and fails to advance the current movement toward college - and career - ready standards.»

With the push toward «college - and career - ready standards,» Ho explains, many states have raised standards, making «proficient» a more difficult level to achieve and causing percentages of proficient students to fall.

The first step toward achieving that unified vision is an independent, bipartisan look at how we fund Michigan's public schools so every student, regardless of his or her background, has the opportunity to become college and career ready.

The new system would enable the state to measure a full range of college - and career - ready knowledge and skills, shift toward personalized learning, and use meaningful student assessments to ensure effective academic support for students who need it.

Effective implementation of college - and career - ready standards is an important step toward improving college readiness, reducing remediation rates and improving completion rates in our two - and four - year institutions and among our job - training programs.

Adair County Primary Center will help students find the leader in themselves and use their unique talents and skills to work toward becoming college and career ready.

This is the first step in the right direction toward ensuring that our students, as they step into high schools, remain on track to graduate college and become career - ready.

Rather public schools can be more effective working toward a view of «equity» which recognizes that some children may need more resources and support in order to become college - and career - ready graduates.

What changes will be necessary for the school or district to move toward full implementation of the CCSS and prepare all students to be college - and career - ready.

EL is working toward this vision by collaborating with states to find solutions that provide equitable access to rigorous courses, high - quality instructional resources, and appropriate supports to English learners (EL) students so they are able to meet college - and career - ready standards.

Meandering Toward Graduation, a report from EdTrust explores that issue, highlighting the gulf between the growing expectation that all students be «college and career ready» and the realities of high school curriculum that are poorly preparing students to achieve their postsecondary goals.

Future Ready is a free, bold new effort to maximize digital learning opportunities and help school districts move quickly toward preparing students for success in college, a career, and citizenship.

California's plan for high - quality teaching and learning is designed to keep school districts up to date on the progress students are making toward graduating ready for college - level coursework and atwenty - first century career.

«Thanks to Maryland's College and Career - Ready Standards and aligned PARCC assessments, Marylanders are now getting a more honest picture of students» progress toward college and career reaCollege and Career - Ready Standards and aligned PARCC assessments, Marylanders are now getting a more honest picture of students» progress toward college and career reacollege and career readiness.

They also built a suite of authoring tools that enables item developers with little or no technical experience to draft complex items that measure learner's progress toward college - and career - ready goals.

The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) established an English Language Learner Assessment Advisory Task Force in 2012 to address opportunities and challenges for English learners (ELs) presented by new college - and career - ready standards and assessments.This Advisory Task Force — composed of technical staff and leadership from multi-state assessment consortia, EL researchers and technical assistance experts, policy advisers, and other stakeholders — prioritized efforts to move toward a more common definition of English learner within states and across states participating in multi-state assessment consortia.

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