NYSUT's board also withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as implemented and interpreted in New York state until SED makes major course corrections to its failed implementation plan and supports a three - year moratorium on high - stakes
consequences from standardized testing.
Still NYSUT has continue to fight for a moratorium for teachers on
the consequences from standardized testing they say was created from poor implementation of the Common Core.
Not exact matches
And New York State United Teachers has called for a three - year moratorium on
consequences for teachers and students
from standardized test scores.
This partially reflects the fact that most states had accepted the ideas that schools should be held responsible for student performance and that results
from standardized tests should play a large role in determining
consequences (to view the
consequences for schools failing to make adequate yearly progress, see Figure 2).
a moratorium, or delay, in the high - stakes
consequences for students and teachers
from standardized testing to give the State Education Department - and school districts - more time to correctly implement the Common Core.
Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken
from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes
standardized tests (Iowa
Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement
Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive
consequences for students, teachers and schools.
This new law will provide a measure of protection for our teachers, districts and students
from consequences for student
test scores on a
standardized test whose validity and reliability as a tool for measuring their performance is not supported by data.
Critics of
standardized testing say cheating is a result of the
consequences that policymakers have attached to scores,
from closing schools for poor performance to offering merit bonuses to teachers whose students do well.
Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious
test prep, and time diverted
from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented
from getting the
test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the
consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably -
standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.