Sentences with phrase «curriculum tests for»

Evaluators also analyzed annual student achievement data from the criterion - based Mississippi Curriculum Test for subgroups of students at each grade in each school in the state.

Not exact matches

Fest said she's heard that many parents are spending hundreds to thousands of dollars on private tutoring for their kids to take the test this year, when the curriculum is fresh in their minds.

During my thirty years of academic labor in the humanities, I have observed my colleagues across the country promote racial and sexual criteria in admissions and hiring, review curricula, textbooks, and tests for proper representation of groups, and elevate race and sexuality to essential research fields.

But it ruled that the school board nonetheless passed muster under the secular purpose test of Lemon because the school board stated two other valid secular purposes for its policy: «disclaiming any orthodoxy of belief that could be inferred from the exclusive place of evolution in the curriculum, and reducing offense to any student or parent caused by the teaching of evolution.»

Beginning in 1986, the rule stipulated, entering freshmen would be eligible for scholarships only if they had achieved a grade point average of at least 2.0 in a college - preparatory core curriculum and, when it came to the two standard college entrance examinations, attained a minimum score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) or 15 on the American College Testing Program's exam.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

The Waldorf curriculum offers a true and tested alternative education, especially suited to families who desire a strong intellectual and aesthetic foundation for their children, but who also wish to allow their children the opportunity to fully experience the joys of childhood without premature academic pressures.

If you are concerned about knowing which math level to place your child in using a certain curriculum (for example, Singapore Math), there are many homeschool curriculum publishers that offer placement tests.

From there, they will make curriculum recommendations for you based on your student's test scores.

Once the test is completed we will send the test scores to our homeschool curriculum department for review.

«Brain Gym requires little additional training for the classroom teacher, no testing, no technology, and it enhances (rather than replaces) current curriculum.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

One week after being criticized for canceling his only forum to discuss Common Core curriculum and state testing on Long Island, the state's chief of schools has announced a new series of forums on the topic.

As a result of the testimony given, the report recommends the state Department of Education immediately address several concerns, such as expediting waivers from the U.S. Department of Education «to relax onerous and rigid testing restrictions placed on certain students,» especially with English as a Second Language students and students with disabilities; producing all missing or incomplete curriculum modules; aligning assessments proportionally to curriculum actually implemented; and increasing funding for the professional development of teachers.

Thousands of frustrated parents and educators from across Long Island were expected to attend a forum in Garden City Tuesday night for an opportunity to speak with New York State Education Commissioner John King about Common Core curriculum and state testing.

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

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«I do not think that any head teacher in a primary school will find that attractive, or in any way think that this is an encouragement for the NUT or the NAHT to call off their campaign against the current national curriculum testing structure.

The mandatory tests are supposed to align with the new standards, but teachers for several years have complained that the curriculum guides and tests have been poorly implemented by the state.

The governor has said he would consider removing Common Core - aligned test scores from consideration in teacher evaluations temporarily to account for the flawed rollout of the tougher curriculum standards.

Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a presumed gubernatorial candidate, has signaled his intention to attack Cuomo for the Common Core, a system of curriculum standards that has been adopted by New York and 45 other states, and Assembly Democrats are advancing a bill to postpone testing based on Common Core curricula.

The Regents also plan to work with local school districts to cut down on unnecessary tests and develop a different curriculum for mentally disabled children, instead of holding them to the standards of non-disabled students.

«All the parents think too much time is spent on preparing kids for tests instead of learning the curriculum.»

All the outsourcing for curriculum design and testing for Common Core is wasting public school resources,» Hawkins added.

The governor's proposal also calls for federal support to keep Brooklyn's ailing hospitals open, changing the controversial Common Core school curriculum, ending standardized testing for grades K - 2, begin construction of four new casinos in the fall, allow public funding of political campaigns and reforming the state's ethics policy.

His support for charters outraged teachers unions, while his promotion of the Common Core curricula and testing standards irked conservatives.

«We still have a long way to go to reduce testing, to make sure that the new curriculum is age - appropriate for every grade, and to restore the public's faith in the process,» said Mulgrew.

Another open question is how readily teachers will embrace new, NGSS - aligned curricula when they must also focus on preparing their students for high - stakes standardized tests.

Students of teachers using Cognitive Tutor, a computer - based curriculum for Algebra I students developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers, for a second year showed a meaningful improvement in test scores.

Instead of a concrete curriculum or a test that students must be able to pass, the science and engineering standards lay out benchmarks for what concepts students should know at particular grade levels, each year building on those before it.

The Moodle quiz tested, among others, the ability of learners to determine rules for patterns and functional relationships using flow diagrams, tables, formulae and equations in line with the current National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for Grade 7 - 9.

Publishers are aggressively pushing curricula that claim to be aligned with the new standards, but district purchasing officers can not just go to the clearinghouse and search for tested Common Core curricula.

Specific Aim 2: Pilot test the revised OST CHOICES curriculum with female AI adolescents at - risk for AEP, including utilizing technology - based follow - up data collection methods.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

The many initiatives discussed for changing public education — accountability, standards, standardized testing, homework, arts in the curriculum, and so on — comprise one side of that debate.

With all the pressures to prepare for tests and stick with the curriculum, some teachers feel they are losing teachable moments.

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Critics of NCLB's testing and accountability requirements have a litany of complaints: The tests are inaccurate, schools and teachers should not be responsible for the test performance of unprepared or unmotivated students, the measure of school inadequacy used under NCLB is misleading, the tests narrow the curriculum to what is being tested, and burdens imposed upon teachers and administrators are excessively onerous.

In return, the parent receives a state - funded account that can be put toward multiple but limited uses: private - school tuition, tutoring from certified tutors, individual public - school courses, online programs, community college and university tuition, standardized testing fees, curriculum costs, and saving for future higher - education expenses in a tax - advantaged federal Coverdell Account.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

Standing for reform apparently means supporting rigorous testing, a back - to - basics curriculum, higher standards, more homework, more science and math, more phonics, something called accountability, and a host of other often daunting initiatives.

My colleagues ask me how do I possibly find time in a curriculum for project - based learning when there are so many concepts to cover, so much curriculum to cover, and pressure to get students ready for high - stakes tests — these standardized state tests, for example.

Here we find curriculum organizations, teacher education organizations, and educational policy organizations working together against standardized testing, the privatization of public schooling, the school to prison pipeline, advocating for parent and community involvement in schools.

After visiting the schools, Gustafson reported that all four — each an independent «mom - and - pop» operation with no links to national groups — faced a host of challenges, including strained budgets, low enrollments, curriculum problems, inexperienced staff, weak professional development for teachers, and board members ignorant of testing and other academic essentials.

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

The elementary schools use computers for testing and other activities, but it is a rare school curriculum that includes any computer programming.

If you believe in teaching the whole child, not just what will be tested, and if you believe, as I do, that gifted children have unique needs, then you must constantly search for ways and methods to develop and provide an affective curriculum.

Though he sees potential in the «commonness» of the Common Core, he argues that true learning gains will only follow if states turn more demanding ELA standards into a mandate for knowledge - rich curricula and if test makers understand that «close reading» of texts could make things worse unless those texts are integrated with such a curriculum.

There are a large number of providers that offer online curriculum resources for teachers, ranging from video content to interactive testing.