Sentences with phrase «transformed education standards»

There, new schools set up and run by teachers in the poorest areas have transformed education standards.

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On her part, Ms Lankai Quarcoopome, who is an alumnus of the school (AGOSA» 76) and also the Guest Speaker, said she believes that «through quality education, we could make our lives better and also transform our nation and for this reason, we must insist on achieving very high academic and performance standards at all levels in the country.»

Welfare reforms are transforming society; education reforms are pushing up standards; and 1.8 million more people have the security of a job.

Some supporters argue a common set of rigorous national standards will transform American education, prepare students for college and careers, and allow our nation to maintain international competitiveness.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

That said, even as a supporter of the standards, I would not claim as Peter W. Wood does in the book's introduction that Common Core is «a far - reaching effort to transform American K — 12 education.»

Yet in the past year or two, Bush's firm support for the Common Core standards has threatened to transform education from an asset into an albatross.

If these new tests could detect whether schools and educators were changing their practices in the ways desired by Common Core and if rewards and punishments could be imposed on schools and educators for their compliance with the new standards, then perhaps the empty words of standards could be transformed into a real change in the education system.

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

In response, education secretary Nicky Morgan said: «The landscape of English education has been transformed over the past five years through raising both standards and expectations.

Latest figures show academies are driving up standards at primary and secondary, transforming the education of millions of pupils across the country.»

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards - based digital content for K - 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content that supports the implementation of the Common Core, professional development, assessment tools and the largest professional learning community of its kind.

We need to transform education into a true profession with standards for performance, metrics for measuring performance, and accountability that celebrates high performance and jettisons low performing teachers and administrators from the system.

Discovery Education, is the global leader in standards - based digital content for K - 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, professional development and the largest professional learning community of its kind that empowers educators and increases students» academic achievement.

«In my nine years at CCSSO, including five as executive director, state chiefs raised academic standards for all kids, improved the way student learning is assessed, transformed the way new teachers are prepared to enter the classroom, and crafted a better federal education law that returns flexibility to the states.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards - based digital content and professional development for K - 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content that supports the implementation of Common Core, professional development, assessment tools, and the largest professional learning community of its kind.

The specialist schools programme is seen as a key way of transforming the «bog standard» comprehensive education system.

I am encouraged that Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath is on top of the real issue here and is determined to transform reading instructional standards to conform to effective phonics - based methodologies as spelled out in the recently revised English / Language Arts / Reading standards under the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

And because the Obama Administration has followed up on its waiver gambit with other senseless decisions — including Duncan's move this past June to allow waiver states a one - year moratorium from fully implementing teacher evaluation systems they promised to put into place in order to allay opposition from teachers» unions and others to the use of exams aligned with Common Core reading and math standards — the waiver gambit has also made it harder for reform - minded politicians to push ahead on transforming education for kids.

«To fundamentally transform education and help students meet the higher performance required by the Common Core State Standards and other college - and career - ready standards, the culture of how teachers are supported must change,» said Wise.

As you are aware, the Illinois Center for School Improvement (Illinois CSI), operated by American Institutes for Research (AIR) on behalf of the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), was created to coordinate the statewide system of support to provide identified districts with strategies for transforming schools performing below state standards.

In addition to her focus on standards, assessments and accountability, Liz has participated in two major initiatives to transform general and special education preparation policies to ensure candidates were prepared to teach to college and career ready expectations upon licensure.

«Along with new rigorous state academic standards, improved school funding, and more local control, CAASPP is helping us transform education and better prepare California students for college and careers in the 21st century,» he said in a prepared statement.

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards - based digital content and professional development for K — 12, transforming teaching and learning with award - winning digital textbooks, multimedia content that supports the implementation of the Common Core initiative, professional development, assessment tools, and the largest professional learning community of its kind.

It seemed like a great idea: offer $ 4.35 billion to states in exchange for adopting a host of educational policies --- including «common standards» — designed to transform America's K - 12 education.

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