Sentences with phrase «down standards and assessments»

It should be noted that the Race To The Top Grant requires that states get rid of programs that dumb down standards and assessments.

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«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

The new incentive, called the Race to the Top Fund, aims «to reverse the pervasive dumbing - down of academic standards and assessments by states,» the secretary said, and to punish states «that explicitly prohibit linking data on achievement or student growth to principal and teacher evaluations.»

Its «Readiness Pathway» assessment program reaches down to eighth grade, and its «Springboard» program to sixth — with «alignment» guides already prepared for Common Core standards in both English language arts and math for grades six through twelve.

It is fair to ask if national standards and assessments might start us down the road to a national K — 12 system of public education, effectively turning on its head a system defined today by state and local policymakers and resources.

«By letting every state set their own benchmark, define their own standard and use their own assessment, combined with the requirement of 100 percent proficiency, they basically incented states to keep dumbing down and lowering their cut score in order to get more kids across the bar,» Weiss explains.

Plus assessments that will help parents know how their kids» schools are doing — and how the school of choice down the road is doing — not just against the state's own standards but against those of the country and the world.

And, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the reAnd, because standards and assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the reand assessments are the backbone of pretty much everything else in K - 12 schooling, that could tear down all manner of promising efforts on teacher quality, school improvement, and the reand the rest.

When selecting or designing an interim assessment aligned to state standards, highly effective principals and district leaders work with teachers to drill down to this level of specificity, and they continually push as far beyond the state standards as their students and teachers are ready to go.

And my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative sessiAnd my answer, though not scientific (and I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative sessiand I'm certainly open to other suggestions), is that the only material change was the watering down of expectations embodied in the standards and assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative sessiand assessment system beginning in 2010 with the relentless campaign against standardized testing and continuing through the recent legislative sessiand continuing through the recent legislative session.

I was a Learning Target specialist at my school and trained other teachers in breaking down standards and building assessments and learning targets.

The authors take the 2009 reading test results released in March from the National Assessment of Educational Progress — considered to be the gold standard in K - 12 standardized assessment — and break down the numbers to show how well different groups of disadvantaged students are doing:

INCLUDES Digital teacher resource book content Digital student pages * (Grades K - 8; 9 books) Digital assessment pages * (Grades PreK - K and Algebra 1; 2 books) Printable full - color illustrated lessons built to rigorous standards * The student pages and assessment pages are accessible when you are viewing the teacher resource pages; they are located under «Resources» (down arrow icon).