Sentences with phrase «high stakes for their students»

«Of course, whether or not students learn should be part of a teacher's and administrator's evaluation, but when you have high stakes for students, teachers and administrators and little or no accountability for the $ 254 million contract lawmakers have given to the testing company, something is wrong.

Recognizing the high stakes for their students, successful teachers assume personal responsibility for dramatic student learning, even when it means going far beyond traditional expectations.

In addition, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) created even higher stakes for students by requiring a passing score for graduation.

It aims to roll back the number of standardized tests kids take and eliminate the high stakes for students and teachers alike.

Schools do administer a sampling survey of math and literacy, and there is a series of high - school - exit / college - entrance exams that are high stakes for students.

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The stakes will be high for everyone: Students» scores determine where they will go to college and can affect how much in scholarships they...

In our current high stakes system where every test or assignment seems to be a critical step on the pathway to adult success, students frequently feel that they have no room for error.

Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public schools, while ending high - stakes testing, to provide a quality education for all students in New York.

«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and schools are not penalized or rewarded for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.

She echoed the union's concerted push for more school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew informed the April 15 Delegate Assembly of developments at a federal level that could provide long - term relief for students and educators fed up with high - stakes testing.

The Board of Regents, facing pressure from Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.

Currently, the results of student scores on the new high stakes testing will be used to evaluate teachers this year, but Silver says that should be delayed for another two years.

ALBANY — Three powerful teachers» unions joined forces Friday to lobby for legislation that would create a moratorium on attaching «high stakes» to student scores on new state exams.

The unions» petition follows their aggressive push for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

High - stakes testing — and the over-testing of students — have been a point of conflict in New York State for several years now.

The petition comes as the union continues to call for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

«Since each of these corrections requires time for development and implementation, we strongly urge you to support legislation to create a three - year moratorium on the use of state assessments for high - stakes consequences for students and teachers,» the unions wrote in the letter.

Written like a press release from New York State United Teachers, the bill pushes for a three - year moratorium on using student scores on Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes» decisions — principally, teacher evaluations.

New York State United Teachers president Richard Iannuzzi is calling for a three - year moratorium on using the test results for «high - stakes» decisions, such as whether to promote a student or discipline a teacher.

Currently, the results of student scores on the new high - stakes testing will be used to evaluate teachers this year, but Silver says that should be delayed for another two years.

The State Board of Regents, facing pressure from Governor Cuomo and the legislature, is recommending that the effects of the new high stakes testing on students, designed in response to the Common Core, be delayed for five more years.

He was slated to advocate fully funding and desegregating public schools, ending high - stakes testing, and providing a quality education for all students, according to his campaign.

The school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high - stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two - year moratorium on attaching high - stakes consequences to the New York state tests for teachers and students.

But it calls for a delay in using the test results to make high - stakes decisions about students, teachers or schools.

Another open question is how readily teachers will embrace new, NGSS - aligned curricula when they must also focus on preparing their students for high - stakes standardized tests.

«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman shigh - stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman sHigh School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studehigh - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

Most of the contributors to the volume have found evidence that policies that focus on high - stakes testing corrupt educational reform and undermine achievement, especially for at - risk students.

My colleagues ask me how do I possibly find time in a curriculum for project - based learning when there are so many concepts to cover, so much curriculum to cover, and pressure to get students ready for high - stakes tests — these standardized state tests, for example.

Test - Stressed Out: Strategies for Improving Attitudes, Scores Whether it is simple butterflies or a severe case of «test anxiety,» students can feel overwhelming pressure to succeed on high - stakes tests.

Because test scores will be used to penalize low - scoring schools, they will act as high - stakes tests for teachers and administrators especially in schools serving high proportions of poor and minority students.

The stakes aren't quite that high for most schools where principals, PTOs, and student councils have found new, fun ways to raise money for band uniforms, field trips, and school playground equipment.

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High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

This is a very stressful time for both staff and students; fourth - grade testing is high stakes, pass or fail.

Pass rates on the state's 10th - grade exam, which was also a high - stakes exit exam for students, rose from 57 percent to 78 percent between 1994 and 2000, with smaller yet still sizable gains in reading (see Figure 1).

We live in a stressful world, and the stress is heightened for students and educators when it's time to prepare for high - stakes tests.

In short, those states passing high - stakes testing policies must always take into consideration the full range of capacity issues that are necessary for student success.

For most students, this «public audience requirement» ups the stakes, significantly increasing student motivation to do high - quality work.

A closer look at one high - stakes evaluation system, however, shows the positive consequences such systems can have for students.

Certainly there are those within the state who are working hard to eliminate the tests altogether and / or eliminate the high stakes attached for students.

Too often, high - stakes tests are used as the primary assessment tool for students, even for teachers and schools, Nellen says.

One final benefit of the merit award program is that it tends to redirect students away from preparing for high - stakes multiple - choice tests like the SAT - 1 and the ACT.

The teachers of the subjects with high - stakes tests want as much time as possible to work with students on those skills while social studies teachers want the same respect for their content and the time to teach it well.

One of the consequences of the high - stakes state assessments that were mandated in NCLB and the requirement for a fifth indicator of school success in the present - day successor of NCLB (The Every Student Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and sStudent Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and sstudent soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and schools.

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In fact, when it's time for a high - stakes assignment — like a major paper on a novel or the essay on an exam — students feel prepared.

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