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Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen

Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen . Maura, Kelly, and Amanda. Essential Question:. Will the standards-based reform movement improve education or discriminate against poor and disadvantaged students? . National Goals. All children will start school ready to learn.

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Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen

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  1. Standards-Based Reform: Real Change or Political Smoke Screen Maura, Kelly, and Amanda

  2. Essential Question: • Will the standards-based reform movement improve education or discriminate against poor and disadvantaged students?

  3. National Goals • All children will start school ready to learn. • The high school graduation rate will increase to at least 90 percent. • All students in grades four, eight, and twelve will demonstrate competency in English, math, science, civics, foreign language, economics, arts, history, and geography. • U.S. students will be first in math and science achievement. • Every adult will be literate. • Every school in the U.S. will be free of drugs and violence, and the unauthorized presence of firearms and alcohol

  4. Standards-based reform of education offers the best current remedy for reducing the achievement gap.

  5. Content matters in education.

  6. High standards work.

  7. Schools will be better places for all children when curriculum planners stipulate in the clearest language possible what students should know and be able to do.

  8. Students are advantaged when schools test what is taught.

  9. To help students reach high standards, NCLB schools must hire “highly qualified teachers.”

  10. Testing is an essential component of standards-based reform, necessary to gauge the extent to which standards have been followed and achieved.

  11. Teacher-led instruction and other forms of explicit instruction are among the most effective methods

  12. Common curriculum standards and curriculum based tests increase academic achievement and decrease the achievement gap.

  13. Standards-based reform is more than making sure students do better on tougher tests.

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