Sentences with phrase «schools focus on tested»

Similarly, many [charter] schools focus on tested subjects, while others might emphasize creative writing or the arts.»

It wasn't always easy to teach in the way that the teachers in this study believed learning should occur, as current structures in many Australian schools focus on testing and often quite narrow assessment regimes.

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The girls are given a more focused education — the classrooms are much smaller than in the coed schools that pack upwards of a 100 students in one room — and they perform, on average, much better than the rest of Kakuma on Kenya's standardized testing for secondary schools.

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

Perhaps our public schools need to avoid solely focusing on their standardized tests, and instead outreach to families to teach healthy eating.

TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

While counselors might have to spend a lot of time focusing on individual education plans, testing, and other educational issues, school personnel should also be available to talk with children about emotional issues that affect their performance and demeanor at school.

If oatmeal isn't on your school breakfast menu, it might be time to test some recipes with your student focus group.

Whereas Olds» work has focused on the challenges of becoming a parent (i.e. program limited to first - time parents), Webster - Stratton has targeted the late preschool period and the transition to formal schooling, when children's emotion regulation skills are becoming more stable and tested in the context of full - day school settings.6, 22 A central focus of Webster - Stratton's program is parent management training to promote child social competence and prevent the development of conduct problems.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

The funding included in the budget will target $ 350,000 for outreach coordinators at each school that will focus on underrepresented middle schools, $ 650,000 for test preparation at middle school students for underrepresented populations and $ 750,000 for test prep that targets students receiving free or reduced lunch in New York City.

The interminable focus on league tables, Ofsted inspections and Michael Gove's favoured E-Bacc leaves many schools with little or no choice but to focus on a few subjects against which they are tested.

We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

In schools that are focused on achieving high scores on the state tests, she said, the curriculum becomes geared towards test day at the expense of deeper learning.

Critics have accused its schools of excessive discipline and an inordinate focus on test scores.

Some real - life changes, however, are being made in a number of schools around the country that focus on the critical - thinking skills of one student at a time instead of the collective test scores of a class, or a whole school, or a state.

«The Government needs to scrap the damaging school performance tables and focus instead on a more balanced method of assessing educational achievement based on externally marked sample tests.»

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

«He's putting so much focus on test scores that are going to be detrimental to our school because the overwhelming majority of our kids don't speak English at home and don't perform as well on standardized tests,» she said.

«It's time the government stopped blaming parents and accepted the case we've been making for a new focus on teaching reading using tried and tested methods, with a test after two years in primary school to ensure our children are being taught properly.»

«The NASUWT remains clear that a fit for purpose accountability system should consider the performance of schools in the round and not solely on the basis of narrowly focused test and examination results.»

Southern Tier Republican Sen. Tom O'Mara has launched the second TV ad of his re-election campaign, which focuses on his success in getting a bill passed through the Legislature and signed into law that mandates the testing of public school water for lead.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

Some appear to be turned off by reports of Success suspension rates far higher than district schools» and the extreme focus on performing well on test scores.

The petition says he has run the NYC school system «like a ruthless dictatorship,» shutting out parents and teachers, putting the focus on tests, and refusing to cut overcrowding and class size.

«There is too much focus and too much stress on testing,» said Concetta Aloi, the PTA president of Public School 200 in Brooklyn.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.

«She has a deep knowledge of schools and our system, and is on record criticizing Mayor Bloomberg's focus on high - stakes testing.

The app has been tested with a group of school principals and in a communications class focused on ethical issues.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

We are also focused on cutting the costs required to repair them,» said professor Shiling Pei, an Assistant Professor at Colorado School of Mines who is leading the tests funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and a variety of industry sponsors.

Heartland focuses on free - market issues across the board, including promoting charter schools, lobbying for business - friendly finance, insurance and real estate rules and promoting prescription drug availability before full Food and Drug Administration testing.

A focus on targeting higher attaining students, the high cost of providing school trips and the pressures of high - stakes testing were suggested obstacles restricting wider participation, contributing to inequality in STEM - based learning outside of the classroom.

In what's believed to be the first study to examine the issue, the IUPUI researchers focused on the public's reaction to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, to test their approach.

Children who have protein at breakfast will have an easier time focusing at school and have been found to perform better on tests.

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The school's principal told journalist Rachel Aviv that his school district was «increasingly «corporate,» with every school focused on the «bottom line,» putting additional pressure on teachers to pull up test scores despite there being no national standard.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

The book's focus on teacher autonomy and creative license is a stiff rebuke to the troubling overemphasis on standardized testing and rote memorization in schools, a perspective that may frustrate some readers — while inspiring many others.

«Schools and learning need a movement to change not just the way we teach, but also how we think about teaching and learning,» Yamashiro says, noting that education needs to be valued in American society and focused on not only test scores and economic success, but also on the whole child and finding joy in learning.

To those who blanch at Coleman's vision of making academics a spectator sport, Kelley says the focus of Arete, as with the rowers» fitness test, is on helping students achieve «personal best» milestones, a strategy that most schools rarely use.

Children's Book Week celebrates reading for enjoyment in schools and encourages educators to make time to read for fun and not just focus on literacy testing.

Greater focus on raising student performance on math and reading standardized tests may also lead schools to cut field trips.

To illustrate the un-reliability of test score changes, I'm going to focus on rigorously identified research on school choice programs where we have later life outcomes.

This shows that standardised testing of schools and subsequent rankings are not needed, as schools and teachers are professionals focusing on the learning of all students.

Even if we overlooked the shortcomings of testing as a measure of learning, a single - minded focus on reading and math would not be a cure for what ails children in the nation's poorest - performing schools.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

One researcher suggested that recent studies saying current middle school programs focus more on developing a nurturing climate than strong academics, and the emphasis on high - stakes tests in eighth grade, may have spurred some principals to drop service - learning programs, according to Kielsmeier.