Sentences with phrase «celebrate good test scores»

I beg all real educators not to be a part of the testing charade by celebrating better test scores — if you do — you are actually buying into this sorry state of affairs --- and what happens when they go down again — which they will — do you make excuses or feel bad or ashamed --(testing needs to be used for what it was intended for)-- lets NEVER forget that — sing praises to your students real accomplishments on a daily basis — and stay true to your calling and to your heart ---- The tide will turn if you do so — and our students will benefit when that time comes again ----- Tom

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At northern Virginia's celebrated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, students take an average of seven AP tests and do extremely well, earning scores of 3 or better on a mind - blowing 98 percent of the 3,357 AP exams that they sat for in 2010.

At northern Virginia's celebrated Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, for example, students take an average of seven AP tests — four are all but universal — and do extremely well, earning scores of 3 or better on a mind - blowing 98 percent of the 3,357 AP exams that they sat for in 2010.

When schools use best practices that help to close opportunity gaps, we should applaud — and that's why NEPC celebrates Schools of Opportunity, those schools that seek to close opportunity gaps through practices «that build on students» strengths» — not by inundating them with tests and obsessing on the scores.

Teach Like A Champion has been both celebrated as highly effective classroom management and stigmatized as highly controlling «no excuses» teaching that produces higher test scores at the expense of emotional well - being.