But teaching social - emotional skills is often seen as a way to move away from a
narrow focus on test scores, and to consider instead the whole child.
Instead
of focusing on test scores, many respondents said that counselors should be able to focus on helping individual students explore career paths and develop individual plans of study.
The extensive
focus on test scores as the only measure of student progress is forcing educators to teach to the test.
But the
intense focus on test scores has left many parents concerned about narrowing curriculum and what they call a classroom concentration on testing well instead of learning.
Teaching social - emotional skills is often seen as a way to move away from a narrow
focus on test scores in order to consider the whole child, so it would be contradictory to test students on a standardized test to determine which students possess these skills and which don't.
The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 required schools to focus on struggling students and raise proficiency
by focusing on test scores, which prompted many schools to separate out children who were behind so they could provide targeted instruction.
«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than
just focus on test scores.
In 2011, Bill Turque, then The Washington Post's D.C. schools reporter, wrote that Rhee's
focus on test scores did indeed bring «big gains — and more big headlines — for the city.»
I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the
administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.
Despite Tuesday's implicit message that teachers are doing OK, the state's major teachers union, New York State United Teachers, repeated its call for a moratorium and reiterated its criticism that the Regents are
overly focused on test scores for both students and teachers.
Indeed, with our sometimes single -
minded focus on test scores, we may well be subverting the message that my English teacher offered me long ago: that it is best to be purposeful about whatever we do.
...
Focusing on test score gains may lead regulators to favor schools whose benefits could easily fade over time and punish schools that are producing long - lasting gains.»
School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy -
handed focus on test scores.
Since the promotion policy was first implemented in 1996 by Paul Vallas, it has
focused on test scores on the Iowa test, then the IGAP, ISAT, and SAT 10.
Unlike school reformers and initiatives such as NCLB and Race to the Top,
which focus on test scores and teacher evaluations, Plato and every responsible thinker since then has seen that society as a whole must be healthy and equitable.
Kate Toews questioned how the district will measure student potential given the number of assessment methods and the
heavy focus on test scores.
As a second and third grade teacher in DeForest, Moffit pushed her administration to take a more holistic, individualized approach to reading instruction, versus rigid
teaching focused on test scores, she said.
Educating children — the educational process — was corrupted due to the intense and
limited focus on test scores because the law set that singular goal.
«The
exclusive focus on test scores as the measure of educational quality should be replaced with the use of multiple performance measures including rates of graduation, college attendance, post-school employment, criminal justice system involvement, etc.,» Schaeffer said in an email.
«He's putting so
much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.
But a 2013 review of HCZ by Danielle Hanson at the conservative Heritage Foundation was more sympathetic to HCZ, noting that Brookings» narrow
focus on test scores in one Promise Academy misses the zone's mission to «reweave the social fabric of Harlem.»
The new federal law also broadens the
narrow focus on test scores of the previous version of the law, No Child Left Behind, by requiring states to create a school accountability system that includes at least one nonacademic indicator.
The argument for across - the - board talent development has been trumped by «closing the achievement gap» and
focusing on test scores at the low end.
But adding play back into kindergarten after years
of focusing on test scores is not always easy for teachers and principals, says Eva Phillips, the district's Ready Schools coordinator, who has helped Oates spearhead the effort.
Finally, the article suggests that Rocketship is
too focused on test scores, to the point where teachers have students retake standardized tests in order to boost scores (Kamenetz 2016).
The bill — which the president is scheduled to sign Thursday — would dump the current law's
intense focus on test scores and the well - intentioned but impossible goal of having all students reading and calculating at grade level.
With
the focus on test scores, the constant assessment and the administration that goes alongside teaching almost prevents teachers from nurturing the creativity and other 21st century skills that are essential to adult life.
Later they conclude that «
focusing on test scores may lead authorities to favor the wrong school choice programs.»
Teaching social - emotional skills was also seen as a way to move schools away from a narrow
focus on test scores and to consider instead the whole child, writes Kate Zernike in the New York Times.
With today's
focus on test scores and achievement, there's a tremendous amount of good data.»
Before passage of ESSA in 2015, Ladd said «there was no way schools alone could succeed and help children flourish as long as we had this narrow
focus on test scores.»
What does
a focus on test scores in the name of data driven instruction mean for teachers in certain districts?
The focus on test scores proved to be highly unpopular with teachers and in fact, unfair, prompting lawsuits.