Sentences with phrase «minded focus on standardized testing»

We're now seeing a pendulum swing away from the single - minded focus on standardized testing and toward a broader view of the whole child.

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So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.