Sentences with phrase «just about standardized test»

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Wuthnow is most concerned about how the hegemony of government standards eventually erodes the freedom and particularity of congregations — just as standardized tests have eroded the freedom and particularity of schools.

Just as Mr. Cuomo was unenthusiastic about permanent mayoral control, Mr. de Blasio was unenthusiastic about Mr. Cuomo's education reform agenda, particularly his push to increase the use of standardized testing to measure teachers and his plans to take state control of struggling schools.

Sadly, many of them never make the connection between mind and body, and just keep sinking into those self - defeating thoughts as they worry about how they will measure up on the next standardized test.

The school started by Deborah Meier, current scourge of standardized tests, charters, accountability, and just about everything associated with Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein, who initiatiated the school report cards program?

The fact is, no parent gets excited about his or her child taking a standardized test, just as we don't get excited about taking our kids for annual checkups at the doctor's office.

Conley's report comes at just the right time; while we have heard endlessly about teacher, student, and parent frustration over standardized testing, about what those tests are missing, and how limited they are, the educational community has been too silent about alternatives.

«The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right?»

Only 17 % don't think schools place enough emphasis on standardized testing, while just as many (15 %) think the level of emphasis is about right.

President Obama has now succumbed to the firestorm in opposition to standardized and «high stakes» testing that has swept the country over the past several years, even picking up on the talking points — «Learning is about so much more than just filling in the right bubble».

Did I mention these schools score well on standardized tests and other metrics (let's face it, if they've got their act together and have developed a reputation, they do just about everything better....

I've just written a book on this topic, The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be, and Steve Inskeep sat down with me to ask me a few questions about it.

In conversations about Finland's stunning success over the past decade, many education leaders look at what makes the system work so well — the high bar for entry into the teaching profession, the absence of standardized tests, the embedded professional development and support systems, to name just a few — and ask «Why can't we do this in my country?»

The Council of the Great City Schools just released a study of the nation's 66 largest school districts that revealed that students spend approximately 20 - 25 hours per school year taking these standardized tests, which amounts to 2.3 % of classroom time for the average 8th grader who will take about 112 of them between PreK and 12th grade, approximately 8 per year.

These folks have never seen a standardized test they didn't think could unlock the secrets of the universe, and they are just not having any questions about silly notions of «validity,» «reliability,» or «appropriateness» of these tests.