Sentences with phrase «academics through standardized testing»

Instead, they focus on academics through standardized testing and following school discipline.

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In «Learning from Rudolf Steiner: The Relevance of Waldorf Education for Urban Public School Reform,» a study published in 2008 in the journal Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice, researcher Ida Oberman concluded that the Waldorf approach successfully laid the groundwork for future academics by first engaging students through integrated arts lessons and strong relationships instead of preparing them for standardized tests.

Celebrate improving school culture and climate, building students» social - emotional competencies and character, improving discipline and on - task educational behavior, improving academic outcomes, but do not define these outcomes primarily through standardized tests.

The Times sought three years of district data, from 2009 through 2012, that show whether individual teachers helped — or hurt — students academic achievement, as measured by state standardized test scores.

The discrepancies underline the difficulty educators at the local and state level face in tracking students» academic growth through high school, especially when the only standardized tests students take cover narrow subject areas.

They also, along with others troubled by New York's — particularly NYC's — notorious achievement gaps, yearned to release school leaders from the muzzle of LIFO, which requires that teachers be laid off by seniority, not effectiveness, and change old - school subjective teacher evaluations to reflect student academic growth, measured in part through standardized test scores.

These schools — run by Achievement First — have shown repeated success in bringing academic excellence to public schooling through standardized curriculum and utilizing aggressive testing.

Wolk lists four common practices in public schools: holding all students to the same high content standards; moving students sequentially through a common, rigorous curriculum organized into academic silos; giving students little say in their own education; and requiring them to take many standardized tests.

Students in Seattle Public Schools take the standardized Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test up to three times a year, from kindergarten through ninth grade or beyond.

The promises of affordable textbooks that could be updated with the latest information at a moment's notice haven't come through; even the much - touted bells and whistles approach to tablet - based academic ebooks have gone largely stagnant as learning outcomes have not been noticeably improved — at least not according to the almighty standardized tests — with the addition of embedded content.