Sentences with phrase «public education director»

Those are fighting words to Bob Schaeffer, public education director of FairTest, an advocacy group that has long been critical of any high stakes testing, including the use of the ACT and SAT in college admissions.
Schaeffer, who grew up in Miller Place, is public education director for FairTest, a Boston - based group that advocates against what it regards as misuse of standardized tests.
«Voting for the Bush testing scheme would be the height of irresponsibility for any Member of Congress reading this information,» concluded FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer.
«Across the U.S., strategies that boost scores without improving learning — including outright cheating, narrow teaching to the test and pushing out low - scoring students — are widespread,» said FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer.
Center for Public Education Director Patte Barth updates her popular Top 10 list of reasons to celebrate public schools in «What's Good in Public Education?»
The debate was truly two - sided, with California State University professor Julian Vasquez - Heilig and Network for Public Education director Carol Burris speaking against privatization, and PennCAN director Jonathan Cetel and Alyson Miles with the American Federation for Children promoting charters and vouchers.
to politically mandated standardized exam misuse and overuse, said Robert Schaeffer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing (FairTest)
FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer does not expect Georgia, Utah or New York to be the last state legislatures that will be forced to deal with parents angered by overreach into their kids» classrooms.
'' [Colleges and universities] recognize that neither the SAT nor ACT measures what students most need to succeed in higher education,» FairTest Public Education Director Bob Schaeffer said in a statement Wednesday.
I am a public education director of Educational Technology and Innovation, a Design Project Manager, involved with architecture and learning space design.
Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director for FairTest, a standardized - test watchdog organization, said, «The numbers and consequences of these tests have driven public opinion over the edge, and politicians are scrambling to figure out how to deal with that.»
«People know that the test scores are flawed for a variety of reasons and that they can not be relied on as the sole or primary factor to make high - stakes decisions,» said Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.
Reacting to results from the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), said, «Americans are clearly fed up with school - test overkill.
Bob Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, or FairTest (a nonpartisan 501c3 organization not aligned with any political party or candidate), said that the statements supporting opt - outs and opposing the use of student test scores to evaluate students and teachers are «particularly strong.»
Reports of cheating on standardized tests with the goal of bolstered performance have increased in frequency in recent years, according to Robert Schaeffer, public education director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing.
«There needs to be a further de-linking of test scores from educational high - stakes decisions about students, teachers and schools,» says Robert Schaeffer, the public education director of the watchdog group Fair Test.
According to Maxine Sweet, the public education director for the Experian credit bureau: «Anytime you fail to repay a debt in full it will negatively impact your credit report, even if the account was never late before the debt was settled through a short sale.»
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