{"id":5789,"date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/blog\/cw_post\/how-do-we-ensure-equity-and-prevent-tracking-holding-all-students-to-the-same-high-standards-and-expectations\/"},"modified":"2020-02-27T18:38:32","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:38:32","slug":"how-do-we-ensure-equity-and-prevent-tracking-holding-all-students-to-the-same-high-standards-and-expectations","status":"publish","type":"cw_post","link":"https:\/\/aurora-institute.org\/cw_post\/how-do-we-ensure-equity-and-prevent-tracking-holding-all-students-to-the-same-high-standards-and-expectations\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do We Ensure Equity and Prevent Tracking: Holding All Students to the Same High Standards and Expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"
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To ensure equity in new learning models that are competency-based, holding all students to the same high academic standards is critical.<\/p>\n

Giving students choices and agency on how, when, where they learn is key \u2013 so that students have access to online resources, tools, digital content, online courses and modules with robust feedback loops to help them learn any time and everywhere.<\/p>\n

Standards, world-class knowledge, and skills are critical as the floor (not the ceiling) of expectations for each and every student.\u00a0 From the report, Mean What You Say: Defining and Integrating Personalized, Blended and Competency Education<\/i><\/a>: \u201cStandards set the benchmark foundation for student success. We must ensure robust competencies and high standards for all students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a globally competitive economy, this is a critical accomplishment to make sure our students are learning at high levels to prepare them for success. We must continue to raise student learning expectations and set academic standards for our students to be successful, as the global society demands higher levels of problem-solving skills and deeper levels of learning. It is important that standards are held to high and rigorous levels for all students to succeed and ensure equity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Four keys to high standards:<\/p>\n