Sentences with phrase «focus on standardized testing»

Most of the reforms these days are focused on standardized test scores.

With the national focus on standardized testing as a measure of a school's performance, every bit of time a student spends in the classroom contributes to performance and achievement.

One way they do this is by not focusing on standardized tests or a set curriculum that every student follows at the same time.

Perhaps our public schools need to avoid solely focusing on their standardized tests, and instead outreach to families to teach healthy eating.

It is moving from a system that was almost entirely focused on standardized tests to one that has a much broader range.

Just as the policy focus on standardized tests seems out of step with the American majority so, too, does the emphasis on vouchers.

The joy of teaching is too often undermined by the immense focus on standardized testing, proficiency expectations, and school report cards.

Their schools had data walls and regularly scheduled data chats focused on standardized test results.

Curriculum that's too focused on standardized test scores is «soul killing» and evaluation by VAM Scores should immediately stop.

Asked about the «increased focus on standardized testing and data in public schools over the past decade,» 33 percent feels that it has «had little effect,» while 36 percent believes it has «actually done more harm than good.»

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

Amid the nationwide focus on standardized test scores and graduation rates, Democracy Prep's network of...

As the reporters write, «The new vision, championed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, who used to run Chicago's schools, calls for a laser focus on standardized tests meant to gauge student skills in reading, writing and math.

Steve Zimmerman, founder of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing New York City's independent charters and the conference's other co-sponsor, says he started his group in response to what he saw as too much focus on standardized testing — a trend he believes stifles innovation, collaboration, and charters» original promise.

For the 12 years that Michael Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City, the Big Apple was home to the United States» largest experiment in implementing the business model of education reform — a model based on sink - or - swim accountability overwhelmingly focused on standardized test data.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

... Especially in a world where we are more and more focused on standardized tests that measure a pretty narrow range of cognitive skills, teachers are less incentivized to think about how to develop those skills in kids.

An estimated 2,500 people turned out Wednesday night at Kleinhans Music Hall as stakeholders shared growing concerns over the classroom focus on standardized tests.

«Teachers face a tremendous challenge in providing the best education for all students, particularly when forced to spend so much time focused on standardized tests.

The NEA added: «We should not continue the unhealthy focus on standardized tests as the primary evidence of student success.»

The bill encourages a smarter approach to testing by moving away from a sole focus on standardized tests by allowing for the use of multiple measures of student learning and progress to make school accountability decisions.

«I have to focus on standardized test prep and don't have time for PBL.»

It is particularly known for its bare - bones curricular focus on standardized test scores in reading and math, its use of computer - based «learning labs» that cut down costs, and its promotion of the Rocketship brand — including a daily pep rally where students chant that they are «Rocketship Rocketeers.»

The recent focus on STEM education and focus on standardized testing of core subjects has largely pushed the discipline of civics out of the classroom.

These articles, focusing on standardized test cheating during Rhee's time as Chancellor, can be found here.

In the last month we've raised serious concerns about the lack of emergency preparedness at many campuses, provided the school district with an application process to pilot restorative practices in our schools, and called on district leaders to expand SAISD's simplistic conception of student success and measure our students in ways that do justice to their social and emotional needs — something absent from SAISD's endless focus on standardized test data.

The constant public focus on standardized test scores suggests the belief that the threat of sanctions or promise of rewards (mostly in the form of increased funding) will enhance students» test scores and improve school quality — that schools can somehow be coerced or seduced into improvement.

We're now seeing a pendulum swing away from the single - minded focus on standardized testing and toward a broader view of the whole child.

Bennett, a Republican, faces an electoral challenge from Democrat Glenda Ritz, who said in a response pre-recorded for Indiana Public Broadcasting stations that Indiana's education system had become too focused on standardized testing.

But in the book I do argue against the intense national focus on standardized tests, which measure a fairly narrow range of cognitive skills and turn out to be not very effective predictors of the educational goals that I think we should care about, especially college - graduation rates.

Their findings, which come as many teachers are signing next year's contacts, suggest educators at all grade and experience levels are frustrated and disheartened by a nationwide focus on standardized tests, scripted curriculum and punitive teacher - evaluation systems.

As chancellor, Rhee caused an immediate furor by closing two dozen schools, firing hundreds of teachers and principals, and putting a laser focus on standardized test scores.

As the Senate Education Committee holds a lengthy discussion on educational assessment standards, the state United Teachers union issued a renewed call for ending the focus on standardized testing.

«A» student Erin Farley (@erinnnfarley) says she was not a great test taker and she wonders: «Is the focus on standardized testing useful for students in their future careers?»

But with all the focus on standardized tests and core curriculum, we've forgotten that the concept of literacy should also include culture and tolerance of diverse people and backgrounds.

In high - poverty areas where progress has been made in closing achievement gaps, such as in Union City, N.J., and Clarke County, Ga., it wasn't a focus on standardized testing that worked.

U.S. Schools Are Too Focused on Standardized Tests, Poll Says Washington Post, 8/23/15» «Clearly, there is anxiety about what's happening in teaching and learning,» said Andres Alonso, a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a former chief executive of Baltimore City Public Schools.»

Instead, the crowd of well - known education reformers and charter advocates, along with lots of teachers from across the U.S., spoke about their struggles to figure out a new era of education post-Common Core standards, one that recognizes the frustration many teachers felt about a hyper - focus on standardized testing.

One of the unfortunate consequences of No Child Left Behind's focus on standardized tests was a reduction of physical education in many school districts.

But it's also garnered lots of criticism for its focus on standardized test - scores and its system of rating schools according to whether they make «adequate yearly progress.»

However, efforts on this front bump up against an educational paradigm that focuses on standardized testing and graduation rates as the benchmarks for measuring schools.