Sentences with phrase «obsession with test»

She was a supporter of No Child Left Behind, the chief education initiative of President George W. Bush, until she researched its effects on schools and students and concluded that it led to a narrowing of curriculum, an obsession with test prep and demoralized teachers.

An essential condition to Common Core success noted above is «If implemented correctly...» Unfortunately, many states are violating this condition (in this case, yes, encouraged by the federal government's obsession with test - based accountability).

In the teeth of the worst recession in decades, more than one - third of the over 6,800 teachers hired in 2006 - 2007 left New York City public schools of their own accord, largely because of the DOE's mismanagement and its obsession with test prep rather than real education.

This notion is behind our national obsession with test scores.

Yet neither school faces media charges of poaching the best students, private contributions creating an uneven playing field, screening out low performers, having a demographic that doesn't match the surrounding neighborhood, or creating an obsession with testing.

Are you not afraid that the obsession with testing will cause teachers, parents and children to do nothing more than test prep for the 13 years they attend public schools?

Our national obsession with testing doesn't help, either: «Too often, test taking becomes a practice in rote memorization instead of an experiment in processing information and reasoning that leads to self - generated insights.»

Not exact matches

Not even the American people themselves seem completely at ease about whether their admitted obsessions with sexual pleasure and material possession meet the test of external and overriding criteria.

We can test the revelatory resourcefulness of the symbolism in which our consciousness dwells by asking whether it opens us up to the otherness of foreign ideas and traditions, and thus leads toward deeper and wider integrations of meaning, or instead keeps us locked in the narrow fortress of obsession with our own dogmatic certitudes.

They are, of course, from The Food Lab at Serious Eats, where Kenji indulges food obsession and documents his recipe testing with satisfying depth and detail.

When solid food is introduced, our little jars of pureed baby food are almost unheard of in France, as is our obsession with food allergies, requiring the cautious testing of each new solid food.

«I guess Gov. Cuomo's obsession with Mayor de Blasio has blinded him to New York City records in job creation, student test scores and low crime,» Goldstein said.

Jones added that «Their obsession with raising standardized test scores does not necessarily mean they are providing a great education.»

I've just noticed that Andrew Adonis (a former education policy adviser who was made a Lord so he could be education minister, and is one of the people most responsible for the Government's obsession with league tables, testing and Academies) has been made Minister of State in the Transport Department, about which he presumably has little or no expertise.

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

In episode 107, Penn & Teller put three Feng Shui home consultants to the test and visit a «Feng Shui hairstylist;» then, a hidden camera exposes the national obsession with bottled water and some startling facts about bottled vs. tap water.

But their budding romance is sorely tested by Jarrod's obsession with a childhood nemesis.

Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Pearson needs to end its involvement with fee - paying private schools in the global south; stop all practices that promote and support the obsession with high - stakes testing; and negotiate with teachers» unions and others to secure agreement on the appropriate role of «edu - business» in education.

This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple - choice tests and an angry disenchantment with measuring progress of public schools, educators, or education schools.

Governor Malloy has sworn allegiance to the corporate education reform industry and their dangerous obsession with the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

This is due to problems such as pay, professional autonomy, and a national obsession with standardised testing.

She blamed the «obsession with paperwork, the obsession with teaching to a test» for some of the workload issues faced by staff, and said school leaders often had the solutions, but needed more support.

Because of APPR, the NYS educator - evaluation system, the test obsession does not end with the state exam.

Gov. Larry Hogan could untangle Baltimore County Public Schools officials from their technology quagmire by simply eliminating the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers testing (PARCC) they use to justify their obsession with...

In her talk, she ripped into Gov. Scott Walker's budget, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top, the obsession with measuring student progress through high stakes testing, privatization of education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing teachers.

Education Reformers and their obsession with Standardized Testing — Even the NY Times can't get the story right!

As a presidential candidate, Obama bashed No Child Left Behind, former president George W. Bush's main education initiative, saying that obsession with high - stakes standardized tests was no way to run an education system.

England's obsession with high - stakes tests should end.

These policies are right in sync with those of former President George W. Bush and his No Child Left Behind law, with its obsession on high - stakes testing.

These three men, with their impatience, their obsession with standardized testing data, and their general disdain for anything that doesn't match their priorities have inflicted great damage on American public education, wielding influence far beyond their wisdom.

The obsession with standardized tests in Philadelphia has distorted classroom teaching.

The obsession with data and testing is driving the professionalism out of teaching and the joy out of learning.

«Testing More, Teaching Less: What America's Obsession with Student Testing Costs in Money and Lost Instructional Time» explores the instructional and financial costs of testing in 2012 - 13 in two medium - sized, urban school districts — one located in the Midwest, the other in thTesting More, Teaching Less: What America's Obsession with Student Testing Costs in Money and Lost Instructional Time» explores the instructional and financial costs of testing in 2012 - 13 in two medium - sized, urban school districts — one located in the Midwest, the other in thTesting Costs in Money and Lost Instructional Time» explores the instructional and financial costs of testing in 2012 - 13 in two medium - sized, urban school districts — one located in the Midwest, the other in thtesting in 2012 - 13 in two medium - sized, urban school districts — one located in the Midwest, the other in the East.

Perhaps DeLapp, and Finland, have high - functioning schools because they have a focus on creating curriculum for all students, rather than an obsession with a few tests scores, which leaves most children behind.

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan famously said that he thought «We should be able to look every second grader in the eye and say, «You're on track, you're going to be able to go to a good college, or you're not,»» — signaling how obsession with standardized testing was only going to get worse in the country.

The new measure comes at a time when parents around the country are also fed up with the testing obsession.

Budget cuts and the obsession with standardized testing have narrowed the curriculum, and handcuffed educators» ability to utilize creative supplemental programs to support and engage their students.

Connecticut Governor Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, have become the poster boys for the education reform industry's obsession with the overuse of «high - stakes» Standardized Testing.

Lastly, our decades - long obsession with high - stakes testing must be confronted before it does more damage on the future creativity, innovation, and critical thinking of our youth.

One need to go no farther than a short drive down the turnpike to civil rights expert, Dr. Yohuru Williams of Fairfield University, who has demonstrated with thunderous authority, through the actual words and sayings of Dr. Martin Luther King, that the leader of the U.S. civil rights movement would have never stood beside those who seek to privatize and monetize public education, nor would he have supported the high stakes testing obsession that has crippled the promise of public education, dehumanized children, and driven countless educators out of the profession.

Opposed by Governor Dannel Malloy, charter school advocates and the corporate education reform industry, the bill would have required the state to fix its flawed teacher evaluation law and reduce the state's obsession with Malloy's massive standardized testing scheme.

«Our nation's obsession with standardized test scores will not solve these problems, and they put our country at great risk intellectually as well as economically.

Last Tuesday, Eduardo Porter — writer of the Economic Scene column for The New York Times — wrote an excellent article, from an economics perspective, about that which is happening with our current obsession in educational policy with «Grading Teachers by the Test.»

on Education Reformers and their obsession with Standardized Testing — Even the NY Times can't get the story right!

Even after the proposal was modified by the Connecticut General Assembly is still held out as a prime example of the corporate education reform industry's obsession with more standardized testing and inappropriate teacher evaluation programs that utilize standardized test results.

I don't know what teachers she is observing, but the teachers I see in the schools today are the best and brightest I've ever seen — and are doing heroic work in spite of the most difficult conditions we've ever faced as a profession: meager resources; dwindling budgetary support; a narrowing of the curriculum leading to cuts to music, art and PE; withering attacks from Rhee, Kopp, Gates and Duncan and friends; an obsession with standardized testing; and much more.

And if teachers are undermining accountability they must be doing a pretty poor job of it — we live in a time of unbelievable obsession with standardized testing, and teacher evaluation systems based on test scores of subjects that most teachers don't even teach — and from students they don't even know.

Mazda's obsession with simplifying the dash is a good thing, for the most part, but where other brands have a toggle switch to raise or lower the line of sight to the head - up display in the CX - 3 Akari tested, Mazda insist that the adjustment be made through the infotainment system, which can take time, although users will rarely have to readjust it, presumably.

It was his obsession in Test Drive: Unlimited, and The Crew is a massive evolution from that,» Creative Director Julian Gerighty explains, with the aim to «make the social layer the bass layer so we can get people playing together much more than they used to in Test Drive: Unlimited».