Sentences with phrase «unfair tests»

Will teachers continue to support this movement if their job security is no longer contingent on unfair test outcomes?

For example, students may attribute a good grade to their studying while a bad one was caused by unfair test conditions.

In response to Doug's comments re testing: «with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.»

Don — I would contend that the greater damage is not in lost time or money but rather with invalid unreliable unfair test scores in student records, to be misused for flawed placement decisions or other instructional decisions thus undermining any attempts toward providing a quality instructional program for those students.

As the opt out movement explodes nationwide, the tour for the new book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing has been generating inspiration, excitement, strategy, and tactics in the struggle against unfair testing across the county.

Teachers fear unfair tests, not innovation: As with any new assessment, it's widely expected that students will struggle with the Common - Core - aligned tests being rolled out by states.

The «grossly unfair test» has been found appropriate for consideration on a variation application under the Divorce Act: S.A.R. v. L.G.R., 2011 BCSC 712, at para. 45; and Lewis v. Lewis, [1999] B.C.J. 2537 (S.C.), at para. 16.

In this case, the Astorinos are joining many other New York parents in opting their kids out of what they consider onerous and unfair testing.

Was it an unfair test?

Yup — will have a blog in the next few days about how parents have the fundamental right (and obligation) to opt their children out of these absurd, unfair tests

If parents don't act and opt their children out of this unfair testing scheme their children could easily be tagged as failures when they are not!

CEA Executive Director Mark Waxenberg told CTNewsJunkie that getting rid of a portion of an unfair test doesn't go far enough.

The Malloy administration is actually suggesting that parents and students are rising up against the unfair testing system because teachers aren't doing enough to mislead people about the testing scam?

It was Governor Malloy and his State Department of Education that remain committed to linking the unfair test to the state's new teacher evaluation system.

Westport schools want parents to force their children to take an unfair test that is designed to fail many of those students because the school district doesn't want to jeopardize the «positive rating» it has from the state?

and the work of a number of state - wide efforts to inform state and local officials that they must respect a parent's fundamental right to opt their children out of the Common Core SBAC Test, a significant number of local school superintendents, and their staff, continue to mislead parents, throw up barriers or harass parents into believing that they have lost their right to protect their children from an unfair test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 children fail.

If the Governor or legislature do not move quickly to eliminate the expensive Common Core SBAC testing scam or decouple the use of the SBAC results from the state's teacher evaluation system, Connecticut's public schools will be forced to give the inappropriate Common Core SBAC test this spring and towns will be mandated to use the results from that unfair test to measure the «effectiveness» of their teachers.

Perhaps worst of all is Malloy's limitless commitment to the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC testing scheme and his unwillingness to decouple those unfair test results from his deformed teacher evaluation program.

The teachers unions need to demand a halt to this year's testing program and demand that the test results from this unfair test are not used to evaluate the hardworking and dedicated public school teachers of Connecticut.