For years, critics have complained that the law's
focus on test scores offers far too narrow a picture for judging school quality.
Not exact matches
These lessons
focus primarily
on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have
offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just
test scores.
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.
In the face of these powerful forces, MI theory has served as a reminder to educators to
focus on the strengths and weaknesses of the individual child and has also
offered conceptual support for educators seeking to prevent individual students from being stigmatized by a low
score on one of these standardized
tests.
Some researchers speculate that those programs didn't
offer big enough rewards and that they
focused too narrowly
on test scores rather than the instructional practices teachers can control more directly.
Our so - called «shopping - mall» high schools were predicated
on offering a vast college style menu of courses; our teachers tend to be
focused on raising student
test scores; and metal detectors and police officers characterize many urban high schools.
While I am sure we can all debate the many reasons teachers
offer for leaving the profession including increased emphasis
on standardized
test scores, the shifting
focus of the annual professional performance review and the lack of funding for education at the state and national level, there is a growing stream of awareness that the core of the frustration is the lack of shared decision - making roles and opportunities for teachers in the majority of our schools today.
This
test would
focus primarily
on wheeling, with none of the
scoring taking in to account how smooth of a highway ride these rigs
offer, whether they have heated seats, or which truck has the best stereo.