Sentences with phrase «narrow curriculum»

Further, the standards movement must not limit learning by narrowing curricula, nor inhibit creative teaching and learning that is grounded in effective practice and sound research and inquiry.

Tests themselves don't narrow the curriculum; they also can't close achievement gaps.

As a consequence, practices such as narrowing the curriculum to the tested areas and drilling students to prepare them for the tests have too often become the norm.

But the intense focus on test scores has left many parents concerned about narrowing curriculum and what they call a classroom concentration on testing well instead of learning.

The following concerns have been expressed about performance - based assessments: teachers might teach only to the test, thereby narrowing the curriculum and reducing the test's value.

«My overwhelming impression is that most of our kids around the city are getting a very, very narrow curriculum,» she says.

The NRC, instead of considering these actual costs, suggests that implicit costs in the form of narrowed curricula are the most important, but it provides no evidence for its view.

Standardized tests force teachers to spend too much time preparing the students for the test which results in narrowing the curriculum.

The petition argues: «This is a bad decision that will drastically narrow the curriculum for children aged 14 - 18.

«The negative consequences of the current overwhelming focus on preparation for standardized tests include narrowed curricula, developmentally inappropriate instructional practices, decreases in student engagement, stagnant achievement gaps and rising minority dropout rates,» said subcommittee member and Winchester second grade teacher David Krane.

Clearly, there is a problem with narrowing the curriculum, Kapinus said.

While critics blame the Common Core for further narrowing curriculums, the authors of the standards actually saw them as a tool to counteract that trend.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) replaced No Child Left Behind, a much - criticized law whose emphasis on high - stakes testing frequently narrowed the curriculum to the content and format of low - level multiple - choice reading and math tests, especially in low - income schools.

Our goal with this measure is to ensure that schools do not excessively narrow the curriculum at the cost of non-tested subjects and opportunities for enrichment.

PAA opposes excessive reliance on standardized exams, which narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

«In terms of equity — when you look at what is happening in our urban districts, we're getting an extremely narrow curriculum because of the pressure on teachers to focus on tested subjects.»

Some suggest that the Common Core's focus on English and math narrows the curriculum.

Even before Common Core, many schools, in response to No Child Left Behind laws, had already narrowed their curricula mostly to the subjects being tested by their states.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

Data - driven excess narrows our curriculum and impoverishes our schools.

The reductive narrow curriculum and testing regime is failing our children.

Second, I shared how many teachers fear that they or their colleagues will be pressured to «teach to the test,» narrowing the curriculum almost beyond recognition.

Despite national concerns around the EBacc narrowing the curriculum, Liverpool school, The Studio, is proving student passion for creative subjects is still in full force.

Paul Whiteman, the general secretary of NAHT, warned that «inadequate funding, combined with a high - stakes accountability regime, is actively narrowing the curriculum available to pupils in our schools».

The report is the first of its type since No Child Left Behind became law in 2001, when state standards and assessments to measure student and school performance narrowed curricula.

High - Stakes Testing: Excessive reliance on standardized exams narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

Because an increasingly narrow curriculum wrapped around standardized tests will produce citizens with narrow, standardized knowledge — not the creative, innovative thinkers America needs to compete in the global 21st century economy.

They feel that my position may lead to the clock being turned back and a reversion to the days of multiple - choice tests and narrow curricula devoid of the things that engage students and make them think deeply.

In addition, an instructional focus on test preparation narrowed the curriculum.

That does not change that such testing is unnecessary, is unacceptably disruptive to learning, and is narrowing curricula nationwide.

REALITY: In districts with mandated, scripted curriculums, or in schools that inevitably narrow the curriculum in order to prepare for high - stakes testing, students are covering less content in ways that do not require higher - order thinking skills.

«I'm slightly bemused by the review, because Ofsted really need to acknowledge their role in narrowing the curriculum.

The collateral damage includes narrowed curriculum, low - scoring students pushed out of school, and teaching to the test.»

However, the implementation of NCLB has perverted standards - based accountability by narrowing the curriculum, limiting the ways in which student performance is assessed, and constraining pedagogy.

SBA is leading to an increased emphasis on student achievement, and many educators laud this focus, but a single - minded emphasis on student proficiency on tests has some potentially negative consequences such as narrowing curriculum and declining staff morale.

Among the findings were these: • The sole reliance on the on - demand MCAS tests has had the unintended outcome of narrowing curriculum, modifying instructional approaches without consideration of what is developmentally appropriate, and has resulted in notable decreases in student engagement.

Race to the Bottom Michael McGill Focusing on the push over the past few decades to «save» the nation's schools by applying rigorous business strategies, Michael McGill, M.A.T.» 67, C.A.S.» 70, Ed.D.» 72, a former superintendent, argues that corporate reform has actually weakened public schools, with narrower curriculums and a slashing of «nonessentials» like art and languages.

The result is very low teacher morale, plummeting applications to schools of education, the need to recruit too many of our teachers from the lowest levels of high school graduates, a testing regime that has narrowed the curriculum for millions of students to a handful of subjects and a very low level of aspiration.

Another non-negotiable for me is that the system must not narrow the curriculum in a way that does not support the whole child or a student pursuing his or her interest.

The results of this survey are predictable: protests about narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, inadequate professional development, unfairness toward disadvantaged and minority youngsters — and toward hard - working teachers themselves.

An antidote to the frequently narrowed curricula we see in modern school culture, school librarians introduce young people to a rich world of books and literature, options they can select themselves.

And the law continues to encourage schools to narrow curriculum at the expense of important subjects such as history, civics, science, the arts and physical education.

As parents we oppose the current obsession with high - stakes standardized tests, which narrows the curriculum and fuels punitive policies that diminish student, teacher and school morale without improving achievement.

There are warnings from teachers that an excessive emphasis on testing narrows the curriculum and reduces creativity, with the pressure of school league tables taking precedence over the needs of individual pupils.

The Union argues that changes proposed by the Government would have a detrimental impact on education services, narrow the curriculum and lead to real difficulty in attracting and retaining high - calibre individuals to the profession.

«The CBI is right to call for a move away from the damaging system of crude performance tables which provide perverse incentives, narrows the curriculum and denies parents and the public access to quality information on schools» strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for development.