The new
Common Core tests hold promise as more accurate assessments of lower - achieving students and students with disabilities.
Not exact matches
Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of
Common Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr.,
held last year and in late 2013.
At a recent conference
held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized
tests associated with the
Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the
tests.
New leaders of the state Board of Regents are scheduled to be elected Monday, then
hold a news conference where they likely will face questions about their future plans for
Common Core academic standards, student
testing and teacher evaluations.
The proposal to clamp a four - year
hold on using student «growth» scores on
Common Core tests in evaluating teachers was advanced just last Thursday by an advisory task force appointed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
At a recent conference
held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized
tests associated with the
Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the
tests.
At a recent conference
held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized
tests associated with the
Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the
tests.
The lawmakers, concerned with a backlash not just from the teachers but in some cases from vocal parent - constituents, appear to have followed the union's lead: The moratorium, which has been a major legislative priority of New York State United Teachers, would essentially
hold harmless teachers, principals and students from low
test scores on
Common Core - aligned exams for two years.
As parents, students and educators continue to raise concerns around
Common Core and high stakes
testing, a Community Forum will be
held Saturday afternoon.
«We refused the
test because we came to the realization that we
held in our control the most valuable part of both APPR and the
Common Core, my son's data.
Another round of
Common Core testing will be
held Wednesday across the state.
Many district officials already have told residents they face a squeeze next year between
holding down taxes while expanding instructional services needed to prep students for lessons and
tests aligned with rigorous
Common Core academic standards.
This summer, state education officials released statewide
test results that showed a drop in the math and English scores for third through eighth graders as the new
Common Core standards take
hold.
A state task force will
hold simultaneous public hearings on controversial
Common Core academic standards,
testing and curriculum Friday in Stony Brook and at four other sites across the state, amid complaints by many parents, teachers and others that the late - afternoon format will hinder attendance.
The office of New York State education commissioner John King announced on Wednesday that it will be
holding a forum in Riverhead — one of two meetings being
held in Suffolk County — to discuss the
Common Core State Standards Initiative and state
testing.
Not satisfied with a state Board of Regents decision to put a
hold on the use of
test scores in teacher and principal evaluations, New York State Allies for Public Education is urging its members to opt out of local exams that will be taking the place of standardized,
Common Core - aligned
tests used to evaluate teachers.
Which would also mean that implementation of the
Common Core by states and districts could be distorted in the direction of the soft stuff that will be on the
tests and for which schools and educators will be
held to account.
It quickly became a liability to
hold teachers accountable for results on
tests they had never seen before, and much of the Republican establishment seized on
Common Core as the embodiment of federal overreach.
As the new generation of supposedly more rigorous
Common Core — aligned
tests gain
hold, it will be important to do additional research on these questions.
In «The
Common Core Takes
Hold,» Robert Rothman of the Alliance for Excellent Education acknowledges a number of McShane's concerns: states» shrinking budgets will likely impact the funding necessary for implementation; there is little to no quality monitoring of the new resources that are being created; the new assessments — and the technology required to implement them — are hugely expensive; the public at large is poorly informed and their support for the standards is waning; and a significant drop in student
test scores following implementation of
Common Core - aligned assessments is a real concern.
Many parents, teachers, public school advocates and taxpayers are asking whether the Connecticut General Assembly will
hold a real public hearing on the
Common Core, the
Common Core testing fiasco, and the flawed teacher evaluation system?
At a recent conference
held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized
tests associated with the
Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the
tests.
«We feel really good that while we have migrated from an already strong
test to one that is
Common Core aligned that our scores have
held firm,» she said during a 75 - minute presentation.
«The
Common Core State Standards can work if teachers have the time, tools, and trust to implement them, and if the standards are decoupled from the
testing fixation that has taken
hold in this country thanks to No Child Left Behind and Race To The Top,» she said in a statement about the new Scholastic survey.
(Alaska, Nebraska, Texas and Virginia have so far
held out; Minnesota will use only the
Common Core English
test.)
This means that the students that Mr. Poland is intentionally sending us can not read high school level texts or materials, yet Mr. Poland intends on evaluating us based on the new so - called «Smarter Balance»
common core tests,
tests that the students can not possibly pass because district mandate has advanced them without having
held them to standards in the name of fraudulent graduation rates.
The state Assembly's education committee yesterday
held a hearing on the new
Common Core State Standards and the related
testing — and heard repeated concerns expressed by representatives of school organizations, education advocates and others about the pace of the changes being pressed on schools by the state.
The results from those new
Common Core tests — designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills — have been
held up as proof of the persistence of deep - seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.
If you remove
Common Core from everything else — the new teacher evaluation plan, the perceived charter - Pearson - TFA cabal, increased
testing, whatever — I can't see why anyone would oppose a more rigorous curriculum that
holds students to a higher standard.
If California takes advantage of the offered flexibility, teachers and schools will get relief from having to administer (and be
held accountable for) the results of two different sets of
tests next year: the current CST exams and the new
Common Core assessments.
States are required to include student
test scores in educator evaluations in order to receive No Child Left Behind waivers, but educators have expressed mounting concerns that they have not had time to transition to the
Common Core standards and aligned assessments before being
held accountable for student growth.
Governor Cuomo's
Common Core Task Force is convening today to
hold a public hearing on New York State's learning standards, instructional guidance, and
testing policies.
You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of
Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state
tests shouldn't be used to
hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.
(The state doesn't require curriculum to be taught, just requires kids to take
tests that are
Common Core aligned, and
holds schools responsible for performance.)
There is widely
held support (66 %) for replacing current end - of - year state
tests with
tests aligned to the
Common Core State Standards with 31 % of voters strongly favoring new
tests.
The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new
Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new
tests set to those standards,
hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the
Common Core State Standards, implement the new
tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on
test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.
When executives at Pearson, the world's largest for - profit education company,
held their London shareholder meeting Friday, they were greeted by activists from the American Federation of Teachers, urging them to oppose so - called «gag orders» restricting teachers from revealing information about Pearson's
Common Core tests.
Superintendent Luizzi failed to distinguish between Connecticut's Truancy Laws, which do
hold parents accountable for a child's failure to attend school and the lack of such laws when it comes to deciding to protect one's child from the
Common Core SBAC
testing scam.
But the 2nd term governor fails to address the oncoming
Common Core Testing debacle, commit to
holding charter schools more accountable or announce that he will fix his unfair Teacher Evaluation program by decoupling it from the unless
Common Core Test scores.
Unlike the state's truancy laws that do
hold children and parents liable for failing to go to school, there is simply no mechanism for the state or school district to require students to take the
Common Core SBAC
test.
He proclaimed that with
Common Core and the accompanying standardized
tests, «Finally, we are
holding ourselves accountable to giving our children a true college and career - ready education.»
Out of one side of their mouths the education reformers claimed they were
holding their press conference to promote a more individualized approach to learning, while out of the other side of their mouths they were re-dedicating themselves to a teacher evaluation system that seeks to rank order teachers based on a
Common Core SBAC
test program that is purposely designed to make sure that 6 in 10 children are deemed failures.
The notion that parents understand that
Common Core SBAC
testing is undermining public education was just too much for the State to handle and last Thursday, after communications that the State Department of Education has yet to release a response to a Freedom of Information request, the Sherman Board of Education
held a «special meeting» to «focus solely on a presentation to the Board of Education by our superintendent, Don Fiftal, and a panel of educational experts to provide direct and up - to - date information about the Connecticut
Common Core Standards and the SBAC Assessments.»
For parents, teachers and public school advocates who were looking to see if Malloy was going to soften his pro-corporate education reform industry agenda, there was no sign that the governor intended to
hold Connecticut's charter schools accountable for their use of public funds nor was there a suggestion that the Malloy administration was going to fix their unfair «Teacher Evaluation» program by decoupling the inappropriate
Common Core Test scores from the evaluation process for Connecticut's public school teachers.
It began using the
Common Core a year before the state required it of districts; it was one of the first to revamp its teacher evaluations, and it went a step further, tying those evaluations to a new compensation model designed by teachers themselves; and in preparation for the new
Common Core - aligned
tests, it
held training sessions on top of those that the state provided.
As evidenced during the recent public hearing
held by the General Assembly's Education Committee, apologists for the
Common Core and Governor Malloy's corporate education reform industry initiatives desperately defend the indefensible policies related to the
Common Core, the
Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment
Test and the absurd teacher evaluation system.
In Washington, Students Protest
Common Core Exams and Maryville, Washington, Teachers
Hold One - Day Strike Over Funding,
Testing
With the massive inappropriate, unfair and discriminatory
Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC)
testing scam about to sweep into Connecticut's public schools, the Connecticut Education Association
held a «major news conference» to discuss:
Plenty of teachers are trying to shift gears to meet the new expectations, making sure their lessons match the
Common Core and
holding regular practice sessions for the
tests using sample questions online.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested more than $ 200 million in developing and implementing the
Common Core, last week urged states to
hold off for two years before using the
tests to evaluate teachers.