Sentences with phrase «stakes testing culture»

All told, jigsaw learning is a counterweight to the high - stakes testing culture that too often tears kids apart instead of stitching them together.

No doubt you've heard the analogy of comparing this high stake testing culture to putting someone on a scale.

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«That's the message sent loud and clear yesterday by thousands of parents across New York who rose up against a top - down, one - size fits all approach to education that focuses on the over-utilization of high stakes Common Core standardized tests and refused to have their children be any part of this culture of testing.»

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.

In the culture of high - stakes testing, reducing student anxiety about such exams is a critical part of improving their performance.

High - stakes tests are pervasive in the fabric of school culture.

In a culture of high - stakes testing, students can be too focused on finding the right answers, when they should also be thinking about the right questions.

How do teachers instill and reinforce a code of ethics in their classrooms when evidence suggests that high - stakes testing fosters a culture of dishonesty?

Ms. Hardy — who is in her first year as principal — has staked her career on improving the culture and upping the test scores at this struggling elementary school, located in a gritty part of New Orleans» Central City neighborhood.

• Many progressives criticize the role that the Common Core plays in magnifying the the toxic testing culture that NCLB and its high - stakes testing made a feature of life in public schools.

Since then, a review of the evolution of our assessment culture reveals the almost complete dominance of a blind faith that high - stakes accountability testing — local, state, national, international and interplanetary — is the way to improve schools.

She wrote about the unique social needs of her students, some of whom live in hotels or homeless shelters, and questioned whether a culture focused on high - stakes testing was the best way to serve them.

Dr. Samuel Meisels, director of the University of Nebraska's Buffett Early Childhood Institute, agrees that a school culture focused on high - stakes tests is exactly the type of environment that we should avoid for children who experience toxic stress.

High stakes tests often inaccurately assess English language learners — measuring their understating of English and the dominant culture rather than the subject they are being tested in.

It prompted us to raise the stakes for standardized tests in an effort to compete with other world powers, and as a result, it planted the seeds for a culture of fear and shame that is ubiquitous in schools across the country.

The time - deprived culture that educators Goodloe and Campbell describe is one of the unintended consequences of the high - stakes and punitive overreliance on testing that characterizes the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

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.

The culture of high - stakes testing that currently drives educational policy would make implementing CRP nation - wide challenging.