AN influential liberal advocacy group, the Education Trust, claims to have demonstrated that simply by adopting higher standards, schools can get disadvantaged children to perform as well as those of the middle class.
"Having high standards, effective school leadership, and staying focused on student academic achievement has paid off for these honor roll schools," said Lee Blitch, the group's chairman.
Double standards seem to be the high standards that schools are aiming for, but this cannot continue if education is to improve at the rate deemed essential by Ofsted and government ministers.
Kyle McEntee, the executive director of Law School Transparency, said that the California exam has always had high standards and schools need to do a better job of educating students.
Part of the problem with the law is that it "required states to set high standards for schools -- but it didn't give them the resources they needed to meet those achievement goals," she said.
Which of the candidates are best qualified to maintain or raise the current high standard in our schools?
New York state had been changing its test scoring so that it was progressively easier for students to rank as proficient; this year, it recalibrated its definition of proficiency to a higher standard, and school results plummeted.
It's important to have a summer school that meets the high standards our high school is known for". The Foundation wants its summer school program to be challenging and rigorous for the students enrolled, Rocha said.
The organization is committed to setting new and higher standards in school construction by 'building back better' with schools that are earthquake-resistant and child-friendly.
"He should be focusing on delivering high standards for every school, but instead he is tied up trying to rescue these botched free-market style reforms.
