Council of Chief State School Officers

He was promoted to second lieutenant of artillery in a training school for young artillery officers, in the regiment of La Fere. In 1789, Pasquale Paoli was asked to return to Corsica by the national assembly in order to establish a constitutional monarchy. Napoleon asked for leave to return home and join Paoli’s group, but was rejected…

among them are the possible encouragement to commit crime, the money that goes to finance the program and selection process for participants? The ONS has had setbacks and will continue to have problems but makes a positive impact on the community. Chief among the critics are Courtland "Corky" Boozé, who…

Carol Burris from the Washington Post writes in the article “How Many Students Are Refusing to Take Common Core Tests This Year” that “New York State rocked the world of test based reform last year when nearly a quarter of a million students opted out of the Grades 3-8 Common Core tests” (Burris 1). Parents opted their kids out of state testing, because they disapproved of Common Core Standards. For people who are not aware of what Common Core Standards are, they are a set of national…

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he rolled out a 126 gallons cask of Madeira wine.” Everybody was cheering at him as the fireworks were set off. On May 1768, John Hancock was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. “The House elected him each year to the Governor’s Council, but the Governor rejected his appointments until 1771 when the Governor changed his mind.” Hancock turned down the position and said that he was no longer interested in politics. On March 1770, The Boston Massacre had occurred. After the…

less as they get older, with 45% of 17-year-olds saying they read by choice only once or twice a year.” As students progress in our school system, they have lost more and more interest in reading for fun, which ultimately means they read less and less. Has our school system made reading boring? Could students interest in reading have declined because reading in school is taught around tests? Could the parents be to blame? The cause seems obvious. If kids just aren 't interested then they…

behind act. This law requires states to create rigorous standardized assessments, then pass at least 95 percent of all students to continue to receive federal subsidies. However, states are not required to meet the same standards, for example, a student in the state of Oregon who passes Oregon’s assessments, could fail the standards of Massachusetts. Thus this led to the creation of the Common Core State Standards in 2009 by the Council of Chief state school Officers and the National Governors…

Ranch Hills High School is nestled into a bucolic, chaparral hillside, surrounded by rolling hills of shrubs and thorny bushes, typical of Southern California's wild, native landscape. The school is built on 72 acres of land once considered unusable due to the nature of the rural surroundings and impracticality of building on several steep slopes, according to Alice Kim of Architecture Week (2000). After collaboration between the City of Pomona and the Pomona Unified School District, two years…

are unhappy with the education system in the United States, and the government is trying to find a solution. The United States has been spending money on educational reform and American students still rank low in math and science to other developed countries. The latest idea to be implemented is the Common Core State Standards Initiative, which is supposed to strength our educational system. Many of the states have accepted the Common Core State Standards, but they have not been popular with…

social institutions against the supposed communist menace. Additionally, Botha and other members in leadership saw neighboring countries as the frontline against communism, using the pretext of national security to continuously intervene in other states’ affairs. According to Mitchell Reiss, an American diplomat, the ex-head of South African military intelligence General H. D. E. V. du Toit questioned the logic of the communist hysteria, saying, “I don’t think we ever thought it was feasible…