Sentences with phrase «so focused on standardized tests»

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.

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But focusing so much on standardized test scores is the opposite of how members of most professions are evaluated.»

«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.

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.

They can pass the standardized tests with their eyes closed, so we tell high - ability kids that their job is to sit still and stay quiet while the teacher focuses on low - achievers.

«Teachers face a tremendous challenge in providing the best education for all students, particularly when forced to spend so much time focused on standardized tests.

Currently the primary focus of accountability systems, using standardized tests, is to provide data on student and school performance so as to sort, rate, and rank the performance of students, schools, and districts.

Tapped in 2012 to lead a turnaround of the failing 652 - student school, Brengard and an almost completely new staff launched a new project - based learning environment and set about changing from the top down the culture of the school, which he said was «in a rut» because teaching had become so hyper - focused on standardized testing outcomes.

So, in the minds of the education reformers, the definition of «rather than focusing on mandates from bureaucrats,» is to mandate yet another set of standardized tests that will be given to all students, starting in middle school and then throughout high school, and then using the test, which has shown NO statistically relevant improvement as one - quarter of the entire «School Performance Score» that parents and policymakers are supposed to use to determine which schools are succeeding and which schools are failing.

The rest of Eskelsen Garcia's piece focuses on why the testing is so inappropriate and the NEA's position is to permanently reduce the use of standardized testing.

«We've been so focused on English / language arts and mathematics as measured by state standardized tests as the only indicator of quality and the only thing that matters,» Starr says.

The first looks only at the lowest - performing students, focusing all resources on getting these students to score above «proficient» on standardized tests so that the school will be in compliance with NCLB.