Sentences with phrase «much emphasis on»

He cautions against putting too much emphasis on differences of just a few points between schools.

Carole Willis, the chief executive of the National Foundation for Education Research, welcomed «anything that gives schools greater clarity around accountability» but warned against «placing too much emphasis on using academisation as a silver bullet».

• Myth: Annual testing places too much emphasis on a single exam.

Sixty - four percent of the American public say there is «too much emphasis on testing» and 41 percent say parents hsould be able to opt their children out of standardized testing.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54 % of American Adults think schools place too much emphasis on standardized testing these days.

NCLB put too much emphasis on testing for schools to receive funding, leading to failures in teaching, from «teaching to the test» to outright having teachers forge students» tests.

UC - Riverside and its partners in the Inland Empire College Success and Career Readiness Collaborative, for instance, traced math deficiencies in arriving college students back to the fourth grade, where they found that there was too much emphasis on pure multiplication, addition, subtraction, and division, without a sense of how in real life those computations might be used.

Too much emphasis on teaching sight words can sometimes crowd out phonics instruction, or even reading practice.

Another concern with over-emphasizing sight word instruction is that too much emphasis on teaching irregular words can actually undermine children's confidence in their ability to decode words that are phonetically regular.

The OECD warned in 2012 there was too much emphasis on GCSE results in English schools and this risked negative consequences including «gaming» and teaching to the test.

For over ten years, districts across the U.S. have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic

Summary: Americans overwhelmingly think there is too much emphasis on standardized testing in public schools and that test scores are not the best way to judge schools, teachers or students, according to a national poll.

She will add: «So far the Government has put too much emphasis on the needs of employers and not enough on what is best for young people's future careers and their aspirations.

The WEA, which argues that it's wrong to put so much emphasis on a single test like the WASL, has endorsed one of Bergeson's challengers, former state Superintendent Judith Billings.

«This, I think, is destructive, not productive,» he said, in part because he believes the governor's proposal would put too much emphasis on standardized - test scores in determining teacher effectiveness.

57 percent agreed that there is too much emphasis on testing today.

With body image being a big issue for teens, these could offer too much emphasis on weight and size.

Those supporting California's approach mistakenly argue that using only academic indicators puts too much emphasis on test results.

Finally, has the country's passion for professional sports led schools to place too much emphasis on athletics?

What they get, is often a little different - with too much emphasis on face - to - face and long courses.

In ten years, I bet we'll be kicking ourselves for having placed so much emphasis on these supposedly «objective» measures.

I'm glad to see so much emphasis on differentiation at multiple levels of the system.

The National Education Association, though a long - time Democratic sidecar, recently issued a 26 - page single - spaced denunciation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's Race to the Top funding criteria — alleging that they place far too much emphasis on charter schools and insult teachers by suggesting that their performance should be gauged by their pupils» achievement.

And a 57 percent majority feel there is too much emphasis on testing today.

With so much emphasis on failing schools, Education World thought this would be an appropriate time to focus on the good news in our schools.

Meeting the challenges of today There is too much emphasis on academic achievement; it's not for everybody.

Before I came, I did not put too much emphasis on where I was going in speaking with people.

Today, there is way too much emphasis on superficial mastery of technique rather than deeper learning, for example in the sciences and mathematics.

Tom Ellis, a principal lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at Portsmouth University, pointed out: «There's very much an emphasis on getting rid of low - level disruption or disorder in the classroom.»

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Too much emphasis on small skills and minutiae will have you feeling like you are drowning in apps, digital content, and 25 individual student learning paths and lesson plans.

Issues with over-identification were raised, amid concerns over too much emphasis on targets rather than placing priority on addressing the needs of individual students.

The Happify study concluded that some Millennials place far too much emphasis on work as the key to their happiness.

While there is no shortage of teachers who say that there is too much emphasis on TAAS, the regime of standards and tests seems to have grown on many teachers.

Tom Ellis, principal lecturer at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies at Portsmouth University, told Tes that «there is very much emphasis on getting rid of low - level disruption or disorder in the classroom».

That is why teachers place so much emphasis on discipline in class; not to stifle intellectual activity, but to maintain an environment in which it can flourish.

«I think it really wound up narrowing the scope of instruction and placed too much emphasis on reading and math tests.

The Catholic academic tradition places as much emphasis on community building as on academic excellence, and sports are important for building community.

The report contends that at present, we place far too much emphasis on a single pathway to success: attending and graduating from a four - year college.

For children with diverse language backgrounds, there is much emphasis on English proficiency in the United States, which is a narrow representation of bilingualism.

Although money is important to this generation, it doesn't place as much emphasis on their salary.

The daily schedule places as much emphasis on physical education and the arts as on English or science.

«Those programs place too much emphasis on theory and not enough on practical applications and challenges.»

In «The Long Haul,» Patricia Graham, former dean of Harvard's education school, sees the problem as rooted more in society than in its schools and calls for as much emphasis on equity as on excellence.

Whereas one of the downsides of the previous Iron Man films was too much emphasis on visual effects and not enough on people, Iron Man 3 has cracked this problem with new remote - control armor that allows Downey to appear on camera while Iron Men fly all around him (he can jump into any suit at any time).

Often newer romances put too much emphasis on «covers,» with physical attraction providing the initiative for two people to fall in love.

And there is much emphasis on historical detail, archive footage, quaint language, to show that the attitudes were of the period (1924), but also annoyingly glib anachronisms that seem meant to demonstrate that prejudice is timeless.

Final Verdict: DOA: Dead or Alive might be a poor movie with little character development and too much emphasis on fight scenes, but it does what it does best well.

It had too much emphasis on racism against black people, and quite frankly that's the way it is that why «certain» people found it so funny.

In placing so much emphasis on the NPCs» worlds, Dragon Quest VII is unlike so many other JRPGs which creates a party with strong, varying personalities central to the core of a JRPG experience.