Sentences with phrase «harmful testing mandates»
Hasn't the regime of harmful testing mandates and punitive stakes perfectly set the stage for Trump to now push school choice and justify the ramming through of Betsy DeVos?
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These arguments are arranged around a set of themes: Federally mandated test - score abuse; ineffective and misleading; educationaly harmful; hurts children who most need help; bad tools for the wrong job; pushes school reform in the wrong direction; and real improvement needed and possible.
Unncessary mandate: The Bush plan is an unnecessary and unhelpful federal mandate that will have the effect of putting the weight of the federal government behind the overuse and misuse of standardized tests, with educationally harmful results.
And they should have the right, if they are not satisfied with the answers to their questions, to opt their children out of any mandated standardized testing that they believe is inappropriate or harmful to their child.
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has dramatically harmed our local schools with its over-emphasis on high - stakes testing, narrowing of the curriculum, and punitive unfunded mandates that have been especially harmful to schools with high - needs student populations.
There are many other harmful substances that are not commonly tested for because they are not mandated by law, he says.