Sentences with phrase «mandated annual standardized testing»

The US Congress is rewriting the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)-- the federal legislation that mandates annual standardized testing.

Federal law, known now as ESSA, or the Every Student Succeeds Act, mandates annual standardized testing in grades 3 - 8 and once in high school.

Not exact matches

By mandating that all states develop annual standardized tests to measure student performance, NCLB created objective standards that could be used for other purposes, too — including as an ostensible means of judging teacher effectiveness.

Regardless of the relative merits of standardized testing, federally mandated annual testing would continue to have a real effect on local school policy.

That's why the nation's top civil rights groups signed a letter insisting that federal law mandate that each state administer annual standardized tests.

In August, Oklahoma became the second state to lose a waiver from the 2001 law, which mandated standardized testing and set annual growth goals called Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP).

You should do this — Tester knows because he tried to eliminate it — because it continues the abominable federal mandate that all states must give annual standardized tests.

At a meeting this past Tuesday (February 10, 2015) the Board of Education for the San Diego Unified School District voted 5 - 0 in favor of a resolution urging Congress to eliminate the federal mandate that schools be required to conduct annual standardized testing.

WHEREAS, there are several significant aspects of ESEA that should be amended during the Act's reauthorization, including the elimination of sanctions and unintended consequences; granting states and local educational agencies greater local flexibility; the elimination of federally mandated, annual standardized testing; and maintaining provisions of ESEA that support its original intent of supporting students with the greatest needs; and

The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.