Sentences with phrase «stakes consequences for»

Unlike previous federal efforts, it combined specific performance goals for all students and high - stakes consequences for schools and districts for failing to meet those goals.

«They insult both parents, children and teachers by phasing in standards that have flaws and inappropriate tests that are used to evaluate teachers, as well as hold high stakes consequences for kids,» she continues.

The Education Department told schools and the federal government that there would be no high - stakes consequences for test scores in 2015 and 2016 because schools needed time to adapt to new exams and a new rating system.

In my current state of New Jersey, a bill that would pause the high stakes consequences for teachers and students attached to Common Core assessments and establish a task force to review the Common Core and accompanying PARCC assessments passed the New Jersey Assembly with an overwhelming bipartisan vote (72 yes; 4 no; 4 abstentions, with 84 % of Republicans and 94 % of Democrats voting yes).

The Ark is the only charter school in the state facing closure or high - stakes consequences for its results from the baseline Common Core tests.

Instead of making the major course corrections that are clearly needed, including backing a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences for students and teachers from state testing, he has labeled everyone and every meaningful recommendation as distractions.»

a moratorium, or delay, in the high - stakes consequences for students and teachers from standardized testing to give the State Education Department - and school districts - more time to correctly implement the Common Core.

«Since each of these corrections requires time for development and implementation, we strongly urge you to support legislation to create a three - year moratorium on the use of state assessments for high - stakes consequences for students and teachers,» the unions wrote in the letter.

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Certainly this is a conversation where everyone has more to lose; those scapegoating Facebook probably don't want to think about their own responsibility, such that it may be, for an election result they disagree with, and the stakes are even higher for Facebook: giving people what they want to see is far more important to the company's business model than $ 100,000 in illegal ads, unintended consequences or not.

He charts the devastating consequences of the transformation of this gang and others into high - stakes, often violent corporate enterprises engaged in franchised dealing in crack cocaine — an entrepreneurial «black capitalism» that does not figure in conservative programs for urban renewal yet plays a significant role in the economic life of the inner city.

The ultimate consequence of this is that Gibbs will have to take a leaf out of his rival's book and bide his time on the bench until an opportunity emerges for him to stake a claim for a starting place once more.

Many lawmakers have been asking for a delay in the implementation, and to put off the consequences of the high stakes tests for school children for another couple of years.

Amid a statewide furor over the flawed implementation of the Common Core Learning Standards, the State Assembly on Feb. 28 introduced a bill that would impose a two - year moratorium on attaching high - stakes consequences to the New York state tests for teachers and students.

But for industry and policymakers who make sweeping decisions that affect the environment — such as whether to drill for oil on protected lands or build new nuclear power plants — the financial stakes, potential consequences, and complexity of the choices defy a simple weighing of pros and cons.

The stakes are a bit lower than your standard Studio Ghibli fare, but the moral presented in the end is enough to make up for the lack of world - ending consequences in the conflict.

Everything in the film has deadly serious consequences — every smile, every look, and every action of Katniss (the always excellent Jennifer Lawrence) carefully considered and used for or against her, and these stakes, big or small, are pitched perfectly.

The biggest challenge will be raising the stakes even higher in an «Avengers» series that has already featured world - ending consequences, and finding room for everyone to participate.

With stories from exiled Tibetan monks circumventing China's surveillance apparatus, Syrian citizens tortured for Facebook posts, Brazilian activists using social media to distribute alternative news, and Pakistani online violence against women, we see firsthand the high - stakes consequences that our unprecedented level of digital communication can produce.

High - stakes tests generally have consequences for schools as well as for the students themselves — for example, monetary support may be withdrawn from schools that fail to raise scores.

A closer look at one high - stakes evaluation system, however, shows the positive consequences such systems can have for students.

One of the consequences of the high - stakes state assessments that were mandated in NCLB and the requirement for a fifth indicator of school success in the present - day successor of NCLB (The Every Student Succeeds Act) is a preeminent concern among school and district leaders with how to measure student soft skills in a way that lends itself to grading teachers and schools.

The confusion also occurs when people assume that voluntary work does not entail any obligation in being responsible for tasks and actions that are assigned; no contractual and financial consequences are at stake here.

Assigning a failing grade to a school as a result of high - stakes testing may be politically embarrassing, but it usually has no effect on school budgets and almost never has any meaningful consequences for individual teachers.

When I interviewed teachers for See Me After Class, the unintended consequences of high - stakes tests came up most often among language arts teachers.

With all of the high - stakes testing in our schools, and the resulting judgments and consequences for students and teachers, it is no wonder that schools are taking time away from activities like recess, breaks, art, music... to spend more time on academics.

For all of the talk about «raising standards» and implementing «high stakes testing,» the United States is an outlier among developed nations when it comes to holding students themselves to account, and linking real - world consequences to academic achievement or the lack thereof.

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.

NYSUT's board also withdrew its support for the Common Core standards as implemented and interpreted in New York state until SED makes major course corrections to its failed implementation plan and supports a three - year moratorium on high - stakes consequences from standardized testing.

Before 1996 the IGAP was arguably the higher - stakes exam, even though there were no direct consequences for students or schools tied to the IGAP, since results from it appeared annually in local newspapers.

SAAS is also examining the unintended consequences of high stakes testing for students with disabilities in areas such as placement in the least restrictive environment, graduation rates and discipline.

In June, both the NEA and AFT endorsed a two - year moratorium pushed by the Gates Foundation, proposing a delay in high - stakes consequences tied to Common Core exams for students and teachers.

Here is the description of Opt Out Orlando taken from their site: «Opt Out Orlando advocates for multiple measures of authentic assessments, such as a portfolio, non-high stakes standardized tests (Iowa Test of Basic Standards (ITBS) or the Stanford Achievement Test (SAT10)-RRB-, which are used to inform teachers» instruction of their students and which do not result in punitive consequences for students, teachers and schools.

This occurred in large part due to Sanders's (and others») lobbying efforts when the federal government ultimately choose to incentivize and de facto require that all states hold their teachers accountable for their value - added, or lack thereof, while attaching high - stakes consequences (e.g., teacher termination) to teachers» value - added estimates.

Now many state legislators are weighing in and supporting the union's common - sense call for a moratorium on high - stakes consequences.

The combination of funding and sanctions will make the tests high - stakes where they now are not, with all the well - documented harmful consequences for curriculum and instruction, particularly for low - income and minority - group students.

HR 5 continues the high - stakes consequences resulting from testing requirements for school children by requiring 95 percent of children to test in several subjects in grades 3 - 8 and one grade in high school.

The federal law requires states to administer high - stakes tests with consequences for inadequate student performance.

MORE has generated alliances with parents and students who have felt the consequences of a leadership that had, for far too long, ignored the truth about high stakes testing and the faulty metrics of value added measures.

High stakes testing has only had horrible consequences for schools with disproportionate number of Black and Latino students.

WHEREAS, the new evaluation system based on NYS Education Law 3012c disproportionately weights the use of high stakes test scores over qualitative assessments as «Measures of Student Learning (MOSL)» in determining teacher performance, leading to a proliferation of Common Core - aligned tests with devastating consequences for teaching and learning conditions in our schools, and

While our call for a temporary moratorium on high - stakes testing hasn't gained traction yet, the work of countless NCTE members continues to promote the positive consequences of effective teaching and collaboration, when it is properly supported.

Decker is among a group of legislators calling for a three - year moratorium on the «high - stakes» consequences of state testing, including using scores for teacher evaluations, graduation requirements and district accountability ratings.

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.

So if House Bill 2214 passes, the adverse consequences for opting out contained in House Bill 2214 would cripple the Opt Out movement in Washington state and the light that is now exposing the drawbacks of high stakes testing at high schools in Washington state would be extinguished.

We [also] called for a moratorium last year on the consequences of these tests, a brake on the stakes, until implementation was done right.

Often these tests are referred to as «high stakes,» although some states have a mechanism for graduation or promotion that avoids retention consequences when the student has otherwise earned graduation or promotion.

Basically, high - stakes testing has consequences for the test - takers and givers — sometimes in the form of a high school diploma, grade advancement, and even teachers» salaries.

IMPACT is distinctive for multiple reasons, including its use of multiple indicators to assess teacher quality, multi-tiered framework for performance categories, and link to high - stakes consequences and incentives.

Whether high - stakes consequences will still be attached to such output, along with the observational and other testing data to account for the other 65 %, is to be seen.

The call for Congressional hearings — addressed to Senators Lamar Alexander and Tom Harkin of the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, and Representatives John Kline and George Miller of the House Education and Workforce Committee — states that high - stakes testing in public schools has led to multiple unintended consequences that warrant federal scrutiny.