Sentences with phrase «controversy over test scores»

All the controversy over test scores could be placed on the shelf, as much better information on something much more important was now available.

Green also adds that Rhee «remains embroiled in controversy over test score gains under her leadership, even as StudentsFirst, the national group she founded two years ago, plays an increasingly prominent role around the country.»

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New York is going back to the drawing board to rethink the way it evaluates school teachers and principals after controversy over the use of student test scores in job evaluations helped fuel a massive boycott of state exams in recent years.

The famous «controversy» over racial IQ, I thought I'd been taught, was about what causes the differences in racial test scores, not about whether those differences exist in the first place — and on that topic Watson really hadn't offered an opinion.

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.