Sentences with phrase «backlash against testing»

They also correctly noted that the backlash against testing is justified — even if they only tangentially admit the central role of federal policy across two administrations in getting us to this point.

The state education department says that number dropped slightly this year, to 19 percent, but the backlash against testing hasn't gone away.

Despite the minute share of teachers unfairly affected by these policies, they helped fuel a backlash against testing in general.

More need to - or the backlash against testing will almost inevitably kill the standards as well.

Not exact matches

The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college - driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals.

Commissioner King was asked on the teleconference call whether he thought the second year of low test scores would further fuel the backlash against Common Core.

He adds, however, that a growing backlash against the perceived overuse of standardized tests is starting to encourage creativity once again.

Meanwhile, a broader backlash against reform, fueled by concerns about over-reliance on standardized tests, the accuracy of new evaluations, and the efficacy of performance - based incentives, has led some states to reverse course.

The flaws that were recently exposed in New York state's high school exit exam may be generating a big enough backlash against the program to give its critics the ammunition they need to lessen the stakes on the tests.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

Much of the opposition to the Common Core — aligned assessments — particularly among parents — is related to a broader backlash against the amount of testing students now undergo and a perception that it diminishes instructional time and encourages «teaching to the test.»

In the late 1970s, a backlash against the reform ideas of the 1960s and early 1970s led to the rise of minimum competency testing and, once again, a return to the basics.

Either way, the backlash against standardized testing appears less potent than opponents claim.

If someone had predicted a few years ago that Douglas County would emerge as the center of backlash against Colorado's system of annual standardized testing, you'd have scoffed — and maybe offered a primer on education...

In 2010 Kentucky was the first of 45 states to adopt the new standards, making the state a test case that others are watching closely as they roll out Common Core and try to manage a growing backlash against the standards.

The backlash against standardized testing is rippling through some Roman Catholic schools as they balance the college - driven Common Core learning standards with spiritual goals.

It's been a tumultuous year for America's schools — one marked by an expanding minority - student population, an increasingly discontent teaching force, a backlash against standardized testing, and shifting understanding of education reform.

(Reuters)- A backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive - and even some longtime advocates of testing call for changes.

If nothing else, that big majorities of both parties in Congress felt the need to greatly ease federal force in elementary and secondary education — at least overt federal force — is a powerful testament to the breadth of the public backlash against federally driven standardization, testing, and «accountability.»

Clearly, a backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive.

As the backlash against standardized testing intensifies and Congress begins rewriting NCLB, Anya Kamenetz's book couldn't arrive at a better time.

It was an ambitious initiative that, in subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away from the standards - based tests.

As students across the country buckle down for standardized testing season, the recent backlash against implementing the Common Core State Standards has illuminated a pressing problem for educators and students...

As students across the country buckle down for standardized testing season, the recent backlash against implementing the Common Core State Standards has illuminated a pressing problem for educators and students alike: our education system's emphasis on curriculum.