Sentences with phrase «over test scores»

All the controversy over test scores could be placed on the shelf, as much better information on something much more important was now available.

The rest opted for different schools, often prioritizing a closer location over test scores.

We know from our own surveys that families value numerous aspects of a school's educational environment over its test scores.

The speech typically includes an argument that Success values progressive educational values over test scores, a joke about what might happen if Success students were allowed to voluntarily attend school, and a swipe at the de Blasio administration.

Of course, someone in senior management will probably pop in for an observation once in a blue moon, and they'll be poring over your test scores in a spreadsheet somewhere, but it's all very much at arms - length.

Demolishing the global obsession over test scores, Tough says that we believe a high IQ assessed on standardized tests is the indicator of success, but, «The educators and scientists that I wrote about have identified a different set of skills which they say matter at least as much as IQ if not more so.

This view has spawned a vibrant market for brain - building baby toys, and an education - reform movement that sweats over test scores.

Many educators feel that this method, combined with teacher narrative, better reflects student progress because it makes allowances for individual differences in learning rate and style, emphasizes real learning over test scores, and minimizes subjective considerations.

The attainment effects of choice programs may be outstripping their achievement effects because private schools prioritize character over test scores.

While putting our schools into competition over test scores has perhaps raised numbers, it has also turned schools and districts into adversaries rather than collaborators.

IF only Finch could be fired over the test scores... and Adamowski and the rest.

In America, public education can seem bogged down by policy debates over test scores and funding which take attention away from the classroom.

The focus on safety comes as the two sides have effectively fought to a standstill over test scores — one of the few pieces of quantifiable data in the education debate.

Her film does just that by taking us into schools where personal growth is valued over test scores, where passion matters more than rankings, and where change comes, not from the top down, but from parents, teachers, administrators, and students working together.