Sentences with phrase «stakes assessment called»

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Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

(Not to mention, as Michael Horn pointed out to me yesterday, these so - called high stakes tests are no stakes tests for students themselves, whereas assessments embedded in their day to day may actually motivate students to perform).

«And because of that commitment, I am today calling for a moratorium on the stakes associated with Common Core assessments.»

Specifically, we've called for giving teachers tools to use assessments to inform instruction, minimizing test prep (which research suggests does not necessarily lead to increased test scores), focusing on student growth rather than absolute proficiency, and using test scores as only one measure among many in high - stakes decisions.

And that is why I recently called for a moratorium on the stakes associated with Common Core assessments.

More and more voices are joining the chorus calling for an end to invalid, high - stakes, standardized assessments.

On the national level, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, recently called for a moratorium on the high stakes associated with the Common Core assessments until schools and teachers have had adequate time to understand the standards and make the necessary instructional shifts.

So we join the Gates Foundation in calling on state policymakers to consider that assessment results should not be taken into account in high - stakes decisions on teacher evaluation or student promotion for the next two years, during this transition here in Tennessee.

In Mississippi, the Greenville Public School District school board passed a version of NEA's resolution calling on district leaders to reduce high - stakes assessments.

The AFT has called for an end to the testing obsession and for a moratorium on the high - stakes consequences attached to the Common Core State Standards - aligned assessments until the more rigorous standards have been implemented properly.

The Task Force has also failed to consider the findings of over 100 California researchers who called «for a moratorium on high - stakes testing broadly, and in particular, on the use of scientifically discredited assessment instruments (like the current SBAC, PARCC, and Pearson instruments).»