Sentences with phrase «stakes alternative test»

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But this claim needs to be tested, for there is clearly a plausible alternative: that teachers are not only better educated and more middle class than the average citizen, but also more public spirited, more committed to public education, and thus more likely to vote in school - board elections regardless of their personal stakes.

While breaks can help reset student focus, a useful alternative — especially for older students — is to switch teaching strategies throughout a lesson: Try having students team up on a think - pair - share activity or work in groups, spend a few minutes reviewing concepts, or give a low - stakes practice test at the end of a lesson.

«Democrats amended the platform to: support community schools with wraparound services in struggling neighborhoods; implement restorative justice and alternative discipline practices; invest in engaging STEM curricula; explicitly oppose high - stakes testing as a means to close schools or evaluate educators; support a parents» right to opt their children out of tests; and support and respect all educators and school employees.

It sure is, say local opt - out activists, who oppose so - called school reform measures — including high - stakes tests used to evaluate teachers — that they say are designed to foster private alternatives and ultimately dismantle public education.

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

Visit the consortium's site (www.performanceassessment.org) to learn about these schools» self - styled assessment systems and to get pointers for advocating for alternatives to high - stakes tests in your own state or district.

Mainly for international readers, this section provides a brief history of teacher education in the United States and discusses such issues as who grants the teaching license, recent developments and future trends in teacher preparation (e.g., high - stakes testing, disallowing «education» as a major, alternative certification), and the emergence of the bilingual education endorsement.

«The consortium schools have created a powerful alternative to a system built around high - stakes testing,» Weingarten says.

Both versions that have passed in their respective chambers allow for states to end current accountability measures enforced by high - stakes testing if they develop their own alternatives.

I have discussed high - stakes testing extensively on Cloaking Inequity and an alternative approach to assessing our schools.

I therefore will introduce an emergency bill in the Washington state legislature next week that would provide more flexible alternatives to high school graduation if a student fails a high stakes test.

posing an alternative to high stakes testing, say having a class do a book that each one of them contributes a chapter to.

A balanced school accountability model: An alternative to high - stakes testing.

It was the coalition and its efforts to enlist the support of the school board for its campaigns — curbing military recruitment, creating alternatives to high - stakes testing — that first brought Caputo - Pearl to my attention.

MCAS's stated intention was to rethink how to measure and report on students» progress, yet MCAS relies on a high - stakes, fill - in - the - bubble test and discourages alternative assessments.

We'll have opt out and other resources to share, including MTAS's alternative proposal for replacing high - stakes testing with common - sense use of report cards.