Sentences with phrase «much focus on standardized testing»

Steve Zimmerman, founder of the Coalition of Community Charter Schools, an organization representing New York City's independent charters and the conference's other co-sponsor, says he started his group in response to what he saw as too much focus on standardized testing — a trend he believes stifles innovation, collaboration, and charters» original promise.

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The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

But focusing so much on standardized test scores is the opposite of how members of most professions are evaluated.»

It is moving from a system that was almost entirely focused on standardized tests to one that has a much broader range.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

Unlike in the U.S., where school education has become much more standardized and driven by external requirements, like bureaucratic accountability, standardized testing and scripted teaching, Finnish schools are free to focus on «good» education that leads to excellence, engagement and ethics.

State accountability systems focus attention and resources on low performance and remediation, but in many school districts across the country district leaders are as much concerned, if not more, about sustaining good performance and about establishing agendas for student learning beyond proficiency scores on standardized tests.

«Teachers face a tremendous challenge in providing the best education for all students, particularly when forced to spend so much time focused on standardized tests.

Prompted in part by complaints that high schools were spending too much time on standardized testing, lawmakers last summer ordered a rewrite of the rules for graduation and a significant change in focus.

I'd love a world where our mathmatics instruction focused more holistically on mathematically modeling and less on the kinds of computational tasks that make up much of standardized testing, but have been rendered obsolete in the real world by computers.

Co-principal Pat Finley says schools have become much too focused on teaching a narrow set of academic skills, the kinds of skills that can help kids do better on standardized tests.

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

But with an increased national focus on standardized test scores, the data collection process has become much more formalized in recent years.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

But standardized tests focus on just a narrow slice of student learning and experience; they provide neither insight into a given school's strengths and weaknesses nor much evidence regarding whether the school should be closed or overhauled.

«In making the announcement, Toll acknowledged that the charter schools have focused too much on teaching to low - rigor standardized tests and are ready for a «disruptive» change in model.»