Sentences with phrase «further narrowing of the curriculum»

School leaders should be able to put the needs of their students first, and no one benefits from this further narrowing of the curriculum.

For example, we strongly support doing away with the adequate yearly progress measurement, and agree that requiring states to adopt unreliable test - based principal and teacher evaluation will only lead to an overemphasis on standardized tests and the further narrowing of the curriculum.

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By focusing on math and reading to the exclusion of other subjects, he says, «you create incentives to further distort and narrow the curriculum, which is disastrous.»

While critics blame the Common Core for further narrowing curriculums, the authors of the standards actually saw them as a tool to counteract that trend.

This system necessitates the growth and expansion of standardized tests into more subject areas and grades to provide more data for evaluations, further narrowing the curriculum and alienating students.

I see children and young people whose mental wellbeing is under threat — and I wonder how far a narrow, academic curriculum and a barrage of high - stakes tests are contributing to the increasing mental ill health of our children and young people.

Further, teachers of low - income students, English learners, and students of color are especially likely to work in these outdated, factory - model schools, and they are most likely to be forced to adopt a narrow, one - size - fits - all curriculum, further constraining their autonomy and professionalism (Ravitch,Further, teachers of low - income students, English learners, and students of color are especially likely to work in these outdated, factory - model schools, and they are most likely to be forced to adopt a narrow, one - size - fits - all curriculum, further constraining their autonomy and professionalism (Ravitch,further constraining their autonomy and professionalism (Ravitch, 2010).

That will be a narrowing of curriculum far more extensive than the narrowing of content [E / LA and Math emphasized more than other content areas] that folks complain about now.

Furthermore, attaching these stakes to test scores will result in further intensifying the focus on test preparation that is responsible for the narrowing of our curriculum.

Together these strategies use the testing regime that is the main engine of corporate reform to extend the narrow standardization of curricula and scripted classroom practice that we've seen under No Child Left Behind, and to drill down even further into the fabric of schooling to transform the teaching profession and create a less experienced, less secure, less stable and less expensive professional staff.

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

According to FairTest, «(H) igh - stakes testing is far more likely to lower the quality of curriculum, instruction and school climate in schools serving children of color: Facing high - stakes test - based accountability under NCLB and state laws, schools narrow curriculum by reducing or dropping untested subjects.