But the vast majority of reformers who support standards - based reform have already acknowledged that «local control» should have its limits —
beginning with academic standards.
According to de Frondeville, educators should strive to balance both student
engagement with academic standards and the amount of control and open - endedness in managing their classrooms.
Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades,
complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.
• Financial Accountability — We should develop and implement a financial accountability rating system that distinguishes among districts» levels of financial performance, brings additional transparency to education finance, and allows for the establishment of financial accountability standards reaching to the campus level that are
commensurate with academic standards.
Step by step, the online sessions helped educators understand the importance of aligning learning
targets with academic standards (what students should know) and establishing related success criteria (what students should be able to demonstrate once they hit those targets).
Polikov grew up with classic games such as The Oregon Trail and Civilization, but has come to the realization that most games now do not
align with academic standards or teach material that is appropriate to students.
Compared to parents at assigned - district schools, charter - school parents are 6 percentage points more likely to say they are «very satisfied» with teachers at the school, 13 percentage points more likely to be «very satisfied»
with academic standards, and 10 percentage points more likely to be «very satisfied» with both school discipline and communication with families.
All assessments — formative, interim, and summative — must align
with academic standards.
We've written before that even if Indiana decides to reject the Common Core, the state is likely to end up
with academic standards that look very similar.
ESL Newcomer principal Gwen Snow said the dual challenges of teaching students the English language and American culture while also keeping up
with academic standards is often not fully shown in state accountability data or the state's achievement gap data.
To that end, the company received $ 3.8 million from AT&T to fund two new initiatives: a learning laboratory called Learning Center, which will include a «classroom of the future» where new digital tools will be developed, tested, evaluated, and aligned
with academic standards; and free access to an online portal of digital learning content, as well as support for teachers to learn how to integrate it.
With both academic standards and 21st century jobs requiring higher - level literacy skills, quality reading instruction is more important than ever.
Its i3 grant of $ 3 million in the Development category for testing promising programs and practices, will support efforts to harness technology in support of teaching writing aligned
with academic standards and targeted to individual student need.
If you faced the necessity to write the paper using your second language that one might be even more challenging because it's difficult to keep up
with academic standards and you will spend more time translating specific abbreviations and notions.