Sentences with phrase «authority of test scores»

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James Flynn, an authority on IQ tests says that «In the last 100 years the IQ scores of both men and women have risen but women's have risen faster.»

More and more it seemed like the district's only goals were to raise the kids» standardized test scores and to teach them to fear authority — both of which, I'll admit, they did quite well.

He listed among his pet causes improving stubbornly poor test scores and college readiness among public school students, bolstering support for the NYPD, cutting business regulations and ameliorating the «national disgrace» of living conditions within the New York City Housing Authority.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Analysts have cited a legion of reasons for the state's slide in achievement: the steady leaching of resources from the schools that was the inevitable result of the infamous 1970s property - tax revolt led by Howard Jarvis; a long period of economic woes caused by layoffs in the defense industry; curriculum experiments with «whole language» reading instruction and «new math» that were at best a distraction and at worst quite damaging; a school finance lawsuit that led to a dramatic increase in the state's authority over school budgets and operations; and a massive influx of new students and non-English-speaking immigrants that almost surely depressed test scores.

In recent years a school of thought arose in our space that a centralized authority or «harbor - master» could produce better outcomes by carefully controlling both the entrance and the exit of schools from charter sectors, primarily on the basis of standardized test scores.

The federal ESSA regulations give the state Board of Education the authority to draft and approve a school accountability plan based on test scores and other factors that is approved only by the federal Department of Education.

The organization works with ALEC to write and promote education reform policies such as school grades, mandatory grad retention, high stakes testing, unmitigated charter growth, corporate tax scholarships, competency based education, personal learning accounts, virtual learning, tying student test scores to teacher evaluations, weakening teachers unions and attacking the constitutional authority of school boards.

The two men share vastly different backgrounds and overall educational beliefs, leading the LA Weekly to characterize the election as a reform vs. union battle for the heart of the Democratic Party and the Los Angeles Times to call it «a prime example of the strange rift in education, in which liberal Democrats are sharply divided on such issues as charter schools, job protections for teachers, the authority of the federal government in schools and the value of standardized test scores.»

Since the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) last January, in which the federal government handed back to states the authority to decide whether to evaluate teachers with or without students» test scores, states have been dropping the value - added measure (VAM) or growth components (e.g., the Student Growth Percentiles (SGP) package) of their teacher evaluation systems, as formerly required by President Obama's Race to the Top initiative.

She pointed to the results of the OECD's 2015 PISA survey, which foundthat practical science experiments are negatively associated with pupil attainment — forcing authorities to return to test scores as the main means of judging what types of lessons are worthwhile.

ESSA replaces many provisions contained in the previous reauthorization — the No Child Left Behind Act — to give states more authority in the design of their school accountability systems and to encourage them to use measures beyond test scores to measure school performance.

Proponents of the Common Core should put aside nationwide implementation and instead establish an independent governance board that has the authority to update the standards, determine acceptable tests, set passing scores, and spell out technology requirements and acceptable testing conditions.

In Japanese crash testing (JNCAP) XV scored a record 199.7 out of 200 to take out that authority's grand prize — displacing Toyota's Crown rear - drive large sedan.

Android Authority notes, however, that the company may have a few conflicts of interest when it comes to testing camera systems as tech companies might be willing to pay for an analysis and recommendation to get a higher score.