Sentences with phrase «fails new standardized tests»

Cuomo has complained that while two - thirds of students are failing new standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, most teachers are rated very highly under new performance reports.

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But while most of the attention went to negotiations about teacher evaluations and standardized tests, new policies also were put in place for dealing with failing schools.

NYSUT's board also withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as implemented and interpreted in New York state until SED makes major course corrections to its failed implementation plan and supports a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences from standardized testing.

We need to leave behind standardized testing as the sole measure to determine whether students and schools are succeeding or failing, and adopt new models that include rich, curriculum - embedded performance assessments and multiple measures of assessing school quality.

Tapped in 2012 to lead a turnaround of the failing 652 - student school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.

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At the start of the 21st century, new state and federal accountability policies — with their widely publicized results on standardized tests and penalties for schools that failed to meet improvement targets — led central - office administrators to closely manage schools.

The new mandates recess for some elementary school students, pares down on a few standardized tests and seeks to incentivize charter school companies to set up near chronically failing public schools.

In recent years with new state and national education laws (e.g. No Child Left Behind), students» scores on standardized tests can also have consequences for individual teachers (their evaluation is partially based on their students» test scores) and for schools (for example, potentially closing schools with a certain percentage of failing students).

To the dismay of Gov. David A. Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and various lawmakers, the Legislature failed to pass education reform legislation prior to the Race to the Top application deadline, to lift or increase the state's cap on charter schools and mandate the use of student standardized testing scores to evaluate teachers.