Sentences with phrase «country opted out of standardized tests»
NATIONAL Over 500,000 public school students across the country opted out of standardized tests in 2015.
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Second, some of us are also supportive of the Opt - Out movement that is growing across the country, wherein parents have creatively removed their children from standardized testing.
As a result of this onslaught, a growing opt out of standardized testing movement is taking place across the country.
Pockets of resistance to standardized testing have been popping up across the country, with students in Seattle, Pittsburgh and elsewhere opting out of tests this spring in protest.
«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.
Last spring, more than 500,000 students across the country were opted out of the standardized testing craze.
Around the country, parents who object to standardized testing are publicly discussing the idea of «opting out,» either by keeping their children at home on test dates or by permitting them to abstain from testing.