Sentences with phrase «out of standardized testing»

A new school year is starting soon, and education officials say they will try to reverse a growing movement of parents having their children opt out of standardized tests.

Parents are opting their children out of standardized tests in increasing numbers.

Across the nation, tens of thousands of parents opted their children out of standardized tests in 2014, and this year, many more have or will do so.

Meanwhile, school board candidates who support opting out of standardized tests saw success across the state.

As a result of this onslaught, a growing opt out of standardized testing movement is taking place across the country.

When several students opt out of standardized tests, how do you communicate these actions to the larger school community?

on Don't let them fool you: You can and should consider opting your child out of standardized testing frenzy

The state's education commissioner says parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests.

For this reason, we have opted Zachary out of all standardized testing because we believe Zachary's potential is limitless and can not be condensed to a math and reading score.

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

I have been opting Zachary out of all standardized testing since 2009, including the MAP test.

Please consider the work of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which has opted out of standardized tests since 1997 and instead built an assessment system developed, evaluated, and continually revised by actual educators.

Teachers are fighting against the Common Core State Standards, students are staging walk out protests in New Orleans, and parents are yanking their kids out of standardized testing.

«There is no protection under the First Amendment's freedom of speech for a teacher while on duty for advocating opting out of standardized testing for students.»

Magee says the union will also be taking steps to convince parents that their children should opt out of standardized tests associated with the controversial Common Core standards.

Masses of parents opted their students out of the standardized tests whose results would be included in teacher evaluations, fueling what would ultimately become the largest proportion of test refusals in the country.

Professor Daniel Koretz points out that there was a movement in New York City by parents to opt out of standardized testing even before the Common Core.

We also support enabling parents to opt their children out of standardized tests without penalty for either the student or their school.»

New laws requiring that teacher evaluations be based partly on student test scores further stoked anxieties, and a growing number of parents, balking at what they view as an oppressive testing culture, have opted their children out of standardized tests altogether.

I am holding an organizational meeting for parents and educators to opt out of standardized testing at Hartford Public High School on Saturday, Feb 1, at 12:00 in my classroom, room 272.

Dissatisfaction with standardized testing is growing in all quarters, and even The New York Times has now recognized that parents choosing to opt their children out of standardized tests come from a variety of backgrounds.

The mass movement against standardized testing — including over 600,000 families opting out of standardized tests last year — objects to the fact that the average student in the public school system today will take an outlandish 112 standardized tests between pre-K and high school.

Rather than protect the rights of parents and local schools districts, elected and appointed officials are inappropriately using their positions to mislead, lie and scare parents and teachers into believing that parents DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT to opt their children out of the standardized testing fiasco that the Governor, Commissioner and legislature have created.

Provide that a school and its employees would not be negatively impacted due to a student not taking a state and / or district - level standardized test, such as by ensuring that students who are opted out of standardized tests by a parent or guardian are excluded from performance calculations for state and local accountability measures and from employee evaluations.

Don't let them fool you: You can and should consider opting your child out of standardized testing frenzy (A powerful commentary piece by Wendy Lecker on the rights of parents when it comes to the Connecticut Mastery Test and the new Common Core Smarter Balanced Field Test).

The state's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams because they will be different than last year's tests.

Monty Neill, the executive director of Fair Test, the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, said May 9 that parents pulled more than 670,000 students out of standardized tests in 2015.

In the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

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Don't let them fool you: You can and should consider opting your child out of standardized testing frenzy

NATIONAL Over 500,000 public school students across the country opted out of standardized tests in 2015.

That includes Board of Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa, who has said she would opt her children out of standardized tests and was among the first to issue a statement condemning Paladino for his remarks.

Though they're both pushing for the same goal — getting more kids to opt out of the standardized tests to be administered this week — parents groups and the teachers union have different motivations.

Support for opting out of standardized testing is mounting.

Governor doesn't expect federal sanctions for school districts with high levels of students opting out of standardized tests.

The Quinnipiac poll also showed that voters are evenly split when it comes to parents opting their children out of standardized tests.

The 5th Senate district, which includes Suffolk and Nassau counties, has had high levels of students opting out of standardized tests.

One week after 43 percent of eligible students in the Kingston City School District were opted out of standardized tests

New York State's education commissioner said parents who are thinking of opting their children out of standardized tests again this school year should stick with the exams, because they will be different than last year's tests, but the state's teacher's union and a parents group said the changes don't go far enough.

While most of the roundtable meeting was private, officials met with media and during the briefing revealed that four of the districts had significant numbers of students who opted out of standardized testing.

Following a school year marked by statewide protests to recent changes in the testing procedures and teacher evaluation methods — with 20 percent of New York's students opting out of standardized tests — administrators at Minerva Central are preparing for a year of growth and collaboration, Farrell said in an interview.

On Top of the News 20 % of New York State Students Opted Out of Standardized Tests This Year New York Times 8/13/15

For their platform, party insiders voted to «support enabling parents to opt their children out of standardized tests.»

Last week, Stephen Sawchuk reported that delegates to this year's NEA Representative Assembly approved a resolution which directs the union to draft model legislative language that would prevent districts from punishing students who opt out of standardized tests.

The PDK / Gallup poll shows that 44 percent of U.S. adults — and 40 percent of parents — believe that parents should be permitted to opt their students out of standardized tests.

Opponents have organized rallies, circulated petitions, bombarded lawmakers with calls and pulled their children out of standardized tests.

In 2015 - 16, a few more states passed laws recognizing the right of parents to hold their children out of standardized testing, while similar opt - out bills advanced in one or both houses of several other legislatures.