Sentences with phrase «against standardized testing in»

Regardless of the diversity of opinion, there are some common arguments for and against standardized testing in the classroom.

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But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

The charter school network, which routinely outperforms district schools on standardized tests and maintains strict disciplinary policies, has faced off against similar criticisms in the past.

The move comes after NYSUT pushed back this year against efforts by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to overhaul the state's teacher evaluation system, with the performance evaluations linked to both standardized test results and in - classroom observation, while also making it more difficult for teachers to obtain and keep tenure.

Jones has been active in arguing against the privatization of schools and standardized testing.

As State Senator, she'll work every day to ensure that Westchester schools get their fair share; stand strong against the misuse and overuse of standardized testing; and protect the rights of parents to have a say in their children's schools.

Parents in New York also had complaints against standardized testing and organized an Opt - Out movement.

Most of the chamber's Republicans voted against the bill, arguing that the policies increased standardized testing and gave too much power to the Board of Regents in implementing the new evaluation system.

For the past three years, Finch says he and the minority Republicans in the state Assembly have voted against tying teacher evaluations to how well students do on the state standardized tests.

Pellegrino, a West Islip resident and leader in Long Island's «opt - out» movement against standardized student testing, is facing Conservative Tom Gargiulo of Babylon, a retired teacher and coach who also has the backing of Republicans and the Independence Party.

More than half of school districts on Long Island now have at least some board members emphatically against Common Core - aligned standardized tests and how they are weighted in teacher evaluations.

Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.

«With more than 50 years of experience in assessment..., we felt ourselves to be the logical choice to spearhead a campaign against academic dishonesty — cheating that goes beyond standardized tests,» said Kevin Gonzales of ETS told Education World.

Such «up in the clouds» goals as finding the uniqueness in each student get bumped against the realities of discipline, widely varying reading abilities, and looming standardized tests.

Nicholas Lemann, in The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy, builds an even more challenging case against the dominance of standardized tests in education.

Faced with declining membership, both consortia have contemplated changes to their assessments to manage the growing political pushback against the Common Core and standardized testing in many states.

Concludes that many tests are inaccurate or biased against minority and low - income students, and that relying on standardized tests to make decisions results in worse, not better, education.

Standardized test scores allow parents to compare the performance of their own child and the average performance of their child's school against the performance of students in the same grade in other schools around the state and nationwide.

Miller is a senior researcher and consultant for the Alliance for Childhood, an advocacy group based in College Park, Maryland, that has already become known for pushing back against what it sees as the over-commercialization of childhood, unfair standardized testing, and unnecessary technology in schools.

In response to the added pressure this year, a movement against standardized testing is gathering steam as some parents decide to let their children opt out of the tests.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

In the following post (which also appeared on Huffington Post), Weingarten comes out firmly against value - added methods of evaluating teachers, which basically use complicated formulas that use student standardized test scores to evaluate the «value» a teacher adds to a student's learning.

Fair Test's Neill said the state of New York led the way regarding the revolt against standardized testing with nearly half a million students opting out of state exams in 2015.

This caution against overreliance on standardized student test scores in evaluating principals was emphasized in a 2012 report, Rethinking Principal Evaluation, by the National Association of Elementary School Principals and the National Association of Secondary School Principals.

We're going to have to organize fights against cookie - cutter evaluation rubrics (such as Danielson), against the plan to tie teacher evaluation to high stakes standardized test scores, and in defense of basic protections such as tenure.

At the NBC Education Nation Teacher Town Hall on Sunday, some teachers argued against evaluations and standardized tests, saying that teaching students in poverty makes it harder to reach evaluation and testing goals.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

Parents and educators alike have increasingly lashed out against the high number of standardized tests students must take, the high stakes attached to those test results, and the narrowed curriculum that occurs when schools are held accountable for students» test results in only two or three subjects.

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative session.

Last year Students Matter filed a lawsuit, Doe v. Antioch, against 13 California school districts, saying collective bargaining agreements in those districts violated the Stull Act by explicitly prohibiting the use of student standardized test scores in assessing teacher performance.

The half - million mark is a milestone in the national fight to push back against the overuse and misuse of standardized testing.

The charter school my son attended ranked highly in standardized test scores against the most competitive towns in this state and ranked nationally as the the third top performing middle school in the United States for minority and socio - economically disadvantaged students.

With congressional efforts underway to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, a burgeoning movement of educators, school administrators, parents and students has blossomed in the fight against high - stakes standardized testing.

In this book (released with a documentary film), Vicki Abeles continues the campaign against standardized test scores as the primary measure of student achievement that she began with her 2009 documentary Race to Nowhere.

While our new Commissioner is preparing to go on a speaking and listening tour of the state, she would do well to try to understand exactly why New York is the current leader in the nationwide Opt Out movement against today's standardized testing policies, having seen test refusals jump from nearly 60,000 in 2014 to 200,000 in 2015.

Parents frustrated by the system say they're not against all standardized tests but resent the many hours their kids spend filling in multiple - choice bubbles and the wide - ranging consequence that poor scores carry.

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So it's no surprise that activists of color have played major roles in advancing some of the most prominent struggles against standardized testing.

When new standardized tests Louis C.K. railed against rolled out in New York, at least 33,000 students skipped the tests.

In recent years, BNS has become the center of a rebellion against standardized testing, with some 95 percent of children opting - out or boycotting the state reading and math tests each year.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

What is happening in New York is indicative of a groundswell of popular dissent — what Peter Rothberg, a journalist for the Nation and a New York City parent, called a «nationwide movement» — against the overuse and abuse of standardized testing in public schools.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

Moreover, the change in the stifling use of standardized tests as a weapon against public school teachers will deal a deadly blow to the corporate education reformers in the country who relied on these tests for denigrating teachers as well as for closing public schools and for the expansion of charter schools.

The leading critiques tested against over-reliance on standardized testing (based in part upon regression analysis) include:

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Both the American Statistical Association, which is the largest organization in the United States representing statisticians and related professionals, and the American Educational Research Association have questioned the validity of using standardized test scores to measure teacher effectiveness and cautioned against using them for such purposes.

Like all standardized tests, the Common Core SBAC discriminates against students who come from poor households, students who are not fluent in the English language and students who have special education needs.