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Penuel, William R.; Harris, Christopher J.; DeBarger, Angela Haydel – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The Next Generation Science Standards embody a new vision for science education grounded in the idea that science is both a body of knowledge and a set of linked practices for developing knowledge. The authors describe strategies that they suggest school and district leaders consider when designing strategies to support NGSS implementation.
Descriptors: Science Education, Academic Standards, Program Implementation, Educational Practices
Weiss, Joanne; McGuinn, Patrick – Phi Delta Kappan, 2016
Under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), federal education mandates will be decreasing, which means states will have more flexibility and authority than they've had in decades. State education agency (SEA) leaders are confronting great change and great opportunity as many agencies move away from a focus on compliance with federal regulations,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, State Agencies, Government Role
Davis, Emily; Sinclair, Steve; Gschwend, Laura – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
The Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project--under the aegis of the New Teacher Center--devised a program to train teacher mentors to help new teachers incorporate the Common Core standards into their teaching. The three-year program yielded five critical lessons: Mentors need ongoing support to develop their readiness and willingness to…
Descriptors: Mentors, Drills (Practice), State Standards, Beginning Teacher Induction
Guskey, Thomas R.; Swan, Gerry M.; Jung, Lee Ann – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
Nearly all states have standards for student learning and they have assessment programs to measure students' proficiency on those standards. But schools within each state nonetheless are left to develop their own standards-based student report cards as the primary means of communicating information about students' performance. To address the…
Descriptors: Report Cards, Student Evaluation, Academic Standards, State Standards
Cogan, Leland S.; Burroughs, Nathan; Schmidt, William H. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
Researchers at the Center for the Study of Curriculum at Michigan State University have developed a tool to help teachers implement the Common Core State Standards in mathematics by letting standards, not textbooks, guide their instruction. Using the web-based Textbook Navigator/Journal, teachers can pick a standard and ask which portions of the…
Descriptors: State Standards, Program Implementation, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Guides
McGuinn, Patrick – Phi Delta Kappan, 2015
People dislike the Common Core for several different reasons, and so it is important to disaggregate the sources of opposition and to assess and then to dispel some of the myths that have built up around it. It also is important to understand the unusual political alliances that have emerged in opposition to Common Core implementation and how they…
Descriptors: State Standards, Educational Policy, Educational Change, Public Opinion
Lee, James O. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2011
The Common Core of Standards project has strong national support, but it will not succeed if it doesn't involve teachers in grassroots development activities. The initiative should involve local consortia of schools in working with the new standards, assessments, and support tools. Local teachers would design teaching units and then share these…
Descriptors: National Programs, Academic Standards, Alignment (Education), School Culture
Hess, Frederick M.; Finn, Chester E., Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2004
To no one's surprise, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act has become a political football in this election season. Amidst the heated rhetoric and impassioned claims, it can be easy to forget that NCLB is no one thing but rather an awkward compendium of many disparate pieces. While public officials are pressed to render absolute judgments--that…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Standards, School Choice, Educational Improvement
Bay, Jennifer M.; Reys, Barbara J.; Reys, Robert E. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Teachers' work with four National Science Foundation-funded curricula in the Missouri Middle-School Mathematics Project has disclosed 10 critical implementation elements: administrative support, opportunities for study, curriculum sampling, daily planning, interaction with experts, collaboration with colleagues, incorporation of new assessments,…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Planning, Mathematics Curriculum, Middle Schools
Dugger, William E., Jr.; Meade, Shelli D.; Delany, Lisa; Nichols, Crystal – Phi Delta Kappan, 2003
Discusses contents of new publication released by the International Technology Education Association: "Advancing Excellence in Technology Literacy: Student Assessment, Professional Development, and Program Standards," intended to provide the means for implementing technology standards published in 2000 ("Standards for Technology…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Professional Development, Program Implementation, Standards
Ramirez, Al – Phi Delta Kappan, 1999
Policymakers are placing tremendous faith in assessment, a technology with many limitations. Assessment-driven improvement policy uses mandatory testing to leverage desired change, but it narrows the curriculum, punishes teachers for things beyond their control, expands bureaucracy, and does not work. Alternative strategies for school leaders are…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, National Standards, Program Implementation
McColskey, Wendy; McMunn, Nancy – Phi Delta Kappan, 2000
Short-term fixes may boost test scores without improving learning. Schools focused on higher standards and instructional reform should reorganize and condense state, district, and national standards; adopt a "less is more" approach; support collaborative improvement efforts; and link assessment to a high-quality learning environment.…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, High Stakes Tests, Program Implementation
Robinson, Sandra L. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1982
Summarizes responses from directors of early childhood education in all 50 states to a survey asking for information about their kindergarten and prekindergartern programs and about future prospects for expanding early childhood education. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Kindergarten, National Surveys, Preschool Education
Wagner, Tony – Phi Delta Kappan, 1998
An obsolete, unworkable approach to achieving high standards is top-down dictation of goals and minimal staff compliance. A constructivist change strategy is based on collaboration. It is an action research and development process enabling everyone to understand the problem, reach agreement on goals, and share responsibility for implementing…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Action Research, Constructivism (Learning), Educational Change
Cohen, David – Phi Delta Kappan, 1995
Title II of Goals 2000 created the National Educational Standards and Improvement Council (NESIC), a federally funded agency to devise national content and performance standards in key academic subjects and certify state-submitted standards. Since Republicans have taken over Congress, this council is finished. Any private successor must mount…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Legislation, National Standards
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