Sentences with phrase «development than standardized tests»

These measures tell me way more about my students academic growth and development than standardized tests do.

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Compiled data from all 3,001 children and their families showed that Early Head Start children scored higher, on average, than their peers on standardized tests of cognitive and language development; and far fewer children tested as requiring remediation.

When judging school quality, the public gives much more weight to students» job preparation and interpersonal development than to their standardized test scores, the poll shows.

This unprecedented development was the direct result of a growing awareness by parents, students, teachers and public education advocates that the standardized testing scheme isn't useful and that the Corporate Education Reform Industry is turning public schools into little more than testing factories.

This weekend, the 2016 Opt Out Conference in Philadelphia is bringing together parents, teachers, academics and public education advocates from across the country to discuss developments and share strategies in our ongoing battle to protect our children, teachers and public schools from the corporate education reform industry and the standardized testing companies that are turning our children into guinea pigs and our public schools into little more than testing factories and profit centers.