Not exact matches
One of those
responsibilities is to meet, along with my assistant principal, with each of my Level 1's [
students scoring at the lower levels
on the state
tests] and their parents to discuss
test scores and the importance of raising those
scores.
Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full
responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based
on student test scores, and school accountability systems based
on the premise that schools with low average
test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their
student populations.
I also think the the amount of
responsibility on test scores, etc. makes more sense in earlier grades (elementary) where
students may not have as much control
on making their own decisions.
, which delineated a system of increasing teacher
responsibility tied to increased pay, did not put sufficient emphasis
on student test scores to meet grant priorities.