Sentences with phrase «whether implementation of the standards»

In addition to the shock of the initial test results, there has been growing concern about whether implementation of the standards will reduce local control of schools and make it easier for the federal government to dictate what schools teach.

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ALBANY — Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday it's not his place to say whether education commissioner John King should step down amid controversy over the state's implementation of new curriculum standards and testing.

To evaluate whether the new standards were effective, Haack and his colleagues used data from the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to compare wood packaging infestation rates from 2 years prior to U.S. implementation of the new international standards and infestation rates in the first 4 years after the standards were implemented.

Educators are concerned because so much is still unclear about the implementation of the tests, and whether the resources being created to align with the new standards will truly teach what students are meant to learn.

Assessing the Quality of Common Core State Standards for Mathematics Educational Researcher, May 2011 Commenting on «Common Core Standards: The New U.S. Intended Curriculum,» the authors whether the CCSS are an improvement over most state mathematics standards and question whether schools and districts have the capacity to support effective implementation.

These include inputs such as parental involvement, school climate, whether instructional materials and school facilities are considered sufficient, and implementation of academic standards.

But raising standards in the absence of proper funding for implementation, clear thinking about whether these changes will really allow our kids to compete globally and ensuring that the whole exercise isn't just an exhausting and expensive dance of «move the goal» is equally important.

As we look ahead to next spring when students will take assessments that indicate whether they are on track to college and career readiness, we have seen some attention begin to focus on the role of higher education in the development and implementation of the standards (see New America's report, «Common Core Goes to College,» and a recent story from Hechinger Report).

Yonkers Federation of Teachers president Patricia Puleo said her union's delegates are free to decide for themselves who they'll vote for in April, and she questioned whether new leadership would make a difference in how the state Education Department goes forward with implementation of the Common Core standards.

While it is perhaps too early yet to say whether teachers are responding to the standards in the way their authors intended, we know from earlier standards efforts that implementation often falls short of intention.

This discussion often centers around questions about the quality of the standards, the efforts at implementation that are happening in the states, or whether the standards themselves will lead to gains in student achievement.

INEFFECTIVE: Ineffective School Library Leaders have no complete statement of school library mission, vision, values or implementation program, whether aligning library resources, services, and standards with the school's mission, vision, values and implementation program or not.

So, no decision on whether to block implementation of the standards while the litigation plays out will be made until early 2016 at the soonest.

One of the studies found that 2025 emissions could be reduced by as much as 4.5 GtCO2e through a variety of actions available to local governments and businesses, such as aggressive replacement of coal - fired energy production with clean energy sources and the implementation of policies like the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard and tougher vehicular fuel standards regardless of whether the federal government pursues them or not.

A covered entity must cooperate with the Secretary, if the Secretary undertakes an investigation or compliance review of the policies, procedures, or practices of a covered entity to determine whether it is complying with the applicable requirements of this part 160 and the standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of subpart E of part 164 of this subchapter.

A covered entity must keep such records and submit such compliance reports, in such time and manner and containing such information, as the Secretary may determine to be necessary to enable the Secretary to ascertain whether the covered entity has complied or is complying with the applicable requirements of this part 160 and the applicable standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of subpart E of part 164 of this subchapter.

The Secretary may conduct compliance reviews to determine whether covered entities are complying with the applicable requirements of this part 160 and the applicable standards, requirements, and implementation specifications of subpart E of part 164 of this subchapter.

The Secretary is charged by law with determining compliance, and where state law and the federal requirements conflict, a determination of which law controls will have to be made in order to determine whether the federal standard, requirement, or implementation specification at issue has been violated.

[322] I will continue to monitor the Government's consultation processes in the Northern Territory to assess whether they meet the standard required for the implementation of a special measure under the RDA and ICERD.

In relation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, the National Environmental Health Strategy Implementation Plan commits to training Environmental Health Workers (EHW) to provide services and maintain health infrastructure on the ground in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities on a day to day basis.155 Developing a consensus on national standards for the education and training of EHWs is an important component of the approach.156 The health sector has committed to supporting the strategy through the National Strategic Framework, although it is not yet clear whether that will translate into extra funds to provide workers on the ground.157