Sentences with phrase «annual standardized testing requirement»

WASHINGTON — DURING a recent hearing by the Senate Education Committee, its Republican chair, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, questioned whether the federal government's annual standardized testing requirement, embodied in the No Child Left Behind law of 2001, may be too much.

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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.

Congress is set to reaffirm the requirement that states administer annual standardized tests, even though the data show that a child who passes one year is very likely to pass the next.

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.»

However, they also celebrated the preservation of annual standardized testing of all students in grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, and they approved of maintaining the requirement that schools must test 95 % of all students and called it a discouragement to the opt - out movement.