Sentences with phrase «about high stakes testing»

I don't care much at all about high stakes testing itself.

MORE has generated alliances with parents and students who have felt the consequences of a leadership that had, for far too long, ignored the truth about high stakes testing and the faulty metrics of value added measures.

Most parents regard NCLB as being about high stakes testing, annual yearly progress, reading standards, and teacher qualifications.

When Bennett talks about high stakes testing like the IREAD - 3, he likes to quote Sec.

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At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

«I am appealing to all those who care about women's equality, fracking, Albany corruption, clean energy, full and equal funding of schools, the end of high stakes testing, and all the other progressive values Ms. Teachout stood for in her campaign to vote for me on election day,» Hawkins said in a statement.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

«But we remain deeply concerned about the continued outsize role of high - stakes testing in our school system.»

But it calls for a delay in using the test results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools.

And even today, the team found that when test subjects in America and Fiji heard about people performing high - stakes physical feats, they assumed the daredevils to be large, unpredictable and possibly violent — not guys to mess with.

As a character, Fletcher is a Rorschach test for feelings about fathers and teachers — and any high - stakes training where tough love and sadism are often indistinguishable.

Although a varied and massive array of programs comprise the Harlem Children's Zone, its charter schools have garnered perhaps the most attention, particularly in the context of controversial New York City school reforms and the larger conversation in the education world about high - stakes tests, charters, and No Child Left Behind.

With the pressure of high - stakes testing and a packed curriculum, I often coach teachers who are nervous about giving time to a robust PBL project.

That is, as Anderson recognizes, «a very lofty aspirational goal, considering that we have about a third of our kids reading at grade level by the 3rd grade, and that we graduate about 55 percent of our kids, and only 23 percent of those do so by passing high - stakes tests.

In the culture of high - stakes testing, reducing student anxiety about such exams is a critical part of improving their performance.

With high - stakes tests coming in the spring, she's very concerned about the level of her students» content knowledge.

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As policymakers continue to pursue measures that tie crucial decisions about students to tough new assessments, the National Research Council is sounding a warning about the use of such high - stakes testing.

With the emphasis on high - stakes testing, we have learned a great deal about who is succeeding and failing, and which schools and school systems are meeting targeted performance standards.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

Among the areas about which administrators are most concerned are the alignment of the curriculum with the states high - stakes tests and whether teachers are managing their time efficiently to cover all the necessary material.

Koretz wanted to thank her for helping him see that although he had been writing about the problems with high - stakes testing for 25 years, he had been pulling his punches, as she told him.

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To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

The authors suggest that other states learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»

A study published in Science describes an intervention by which students were prompted by teachers to talk about and reaffirm their most important values in writing before taking a high - stakes test.

In a culture of high - stakes testing, students can be too focused on finding the right answers, when they should also be thinking about the right questions.

Nearly four in five uninformed Americans support this requirement, and information about local district ranking does not reduce support for this sort of high - stakes testing in either above - average or below - average districts.

In a setback for opponents of one - shot, «high stakes» tests, New York state Commissioner of Education Richard P. Mills last week rejected a bid by about 40 nontraditional schools to substitute individually tailored projects for the English examination the state recently began to require for graduation.

Throughout that time, Frost struggled against what he considers the national disaster brought about by a combination of high - stakes academic testing and playground - related lawsuits.

He talks about how the emphasis in his classroom is on learning through real world experience rather than on cramming for high stakes tests.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

PBS» Frontline offers an easily navigable explanation of high - stakes testing that includes basic information about what tests measure, how they're developed and scored, specific tips for parents, and links to additional resources.

Ask Dr. Shore About... High - Stakes Tests and Your Child My son is in fifth grade.

Whatever you do, don't obsess or lament about high - stakes testing, deadbeat parents, unfunded mandates, or No Child Left Behind accountability.

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One of the biggest complaints about NCLB was the test - and - punish nature of the law — the high - stakes consequences attached to student standardized test scores.

Most tests gaining attention today are achievement tests, including those commonly referred to as «high stakes,» meaning that crucial decisions are made about a student, teacher, or school based on the results of the test.

Everyone has an opinion about education, and teachers face pressures from Common Core content standards, high - stakes testing, and countless other directions.

[We've written before about proficiency and the tendency, under high - stakes testing, for schools to focus resources on kids who are «on the bubble.»]

The education debate changed, too: A cheating scandal in Atlanta public schools in 2009 raised questions about how high - stakes testing was affecting schools.

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They are anxious about any return to the high stakes testing aspects of the old system.

Raymar supports the Common Core standards, but he's concerned about how high - stakes testing is changing education.

Consider this: In 1977, 25 years before No Child Left Behind ushered in the era of high - stakes testing, elementary school teachers spent only about 50 minutes a day on science and social studies combined.

Given these higher stakes, are you worried about cheating on statewide tests in Indiana?

Second, given the potential concerns about schools cherry - picking students and other concerns with high - stakes testing, it's worth looking at other evidence on academic achievement.

From the country's philosophical position on high - stakes testing, to the methods of efficiently implementing policies, Ng answered questions about the thought process behind education reform in Singapore over the previous decades, and the secrets to its success.

But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of score trends on high - stakes tests, to the meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).