Sentences with phrase «backlash against the amount»

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.»

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Adding to this disillusion, he continues, is a gradual erosion of public faith in politics, driven in part by the distorting impact of 24 - hour news and social media — «it does trivialise politics, and it has done a real amount of damage to the perception of politics» — a backlash against a political class that favours spin over frankness — «I detest spin, it is deceit and it is intended to be deceit» — and, ultimately, by the failure of mainstream parties to «reach out beyond the political sphere» and speak to people's real concerns.

The backlash against Facebook also involved Mozilla's announcement of a new Firefox add - on, called Facebook Container, that isolates Facebook's sessions in the browser to decrease the amount of data collected by the social media giant.