Sentences with phrase «focus on test prep»

(Koretz also argues that the focus on test prep in such schools has led to more score inflation there, making the achievement gap appear narrower than it really is.)

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.

Rather than innovate, most charters focus on test prep and drill.

But, then again, given their focus on test prep and how to fill in bubbles, it might not actually matter what language a student speaks.

At higher income schools, where most kids scored proficient on the state tests, there wasn't as much focus on test prep.

But at higher - income schools, where kids tended to do better on those tests, there wasn't as much focus on test prep.

The law unintentionally incentivized a focus on test prep and the narrowing of the curriculum in some schools, as well as the over-testing of students in some places.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

Of their high scoring, de Blasio said, «That's because of a heavy focus on test prep, which is just not the philosophy of this administration and of DOE, nor do I think it's what the vast majority of parents want to see for their kids,» de Blasio said.

We don't need to be focusing on test prep — we need to be focusing on our students and effective instruction!

Philosophical conflicts erupt between teachers who want to preserve an enriched curriculum and Canada, who focuses on test prep.

Not exact matches

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

Asked yesterday about the Success Academy network's extremely high test scores this year, de Blasio replied: «Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep, and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

The Bloomberg administration stripped the arts from the classroom in its zeal to focus on reading, math and test prep.

«We're very comfortable with the approach we're increasingly taking, which is to de-emphasize high - stakes testing, de-emphasize test prep — focus on actually assessing the child,» de Blasio said.

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Researcher's Goal: An Admissions Process That Rewards «Ethical Character» Chronicle for Higher Education, 10/4/15 «The project grew from the worry that many teenagers, focused on academic achievement and their own success, have too little concern for others and the world beyond their test - prep manuals.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

New Effort by Khan Academy to Provide College Advising Support: Khan Academy is developing a new college advising and counseling section, along with new college - prep features that focus students on the specific content they need to be prepared for college math placement tests.

While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

But under No Child Left Behind, schools were pressured to seek short - term gains, so they focused on skills, strategies, and test - prep drills.

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

The «new and improved» summer school program CPS proposes sounds a lot like hours and hours of computer test prep: «weekly acceleration / intervention sessions as part of the full school day; access to instructional tool that provides focused lessons based on individual needs,» which CPS calls «personalization» (slide 14 of CPS PowerPoint Presentation)

Arguing that post-recession budget cuts and Bush - era testing policies have prompted schools to cut art (in order to spend more time prepping kids for math and reading tests), they've come up with an idea: convince states to adopt new art standards — à la Common Core — to get schools to focus on art again.

It should come as no surprise that many schools have chosen to focus more and more of the school year on what is often called «test prep.»

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

Diverse and authentic assessments used to inform instruction and less time spent on test prep and bureaucratic paperwork so teachers can focus on planning meaningful instruction.

«Clearly there is a current within the charter movement that focuses heavily on test prep and I don't think that's the right way to go.»

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

We can raise test scores, as you say, only if we focus on those things — and not on test prep.

The Common Core State Standards offer an opportunity to shift away from shallow test prep to a focus on complex cognitive skills.

More and more teachers are succumbing to the pressure to focus on the test, and more and more students now engage in mindless test prep.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

Critics of growth measures have said they can fluctuate depending on the variables and number of years of testing data added to the mathematical formula, making their validity suspect, and worry that grading teachers based on tests will cause them to focus more on test prep in their classrooms.

Too often the focus is just on improved scores while little focus is on how that goal will be achieved, besides the usual test - prep.

«Today, we worked on more ISEE test prep by focusing on the Math sections.

Assessment prep session to focus instruction on pertinent writing skills and test taking strategies

As Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests increTests and Kids shows, NAEP scores of students whose education was focused exclusively on the Common Core curriculum decreased while NAEP scores for students in affluent suburbs whose education is not limited to test prep for standardized tests incretests increased.

They are focused on SAT test prep with SAT Habit.

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

And if a lot of those proposals described similar college - prep approaches, former Recovery superintendent Patrick Dobard is the first to admit his district focused on opening schools that raised test scores from the pre-Katrina basement — «like triage,» he said — not on creating a range of school types for parents.

These high - quality schools in New York and Boston generally do not focus on teaching to the test; indeed, many are struggling to avoid being coerced into becoming test - prep programs.

For $ 39.95, the ACT organization provides an online prep course complete with content review tools, practice tests consisting of real exam questions, and a customizable learning path for students who want to focus on specific content areas.