Sentences with phrase «increased testing mandates»

In response to the increased testing mandates of NCLB, RTTT and other federal grant programs, some states and districts now require standardized tests for every subject, including art, music, journalism and physical education.

Not exact matches

The school has shown low scores on mandated state tests, but many argue that new school leadership and increasing student performance should give the school a reprieve.

On the subject of altering the current mandates, including increased standardized testing, Common Core curriculum and the especially controversial data sharing, Tkaczyk said she is certain that these topics will be hotly debated during this legislative session.

He says this comes from increasing pressure from policy - makers and administrators, budget cuts to already underfunded programs, unreliable teacher evaluations, mandated testing, and a myriad of other burdens.

Part of the increase in statistical testing comes from regulatory mandates, but Pierce also says, «This helps us know if a result is significant and biologically meaningful.»

«These findings underscore the need for increased awareness for HCV testing among healthcare providers and baby boomers and other innovative strategies such as state - mandated HCV testing.»

The number of students in alternative schools showed moderate increases contemporaneous with new national mandates regarding standardized testing and graduation rates.

During the first four years of the study, voucher students took a low - stakes test, but in the final year of the study, policymakers increased the stakes by mandating that the test results be publicized and the scores improved.

I'm talking about things like teacher licensing mandates, which researchers have long found do not improve teacher quality and traffic in disproven education fads (but do provide easy - access cash cows for state departments of education and teacher colleges since teachers are required to keep buying their products to maintain certification); ever - increasing testing and data - entry mandates; centralized curriculum mandates like Common Core; centralized teacher evaluation and ratings systems; and the massive data entry required to document things like student behavior problems and special education services.

There are many reasons that districts consider contracted transportation, but more often than not the reasons fall into one of the following categories: an aging fleet and limited resources; costs increasing faster than funding; overextended resources and scheduling difficulties; changes challenging the system such as redistricting, addition of inter-district schools and parental choice; or administrative headaches such as dealing with parents, employee absenteeism, drug and alcohol testing, and mandated paperwork.

The increase in mandated standardized testing is having a significant negative educational impact on children and contributes to the financial crisis facing districts across the Empire State.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

A major newspaper expose demonstrating the U.S. school testing industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting industry's inability to competently design and administer the current level of required state exams should persuade Congress to drop a plan to greatly increase mandated testing now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (Faitesting now being debated as part of an «education reform» bill, according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FaiTesting (FairTest).

Back in the 2000's, No Child Left Behind policies that mandated student testing prompted a majority of school districts to increase instruction time devoted to the two tested subjects: reading and math.

An increasing number of states are passing legislation mandating annual evaluations of teachers and school leaders, based upon multiple measures including state test scores, local assessments, classroom observations, climate surveys and other factors.

To the dismay of Gov. David A. Paterson, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and various lawmakers, the Legislature failed to pass education reform legislation prior to the Race to the Top application deadline, to lift or increase the state's cap on charter schools and mandate the use of student standardized testing scores to evaluate teachers.