Sentences with phrase «excessive test preparation»

Unfortunately, No Child Left Behind and its multiple - choice tests also caused excessive test preparation, gaming the system and narrowing of the curricula.

But in these days of excessive test preparation, the question — Will this be on the test?

But then he also drags out old tropes about excessive test preparation and the ethical issues posed by such practices.

Mayor Bill de Blasio on Thursday declined to back down from earlier remarks that charter school gains on state exams were partially a result of excessive test preparation, during an appearance on «The Brian Lehrer Show.»

Not exact matches

But we also know that some schools test far more than this, and that too many schools devote excessive time to narrow test - preparation activities in an attempt to avoid federally mandated accountability sanctions.

However, their recommendation that states «fix this» by «identifying and discarding unnecessary tests and, if necessary, placing explicit limits on how much time can be spent on testing» misses that it is the FEDERAL accountability requirements that spawned excessive testing and test preparation in the first place.