Indeed, with our sometimes single -
minded focus on test scores, we may well be subverting the message that my English teacher offered me long ago: that it is best to be purposeful about whatever we do.
Not exact matches
Keeping in
mind that
test - based accountability mostly
focuses on the level of
test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how
test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.
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.