Sentences with phrase «charters focus on test»

Rather than innovate, most charters focus on test prep and drill.

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Asked yesterday about the Success Academy network's extremely high test scores this year, de Blasio replied: «Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep, and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

Heartland focuses on free - market issues across the board, including promoting charter schools, lobbying for business - friendly finance, insurance and real estate rules and promoting prescription drug availability before full Food and Drug Administration testing.

Merseth says the aim isn't just to create a charter that must meets state guidelines and scores well on standardized tests but also to focus on the qualitative, social, moral, and emotional questions facing school design.

Indeed, many nonurban charter schools have a distinctive curricular emphasis, such as a focus on the arts, that may explain their sustained popularity despite a lack of success in improving test scores.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

Similarly, many [charter] schools focus on tested subjects, while others might emphasize creative writing or the arts.»

One explanation is that the debate about whether charter schools «work,» with its focus on testing and college placement, loses sight of the many reasons why people choose a school and what they value in an education.

A health expert writes that while there isn't likely to be peace in the education world over charter schools and standardized testing, on this everyone should agree: The need to focus attention on disparities among our youth in education and in health.

At a gardenless charter school called Cal Prep, where 92 percent of the students are black or Latino, where the focus is on academic achievement, and where test scores have been rising steadily.»

Such provisions may have the most impact on single - site, community - focused charters, which might be concentrating on priorities other than standardized test scores and whose test results might therefore lag, at least in the first few years of operation.

The families of more than 350 students chose to send their children there, many of them specifically because the charter school's teachers say they didn't focus on testing.

For years, efforts to improve K - 12 schools have focused on developing more rigorous academic standards, testing students, holding teachers and administrators accountable for students» test results, and creating new charter schools.

High - scoring urban charters often focus on memorization for state tests, practice strict discipline and sometimes discreetly counsel out the low - performers.

«Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

President of the National Center on Education and the Economy suggests that it's time to quit experimenting with large scale testing and charter schools and instead focus on raising entry standards for teacher education programs.

But Moskowitz's fine - grained focus imbues every facet of Success Charter Network: the reading rugs in air - conditioned classrooms, the hands - on science program (after the Brearley School's), the otherworldly performance on last year's standardized tests, and, yes, the gleaming lavatories.

Schrag believes that these changes «point to a gradual shift away from the narrow focus on fact - based testing in math and reading, on creating many more charter schools, on «reconstituting» or closing sub-par schools, and on other business - model schemes that school reformers have pushed for during the past couple of decades....

Linda: The criticism that charter schools are too focused on standardized tests is legitimate.

Steve Zimmerman, founder of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing New York City's independent charters and the conference's other co-sponsor, says he started his group in response to what he saw as too much focus on standardized testing — a trend he believes stifles innovation, collaboration, and charters» original promise.

Here's the testimony I submitted, which focused on high - stakes testing / retention and inappropriate charter school discipline policies (a la Noble).

While much of the attention related to education reform has focused on charter schools, the Common Core and the Common Core testing frenzy, Internet based, online virtual charter schools have become a significant part of the corporate education reform industry.

What SUNY is really doing here is setting up charter schools, which primarily operate within urban school systems, to a lot of African American and Hispanic parents not to worry if their children's teachers are highly educated, tested, professionals — training them to focus on test preparation above everything else just isn't that difficult anyway.

«In making the announcement, Toll acknowledged that the charter schools have focused too much on teaching to low - rigor standardized tests and are ready for a «disruptive» change in model.»

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

Research on the performance of charter school students should not focus exclusively on standardized test scores but analyze other outcomes as well, including participation in advanced courses, graduation rates, and college attendance and completion.

Due to privatization, the expansion of school voucher programs and charter schools, attacks on teacher unions, and a focus on standardized testing as a means of evaluation, teachers find themselves increasingly playing defense.