A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

• Teachers are learning powerful new ways to move children toward challenging academic standards.

• Parents are talking regularly with teachers about "how my child is doing" in relation to those high standards, and about what they can do to help at home and at school.

  

• Students are working hard to reach the new high standards in math, science, English, and the other core subjects that their parents, teachers, and other adults expect them to meet. And many more youngsters are better equipped to continue their education in college and/or enter a career or occupation with a promising future.

• Each school is becoming a "community of learners" under its own comprehensive plan to continuously improve teaching, learning, and discipline. All its students are working hard and making progress toward the high standards with help from parents, teachers, and other partners.

• The school district, with individual schools and the community, is improving instruction, testing, professional development for teachers, leadership of principals, involvement of parents and businesses, and more -- so that every feature of education is working as part of a system that assists all students as they move toward high standards.

• The whole community is committed to the National Education Goals or its own challenging goals, and to helping provide a world-class education for every student. That's why the community has created...
  • A comprehensive action plan for continuous improvement of every facet of schooling -- everything that affects teaching and learning -- so that all children reach high standards of academic learning.

  • A broad partnership to make that plan happen -- a partnership of parents and teachers, businesses and colleges, administrators and school boards, grandparents and extended family, hospitals and social service agencies, arts and cultural institutions, newspapers and other media, libraries and law enforcement, cable TV and telephone companies, religious and volunteer organizations and others.

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