Sentences with phrase «uniform academic standards»

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The push for uniform statewide (and now multi-state) academic standards that, it is claimed, will cause every child to become «proficient» (in NCLB lingo) or «college and career ready» (in today's preferred terminology).

Nebraska's enactment last week of a new plan of statewide academic standards and assessments leaves Iowa as the nation's lone holdout in the movement to embrace at least some variety of uniform state testing.

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 district initiative also provides the capacity to create uniform standards for academic rigor, certification, and professional development.

demonstrate competence in all the academic subjects in which you teach based on a high, objective, uniform state standard of evaluation.

It is true that a system of uniform academic expectations and assessments would rectify some shortcomings of state - specific standards (chiefly the dizzying discrepancies among them, and the resulting confusion regarding which schools and students are failing or succeeding).

Another irony is that the best charters themselves copy from the classic Catholic - school model — uniforms, firm discipline, high academic standards and expectations, plus a schoolwide ethic grounded in clear values.

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

Eventually the idea of creating uniform K - 12 academic standards within a state took hold, although each state in the U.S. developed and adopted its own set of standards for its schools and students.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson and the State Board of Education are using multiple cues to send a uniform message: Parents shouldn't compare the new results with scores on past state standardized tests; this year's English language arts and math tests are, they say, more difficult, and are based on a different set of academic standards.

Instead, academic creativity and autonomy have been replaced by dull testing of uniform standards that force teachers to tailor lessons towards that end.

The Code of Virginia requires that (1) principal evaluations be consistent with the performance objectives (standards) set forth in the Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents and (2) school boards» procedures for evaluating principals address student academic progress.

The Code of Virginia requires that (1) superintendent evaluations be consistent with the performance objectives (standards) set forth in the Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers, Administrators, and Superintendents and (2) school boards» procedures for evaluating principals address student academic progress.

The Board's Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Principals calls for each principal to receive a summative evaluation rating and that the rating be determined by weighting the first six standards equally at 10 percent each, and that the seventh standard, student academic progress, account for 40 percent of the summative evaluation.

Chief among them: using data to track students and improve their achievement; spreading uniform, rigorous academic standards across states; improving teacher quality; and turning around the worst - performing schools.

demonstrates competence in all the academic subjects in which the teacher teaches based on a high objective uniform state standard of evaluation that: