Sentences with phrase «voluntary national standards»

During her 18 - month tenure, she pushed for the development of voluntary national standards for all students.

These critics ask us to leave public schools alone apart from creating voluntary national standards — speed zones without traffic tickets, as it were.

To promote this view, the U.S. Department of Education made awards in 1991 and 1992 to broad - based groups of scholars and teachers who would develop voluntary national standards in science, history, the arts, civics, geography, foreign languages, and English language arts.

This study comes at a time of intense efforts to improve education in New Jersey, which is rolling out new teacher evaluations, new online state tests and a new set of voluntary national standards called the Common Core, which spells out what children should master in each grade.

Major professional teaching associations have long wielded broad influence over curriculum and instruction through their publication of voluntary national standards spelling out what students need to know.

Yet Ravitch sees no hope for choice and competition in education, asking us to leave public schools alone apart from articulating voluntary national standards without holding anyone accountable for meeting them.

He doesn't expect any action on his bill to create voluntary national standards in math and science education, co-sponsored by Senator Chris Dodd (D - CT), who also is retiring.

At a time when some say the steam has gone out of the push for national K - 12 standards, a Philadelphia foundation has announced plans to inject $ 14 million into several projects that emphasize the development of voluntary national standards.

For example, Evans notes that the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) coming out this spring will require massive professional development for teachers in states that choose to adopt the voluntary national standards.

The topic had been dormant since Clinton - era efforts to promote «voluntary national standards» yielded little more than charges of political correctness.

Historians and educators are weeks away from unveiling revisions to the voluntary national standards for U.S. and world history.

The embattled developers of the voluntary national standards for history agreed late last week to revise their documents outlining what K - 12 students should know and be able to do in that subject.

But members of the goals panel, noting that both chambers had passed versions of the legislation, said that the death of the bill does not represent a setback in the effort to establish a set of voluntary national standards...

The process of developing a voluntary national standard in Nepal through online surveys, key informant interviews, a multi-stakeholder forum and field consultation, has provided an innovative and field - tested apporach to standards development.

Since the economic burden of mental illnesses in Canada has been estimated at $ 51 - billion per year, with almost $ 20 - billion of that coming from workplace losses, the Mental Health Commission of Canada (MHCC) has launched a collaborative project with the Bureau de normalisation du Québec (BNQ) and the standards division of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA Standards) to create a voluntary national standard for mentally healthy workplaces.

Last year I told you about the plan to release a voluntary national standard for mentally healthy workplaces.