Sentences with phrase «leave bubble tests»
As U.S. schools prepare to leave bubble tests behind to enter a new era in assessments, educators everywhere hope and expect that lawmakers and districts get it right.
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Parents and teachers complained — with some legitimacy — that the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era set loose an avalanche of weak fill - in - the - bubble tests to assess student mastery of watered - down state academic standards.
Up to now, much of teaching in California has been criticized as being grounded in the principal measure of success under No Child Left Behind — preparing students to fill in the correct bubbles on standardized tests.
I believe that these rigorous standards have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in the typical American classroom — to move teachers far beyond the test - prep and bubble - kids obsessions of the No Child Left Behind era.
On the other hand, though, one wonders whether he'll leave a trail of teachers fired for their students» failed bubble tests in his embrace of the imperfect.