Sentences with phrase «causes narrowing of the curriculum»
Education Secretary Arne Duncan said that current law drives down standards, weakens accountability, causes narrowing of the curriculum and labels too many schools as failing.
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During stakeholder consultations, educators raised concerns the assessments would be an extra burden to teachers already struggling with a hefty workload, lead to a possible narrowing of the curriculum, and cause stress for students and parents.
I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.
The root cause of today's narrow elementary curriculum isn't testing, although that has exacerbated the trend.
Tying educator evaluation and school ranking / standing corrupts the testing system and causes test - prep and narrowing of the curriculum.
Ruth Wattenberg, the Ward 3 representative on DC's State Board of Education (SBOE), says «too much testing» and the narrowing of the curriculum it has caused were the two issues that had the most resonance with parents during her campaign.
WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and
Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind and its multiple - choice tests also caused excessive test preparation, gaming the system and narrowing of the curricula.