Sentences with phrase «out of standardized tests saw»

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

Not exact matches

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.

Going through the event's website, one sees the typical «progressive» reform ideas including pleas for «more money for education» and «smaller class sizes,» but one thing did jump out at me — the obsessive hatred of standardized testing.

While Bill Gates may have been central to funding the development of the Common Core State Standards, we simply would not see them in classrooms across the country with standardized testing rolled out already and teachers» evaluations connected to those tests without Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and his signature initiatives.

While our new Commissioner is preparing to go on a speaking and listening tour of the state, she would do well to try to understand exactly why New York is the current leader in the nationwide Opt Out movement against today's standardized testing policies, having seen test refusals jump from nearly 60,000 in 2014 to 200,000 in 2015.

For more information see: Race Class & Opt Out and Urban Opt Out Statistics in NY State and our videos of the event: A Standardized Test Is A Poor Substitute For Justice

Since the parents of all students in public schools were discouraged from opting their children out of this state - mandated «standardized» test experiment, it should be gratifying to those who saw through the misinformation and controversy associated with the Common Core testing requirement and, with courage and conviction, refused to allow their children to take this unnecessary and unproven test.