Sentences with phrase «about taking standardized tests»

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Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.

The newly elected Chancellor to the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

The newly elected chancellor of the Board of Regents, Betty Rosa, expressed grave doubts about the state's use of standardized tests in the schools, saying if she were not on the Board of Regents, she would join the opt - out movement and not permit her children to take the tests.

Recently concerns have also been raised about the amount of time students now spend taking standardized tests.

Taken together, we believe we have spelled out an approach to standardized testing grounded in the fact that assessments can gather critical information about our students» growth and our own teaching practice, while acknowledging that this potential will be lost if we ignore the need for improvements to our current system.

Overall, she and Weinstein both say that more research is needed to draw specific conclusions about the impact of digital media — and standardized testing — on creativity and the willingness by students to take risks and break away from the standard mold.

A Council of Great City Schools study claimed that between kindergarten and 12th grade, students will take about 112 mandated standardized tests.

For instance, a report from the Benjamin Center for Public Policy Initiatives estimated that New York State students spend about 2 percent of instructional time taking standardized tests, though that number has been criticized for being too low.

The fact is, no parent gets excited about his or her child taking a standardized test, just as we don't get excited about taking our kids for annual checkups at the doctor's office.

For the families we serve, whose children are more apt to attend low - performing schools and have less - effective teachers than their privileged peers, the time taken for standardized tests is a reasonable cost for receiving vital information about how their children are doing academically.

It encourages colleges to revise their applications to ask students about two or three extracurricular activities, rather to encourage them to submit long lists of sports and clubs they participate in and to consider make standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice.

The new standardized test data show that in each of the five states examined in this report about 90 % of the ELL students who took the state assessment test were educated in public schools that had at least a minimum threshold number of ELL students.

Tell them why you are concerned about the excessive testing and demand transparency for the standardized tests that our state's legislature and department of education require our students to take.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

The vendors also fail to tell us that the national standardized tests will be driving all decision - making about special populations anyway and that all special populations will have to take the same test as non-special populations.

If our reporting on statehouse conversations about what academic standards Indiana will use next have felt pretty abstract, try on this possible consequence of pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana: Tucked into the Office of Management and Budget report state lawmakers will discuss Tuesday is the possibility students could have to take two standardized tests in 2015.

Krystal Hardy, principal of Sylvanie Williams College Prep about the 14 standardized tests some students at her school take each year

There's something else that's different about Wayne Township's model: How teachers whose students don't take standardized tests are scored.

Rutherford County Board of Education member Lisa Moore and Holloway High School math teacher Monica White talk about their concerns for the TNReady standardized tests students take on computers.

Unfortunately, standardized tests may not accurately or completely measure what is actually taking place in schools or what the public is most concerned about (i.e., the public interest).

Take a peek below to read a little more about this reading skill and how you can find it in those long reading passages on standardized tests.

Please visit the standardized testing page of the CPA website for more information about which students will take which tests, and review the school calendar to see when each class will be testing.

The parents completed surveys about their motivations for homeschooling and the students took standardized academic achievement tests.

We're also interested... [in] abuses of standardized testing... This story that was all over that national media a few weeks ago, about this child who was dying in hospice — and the state of Florida insisted that he had to take his test... Then there was the child born without a brain stem — they wanted him tested too.

In reading stories from the Chicago press, about how they keep sending out directives saying isolate the kids, tell the kids they have to sit and make an affirmative statement — it's a hysterical response, about «oh my God, some child, somewhere, might not take a standardized test.»

In about 2 weeks, Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

Click here» In about 2 weeks, Wisconsin educator Angelina Cruz, a 6th grade social studies and reading and language arts teacher, will attend a meeting she hopes will result in her district taking a hard look at the number of high - stakes, standardized tests students are required to take.

«People are happy about that because it means students won't have to take more standardized tests, and it opens doors for students who thought they'd never be college bound because they wouldn't be able to pass the SAT.

It's possible that Success students are very good at taking standardized tests, but in my book, the true test of a quality education is the ability to write coherently and analytically about topics covered in the curriculum.

Pro-public education advocate and Hearst Media Group columnist Wendy Lecker takes on Governor Malloy's standardized testing ploy in an commentary piece entitled, «Malloy's empty words about testing»

My students did take standardized tests and knowing what I do now about how difficult it is to assess teacher quality from those, I would not be surprised if I were to learn that my student's «growth» was probably in some acceptable range.

Concerns about whether students have to take too many standardized tests have been raised for years.

The Department of Public Instruction reports that only about 60 percent of Wisconsin seniors take the ACT, a standardized test for college admissions, but that is not the picture at HOPE.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

Similarly, 31 percent of parents state that their child complains about taking too many standardized tests.

The Council of the Great City Schools just released a study of the nation's 66 largest school districts that revealed that students spend approximately 20 - 25 hours per school year taking these standardized tests, which amounts to 2.3 % of classroom time for the average 8th grader who will take about 112 of them between PreK and 12th grade, approximately 8 per year.