Sentences with phrase «movement against standardized testing»

If the power of solidarity is going to reclaim our schools, more affluent, predominantly white activists will need to develop an anti-racist understanding of the movement against standardized testing and the barriers that communities of color face to joining — including the very real fear from parents of color that their children's schools will be shut down if they don't encourage them to score well on the tests.

Because the stakes attached to these tests are different for different communities, this new movement against standardized testing would do well to embrace a multifaceted approach.

Duncan said he is committed to working with the GOP on a rewrite of the 14 - year - old law, itself a reauthorization of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, and gave a nod to the growing national movement against standardized testing, urging Congress to set limits on how much time students should spend on state and district standardized testing — and to report to parents if they blow past those limits.

In response to the added pressure this year, a movement against standardized testing is gathering steam as some parents decide to let their children opt out of the tests.

The statistic not only showed the growing strength of the «opt out» movement against standardized testing, but also put immediate pressure on state and federal officials, who must now decide whether to penalize schools and districts with low participation rates.

Not exact matches

Parents in New York also had complaints against standardized testing and organized an Opt - Out movement.

Pellegrino, a West Islip resident and leader in Long Island's «opt - out» movement against standardized student testing, is facing Conservative Tom Gargiulo of Babylon, a retired teacher and coach who also has the backing of Republicans and the Independence Party.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

Today's announcement that the U.S. Department of Education will consider proposals from states to delay test - based teacher evaluation reflects belated recognition of the growing movement against standardized exam overuse and misuse.

Malloy implemented an extremely prejudicial evaluation system for teachers, brought in Common Core and its associated testing (SBAC), crushed the OPT OUT movement, reduced funding for public schools while increasing funding for Achievement First Charter Schools, increased funding for CONNCan (a private Charter School advocacy group), appointed Stefan Pryor (CEO of Achievement First) as Commissioner of Education, vastly increased standardized testing throughout the state, and tried to abolish of tenure for teachers, all endorsed and supported by Melodie Peters against the wishes of the membership in CT..

With congressional efforts underway to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, a burgeoning movement of educators, school administrators, parents and students has blossomed in the fight against high - stakes standardized testing.

While our new Commissioner is preparing to go on a speaking and listening tour of the state, she would do well to try to understand exactly why New York is the current leader in the nationwide Opt Out movement against today's standardized testing policies, having seen test refusals jump from nearly 60,000 in 2014 to 200,000 in 2015.

What is happening in New York is indicative of a groundswell of popular dissent — what Peter Rothberg, a journalist for the Nation and a New York City parent, called a «nationwide movement» — against the overuse and abuse of standardized testing in public schools.