Sentences with phrase «away from standardized test»

More low - income students are enrolling in college, thanks to expanded needs - based scholarship and grant programs, a move away from standardized test scores as part of the application process, and other initiatives designed to recruit more diverse students.

We suggest that policymakers begin by moving resources away from standardized test creation and toward supporting the development of quality assessments in schools.

See what you can accomplish when you move away from standardized testing and evaluate the whole child instead!

Not exact matches

The mass granting of waivers to delay the new teacher rating system comes as political leaders, including President Obama and his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are shifting away from an emphasis on standardized testing.

Signaling a profound turn away from the education policies of the Bloomberg administration, newly appointed schools chancellor Carmen Fariña promised to retreat from an emphasis on standardized testing and preparation, to re-focus on arts, social studies and science, and to implement changes that «happen with people, not to people.»

If Davidson is right, 21st - century society will move away from categorizing people based on standardized tests, which are crude measures of intelligence at best.

Overall, she and Weinstein both say that more research is needed to draw specific conclusions about the impact of digital media — and standardized testing — on creativity and the willingness by students to take risks and break away from the standard mold.

While standardized testing isn't going away, we can do more to make the learning journey more exciting and in fact more effective with a culture of high tech, project based learning where learners are immersed in 21st century learning skills from an early age.

In addition to probably not capturing everything that we want out of schools, we should also take into account that it appears that more and more families are opting into private schooling to get away from schools that they think are obsessed with standardized testing.

What do you suggest teachers say to the question of time being an issue (such as it taking away from lessons that directly address those standardized tests).

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

It's a move far away from the standardized teaching and testing for which the education system is currently structured.

When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a test that will tell us that students from rich families tend to do better and student from poor families tend to do worse on standardized tests.

It moves away from «No Child Left Behind» and the focus on standardized tests to skills such as self - awareness, social connections, confidence and perseverance.

Over the weekend, President Barack Obama received high praise from parents and teachers for acknowledging that testing is taking too much time away from teaching, learning and fostering creativity in schools, and recommending that standardized tests take no more than 2 percent of total school instructional time.

Standardized testing takes resources away from public schools by stealing time instead of fostering a more multifaceted way of teaching and assessing students.

And finally, we should focus on assessment and move away from our focus on standardized testing.

The current overemphasis on test preparation and other misuses of standardized testing have taken much of this critical professional skill out of the classroom and away from teachers.

The Garden State can also take steps to trust teacher expertise and professionalism in the classroom by moving strongly away from the SGP and SGO components of assessment that both drive up the importance of standardized testing and take enormous amounts of time in an exercise with little value.

Now more and more Connecticut parents are learning just how standardized tests are being misused and how the education reform movement is diverting millions of dollars and thousands of hours away from real leaning.

The Democratic Assembly Speaker, for example, said that «he's always been troubled that teachers are rated on standardized test scores,» more specifically noting: «I don't think any single teacher that I've talked to would shirk away from being held accountable... [b] ut if they're going to be held accountable, they want to be held accountable for things that... reflect their actual work.»

FairTest goes on to explain that schools are moving away from the use of standardized tests because academic studies have consistently shown that «Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit» and are not appropriate or correct indicators of how students will actually do in college.

Some DC education activists, teachers, and parents are concerned that standardized testing and test prep are taking too much time away from instruction.

The ESEA Flexibility initiative has encouraged states to shift away from high school accountability systems based solely on standardized testing to ones that incorporate a wider range of college and career readiness indicators.

North Carolina's principals, whose salaries ranked 50th in the nation in 2016, watched this year as lawmakers changed how they are compensated, moving away from a salary schedule based on years of service and earned credentials to a so - called performance - based plan that relies on students» growth measures (calculated off standardized test scores) and the size of the school to calculate pay.

Reforming Assessment and Placement Assessment and placement reforms generally involve moving away from the traditional reliance on standardized tests and toward a more holistic measure of prior achievement such as high school course grades.

But I will proudly stand by my statement that a Democrat who proposed doing away with teacher tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest school; who refuses to de-couple inappropriate standardized tests from teacher evaluation; who diverts a hundred million dollars a year from public schools to prop up unaccountable charter schools that refuse to educate their fair share of bi-lingual students and students who need special education services; and who refused to settle the CCEJF lawsuit and develop a long - term change to Connecticut's school funding formula... DOES NOT deserve the badge of honor that comes with being endorsed by teacher unions.

However, the tests are not turning out to be such a broad leap away from the old standardized tests.

And that any normal political candidate would have worked diligently to persuade teachers that he understood that he had been wrong to propose doing away with tenure; that given a second term he would de-couple teacher evaluation from unfair standardized testing; that he would settle the critically important CCEJF school funding lawsuit in order to ensure that long after he has left office Connecticut would have a school funding formula that was both constitutional and successfully guaranteed that every Connecticut public school had the resources need to ensure their students had the education they deserved.

With the 2014 gubernatorial election less than 16 months away and facing growing opposition from school teachers, parents and others who recognize the unfairness of attaching teacher evaluation programs to student's standardized test scores, Governor Malloy announced today that he wanted to «reduce» the number of standardized testsand allow communities to forgo using test scores in their teacher evaluation programs.

A year after a switch to new standardized tests for public school students caused passing rates to plummet, leaders of both political parties in the New York Legislature on Tuesday called on the state to back away from plans to use those exams to grade teachers.

Despite calls for creating an overall rating, the California State Board of Education on Thursday approved a new evaluation system for schools that will display outcomes on a number of measures moving away from a system that relies on standardized test scores.

We're now seeing a pendulum swing away from the single - minded focus on standardized testing and toward a broader view of the whole child.