Sentences with phrase «concerned about standardized test»

But, now, those lawmakers are concerned about standardized test results that put it among the worst schools in the state.

Instead, the crowd broke into smaller discussion groups to identify concerns about standardized testing.

State legislators Michael Kearns, Ray Walter and Marc Panepinto shared their concerns about standardized tests during a Monday rally.

Jane Baton, who identified herself as a local algebra teacher, said she was concerned about standardized testing when it came to students» math aptitude, and said rigidity in the system is not good for students.

She claims that with all the concern about standardized tests at the end of the year, many teachers forget that students need to know what they are working towards.

In essence, it is important that parents continue to advocate and voice concerns about standardized testing, however, alternative supports need to be in place for students and parents as standardized testing are now the norm.

An article in the Sunday Review highlights some of the concerns about standardized tests raised by minority parents, students, and educators.

The Test: Why Our Schools are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be by Anya Kamenetz Nice summary of concerns about standardized testing and arguments against it.

Not exact matches

Wuthnow is most concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.

Test results for third - through eighth - graders across New York state improved this year even amid concerns about the length of the standardized exams and reports of erroneous questions, according to data released by the state Education Department.

Flanagan said his colleagues «have a deep and abiding concern» about Cuomo's original proposal for amending the evaluation system, which would have increased the ratings» reliance on standardized testing to 50 percent.

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.

I share the concerns raised by many of my friends at the Coalition of Essential Schools that standardized tests do not test many of the things we care about.

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

Recently concerns have also been raised about the amount of time students now spend taking standardized tests.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

«There were various anecdotal reasons why students refused the test, ranging from test anxiety to concerns about this specific standardized assessment,» she said.

Tell them why you are concerned about the excessive testing and demand transparency for the standardized tests that our state's legislature and department of education require our students to take.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

Adkins addresses several frequent criticisms of the test, including objections to using a corporate partner to score the assessments and concerns about the effort to standardize the teaching profession.

Getz, who was one of 50 principals who signed a letter to New York Education Commission John King citing concerns about the quality of the spring 2013 assessments, hopes policymakers will acknowledge that standardized test scores are imperfect measures of what students are supposed to learn under the new standards.

Distilling critics» fears to the common denominator, one finds an overarching concern that the current discussion about IPS reform will center on shifting control of money and power without genuine awareness of what techniques could best shape IPS students into life - long learners capable of achieving success on a broader plane than that defined by standardized test scores.

Rutherford County Board of Education member Lisa Moore and Holloway High School math teacher Monica White talk about their concerns for the TNReady standardized tests students take on computers.

Unfortunately, standardized tests may not accurately or completely measure what is actually taking place in schools or what the public is most concerned about (i.e., the public interest).

Keith Harrison, a 9th grade English teacher from Baldwin High School in suburban Pittsburgh, said he told Duncan that teachers are concerned about schemes that use standardized test scores to evaluate teachers.

If you are concerned about the harmful consequences of standardized tests, please sign the National Resolution on High - Stakes Testing at http://timeoutfromtesting.org/nationalresolution.

But the teachers expressed concern about how their principals could handle more time in classrooms and that standardized tests would be overused.

Parents Across America is especially concerned about the use of federal power in the nationwide push to expand standardized testing.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

Each year educators raise concerns about the limitations of standardized testing and the downside of «teaching to the test» while policymakers and commentators discuss and pontificate about the «shockingly poor results.»

Although value - added is one of the more advanced statistical approaches, researchers have raised concerns about its reliability, as well as potential unintended consequences, such as demoralizing teachers and placing greater emphasis on standardized tests.

Something I talk about in my first book is something that concerns me — especially with standardized assessments — is that we try to boil schools, students, teachers down to one test result.

Concerns about whether students have to take too many standardized tests have been raised for years.

The article also provides two sections with related information: 1) a «glossary of testing terms,» which explains fundamentals of standardized tests and how these tests will be used in the context of new federal legislation (the No Child Left Behind Act of 2002) which requires states to give standardized tests annually, analyze data in specific ways, and track progress toward a required goal; and 2) «frequently asked questions about standardized testing,» which addresses many of parents» concerns about how standardized tests may be used with and affect their children.

CEA Executive Director Mary Loftus Levine, parents, and teachers told members of the State Board of Education today that they are concerned about the potential overreliance on standardized test scores in teacher evaluations.

In response to the growing public concern about the Common Core, the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the inappropriate and unfair use of standardized test scores when evaluating Connecticut's public school teachers, a growing number of state representatives and state senators are stepping forward and introducing legislation that would stop, or at least slow down, the damaging Corporate Education Reform Industry's agenda that is undermining public education in Connecticut.

Newkirk also has concerns about the connection between standardized testing and the Common Core, a situation that ultimately limits what is taught: «These tests will give operational reality to the standards — in effect they will become the standards; there will be little incentive to teach to skills that are not tested.»

However, because standardized testing is a matter of public concern, a local speaking as a union, or an individual member speaking as a parent or citizen, about educational concerns over standardized testing, for instance, in a letter to the editor or in a statement to the Board of Education, is protected by the U.S. Constitution at least so long as they are not encouraging other parents or students to opt out from a test.»

Here's the Friday, January 11 letter in which LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy describes his concerns about California State Superintendent Tom Torlakson's recommendation to reduce standardized testing: It's not that Deasy opposes all changes to the current testing and accountability system.