Sentences with phrase «mandated high stakes tests»

State mandated high stakes tests for children are the latest for - profit craze that monetizes and dehumanizes children.

But the ratings are derived primarily from state - mandated high stakes tests.

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Just as likely, they understand that «failure to perform» on the NCLB - mandated high - stakes test means their job is likely to go * poof *.

The passage reads, «Our [U.S.] students face the lowest amount of high - stakes, mandated, and criterion - referenced testing in the world.

«The frameworks and high - stakes test introduced pressure without support and a mandate without materials,» says David Kauffman, first author on the study.

Oh, and let's not forget the ubiquitous frustration and anger I keep running into regarding things like professional discretion, high - stakes testing, and an often enormous gap between curricular mandates and students» ability levels.

Whatever you do, don't obsess or lament about high - stakes testing, deadbeat parents, unfunded mandates, or No Child Left Behind accountability.

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Thus, New Jersey's first set of mandated curriculum standards and high stakes tests were created to satisfy legal and political mandates, not for educational reasons.

Item and test development, administration, scoring, reporting, and psychometrics services for state and federally mandated high - volume, high - stakes testing.

I got to look over the president's shoulder and sign the end of No Child Left Behind's federal mandate to support high - stakes testing.

Teachers are required to prepare students for high stakes tests and to cover a wide array of curricular mandates.

More than 90 percent of teachers outside New York City have earned high ratings in the state's first year of mandated performance evaluations, a fact that state education commissioner John King said «should» ease unions» concerns about attaching «high stakes» to testing in a new, more difficult curriculum.

Teachers in states that mandate the use of high - stakes test scores for teacher evaluations reported: 1) More negative feelings about testing 2) Much lower job satisfaction, and 3) Much higher percentage thought of leaving the profession due to testing.

Among the facts from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Fourth Grade Reading report cited by FairTest: — There has been no gain in NAEP grade four reading performance nationally since 1992 despite a huge increase in state - mandated testing; — NAEP scores in southern states, which test the most and have the highest stakes attached to their state testing programs, have declined; — The NAEP score gap between white children and those from African American and Hispanic families has increased, even though schools serving low - income and minority - group children put the most emphasis on testing; and — Scores of children eligible for free lunch programs have dropped since 1996.

conservative federal administration, committed to local control, would mandate annual high stakes tests for every local schoolhouse in the nation.

He said the Democrats did not take other important steps, such as calling for the banning of all high - stakes uses of standardized tests and a reduction in government - mandated testing.

After successive years of failing to meet high - stakes testing and accountability mandates required by NCLB (2002), schools across the nation have undergone numerous restructuring practices in an effort to «turnaround» their failure.

In a video released on the network's website, Ravitch says families should opt out of state - mandated high - stakes testing in part because the scores provide «no useful information» about the abilities of individual students and are unfairly used to evaluate educators.

Even though NCLB mandated 17 federally required tests, the high stakes attached to them led states and districts to start administering multiple interim benchmark tests to see how well students would do on the federal tests.

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has dramatically harmed our local schools with its over-emphasis on high - stakes testing, narrowing of the curriculum, and punitive unfunded mandates that have been especially harmful to schools with high - needs student populations.

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

For example, Haladyna, Nolen, and Haas (1991) studied Arizona teachers» views of the state - mandated high - stakes test and found that many teachers thought the test was unfair to minority and ESL students.

Today, government officials, along with leaders of corporations, foundations, universities, and other institutions, determine what all students «need» to know, and this becomes educational policy, expressed in standards, state - mandated textbooks, high stakes testing, and relentless control over teaching and learning.»

For all its good intentions, NCLB will be remembered for ushering in an unprecedented era of high - stakes testing — and for saddling public education with a federal mandate on school accountability that had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer.

Opt Out Groups and Common Core Opponents Oppose Senate Bill to Reauthorization NCLB Parents and teachers have long awaited the reauthorization of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), with the reasonable expectation that the onerous provisions of federally mandated, high - stakes testing would be removed.

Mandated high - stakes testing since the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act has not improved educational outcomes or closed any test - defined achievement gaps.

REALITY: In districts with mandated, scripted curriculums, or in schools that inevitably narrow the curriculum in order to prepare for high - stakes testing, students are covering less content in ways that do not require higher - order thinking skills.

Standardized curricula, high stakes testing, and competing curricular mandates in math and reading have marginalized authentic social studies instruction (Grant, 2003; Heafner et al., 2007; Rock et al., 2006).

The frameworks and high - stakes test introduced pressure without proven pedagogy and a mandate without materials.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

Riding what they see as a wave of anti-testing sentiment among parents, opponents of high - stakes assessments believe a strategy known as opt - out — having parents refuse to let their children take state - mandated tests — could force policymakers to take note of their cause.