Sentences with phrase «about narrowing of the curriculum»

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Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

The results of this survey are predictable: protests about narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, inadequate professional development, unfairness toward disadvantaged and minority youngsters — and toward hard - working teachers themselves.

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

And lower stakes tests that are primarily about information rather than coercion will produce much less harmful narrowing of the curriculum.

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

Third, current pre-service teacher education and subsequent in - service professional development (PD) is characterised by very narrow conceptions about how teachers should teach — aided and abetted by the content of Australian State and Territory curriculum documents.

«Those will stay in place with the curriculum narrowed for so many pupils as schools work to ensure they reach an ever - rising bar, which means they are not deemed below the floor and labelled as failing,» she said, adding that the time had come to «stop moaning about the test» and «put the nail in the coffin of testing».

However the new primary curriculum, inspectors found, could risk as narrowing of the curriculum — with teachers highlighting concerns about science, foreign languages and design and technology.

ASCD's work in this area is part of a large, multiyear plan to shift public dialogue about education from a focus on a narrow curriculum - centric and accountability system to a whole child approach that encompasses all factors required for successful student outcomes.

That will be a narrowing of curriculum far more extensive than the narrowing of content [E / LA and Math emphasized more than other content areas] that folks complain about now.

They have also spurred middle - class backlash by prompting parental concerns about over-testing, threats to student privacy, and a narrowing of the curriculum.

But the intense focus on test scores has left many parents concerned about narrowing curriculum and what they call a classroom concentration on testing well instead of learning.

This exemplifies the damage done to the students in those districts via the «narrowing of the curriculum» the National Research Council as well as many others warned about.