Sentences with phrase «high stakes testing like»

When Bennett talks about high stakes testing like the IREAD - 3, he likes to quote Sec.

Not exact matches

«The Common Core standardized high stakes tests are making too many children feel like they're just another brick in the wall instead of empowering them to love learning.

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

It is a campaign Cuomo waged from the start of his tenure as governor in 2011, but eased off of in recent years due to significant backlash from teachers unions, suburban parents upset by high - stakes testing, and others, like AQE.

The New York State Allies for Public Education wants a much more open process with candidates explaining how they stand on issues like the Common Core and high - stakes testing.

Teaching a core tested subject like middle school math in the challenging environment of urban public schools is a high - stakes game.

These self - marginalizing alliances leave a numerical majority of American parents, who like their traditional neighborhood public schools (and who've had it with high - stakes testing) or who don't identify as political progressives, regarding reform with either indifference or as a threat.

By contrast, schools and students might have incentives and opportunities to manipulate the results of high - stakes tests, like TAAS.

This might seem like an unrealistic idea in an age of common core standards and high - stakes tests — what if students veer drastically off the required course?

These high stakes tests do include performance assessments, much like the assessments we create in a PBL project.

I am a principal in Texas of one of the first grade 3 - 6 TEA approved Public school Virtual Academy - I would like some pointers when discussing accountability with potential parents who are opposed to high stakes testing and love our school this year but would rather their child not participate in the STAAR testing required by TEA.

As our country continues to embrace high - stakes testing, and the conversation sometimes veers too far from children to test scores, let's all try to remember students like Anna.

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.

In a high - stakes testing climate like the one many of today's teachers contend with, it's easy to think that the related rhetoric signifies high expectations.

For example, although the schools CMU chartered were required by law to administer the state testing system, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program or MEAP, the results were wholly inadequate for making high - stakes decisions like closing schools.

In fact, ignoring any complications from test exclusions, Amrein and Berliner would report this as something like, «Just 23 percent of states posted gains on NAEP higher than the national average after high stakes were introduced.»

In the end, the high - stakes test is the definition of what we think successful education stands for, for better or worse, and I think it's still an open question whether the next generation of assessments will really match our aspiration to encourage rigorous, deep thinking rather than the rote - like product from the testing regime.

Like NCLB and other previously promised panaceas, the cost is high - stakes, time - consuming tests culminating in teacher dread, parental confusion and some combination of student anxiety for kids who are achievement - motivated and indifference for those who are not.

And tying high - stakes external consequences to measures of goals, like test scores, can lead to unproductive behaviors.

Oh, and let's not forget the ubiquitous frustration and anger I keep running into regarding things like professional discretion, high - stakes testing, and an often enormous gap between curricular mandates and students» ability levels.

With all of the high - stakes testing in our schools, and the resulting judgments and consequences for students and teachers, it is no wonder that schools are taking time away from activities like recess, breaks, art, music... to spend more time on academics.

Increasingly, parents and teachers agree that high - stakes statutory tests like SATs can actually make it harder to find out what children are really learning and to improve their education.

For challenges like large class sizes, high - stakes testing, and intense focus on teacher and administrative accountability, increasing success by all students means we must engage them into the learning dialog.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

As I traveled throughout the United States working with schools, students and teachers frequently reported that personal learning plans had devolved into an assignment and for some, it felt like another control device to get them to achieve on high stakes tests.

In general, studies indicated that high - stakes standardized basic skills tests led to: a) a narrowing of the curriculum, b) an overemphasis on basic skills and test - like instructional methods, c) a reduction in effective instructional time and an increase in time for test preparation, d) inflated test scores, and e) pressure on teachers to improve test scores (Herman & Golan, 1993; Nolen, Haladyna, & Haas, 1992; Resnick & Resnick, 1992; Shepard, 1991; Shepard & Dougherty, 1991, Smith, 1991; Smith, Edelsky, Draper, Rottenberg, & Cherland, 1990).

I have not seen or heard of a high - stakes test that measures the proficiency of friending, sharing photos, tagging, liking a comment, sending messages / gifts, or any other social aspect of network awareness.

Democratic superintendent candidate Glenda Ritz doesn't like high stakes tests, especially Indiana's new high stakes reading exam, the IREAD - 3.

Positions long held by MORE, like strenuous opposition to high stakes testing and the use of VAM growth scores to evaluate teachers, were until very recently considered by the power structure to be extreme.

In this time of high - stakes testing, it is understandable that most programs in a high - needs school like mine revolve around promoting proficiency and documenting formative assessment.

Comment from Morna McDermott: How can we escape the trap that high stakes testing both serves corporate interest like Pearson at the expense of children's real learning while acknowledging that tests are being used to shut down public community schools for corporate model charter schools that have proven to be no better than the schools they replaced?

I urge you — before you make such high - stakes turn over your schools under duress, make the TEA prove that the STAAR test complies with laws like HB743 — if you do, you'll find as parents who sued the TEA two years ago, that it doesn't.

In reality, what could be more factory - like than «reform» standards such as high stakes testing, virtual learning and student data obsession?

«If you're going to wean school administrations away from focusing on the SBAC score as opposed to formative tests throughout the school year that identify the specific needs of the student, then you've got to stop treating SBAC like a high - stakes test that not only goes potentially to teacher evaluation, but to administrator evaluation, and to school ranking.

United Opt Out National, a group devoted to eliminating high - stakes testing in public education, and Save Our Schools, a grassroots movement that opposes federal education reforms like NCLB and Race to the Top, have planned a series of events called Occupy the DOE (Department of Education).

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

«Increasingly, parents and teachers agree that high - stakes statutory tests like Sats can actually make it harder to find out what children are really learning and to improve their education.

They take the Every Child Ready for College or Career Act of 2015, to mean their child must be prepared to succeed by being offered the same opportunities to take high - stakes tests like all the other students, and they believe that should include few or no test alterations.

Here are other reasons why parents of students with disabilities might like high - stakes testing:

Although MTAS would like to see a reduction (and elimination in the early years) of standardized testing and time spent on test preparation in CPS, the high - stakes consequences of many standardized tests concern us equally as much.

«Collective bargaining rights allow educators, like me, to speak up for their students on important issues such as class sizes and high - stakes standardized tests,» said CTA President Eric C. Heins.

If a child takes the high - stakes tests in the regular classroom, they might seem like they are able to drop special education labeling.

The Palm Beach County board, like many other school boards, passed a resolution in 2012 opposing high - stakes testing, but it had little effect.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

It is not possible to to validly assess «value added» from tests like KS2 SATs and GCSE, which are so high stakes for the schools in terms of DfE floor targets and the misuse of the data by OfSTED.

Mainly, it would be helpful to see more studies, like mine, that shed light on what is gained and what might be lost when high - stakes testing is added to the choice mix.

I believe that the matter of endorsing or not endorsing the Common Core standards and liking or not liking the high - stakes tests associated with them are two entirely different issues.

The Task Force has also failed to consider the findings of over 100 California researchers who called «for a moratorium on high - stakes testing broadly, and in particular, on the use of scientifically discredited assessment instruments (like the current SBAC, PARCC, and Pearson instruments).»

Under Race to the Top and Common Core students, teachers, schools, districts, and states are evaluated based on the high - stakes standardized tests, transforming schools from places where students like Oprah learn to love learning and Senator Murkowski learned to question into test prep academies.