Sentences with phrase «parents protest common»
At 9:30 a.m., parents protest Common Core curriculum assessment tests; P.S. 368 Hamilton Heights School, 1750 Amsterdam Ave., Manhattan.
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King also attributed parents» and teachers» protests against the Common Core and related testing as a reaction to change.
As parents and educators statewide continue to protest so - called high - stakes testing tied to Common Core, politicians this election season are tapping into voters» frustration with how the curriculum was rolled out.
Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.
Governor Andrew Cuomo is comparing himself to a parent protesting the implementation of the Common Core, seeking to distance himself from the highly criticized roll out.
In November, an upstate New York mother organized a Common Core protest day, asking parents to keep their kids home from school.
Opponents of Common Core said they see the NYSUT vote as a turning point, indicating that the protest movement has expanded beyond parents and political activists.
Last weekend, more than 1,500 parents, students and educators packed a high school football stadium on Long Island to protest New York's new Common Core exams.
Earlier this year in April, parents in New York took to the streets to protest high stakes testing and the Common Core (Bobkoff, 2014).
Amanda Ripley, who studied education systems in other countries for her 2013 book, «The Smartest Kids in the World,» said there's an irony that parents are protesting just as the Common Core tests are being introduced, given the hope among many educators that the new tests will spur richer instruction.
The transition to reading and math tests aligned with the Common Core in 2013 caused the number of students passing to plummet, unsettling parents, teachers and administrators, and leading many to protest that the standards were too high.
The Common Core continued to shake up classrooms, amid bitter political feuds and parent protests.
But parents and education activists who have been fighting against the Common Core standards for years now protested Alexander's insistence on pushing through the massive «bipartisan» bill in order to prove Congress could get things done.
MIAMI — When protests from parents and teachers erupted against the new Common Core tests here, Florida thought it had a solution: It dropped the tests.
On Monday, parents in several states mounted a protest against the Common Core that kept children home from school.
States that have already moved to Common Core tests have seen student scores plunge and parent protests soar — and as the spring testing season creeps closer, similar outcomes «are staring our leaders in the face» in states from coast to coast, he said.