Sentences with phrase «protests against testing»

Last year, hundreds of parents protested against the tests by taking their children out of school in some areas.

Some parents in England kept their children away from the classroom on Tuesday in a protest against tests for six and seven years olds.

A small proportion of parents across England have taken their children out of primary schools on Tuesday, protesting against tests for six and seven year olds.

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After the anti-doping tests for Costa Rica, the Costa Rican Football Federation has protested against FIFA.

King also attributed parents» and teachers» protests against the Common Core and related testing as a reaction to change.

Parents, students and teachers protested against Common Core - based state testing outside Williamsville North High School.

Teachers from across the state will stage a protest tonight in Albany against a national testing company.

Eleven - year - old Michael Jacques, left, and 8 - year - old Katelyn Jacques, right, of Waterford participate in the protests against the common core test contracts outside of the NYS Education Department on Monday evening, August 11, 2014, in Albany N.Y. (Selby Smith / Special to the Times Union)

The research follows a protest last week where some parents kept their children from attending school for a day in a demonstration against primary tests in England.

Groups of parents in parts of England have withdrawn their children from school, in protest against new tests for six and seven - year - olds.

- For details on the flaws of the new Common Core exams, an overview of last year's protests against high - stakes testing, and other background information, see http://www.fairtest.org.

He began wearing it several years ago to faculty meetings as a sarcastic protest against the state's emphasis on standardized testing.

Finally, thousands of parents removed their children from school in May at protest over the tests after 40,000 signed a petition against harder tests in a campaign called «Let our kids be kids».

Protesters Turn Fierce Rhetoric on «Corporate» Reform As they kicked off four days of protests at the U.S. Department of Education, organizers of Occupy DOE 2.0 today used inflammatory — and, in one case, racially insulting — rhetoric to rally opposition against high - stakes testing, «corporate» education reform, and the «dismantling of public education.»

(Reuters)- A backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive - and even some longtime advocates of testing call for changes.

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.

One of the largest student protests against high - stakes testing in U.S. history occurred last spring when many hundreds of students in New Mexico — at schools that served 90 % Latino students — walked out of school and refused to take the new Common Core exams.

Clearly, a backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive.

Environmental advocates and landowners along the route have mounted noisy protests against the project, including a large demonstration in Washington last month, and view Keystone as a test of Mr. Obama's seriousness about addressing global warming.

In North America and many parts of Europe, the debate on what role humans should play in ending animal suffering has taken shape in protests against slaughter houses, factory farming and animal testing.

Because the «skeptics» protest against scientists using very well - tested physics in their models, and for no good reason.

Scenes of «panic policing» were unanimously condemned by the House of Lords in Laporte, a test case against the Gloucestershire police brought after campaigners travelling to a demonstration were locked into their coaches by police and forcibly escorted away from the protest, without toilet stops, causing what Lord Bingham described as «acute physical discomfort and embarrassment.»

The High Court has granted a medical testing laboratory a final injunction against anti-vivisectioners protesting outside their premises.