Sentences with phrase «reliance on standardized test»

The root of the problem is the reliance on standardized test results.

On the other hand, performance - based assessments such as the edTPA provide a promising approach to reducing reliance on standardized test scores and the resulting racial disparities among the teacher workforce.

They also raise important questions about the government's reliance on standardized test results as a guide for regulating the options available to families.

Objections focused on numerous parts of the plan, including the reliance on standardized test scores and other measures that teachers believe are unfair and unworkable.

Principals, teachers and school boards have objected to the tight deadline in the law, as well as the greater reliance on standardized tests, a component that Governor Cuomo has insisted upon.

Cuomo took an aggressive position during his budget and policy address Wednesday, threatening to withhold a significant funding increase for schools if lawmakers don't approve his controversial reform proposals, such as an amendment to the state's teacher - evaluation system that would increase the ratings» reliance on standardized testing.

Teachers have been holding rallies all around the state protesting Governor Cuomo's education proposals, and hundreds are expected to converge on the Capitol late Monday to protest over reliance on standardized tests, and other issues.

Principals, teachers and school boards have objected to the tight deadline in the law, as well as the greater reliance on standardized tests, a component that Cuomo has insisted upon.

New York State United Teachers said it will be delivering 10,000 letters from teachers to Commissioner King detailing the adverse impact they say state's reliance on standardized testing has had on its students.

As part of his plan, Astorino also proposed reducing the reliance on standardized tests for evaluating the performance of students, teachers and schools.

Flanagan said his colleagues «have a deep and abiding concern» about Cuomo's original proposal for amending the evaluation system, which would have increased the ratings» reliance on standardized testing to 50 percent.

When they speak of «accountability,» what they really mean is a rigid reliance on standardized testing as both the means and the end of education.

Instead of promoting a sophisticated student and teacher evaluation program, Malloy and other proponents of the corporate education reform agenda have been pushing a dangerous reliance on standardized testing as one of the state's primary mechanisms to judge and evaluate students, teachers and public school.

So too did the Palm Beach County School board in its resolution calling for a testing overhaul and less reliance on standardized tests.

In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing.

After almost 30 years at an alternative high school, Ann Cook now heads a consortium of New York public high schools that assess students with little reliance on standardized tests.

At the forum, held at PS 89 in New York City's Tribeca, Ravitch — author of the best - selling «The Death and Life of the Great American School System» — warned in her keynote speech about the harm done by excessive reliance on standardized tests, privatization through charter school expansion, and the growing influence of wealthy private foundations on education policies.

The advocacy group FairTest says the NAEP scores again highlight the nation's unhealthy reliance on standardized testing to boost achievement.

However, it is clear that the public believes reliance on standardized testing is used in a disproportionate manner.

Reforming Assessment and Placement Assessment and placement reforms generally involve moving away from the traditional reliance on standardized tests and toward a more holistic measure of prior achievement such as high school course grades.

The reformers» excessive reliance on standardized testing as both the measure and goal of schooling has corrupted education.

She is a founder of the Alliance for the Education of the Whole Child, a coalition of more than 45 education and civil rights organizations which organized to critique the overâ $ «reliance on standardized testing in the public schools and advocate for an assessment system consisting of multiple measures.

The town, using a 45 - member advisory council, rejected the state's reliance on standardized testing and instead developed an alternative model that seeks to capture the real factors that promote student success and achievement.

This standardized testing pushback is not new — released in January, ASCD's 2015 Legislative Agenda (PDF) calls on policymakers to reduce the reliance on standardized testing — and it continues to grow as states administer new tests aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Not exact matches

Teachers, administrators and union leaders joined forces in what was termed the One Voice United rally, targeting the increasing reliance of the state's education system on standardized testing.

The increased reliance on the standardized exams in New York led to a boycott of the tests by one fifth of students last spring.

As states across the U.S. move to adopt standardized tests as a means to determine grade promotion and school graduation, new research presented in the Harvard Educational Review shows that sole reliance on high - stakes tests as a graduation requirement may increase inequities among students by both race and gender.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

PAA opposes excessive reliance on standardized exams, which narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

A whole child education is not antithetical to testing, but a reliance on high - stakes standardized tests to evaluate students, educators, or schools is antithetical to a whole child education.

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.»

This is one case where I don't think the terrible chaos of school reform and reliance on mass produced standardized testing is at fault.

High - Stakes Testing: Excessive reliance on standardized exams narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

ASCD also explicitly acknowledged that «reliance on high - stakes standardized tests to evaluate students, educators, or schools is antithetical to a whole child education.

Much of the criticism of the Bush - era No Child Left Behind law was that its over reliance on standardized assessments — and the subsequent pressure it put on teachers due to its punitive nature — encouraged educators to «teach to the test» at the expense of actual learning.