Sentences with phrase «said test prep»

The survey of 400 teachers found that 57 percent thought they spent «too much time» on test prep, while 43 percent said test prep time was «about right» or «too little.»

Some parents claimed the math and English tests for grades 3 - 11 are unnecessarily confusing and said test prep steals away too much instructional time.

Not exact matches

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

«We do... test prep, but it's through the class lessons,» said Success Academy Bronx 2 Principal Vanessa Bangser.

«We're very comfortable with the approach we're increasingly taking, which is to de-emphasize high - stakes testing, de-emphasize test prep — focus on actually assessing the child,» de Blasio said.

And City Council Speaker Christine Quinn said in her first year of office she would stop «vilifying» teachers, reduce the amount of time spent on test prep and figure out another way to address failing schools.

Of their high scoring, de Blasio said, «That's because of a heavy focus on test prep, which is just not the philosophy of this administration and of DOE, nor do I think it's what the vast majority of parents want to see for their kids,» de Blasio said.

Magee says teachers will be working in the next two years to make sure adopting the Common Core becomes more than just prepping students for standardized tests.

New York State teachers say too much time is spent on test prep and some parents want their children to opt out.

«The Albany proposals have the right goal, to target resources at enhancing academics and test prep for promising black and Latino students,» Cary said.

«I think this money is going to go a long way in making sure more young people from African - American and Latino communities have test prep for specialized high schools,» said state Sen. Jeffrey Klein (D - Bronx), who initiated the project.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said, «The unimpressive recent results on the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that the test prep that has taken over much of the class time in our schools has not helped our kids learn.

Vander J. Carter, who owns startup Jest Green, said he hopes to use the kitchen space to prep fresh ingredients and juices and, more importantly, test recipes and collaborate with other entrepreneurs.

«PrEP promises to help to curb the rate of new HIV infections as part of a comprehensive prevention plan — including safer sex, regular «opt - out» HIV testing, risk reduction counseling, and treatment of any other sexually transmitted infections,» Dr. Balderson said.

So, we meal prepped it to test it out and let us just say that this Smoked Salmon & Lentil Breakfast Salad had us craving it for lunch and dinner, too!

In fact, on page 24, the report clearly says that the relationship between test prep and value - added on standardized tests is weaker than other observed practices, but does not claim that the relationship is negative:

According to the interpretation in the NYT and LA Times, it would be correct to say «teachers who care about student problems tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who spend a lot of time on test prep.»

She says, «Whether they like to admit it or not, college prep schools often are greatly affected by AP exam scores, SAT test scores, and the number of students they can place in prestigious universities.»

It is the definition of success, however, that he said should be expanded beyond test scores and college prep.

The key, he says, is to emphasize critical thinking, even when doing test prep.

It's not always comfortable to do so, but if you see something that troubles you — say, lots of time spent on what seems to be boring test prep — talk with the teacher about it.

«My school district decided to take its six weeks of test prep and remove it,» says Glynn.

And she says her son «started to hate school because of all the test prep.»

Judy Suchman, the owner of the Chappaqua Learning Center, a tutoring, test prep and college counseling service, said her main message to students is to be realistic.

This is the kind of assignment Glynn believes in, but says test - prep doesn't encourage this kind of learning.

He says the curriculum has been taken over by «constant» test prep.

That said, due to test prep and other kinds of manipulation, «achievement increases may not correspond to actual learning gains» and «reading and math gains came at the expense of instruction in other subjects.»

«We urge the state to adopt these recommendations in a timely manner and continue to make efforts to both reduce the testing burden, increase instruction time away from test prep and increase confidence in the process,» Hoyt said.

If they have nothing to say to any of us about understanding what it means to be fully human and more fully ourselves, if they have nothing to tell us about the human experience as it has unspooled throughout human history, if they have nothing to say about the power of language to communicate across the gaps that separate us, if they have nothing to say about culture, if they have nothing to say about the rich heritage of the English language, if they have nothing to say about understanding the universal and the specific in human life, about how to grow beyond our own immediate experience — if they are, in fact, nothing more than fodder for test prep, then what the hell are we doing?

About 89 percent of teachers who believed they spent an appropriate amount of time on test prep felt it was a «very good» or «good» use of time, while 68 percent of those who thought test prep took too much time said the activities were a «very good» or «good» use of time.

However, even the 28 percent who said the curriculum was not well - aligned felt it was important to prep students well for end - of - year tests.

«Rather than being an incentive to cut back on testing, superintendents, principals, and teachers are faced with an increasing amount of testing to evaluate teachers» and serve as test prep to increase SBAC scores, said Williams.

We can raise test scores, as you say, only if we focus on those things — and not on test prep.

Secretary DeVos is right when she says that American state schools appear to have grown accustomed to being in receive mode, waiting for orders from on high as to what they are to do next; while independent schools continue to enjoy their autonomy and capacity for innovation, which was once a rationale for the charter sector as well, but that sector has lost its vitality since philanthropists suborned leading educational entrepreneurs into specializing in test prep, so impatient did they become to see the effects of their spending reflected in national test score reports, an improvement that has not been forthcoming.

«He is leaving us with a legacy of classroom overcrowding, communities fighting over co-located schools, kindergarten waiting lists, unreliable school grades based on bad data, substandard credit recovery programs and our children starved of art, music and science — all replaced with test prep,» said Leonie Haimson, the head of Class Size Matters, an advocacy group and a critic of Mr. Klein's.

Critics of growth measures have said they can fluctuate depending on the variables and number of years of testing data added to the mathematical formula, making their validity suspect, and worry that grading teachers based on tests will cause them to focus more on test prep in their classrooms.

Many «experts» are saying that the tests have different formats and «skill sets» and thus may be confusing students who have taken or prepped with previous tests, like CMT in CT..

They also felt pressure to raise scores to protect their jobs, and parents said that their children were bearing the brunt of that pressure as schools devoted more time and resources to test prep.

Lockwood teachers also say, notably, that they did less testing last year during the school year than in any year in recent memory and basically no test prep in advance of the state exams.

Teacher prep programs must get more rigorous, evaluations aligned with student outcomes (not I said outcomes not test scores so don't put words in my mouth)...

My colleague who teaches English learners said she used to complete five of her own units with these students — and now she can only complete one due to constant test prep and testing.

«I used to spend time on test prep because I felt pressured to do it,» said Yi, who attended Hobart in Koreatown herself and returned a decade ago to teach.

But that minor point aside, according to the state of Connecticut's annual, multi-million dollar investment in standardized testing and the hundreds and hundreds of hours spent on test prep, I can now say with great pride that my child appears not to be an idiot.

He said, memorably, that he didn't care how much test prep there was so long as scores go up.

So as a result of the policies being pushed by Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Connecticut teachers and students spent thousands of hours during the past school year prepping and taking the Connecticut Mastery Test and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest and state and local taxpayers spent tens of millions of dollars paying for the Connecticut Mastery Test but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&raTest but the man in charge of the entire testing scheme now says that «some of the more pronounced decreases in lower grades may be due to the shift to the Common Core curriculum... [and]... Students using the new curriculum haven't covered some of the areas in the test.&ratest.»

And if a lot of those proposals described similar college - prep approaches, former Recovery superintendent Patrick Dobard is the first to admit his district focused on opening schools that raised test scores from the pre-Katrina basement — «like triage,» he said — not on creating a range of school types for parents.

When teachers protested that students from disadvantaged backgrounds tend not to test well, having not had the benefit of tutors and test - prep programs, GWB said they were making «excuses,» showing «the soft bigotry of low expectations.»

Compared to «content - rich» subjects like history and science, he says, reading doesn't lend itself as much to bad test prep.

«While the UFT has supported some role for standardized test results in teacher evaluations, we also know that the more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning,» he said.