The elimination of the gap standard for law schools drastically raises
the stakes for all schools now willing to accept students with low LSAT scores or undergraduate GPAs.
Because student performance on the state ELA and math tests is used to calculate scores on the Teacher Data Reports, the tests are high - stakes for teachers; and because New York City uses a similar statistical strategy to rank schools, they are high -
stakes for schools as well.
It is not possible to to validly assess «value added» from tests like KS2 SATs and GCSE, which are so high
stakes for the schools in terms of DfE floor targets and the misuse of the data by OfSTED.
The higher
stakes for schools are just starting to illuminate the extent of our high - school - completion problems.
The federal «No Child Left Behind» Act of 2001 brings these tenets front and center by raising
the stakes for schools and principals across the country.
The stakes for school board members are far more attenuated than are those for investors, while superintendents are rarely evaluated on issues like market share or cost efficiency.
While the Indiana Department of Education's Office of School Improvement and Turnaround offered support and encouragement, it also reminded local educators of what was at
stake for schools where test scores remained low: after six straight F's under Indiana's school rating system, the state can take the school over.
But those days of relatively relaxed test - taking for students and limited
stakes for school districts and teachers are long gone.
Not exact matches
As the Children's
Schools and Families Bill 2009/2010 hurtles towards Royal Assent via the debating of committee stage amendments, there is a great deal at
stake for home
schoolers in particular and liberty in general.
Because specialization sets the terms
for a faculty member's participation in the life of a
school, it is perhaps the most powerful structure at work in faculty life: the faculty member's existence and legitimation are at
stake when his or her field is threatened.
A bill in Congress pushes
for pizza and french fries on
school lunch line, and our children's health could be at
stake.
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But in the long term, it's important to remember that
school lunch will change
for the better when we all have a
stake in the system.
But now many powerful forces are aligned against
school food reform: the processed food industry, which has a huge financial
stake in the program and powerful lobbyists on Capitol Hill; the need of
school districts to make their meal programs break even; First Lady Michelle Obama's vocal support of
school food reform, which has politicized the issue
for some conservatives hoping to score political points; and conservatives» general distrust of «big government.»
But since then, several Regents have been replaced by ones who are critical of high
stakes testing and penalties
for schools that aren't performing well.
Hawkins will speak on the need to fully fund and desegregate public
schools, while ending high -
stakes testing, to provide a quality education
for all students in New York.
Between the short time frame to demonstrate improvement and the higher
stakes around teacher evaluations this year, teachers are fleeing struggling
schools for schools where things aren't so bad, officials said Wednesday at a hearing in Albany.
«While the Majority bill protects children, teachers and
schools from being penalized
for opting out of the tests, it's missing the critical piece that parents should be informed by
schools in writing or via email that they have a right to refuse to have their children take these developmentally inappropriate high
stakes tests.»
«The Common Core Parental Refusal Act protects the rights of parents to have their children refuse to take these high
stakes tests and it ensures that students, teachers and
schools are not penalized or rewarded
for participation — or lack thereof — in the exams.
She echoed the union's concerted push
for more
school aid and a moratorium on using students scores on Common Core - aligned exams
for «high
stakes» decisions, such as teacher evaluations.
Cuomo relayed his readiness
for such a high -
stakes confrontation in conversations with key aides and state lawmakers during the past two weeks as he outlined general plans to cut the state payroll and impose billions of dollars in reductions on
school districts and the Medicaid program in the fiscal year beginning April 1.
Michelle Schimel (D - Port Washington) rallies on March 23, 2015, in support of more funds
for schools and against the governor's emphasis on high -
stakes testing.
Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations
for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter
schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high -
stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every
school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget
for New York City.»
Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State
for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high
stakes school accountability regime.
With control of the Buffalo
School Board at
stake — or perhaps no five - member majority emerging — candidates already are scrambling
for support in the May 3 election in which the six district seats on the nine - member board will be up
for grabs.
Ms. Teachout advocates raising the minimum wage, increasing funding
for public
schools and eliminating high -
stakes testing.
Hawkins chose to announce in front of the NYC Board of Education to highlight his call
for adequate funding
for public
schools and an end to high -
stakes testing.
Cuomo spent his first term attacking public sector unions, undermining funding
for public hospitals and pursuing an education deform agenda that funded charter
schools, pushed high -
stakes testing and undermined public
schools.
Consistent with his party's platform, Hawkins opposes fracking, favors heavier taxes on the rich, criticizes high -
stakes public
school testing and calls
for a return to state revenue - sharing to relieve property taxes.
Hawkins supports fully funding public
schools and opposes Cuomo's push
for high
stakes testing, charter
schools, and centralized control of the education system.
Hawkins had harsh criticisms
for Cuomo's education agenda
for shortchanging funding
for public education, pushing high -
stakes testing linked to the Common Core Standards to evaluate
schools and teachers, undermining teachers» professional autonomy, and favoring private charter
schools over public
schools.
Bloomberg also
staked out other stands sharply at variance with those of the teacher's union, calling
for merit pay, an increase in charter
schools and shutting down more
schools he considers failing.
Howie will be addressing the proposed conversion of four
schools from public institutions to
for - profit charter
schools, segregated
schools, lack of funding
for schools, high
stakes testing, Common Core, and the attacks on teachers unions.
He was slated to advocate fully funding and desegregating public
schools, ending high -
stakes testing, and providing a quality education
for all students, according to his campaign.
«I am appealing to all those who care about women's equality, fracking, Albany corruption, clean energy, full and equal funding of
schools, the end of high
stakes testing, and all the other progressive values Ms. Teachout stood
for in her campaign to vote
for me on election day,» Hawkins said in a statement.
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.
The
school, where nearly all students are poor enough to qualify
for free lunches and nearly all are black or Latino, has earned an A-rating under the Bloomberg administration's high -
stakes school report cards — a system Mayor de Blasio has vowed to scrap.
Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new
schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators
for an end to the obsession with high -
stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.
That could give Democrats some leverage when it comes time to negotiate criminal justice reforms - but, there are so many other major issues at
stake for Democrats including a minimum wage increase, renewing mayoral control of
schools, the sunset of rent laws, and The DREAM Act, that there is a chance that the debate could be overshadowed yet again.
But it calls
for a delay in using the test results to make high -
stakes decisions about students, teachers or
schools.
«I think if we can just slow down a little bit on the high -
stakes assessment and get teachers comfortable using something like Toward High
School Biology or units from IQWST then teachers will begin to get a feel
for what [the new standards] mean and will start seeing a difference in their students learning,» Roseman said.
So far, the climate science used in courts has focused mostly on overall trends and gradual processes such as sea level rise, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center
for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law
School in New York, who said he has no financial
stake in climate change litigation.
Parents intervene
for everything from grades to discipline problems at
school because the
stakes are so high.
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In Step, her joyous, pulsating portrait of the «Lethal Ladies» step dancing team of the Baltimore Leadership
School for Young Women, director Amanda Lipitz documents the team's high - stakes senior year of high school in inner - city Balt
School for Young Women, director Amanda Lipitz documents the team's high -
stakes senior year of high
school in inner - city Balt
school in inner - city Baltimore.
Starting with the genuinely spooky image of Soviet paratroopers cascading onto an open field behind a Spokane high
school, Milius» film thoroughly imagines an American city transformed by invasion and occupation, which raises the
stakes for the plucky young guerrilla warriors who lead a rebellion from the mountains.
As
for the Bond - homaging, a ski - resort interlude tugs its forelock towards the great 007 snow - scenes of yore, but ends with a runaway cablecar sequence that's straight from the Die Another Day
school of leaden, low -
stakes CGI.
In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar
for his project, The Long - Run Influence of
School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college prepar
School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based
school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement college prepar
school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high -
stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high
school can complement college prepar
school can complement college preparation.
Because the other standardized tests are «low -
stakes tests,» without any reward or punishment attached to student or
school performance, the authors reason that there are few incentives to manipulate the results or cheat, making the low -
stakes test results a reliable measure of student performance (although it is also possible that
schools and students won't prepare enough
for a low -
stakes test to demonstrate their true abilities).
The Fordham Institute's new report, High
Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems
for elementary and middle
schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.