Sentences with phrase «stakes standardized»

Like many ELL students, Jacob struggled with the linguistic demands of the high - stakes standardized assessments (Abedi & Gándara, 2006).

High - stakes standardized tests harm educational quality and promote inequity.

In an education industry dependent on market competition to increase profitability, there is no better tool to turn teaching and learning into products — ready to measure, compare, and sell — than the high - stakes standardized tests championed by the contemporary education reform movement.

«Teacher leaders from across the state took decisive action today to strengthen the organization's position on the right of parents to opt their children out of high - stakes standardized tests and re-elect CEA President Sheila Cohen and Vice President Jeff Leake overwhelmingly.

He took versions of his state's high - stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he'd make his scores public.

Our schools were not built so educators would have a place to work each day, nor do they exist so that our government officials have locations to administer high - stakes standardized tests each spring.

However, it will come as no surprise that despite growing nationwide resistance, the federal government has reaffirmed its commitment to annual high - stakes standardized testing and accountability measures, and to linking those scores to school funding.

In a Closing Keynote address to some 500 attendees, education historian and NYU professor Diane Ravitch, an NPE founder and Board President, accused current education policies mandated by the federal government, such as President Barack Obama's Race to the Top, of making high - stakes standardized testing «the purpose of education, rather than a measure of education.»

Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools than data - driven judgment based on high stakes standardized tests.

We are interested in examining the student perspective of high - stakes standardized tests.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

In addition, the legislation created the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), a high - stakes standardized test first administered in 1998 to fourth -, eighth -, and tenth - grade students.

This powerful collection from the groundbreaking Rethinking Schools magazine takes high - stakes standardized tests to task.

The platform also calls for charter schools to retain proportionate numbers of students from a range of subgroups, including ELLs, and opposes «high - stakes standardized tests that falsely and unfairly label students of color, students with disabilities and English Language Learners as failing.»

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

BL: And I'll begin with some things that are in the news this week, beginning with your new Schools Chancellor, Richard Carranza, urging parents not to opt their kids out of statewide standardized tests... Is that consistent with your own views as a critic of high stakes standardized testing?

School districts around the country use high - quality assessments that do not require high - stakes standardized tests.

Over the years, PAA has opposed school policies and practices such as grade retention, high - stakes standardized testing, and mass school closings.

Under Race to the Top and Common Core students, teachers, schools, districts, and states are evaluated based on the high - stakes standardized tests, transforming schools from places where students like Oprah learn to love learning and Senator Murkowski learned to question into test prep academies.

More high - stakes standardized testing: Walton supports teacher bonuses linked to raising test scores.

Another problem is that the results of high - stakes standardized tests given in the spring don't become available until the following school year, when it's too late for teachers to use them to guide instruction.

With regard to issues specific to education, AFT National president Randi Weingarten celebrated the new federal education law, «Every Student Succeeds Act» (ESSA), and said it promises to decouple high stakes standardized tests from teacher evaluation.

ASCD also explicitly acknowledged that «reliance on high - stakes standardized tests to evaluate students, educators, or schools is antithetical to a whole child education.

WHEREAS, it is widely recognized that high - stakes standardized testing is an inadequate and often unreliable measure of both student learning and educator effectiveness, and the over-reliance on standardized testing has caused considerable collateral damage in many schools, including narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing student's love of learning, pushing students out of school, driving teachers out of the profession, and undermining school climate; and

WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high - stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators» efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and deep subject - matter knowledge that will allow students to contribute and thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy; and

The rise of high - stakes standardized testing has pitted schools against each other, narrowed the curriculum, and reduced teaching and learning to a bubble test.

Continuing to expand high - stakes standardized testing will prove a boon for companies that provide testing materials, data analysis and physical equipment.

I am not an opponent of standardized testing, but I am an opponent of high stakes standardized testing.

We strongly reject the way high - stakes standardized tests are hurting our children and denying them high - quality teaching in a healthy atmosphere that fosters the full development of their capabilities.

First: End high stakes standardized tests.

Over the years, PAA has opposed school policies and practices such as grade retention, high - stakes standardized testing

Standards - based performance assessment is an effective means to improve student performance in the classroom and on high stakes standardized tests.

And this school is hardly the only one where students feel enormous pressure to do well on high - stakes standardized tests, the results of which are now being used to evaluate teachers, as well as students and schools.

Cruz, WEAC member and president of the Racine Education Association, which represents hundreds of educators in the district, and a coalition of several other public education stakeholders, including students, parents, and community leaders, have asked the Board of Education for an audit of all the high - stakes standardized tests district students are required to take.

American students are spending growing amounts of time preparing for and taking high - stakes standardized tests.

Public school teachers, parents and administrators need to elevate the issue of how public education in this country is under siege and currently undergoing its greatest challenge for survival from the threat of privatization and high - stakes standardized testing.

Judicious Use of Test Scores: Used judiciously, data from relatively infrequent, low - stakes standardized tests has some value as a snapshot of student abilities that can diagnose areas of strength and areas that need improvement.

The More Than a Score group has been working to include LSCs in the important work of educating parents and others around the problems with high - stakes standardized testing.

Loss of Teaching Time: The logistics of administering high - stakes standardized tests, with the required proctors, makeup tests, and special accommodations, disrupts school routines, pulls teachers out of classrooms and reduces time for teaching and learning.

This 18 minutes includes information on the educational policies supporting the history of high - stakes standardized tests in the U.S., how educational policymakers (including U.S. Presidents G.W. Bush and Obama) have unwaveringly «advanced» this history, how our nation's over-reliance on such test - based policies have done nothing for our nation for the past ten years (as cited in this clip, even though they have really done little to nothing for now more than 30 years), how and why the opt - out movement is still sweeping the nation, and the like.

The theory relies on parental and public demand for better «outcomes» as driven by high - stakes standardized testing.

Boston University economics professor Kevin Lang's 2013 study The School - to - Prison Pipeline Exposed reveals that increases in the use of high - stakes standardized high school exit exams are linked to increased incarceration rates.

«While it's true that currently the students opting out are disproportionately white, to portray opting out as a white people thing is to make invisible the important leadership role that people of color have played around the country,» writes teacher and activist Jesse Hagopian in an article he wrote to push back against the perceived wisdom that high - stakes standardized testing will somehow right the wrongs done to generations of children.

The resolution highlights the damaging effects on public education of the high - stakes standardized tests that Pearson sells to school districts and its promotion of private and costly schools, rather than public schooling, for families in the developing world.

Our mission is to organize a boycott of the annual state tests in order to pressure state officials to respond to parent concerns and replace high - stakes standardized tests with authentic assessments.

Those of us who are involved with PreK - 12 education reform have been dealing with a major firestorm of pushback to the Texas public school accountability system and its high stakes standardized assessments that were adopted in 2009.

Clearly, a backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive.

High - stakes standardized tests have disguised class and race privilege as merit ever since.

The eagerly engaged voices assembled here present an action plan to combat the increase in high - stakes standardized testing currently plaguing K — 12 education... the focus is on doing rather than shouting, and each essay in this anthology is a blueprint for civic action....

But this unproductive focus of time, energy and money on the discredited strategy of high - stakes standardized testing is taking us further and further from that goal.