Sentences with phrase «sitting out of standardized testing»

But in the majority of classrooms, where opt - out appears likely to remain at low levels, the data strongly suggest that students sitting out of standardized testing will have only a trivial impact on the ratings received by their teachers.

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We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

When 200,000 parents opted their children out of this spring's standardized tests — and some classrooms had just one or two children sitting for these corporately - designed assessments — the Regents definitely noticed.

More than 200,000 third through eighth graders sat out New York's standardized tests this year, education officials said on Wednesday, in a sign of increasing resistance to testing as more states make them harder to pass.

Tens of thousands of Illinois students — the most in recent history — sat out the state's standardized exams during the last school year as resistance to testing gained momentum nationwide, new state data show.

At least 165,000 children, or one of every six eligible students, sat out at least one of the two standardized tests this year, more than double and possibly triple the number who did so in 2014, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

An opt - out movement gained momentum this spring, with tens of thousands of students sitting out of new standardized tests in states including New York, Maine and New Mexico.

A Washington Heights elementary school has canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests for the youngest public school students — after more than 80 % of parents opted to have their kids sit out the exam.

Maybe I'm just an über - geek, but the findings of the study show that standardized testing has no correlation to success in higher education (in fact there are many indicators that those opting out of the SAT / ACT, myself included did much better academically than those who took the tests).