Sentences with phrase «focusing on test scores»

Two additional studies now reinforce the findings that focusing on test scores could result in teachers missing the boat on other critical factors.

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.

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.

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.

Later they conclude that «focusing on test scores may lead authorities to favor the wrong school choice programs.»

«We need to stop focusing on test scores, blaming teachers and parents, and start teaching kids how to love and care for each other.»

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.

Critics have accused its schools of excessive discipline and an inordinate focus on test scores.

«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.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

... 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.»

With today's focus on test scores and achievement, there's a tremendous amount of good data.»

The extensive focus on test scores as the only measure of student progress is forcing educators to teach to the test.

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.

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.»

For years, critics have complained that the law's focus on test scores offers far too narrow a picture for judging school quality.

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.»

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.

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.»

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.

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One of the critiques of the API score used for over 10 years was that it only focused on test scores to rank schools.

After all this is why people focus on test scores.

The focus on test scores proved to be highly unpopular with teachers and in fact, unfair, prompting lawsuits.

Pallone was concerned that NCLB was too focused on test scores rather...

Such a narrow focus on test scores would be a step backwards for a system that has made significant progress over the last several years and would fall short of providing the professional feedback and support educators want and deserve.

Critics fear that parent triggers will transform the school system into an assembly line of identically run schools that focus on test scores at the expense of teacher autonomy in the classroom.

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.

But Meier eventually became disillusioned with the Bloomberg administration's mission for small schools, believing that, while there was surface agreement on size, her vision of education was being marginalized by a focus on test scores and a top - down approach to accountability.

Will the ever - tightening focus on test scores snuff out creativity?

Almost everything; there's compliance paperwork, more collaboration, more focus on test scores and far more accountability.

Educating children — the educational process — was corrupted due to the intense and limited focus on test scores because the law set that singular goal.

She points out how educators who go out of their way to help students are still restricted by NCLB's focus on test scores and graduation rates.

This year, the state's focus on test scores — at the expense of graduation rates — puts Washington at a disadvantage:

Evaluation systems often attempt to offset the focus on test score data by incorporating other measures of teacher effectiveness, including observations, peer review, and other teacher materials.

Garrison may well get a respite from a focus on test scores for a while.

A focus on test scores and other goal - based incentives stifles rather than encourages the creativity and inventiveness that is essential to a dynamic society and economy.

«Eisner's unrelenting advocacy of the arts continued during periods in which arts programs were cut in schools, and a chorus of administrators and policymakers, faced with budget constraints, focused on test scores, worried that spending time painting or drawing was not academic enough... One of the casualties of our preoccupation with test scores is the presence — or should I say the absence — of arts in our schools,» he wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 2005.

Back in the early 1990s there was no focus on test scores, thankfully.

The peer - reviewed paper focuses on test scores at public middle schools near a state boundary.

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.

«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.

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).

While it may give little comfort to those who've already waded through the testing morass, Google decided to give its candidates a break and ditch the focus on test scores during the hiring process.

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.