Sentences with phrase «argue against standardized testing»

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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.

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

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.

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.