Sentences with phrase «narrowing curriculum»

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.

And how is it we don't seem to understand that «narrowing the curriculum» translates to lost opportunities to learn particularly in impoverished communities — the ones targeted by the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA / NCLB)-- the very reason for the existence of federal education law?

Systems must make sure that teachers are not narrowing the curriculum or manipulating student assignments to improve their value - added scores.

* over-emphasizing standardized testing, narrowing curriculum and instruction to focus on test preparation rather than richer academic learning;

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

A new national survey confirms what's long been suspected: Most teachers report that schools are narrowing the curriculum and shifting instruction time and resources toward math and language arts and away from subjects such as art, music, foreign language, and social studies.

Similarly, does it make sense for traditional interests to attack standardized testing and reading and math instruction (under the guise of narrowing the curriculum) at a time when our schools and teachers are being asked to implement a new set of math and English standards and standardized tests?

Narrowing the Curriculum: No Child Left Behind, which judged schools solely on their students» math and reading test scores, prompted schools across the nation to abandon science, social studies, art, music, physical education and other subjects in pursuit of high scores in the tested subjects.

Reducing the stakes would help eradicate some of the perverse incentives that result in a narrowing curriculum and more exclusions.

Recall that the National Research Council, ETS, and RAND, as well as many others assert that test scores are not only not a valid and reliable way to evaluate teaching performance but actually damage learning by narrowing the curriculum.

And some are blaming high schools for the shortage for narrowing the curriculum to focus on college readiness over career training.

According to FairTest, the high stakes attached to tests have led to narrowing curriculum, teaching to the test, score inflation and cheating scandals.

The use of «standards as regulatory tools,» or accountability systems, according to Nehring, can have a «deadening impact on schools and classrooms» due to a «narrowing curriculum.»

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.

We're saying tough things because they're not promoting British values, they're narrowing the curriculum.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

«As educators we don't want to introduce something into the process that's going to have the outcome of narrowing the curriculum and really degrading the value of an education,» said Warren Fletcher, the union's president.

By setting national standards, countries seek to raise aspirations and define educational excellence, make educational objectives transparent to students, and provide a framework for teachers while avoiding the risks of narrowing the curriculum and teaching to the test.

Ah, more teaching to the test, more narrowing the curriculum.

In many content areas, minority students are feeling the impact of the narrowing curriculum much more than their nonminority peers are.

This system necessitates the growth and expansion of standardized tests into more subject areas and grades to provide more data for evaluations, further narrowing the curriculum and alienating students.

Government accountability measures such as the EBacc have been criticised for narrowing the curriculum in schools, with many seen to be prioritising more academic subjects at the expenses of creative areas.

For too long, standardized testing has been the predominant form of assessing student learning, while ignoring the deleterious effects of narrowing the curriculum, promoting teaching to the test, and emphasizing lower order cognitive skills.

«However, the report fails to grasp that the real reason for the loss of these activities is the high stakes accountability based on pupils» outcomes in tests and examinations which is narrowing the curriculum and the opportunities available to children and young people, and which teachers and school leaders have long been warning is a serious problem.

Duncan stayed cool under fire, generally agreeing with Stewart's description of NCLB's failings, including its role in narrowing the curriculum and overemphasizing standardized tests that don't fully capture whether students are prepared for the real world.

The Ebacc is narrowing the curriculum and pushes secondary school children into taking subjects they don't necessarily have an interest in.

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.

It has been well documented that an overemphasis on testing disrupts teachers» practices and leads to narrowing the curriculum (Au, 2007).

The narrowing curriculum is particularly alarming because, as Jay P. Greene has noted, recent research has found that «later success in math, reading, and science depends on early acquisition of the kind of «general knowledge» and fine - motor skills learned through art and other subjects.»

While the narrowing curriculum rallying cry is popular in opinion surveys, assessments such as NAEP reveal no signs of declining achievement in science or history or any other supposedly «squeezed out» subject.

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.

Narrowing the Curriculum.

The report, part of a book of essays entitled «The Future of Assessment: 2025 and Beyond», suggests that current trends in the education sector are «narrowing the curriculum and focusing on those students whose performance has the greatest impact on the headline accountability measures».

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

A 2013 white paper noted that the existing progress reports» overreliance on state tests meant that «some educators have felt pressure to engage in test prep, narrowing the curriculum,» and that «finding the right balance of multiple measures is critical.»

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

Teachers were worried that this pressure to «ability» group young children for phonics and numeracy was narrowing the curriculum and undermining the importance a play - based pedagogy encouraged within the Early Years Foundation Stage.»

Parents worried that the drive to increase performance on state tests came at the cost of an ever - narrowing curriculum and that the focus on getting the «bubble kids» from slightly below proficient to slightly above proficient came at the cost of teaching kids who were way behind or ahead.

A 2013 senate committee looked at a range of adverse consequences emerging from the NAPLAN, including narrowing the curriculum, and the development of a NAPLAN preparation industry — creating the perception NAPLAN is a «high stakes» 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.

The National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) has criticised the government's focus on the English Baccalaureate (Ebacc), claiming it is «narrowing the curriculum».

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

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.

«We are narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, and children are missing out on a rich and meaningful education,» said Shirley Verrico, a parent who lives in the Williamsville Central School District and is a member of Western New York Allies.

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.

«This will, therefore, continue to be used to narrow the curriculum, reducing opportunities for children and young people, and to force schools into being taken over by predatory private providers.

That it narrows the curriculum.

«What we need in a diverse and increasingly non-religious society is not Church schools, but schools that will be genuinely inclusive of all: open to all children, not restricted in admissions as many state funded church schools are; open to all qualified teachers, not jealously guarding their legal right to discriminate; teaching a broad and balanced curriculum, not a narrow curriculum coloured by a single unshared religion.»

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.