Sentences with phrase «stakes consequences of»

Although MTAS would like to see a reduction (and elimination in the early years) of standardized testing and time spent on test preparation in CPS, the high - stakes consequences of many standardized tests concern us equally as much.

A few of the speakers suggested imposing a three - year moratorium on some of the high - stakes consequences of the testing connected to the Common Core, including teacher evaluations.

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But if people can't act on their values when the stakes aren't high, then how can they expect to act on them when the consequences of their inaction affect not only themselves, but an entire group of people?

The Canadian economy benefitted from a recovery in the US and the emergence of China as a major global economy There is a lot at stake and Canada will not be immune to the consequences if policy makers in the EURO area and the U.S. fail to take decisive action.

Ideas, as they say, have consequences, and it is our entirely sober judgment that in this war of ideas the fate of the American experiment in ordered liberty is itself at stake.

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.

• A fatal flaw with the current set - up of the Survivor Series is there are no direct consequences or meaning to the stakes between Raw and SmackDown.

«Actual criminal charges of the person dies» sort of consequences are actually at stake, not just civil suits that the agreement would also fail to block.

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.

The stakes were high because the consequences of a damaged microbiome in a baby's first days can have lifelong, negative effects.

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I had not staked out an opinion on the impact of mode of delivery on the microbiome and long - term health consequences.

If each of us is not aware of its consequences, the ecological stake might be very high.

It means, in a finely balance case, a GAAR Panel or court might be more lenient towards the taxpayer because of the harsh consequences of the 60 per cent of the tax at stake penalty.

«Raising the stakes on tax avoidance», a consultation document published by HM Revenue and Customs, sets out a number of proposals relating to the promotion and use of so - called high - risk avoidance schemes, aimed at reducing the use of such schemes.1 Commenting, CIOT President Stephen Coleclough said: «Those members of the public who become end users of high risk avoidance schemes are sometimes misled by the promoters of such schemes and are not fully made aware of the risks or consequences of their decisions.

«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.

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 it only applies when the stakes are not very high or when the likely consequences of our behavior are unclear.

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 consequences of such litigation have also grown due to the high stakes involved, often financial, but as the two right - to - die cases decided last year by the Supreme Court [Washington v. Glucksberg, 117 S. Ct. 2258 (1997); Vacco v. Quill, 117 S. Ct. 2293 (1997)-RSB- demonstrate, life and death as well.

With his cultivated air of nonchalance, the trivialized, consequence - free violence and reverse - engineering of a plot threaded with convenient twists and unexpected arrivals, Wheatley seems intent upon lowering the stakes at every opportunity.

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.

And if Marvel is committed to having the consequences of Infinity War truly reverberate through this summer's Ant - Man and the Wasp and next spring's Captain Marvel, then consider the stakes raised.

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.

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.

They seem to be presenting matters of little consequence, but the stakes are always huge and life - changing.

He understands the necessity of consequences and stakes in drama, even if they come from an intimate place.

They are the structural equivalent of the death of Passing Businessman No. 3, existing purely as imagery to up the stakes and give the franchise some emotional weight, certain not to carry any consequences whatsoever with them — but Passing Businessman No. 3 has been replaced by Spider - Man and Black Panther and Captain America's boyfriend.

Unfortunately, Robinson's curiously low - stakes screenplay postpones most of this transformation until an awkward, extended denouement, with the result that the resolution of Kemp's arc feels like a convenient instance of predestination, rather than the credible consequence of a moral epiphany.

Alongside noting effects on teaching and learning, the contributors to this volume illuminate other troubling consequences of high - stakes testing policies.

A 2013 senate committee looked at a range of adverse consequences emerging from the NAPLAN, including narrowing the curriculum, and the development of a NAPLAN preparation industry — creating the perception NAPLAN is a «high stakes» test.

As a consequence, in some years the high - stakes testing took place just before the start of daylight savings time, when pre-school daylight was highest; in other years, the high - stakes testing took place just after the start of daylight savings time, when pre-school daylight was nearly an hour less; and in still other years, the high - stakes testing took place a month after the start of daylight savings time, when pre-school daylight was somewhere in the middle.

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.

Test - based accountability proponents can point to research by Raj Chetty and colleagues that shows a connection between improvements in test scores and improved outcomes in adulthood, but their work examines testing from the 1980s, prior to the high - stakes era, and therefore does not capture how the threat of consequences might distort the relationship between test - score changes and later life outcomes.

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.

Tilles raises legitimate concerns about the use of these tests — the quality of the tests, their snapshot nature, the unintended consequences of their being high stakes — but seems to forget that 20 % of the teacher score comes from «locally - selected measures of student achievement» and that 60 % of evaluation is based on «other measures.»

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

And tying high - stakes external consequences to measures of goals, like test scores, can lead to unproductive behaviors.

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.

One of the biggest complaints about NCLB was the test - and - punish nature of the law — the high - stakes consequences attached to student standardized test scores.

Conduct research on the consequences, both intended and unintended, on high - stakes testing and its impact on the promotion, retention, and evaluation of students, teachers, principals, schools, and school districts.

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.»

Even worse, one of the unintended consequences of high - stakes testing is that it narrowed not only what you were taught but how you were taught.

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.

Instead of this minor concession, the nation really needs an indefinite moratorium on high - stakes tests and consequences to allow the development of new assessment practices that actually support learning and teaching.

Professional educators faced with high - stakes consequences are robbed of the chance to practice the art of teaching leaving students deprived of acquiring the deep understanding of full, broad curriculum needed to compete in college.

• Negative consequences are exacerbated when high - stakes such as school accountability or student graduation are solely based on the results of those tests.

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.