Sentences with phrase «around taking standardized tests»

Building experiences for students to play with a test can help to defuse anxiety, create familiarity and comfort, offer concrete strategies for success, promote collaboration and problem solving, and open up important conversations around taking standardized tests.

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You can't throw a rock inside a school without hitting a standardized test; every time your son or daughter turns around, they are taking some test designed by some far away bureaucrat or testing company.

Earlier this year, weeks before students were to take the state's standardized test, New York Commissioner of Education MaryEllen Elia traveled around touting the state's exams as a reliable way to measure students» progress on New York's learning standards, gave teachers a chance to vet the questions, and then tossed out time limits on the test.

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.

Derek Neal, an economist at the University of Chicago, who has studied standardized testing, has predicted that soon, «kids are going to be sitting around at computer terminals practicing their test - taking skills.»

During the 2015 testing season, over 620,000 public school students around the U.S. refused to take standardized exams, according to a report by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting season, over 620,000 public school students around the U.S. refused to take standardized exams, according to a report by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

However, the Courant editorial board should be especially sensitive to the fact that there are people out there who have figured out how to game the system, while there are significant challenges facing those who are trying to teach math and science — in English — to non-English speaking students who must then turn around and take standardized tests on those subjects in a language in which they are not proficient.

Three weeks ago came the news that Bridgeport Superintendent Paul Vallas and the corporate reformers who are busy «turning around» the Bridgeport School System decided to add another round of standardized tests to finish up the school year (even though the state - wide Connecticut Mastery Tests just took place only a few weeks tests to finish up the school year (even though the state - wide Connecticut Mastery Tests just took place only a few weeks Tests just took place only a few weeks ago.)