Sentences with phrase «just focus on test scores»

«It is increasingly important to look at long - run outcomes of educational policies, including impacts on educational attainment and labor market outcomes, rather than just focus on test scores.

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Of their high scoring, de Blasio said, «That's because of a heavy focus on test prep, which is just not the philosophy of this administration and of DOE, nor do I think it's what the vast majority of parents want to see for their kids,» de Blasio said.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

These lessons focus primarily on the transparency of the systems, but this is just one of several principles that states should attend to (which I have offered previously): Accountability systems should actually measure school effectiveness, not just test scores.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Merseth says the aim isn't just to create a charter that must meets state guidelines and scores well on standardized tests but also to focus on the qualitative, social, moral, and emotional questions facing school design.

Luke Reynolds (recommended by Adam Steiner - @steineredtech) thinks students are «more than just test scores,» and hence focuses less on the test and more on overall classwork.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

A big change seen in about half the states is a focus on growth — how fast test scores are moving and in which direction, not just how many kids have passed a specific score on the tests.

By 2015, a task force including DPS staff, community partners, and city agencies focused on providing services to DPS students will recommend to the board a metric to measure the growth of the whole child, not just by test scores.

The Forum on Educational Accountability has produced a blueprint to rewrite the law to focus on improving schools not just inflating state test scores.»

Still, there would not be compelling evidence that national standards produce optimal outcomes; economic growth, as well as personal fulfillment, could very well require an education focused on much more than just high test scores.

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

Episode Info: Instead of just looking at the effect teachers have on the test scores of their students, researchers have expanded their focus to include the impact of teachers on student attendance and the long run outcomes of their students.

It's not just focusing on data about the test scores and so on.

It required schools to publish their scores on state tests not just as averages, but broken down by students» race, sex and other groups, a rule that most educators agree has focused attention on narrowing achievement gaps.

If you just focus on raising test scores, some teachers say, «Well, I get the best test scores in the district or the state, so why should I improve?»

Around that table, we were devising a better way to measure success for all kids, focused not on the inputs, but on the outcomes — and outcomes beyond just test scores.

Too often the focus is just on improved scores while little focus is on how that goal will be achieved, besides the usual test - prep.

Finally, recognizing that learning is not just about getting high scores on tests, BVP's focus on a positive and joyful classroom environment has led to significant social and cultural outcomes.

What this means is that all of the hype and stress and teaching - to - the - test is really just focused on a few «borderline» kids in an effort boost the score of the school.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

I worry about people just focusing on that number and getting that number up, when it's not about moving the needle on the test score.

Making the assessments multidimensional (not relying exclusively on test scores), focusing on potential and not just performance, and looking at subjects beyond just reading and math could all prove beneficial.

It was uplifting to read that these identified schools and students increased performance success by adopting his methods, and not just simply by focusing on content to improve test scores.

Redefining Ready: How to focus on whole student, not just test scores New York State School Boards Association November 7, 2016

Focus on developing people not just improving test scores.

We believe SEL is critical to the growth and development of our students and that there is the added benefit of helping our community focus on other measures of success — not just on state test scores.