Sentences with phrase «intense focus on test scores»

But the intense focus on test scores has left many parents concerned about narrowing curriculum and what they call a classroom concentration on testing well instead of learning.

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While some have been critical of Success Academy's intense focus on test - prep, the school's students consistently achieve impressive scores on their New York state exams, routinely outranking students from wealthy neighborhoods and prestigious private schools.

The 44 higher - performing schools (those with average school - wide math and English test scores a full standard deviation above the mean) «create a shared, school - wide intense focus on the improvement of student outcomes,» it says.

Educating children — the educational process — was corrupted due to the intense and limited focus on test scores because the law set that singular goal.