Sentences with phrase «insistence on annual testing»

This is too bad, since America's problems in education will not be significantly improved without change at the federal level, since the last administration's most important legacy, the «Every Student Succeeds» act, failed to sufficiently remove the federal meddling through insistence on annual testing in two subjects only that has stalled American improvement efforts in this century.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

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The API's obsessive insistence on measuring schools solely on the basis of a couple of annual tests led to an era in which arts, science and physical fitness were given short shrift.

It could be because of our insistence on the American Dream and the ideal of people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps or the aversion many people have to the support systems we already have in place or the tax implications a UBI system would have (more on that later), but the closest we've gotten is Richard Nixon's guaranteed annual income proposal in the 1970s, which was still a means - tested program, and which was passed in the House of Representatives but killed in the Senate.