Sentences with phrase «if new standardized tests»

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The new teacher evaluations allow districts to develop their own standardized tests, if they want to, to evaluate teachers.

The new teacher evaluations allows districts to develop their own standardized tests, if they want to, to evaluate teachers.

Matt considers the role of the parents opting out of new state standardized tests and says «it's not entirely clear if those changes skewed the findings.»

Also as part of the Common Core, new standardized tests will be given in the 11th grade, starting this coming academic year in many states, meaning that if students fall short, they will have their senior year in high school to catch up.

If the testocracy is right — if it's true that high - stakes standardized testing is the key to improving accountability and performance — then these New York consortium schools that don't give the state standardized test should be the very worst schools in New York CitIf the testocracy is right — if it's true that high - stakes standardized testing is the key to improving accountability and performance — then these New York consortium schools that don't give the state standardized test should be the very worst schools in New York Citif it's true that high - stakes standardized testing is the key to improving accountability and performance — then these New York consortium schools that don't give the state standardized test should be the very worst schools in New York City.

In the future, there should be a debate on this point: If one agrees there is value in well - designed standardized tests that measure what students learn, then the new tests, with performance tasks and short answers that measure problem solving and critical thinking, will be an improvement.

And if the corporate reformers have their way, their schemes to evaluate teachers and the schools of education they came from on the basis of yet another new generation of standardized tests, it will make the testing plague unleashed by NCLB pale by comparison.

Otherwise, it could put BPS at a disadvantage in school rankings if the new enrollment system causes charters to increasingly siphon off less - expensive students who traditionally perform better on standardized tests.

The number of high school students passing New York State's standardized tests, the Regents exams, is raised by as much as 10 percentage points if the teachers participated in Columbia University's Summer Research Program for Science Teachers, the study found.