Sentences with phrase «national testing policies»

A New York Times article (August 31) reflects on the magnitude of a national testing policy and the unprecedented, sustained focus on education.

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As marijuana legalization slowly passes state by state and lawmakers discuss national reform, companies are calling into question prohibition - era policies like employee drug testing.

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For example, according to a report by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, 86 percent of people arrested in Cook County in 2012 tested positive for at least one illegal narcotic — the highest percentage of any big city.

The case was staged as a national test case by the Center for Reproductive Law & Policy.

Currently, the number and type of genetic and metabolic disorders routinely tested for vary from state to state, though there is a movement afoot to adopt a more uniform national policy.

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The pledge card, which mirrors New Labour's initiative in 1997, will promise free party membership for trade unionists, the building of 1m new homes over the course of a parliament, an increase in the minimum wage funded by a cut in employers» national insurance, a cost - of - living test for every policy item and a cabinet minister to «take action for the consumer against rip - off companies».

Wanting to test the away - from - the - bench waters without losing all chance of returning to academia's fold, American Amanda Staudt took a 1 - year science policy postdoc with the National Research Council.

The National Assessment Governing Board, an independent committee that sets policy for the test, defines proficiency as «solid academic performance» with «demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter.»

Coalition lawyers argued that the Navy's testing was in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act and the Endangered Species Act.

College communities make sense as test beds for gigabit networks because they include highly concentrated population of heavy Internet users as well as institutions already connected to Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR) and other high - speed Internet backbones, says Gig.U Program Director Elise Kohn, a former policy advisor in the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau.

The Moodle quiz tested, among others, the ability of learners to determine rules for patterns and functional relationships using flow diagrams, tables, formulae and equations in line with the current National Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statement for Grade 7 - 9.

He hopes that the committee will encourage national bodies to use the same sampling policy and procedures, testing and interpretation methods.

It's being boycotted by Canadian health authorities and laboratories in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, challenged by the French government in a heated patent dispute, and has provoked deep animosity in Britain as the company negotiates with the National Health Service over testing policy.

At the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, she declared, «Federal education policy must be about a lot more than testing....

In presentations here to a committee of the National Assessment Governing Board, which sets policy for NAEP, the groups outlined in competing issues papers the types of changes they believe are necessary to bring the test into better alignment with the latest research in the field, as...

Unfortunately, none of the studies released by the Economic Policy Institute confirm the validity of the state testing results by comparing them to the results on national exams.

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Chestnut Hill, MA: National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy.

Late last week, the board that sets policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress was poised to adopt a new framework for the NAEP reading test that would change the content significantly enough to prevent the continuation of comparisons among tests.

• Anya Kamenetz education reporter for NPR and author of «The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be» • Elaine Weiss national coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washingtonational coordinator of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education • Matthew Chingos senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and research director of its Brown Center on Education Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington Policy • Chanelle Hardy senior vice president for policy and executive director of the National Urban League Washington policy and executive director of the National Urban League WashingtoNational Urban League Washington Bureau

The reality is that these kinds of national results are so far removed from the regulatory minutiae of federal education policy, and the meaning of these test results can be so opaque, that everyone would be well - served if they spent less time claiming this or that test result or graduation rate proved that a grand federal agenda was the right one.

National tests in several core subjects could be eliminated or scaled back over the next five years without more federal funding, the officials who set policy for the National Assessment of Educational Progress say.

The test has had a towering influence on national educational policies.

In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

American philanthropy, by local and national foundations, corporations, and wealthy individuals, has played many important roles in K — 12 education: creating new schools, underwriting research, funding scholarships, testing hypotheses, generating new curricula, invoking ideals, setting agendas, bolstering training, and building a case for policy changes.

Book Claims Negative Impact of SATs In a revealing look at high - stakes standardized admissions tests, a new book called SAT Wars: The Case for Test - Optional Admissions, demonstrates the far - reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change.

But testing opposition appears to be more closely linked to concerns about teacher evaluation policies: the top two reasons chosen among a national survey of parents who opted out were, «I oppose using students» performance on standardized tests to evaluate teachers» and «standardized tests force teachers to teach to the test.»

According to Schools Week, who saw an early copy of the manifesto, some of Labour's policies include reducing class sizes to under 30 for those aged between five and seven, abandoning baseline tests and reviewing SATs, and reintroducing national pay bargaining.

The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy, at Boston College, has documented cases when scoring errors sentenced children to summer school or caused them to miss graduation before the mistakes were discovered.

Earlier that year, the district had adopted a drug - testing policy for student athletes as part of its participation in a national...

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

For the analysis, released last week by the Center for Evaluation and Education Policy at Indiana University in Bloomington, researchers analyzed data stretching back as far as 1996 from 4th and 8th grade reading and math tests administered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress and from state assessments in those subjects.

As Sandi Jacobs, managing director of state policy for the National Council on Teacher Quality, said, «There wasn't enough concern about how these things [the Common Core and teacher evaluation] were running down the path together until the tests became an issue.»

The board that sets policy for that exam, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, has voted to accept a report of an expert panel with recommendations for linking student performance on the influential test with skills identified as important by college officials and employers.

From a quite different place on the political spectrum, the New York affiliate of the National Education Association has withdrawn its support for the Common Core as implemented in that state, and the American Federation of Teachers is calling for a moratorium on all consequences attached to student test results while the standards are being implemented, a policy that has been affirmed in California.

The National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy (NBETPP), housed in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, is an independent organization that monitors testing in the United Testing and Public Policy (NBETPP), housed in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, is an independent organization that monitors testing in the United testing in the United States.

To that end, CZI is aspiring to foster «a collaborative community of leading researchers, practitioners, advocates, and policymakers committed to: continuing to explore and advance the science, including by testing new research methodologies that surface the unique needs of individual children; designing and providing the tools and systems of support necessary to help educators and school leaders implement SoLD - aligned practice shifts; advancing science - informed national, state and district policies; and working to limit practices and policies that the science makes clear are detrimental to children's learning and development.»

The paper grew out of their work on a National Academy of Education steering committee, chaired by Singer, that studied the purposes, methods, and policy uses of so - called international large - scale assessments, or ILSAs — tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

The report's authors suggest that the National Assessment Governing Board, the bipartisan body that sets policy for the testing program, consider adding content from these areas to NAEP's mathematics framework when it is next revised.

Finally, these trends will be provided to policy makers in a «State of the Nation» report about the real, but often hidden, costs and benefits of initiatives such as the introduction of a national curriculum and changes to national testing and accountability requirements.

«When exclusion rates are higher, average scores tend to be higher than if more children were tested,» said Larry Feinberg, assistant director for reporting and analysis for the National Assessment Governing Board, an independent body that sets policy for NAEP.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Shaun Johnson, an education professor at Towson University in Maryland and administrator of a national Opt Out Facebook group, tells StateImpact that few other nations use test scores to so closely dictate education policy as officials in the U.S do.

The only justification for the pervasive policy of trying to increase test scores is that future national economic success will go to the nations with the highest scores.

In response, the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics commissioned Mathematica Policy Research, a contract research firm, to find out whether 1) employers are now playing fair and 2) schools are doing their part in narrowing the black - white test - score gap.

One of the key policy decisions that cut into support for President Clinton's plan for new national tests was that the reading test be given only in English.

Florida is also a national trendsetter in education policies, such as evaluating teachers based, in part, on test scores and assigning schools and districts A through F letter grades for their performance.

Because other states look to Massachusetts — where students overall routinely rank at the top of national and international tests — for lessons on academic achievement and innovation, the Bay State's policies on charter schools are being followed closely, former Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson told charter advocates gathered in Boston recently.