Sentences with phrase «encouraging than test scores»

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The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

So producing students who are creative, who can navigate delicate social situations, who encourage their peers to perform better, who take extra science classes, or who can figure out the right questions to be asking in the first place is a lower priority than producing students who can nudge test scores higher.

In a profession that already feels under siege, the decision in most states — encouraged by the U.S. Department of Education — to press ahead with using student test scores as a significant component of a teacher's evaluation «just fuels the perception that we care more about weeding out weak teachers than giving the vast majority of teachers the time and support they need to make a successful transition to Common Core,» says Schwartz.

North Dakota Online Dashboard Encourages Evaluating Schools By More Than Test Scores https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/education/4441469-online-dashboard-provides-depth-information-states-schools

ESSA encouraged states to experiment with broader measures for school accountability; the regulations insisted that anything other than test scores would be an afterthought.

A focus on test scores and other goal - based incentives stifles rather than encourages the creativity and inventiveness that is essential to a dynamic society and economy.

Teachers and parents charge that NCLB encourages, and rewards, teaching children to score well on the test, rather than teaching with a primary goal of learning.

«Is it possible that we succeeded not because of test scores but because our society encourages something more important than test scores: to create, innovate, imagine, and think differently?»

Teachers using Dr. Marzano's research - based strategies are encouraged to monitor small bits of student achievement throughout the course of each lesson, rather than wait for test scores.

I encourage a school's educators to collectively determine what kinds of credible evidence, other than NCLB test scores, can help provide an accurate and honest picture of their school's success.