Sentences with phrase «of narrowing of the curriculum»

Challenges: Time to perform the check and to analyse the results; Not having additional resources allocated to each school — funding a concern; Risk of narrowing of curriculum.

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Since 2001, the curriculum in many elementary schools has narrowed to little more than a steady diet of reading and math.

Mostly they need to learn the curriculum material to pass exams, and to have a narrow band of knowledge that the authorities consider the most important.

He found headteachers were being undermined at the hand of the new governors and that curriculums were being narrowed to reflect their personal views.

«The English Bac, by focusing on such a narrow range of subjects, may prejudice the National Curriculum review and should not have been introduced before this had taken place.

«The emphasis on ensuring that there is high - quality vocational provision would mark an end to the restrictions of the Coalition's narrow, elitist, academically focused curriculum that is stifling the talents and skills of so many of our young people.

Mr McCarthy said teaching was the «foundation for civilised society» but suggested the curriculum was too narrow and the focus of the curriculum could be in the wrong place.

«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.

«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.»

This should be helpful in counteracting the narrowing of the curriculum.

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.

Interestingly, the committee's conclusion with respect to exit exams does not pick up on the full report's emphasis on the importance of the design features of incentive systems, which include warnings that tests aimed at ensuring minimum competency may lower expectations, and concerns about both the potential narrowing of the curriculum and the tendency for score inflation on a known test.

Critics of NCLB's testing and accountability requirements have a litany of complaints: The tests are inaccurate, schools and teachers should not be responsible for the test performance of unprepared or unmotivated students, the measure of school inadequacy used under NCLB is misleading, the tests narrow the curriculum to what is being tested, and burdens imposed upon teachers and administrators are excessively onerous.

During stakeholder consultations, educators raised concerns the assessments would be an extra burden to teachers already struggling with a hefty workload, lead to a possible narrowing of the curriculum, and cause stress for students and parents.

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.

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

In the meantime, millions of students will face a narrower curriculum, larger classes, crumbling buildings and the erosion of extra-curricular activities as schools cope with over # 3 billion in real terms cuts.

«Narrowing the school curriculum, the reduction in creative subjects and the removal of some play times for primary pupils may all be factors affecting behaviour in schools.

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.

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.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

Here, in contrast to his approach in other chapters, Knee illustrates well the politics that affected Wireless Generation and Amplify, and shows how Amplify's management team underestimated the challenges of curriculum development and adoption while spending aggressively to expand its narrow product focus.

Partly in response to federal accountability measures ~ curriculum in many schools particularly those serving predominantly disadvantaged students has narrowed to focus on reading and math at the expense of the arts ~ physical education ~ civics and other subjects.

«The more narrowing of the curriculum occurs and the more teachers feel compelled to teach to Sats, the more teachers will be unhappy.

This narrowing of the curriculum can have an effect on teachers» stress levels because it clashes with their beliefs, according to Brian Apter, chair of the division of educational and child psychologists at the British Psychological Society.

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.

International data are seen as «drivers» for national and local reform in terms of teacher qualifications, curriculum improvement, and sources of comparative information on narrowing the gaps and successful school management.

The Chinese national educational system has won high praise as an efficient system with national standards, a narrow curriculum, a high - stakes test (the college entrance exam), and a clearly defined set of gateways to mark students» transitions from one stage to another.

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.

It's curriculum narrowing, over-reliance on test prep, practice exams, and myriad other decisions large and small that cumulatively alter our children's experience of school — and not always for the better.

In short, the very conditions that led parents to revolt because of an over-reliance on testing, curriculum narrowing, and aggressive test preparation are not going away.

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.

WGU also has lower employee costs, as full - time faculty members serve primarily as student mentors and neither develop curriculum nor perform research (this also supports the school's narrow value proposition of providing professional rather than academic training).

He read the research, the data on curriculum narrowing and the unintended consequences of test - driven accountability practices.

Parents have every right and reason to be concerned with the deleterious effects of testing, particularly curriculum narrowing and excessive time given over to test prep.

And lower stakes tests that are primarily about information rather than coercion will produce much less harmful narrowing of the curriculum.

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.»

Schools and educators are likely to narrow the curriculum by focusing on tested subjects at the expense of untested ones.

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.

If we are focussed (as the curriculum is) on individual needs, we will consider students» personal, social, ethical, intercultural, artistic, musical and physical needs and their preferred learning styles (as the curriculum does), not just their ability to stride upwards on PISA graphs in a narrow range of learning areas.

Many education organizations are vocal in their opposition to the emphasis on standardized tests in current policy, believing that they narrow curriculum, cost too much, and are of little use in improving student learning.

The news comes as critics have argued that the curriculum is a reflection of the government's «obsession with a narrow set of subjects in a rigid framework» and is likely to damage the chances of young people who do not follow an academic route into work.

By focusing on math and reading to the exclusion of other subjects, he says, «you create incentives to further distort and narrow the curriculum, which is disastrous.»

Indeed the Prime Minister David Cameron and Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Education both see this new approach as a key means of narrowing the achievement gap and giving young people access to a curriculum that leads directly to employment opportunities.

Professional educators and their organizations were largely absent from the education summits, and complaints against policy shifts that encouraged «narrowing of the curriculum» and «teaching to the test» began to crop up.

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».

• First, efforts to develop a civics curriculum are snagged by a basic truth about America: beyond a narrow core of shared beliefs (honesty, tolerance, obeying the law), Americans hold strong but often divergent views about the values they want their children to acquire and about the role of teachers and schools in inculcating those values.

And as well as being of questionable effectiveness, incentive schemes often result in unintended and undesirable behaviours on the part of teachers and schools, ranging from the narrowing of the school curriculum, to withholding less able students from testing, to providing inappropriate assistance to students during tests.

Particularly in urban schools, the pressure from testing has narrowed the curriculum to focus on those subjects on which graduation and accreditation rest — at the expense of art, music, theater, physical education, foreign language, and even science and social studies.