Sentences with phrase «squeezed out of the curriculum»

I worry that creativity is being squeezed out of the curriculum as the emphasis is being put on regurgitating facts and figures.

I fear that it's being squeezed out of the curriculum as the emphasis is being put on regurgitating facts and figures.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has warned that music and drama could be squeezed out of the curriculum if the government pushes on with the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) proposal.

Don't let Art get squeezed out of the curriculum in your school!

First, we have good reason to believe that the arts are being squeezed out of the curriculum.

Initial plans for the target had prompted fears that creative subjects could be squeezed out of the curriculum as schools rushed to focus on the five academic subjects included in the EBacc performance measure.

Many head teachers say that the tests damage children's education because they encourage teachers to «teach to the test», so that other subjects are squeezed out of the curriculum.

Creativity is often mentioned as an important 21st century skill, but the emphasis on basics and high - stakes testing is squeezing it out of the curriculum.

Not exact matches

He says, for instance, that the teacher, Chris Doyle, used to teach current events, but «standardized testing and canned curriculums have squeezed most of that out of public education.»

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says that federal mandates are squeezing some subjects out of the curriculum, and she is working on a project that has a goal of restoring one of them: civics education.

Have budget squeezes driven the arts out of the curriculum?

While the narrowing curriculum rallying cry is popular in opinion surveys, assessments such as NAEP reveal no signs of declining achievement in science or history or any other supposedly «squeezed out» subject.

The real threat to national security is squeezing the democracy out of our schools with such «reform school» approaches replacing efforts at real school reform, and with standardized testing narrowing the curriculum so that our schools are simply no longer able to produce informed citizens.

This narrow vision of education is squeezing play - based learning out of the curriculum, despite the fact that children are still in their early years of development.

As some leading educators have recommended, this may require «leaving things out of the curricula» rather than «squeezing more in.»

Infante and others add that the Academic Performance Index and the federal No Child Left Behind law squeezed history out of the curriculum in most districts during the past decade.

«It is also a concern that secondary schools are squeezing history out of the curriculum or into general humanities courses,» he said.

«The current accountability system has led districts to fixate on testing and sanctions, has squeezed out vital parts of the curriculum that are not subjected to testing, and has sacrificed much - needed learning time,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said.

It follows concerns at GCSE level that the government's EBacc policy is squeezing arts subjects out of the curriculum.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said there was «a groundswell against Michael Gove's plan» because he was «squeezing creativity out of the curriculum».