Sentences with phrase «producing poor test scores»

Schools producing poor test scores will almost inevitably incur harsh criticism from parents as well as policy makers and educators.

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Class Warfare is built around the idea of children, particularly poor children, as test - score - producing machines, with little to no attention paid to other aspects of their personalities or lives.

Studies published in the best economics and education journals have shown unequivocal evidence of excessive teaching to the test and drilling that produces inflated measures of students» growth in learning; cheating on tests that includes erasing incorrect answers or filling in missing responses; shifting of students out of classrooms or other efforts to exclude anticipated poor performers from testing, or alternatively, concentrating classroom teaching efforts on those students most likely to increase their test scores above a particular target, and other even more subtle strategies for increasing testing averages.