Sentences with phrase «policy focus on standardized tests»

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TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Debates about school choice policies often focus on their impacts on student achievement, typically as measured by standardized tests.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

They conclude with policy prescriptions, starting with the need to change from a focus on standardized tests to what is still the «black box» of actual student learning and to changing classroom practices, particularly formative assessment.

Rather than focus on poverty, language barriers, unmet special education needs and inadequate funding of public schools, the charter school proponents and Malloy apologists want students, parents, teachers and the public to believe that a pre-occupation with standardized testing, a focus on math and English, «zero - tolerance» disciplinary policies for students and undermining the teaching profession will force students to «succeed» while solving society's problems.

ASCD's Director of Public Policy, David Griffith, explains that due to an overreliance on standardized testing, schools are seeing an increased «focus on test taking and test preparation» and less emphasis on «actual knowledge and achievement for students.»