Sentences with phrase «sole measure of academic achievement»

For example, NAEP scores are measures of the overall achievement level of students and not necessarily an accurate reflection of the quality of each state's school system, yet they were used as the sole measure of academic achievement.

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That's because our friends at the Department of Education read ESSA's language to mean that proficiency rates — and proficiency rates alone — must be the sole measure of «academic achievement.»

The trust at the core of these relationships, contends Meier, is often sacrificed when standardization turns schools into academic grindstones and when test scores become the sole measure of achievement.