Sentences with phrase «controversy over assessment»

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

Not exact matches

Debate and controversy continue over the CCSS and associated changes to assessments.

And despite the problematic implementation of the new assessments and the political controversy that has swirled around them, evidence suggests that the consortia - designed tests are a substantial improvement over previous state assessments.

In the wake of the political controversy over the Common Core and its aligned assessments, policymakers faced intensifying pressure to change or abandon them.

The Common Core controversy is masking a more serious issue — the over assessment of our children.

The cover is stimulating significant pushback from educators and fueling ongoing and related conversations about teacher evaluations and the controversy over using student test scores in educator assessments.

Such efforts come at a time when states across the country are preparing to field - test assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards, and when controversy over the common core in many statehouses has reignited the debate over testing overload.

More recently, controversies over minor errors in the 2007 assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have escalated the debate over the integrity of climate science.

Many companies use personality tests (such as DISC, Caliper, or Gallup) as an additional evaluation for potential new hires (even though there's some controversy over whether or not personality assessments are fair.