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Go beyond the boisterous press releases or slick websites, though, and these plans are feeding on a far more negative undercurrent: NCLB's requirement for statewide annual standardized tests for all kids is harmful and wrong.

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The state released its annual standardized test scores on Tuesday, bringing measured good news for the city's most struggling schools.

But practice in timing their essay writing helps prepare them for the timed writing section on the annual standardized tests they take.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

While both states deserve plaudits for innovative moves in recent years — Arizona for its excellent approach to school ratings under ESSA, and New Hampshire for its work on competency - based education — they have erred in enacting laws that would let local elementary and middle schools select among a range of options when it's time for annual standardized testing.

Standardized tests do nt tell the whole story,» superintendent of schools Dr. Sally Pryor told educators at the annual convention of the Association for School Curriculum Development (ASCD).

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.

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

Just last week, the annual conference of the Association for Education Finance and Policy featured new research on topics such as the importance of charter organization type, the characteristics of charter schools associated with effectiveness, charter student outcomes beyond standardized test scores.

Still, given the public beating standardized tests have taken over the last decade, and the negative narrative around testing that's solidified as a result, it remains exceedingly important for those of us that still believe in annual, statewide standardized testing to articulate — again, and again, and again — why it matters.

If regular everyday Dads and Moms stood up for their children and asked questions, there would be no more Race to the Top, Common Core or annual standardized testing.

So here's a glimpse into what next - to - nothing accountability for a publicly - funded school voucher program looks like: current law only requires private schools with more than 25 voucher students to make public their annual standardized test results.

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Under the new rules, state standardized tests could be used for up to 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation.

The 46th annual Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on the public's attitude toward public schools also shows that although America's support for the Common Core State Standards is waning and the public questions the benefits of standardized tests and international assessments, two out of three public school parents would still give high marks to the school that their children attend.

Vermont actually dropped its application for a waiver after learning schools couldn't opt out of annual standardized testing.

While all individual students are ostensibly still expected to reach proficiency in core subjects, some states have adjusted their «annual measurable objectives» for schools so that the percentage of students that must show progress on standardized tests varies by race and ethnic group.

This marked the beginning of the push for standardized curriculum, annual testing, and the expansion of public charter schools as educational alternatives.

At a meeting this past Tuesday (February 10, 2015) the Board of Education for the San Diego Unified School District voted 5 - 0 in favor of a resolution urging Congress to eliminate the federal mandate that schools be required to conduct annual standardized testing.

Today many schools administer a standardized achievement test to prepare for their state's annual NCLB assessment.

Yet states still must, like under NCLB, administer annual standardized tests to students in grades three through eight, intervene in the lowest - performing schools, report progress for historically under - served subgroups, and submit accountability plans to the U.S. Department of Education.

Both men genuinely believed in the idea of administering annual standardized tests to schoolchildren and holding schools accountable for the results.

While the Common Core State Standards might survive in some form without annual standardized testing, the testing consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC), began their work with the support of federal grants almost as soon as the standards were being adopted thanks to financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and federal incentives from the Race to the Top grant program.

The Editorial Board treads familiar, almost entirely mythological, ground with their defense of annual testing of all students: Once upon a time, the federal government «kept doling out education money to the states no matter how abysmally their school systems performed,» and the requirement for mass standardized testing was «to make sure that students in all districts were making progress and that poor and minority students were being educated.»

For the first time, an objective measure of teacher effectiveness — based on standardized tests that measure student learning — will be part of annual evaluations.

While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis on standardized test scores, the shifting focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.

The same is true for K — 12 standardized achievement tests and metrics such as annual yearly progress required by No Child Left Behind.

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