Sentences with phrase «stakes testing effort»

The national high - stakes testing effort is flawed, and states and schools should choose the best methods to assess their students.

Not exact matches

Mulgrew shared news of a bipartisan effort by federal lawmakers to overhaul No Child Left Behind and move away from the harmful emphasis on high - stakes testing in favor of a more balanced approach that targets educational inequality.

The reduction in test time is part of ongoing efforts by the state and the city to scale back high - stakes testing.

As mentioned earlier, high - stakes testing poses the risk that it may cause teachers and schools to adjust their effort toward the least costly (in terms of dollars or effort) way of boosting test scores, possibly at the expense of other constructive actions.

These efforts follow a series of studies of high - stakes testing programs in which...

Efforts to use high - stakes tests to regulate school quality at a higher level, however, did not benefit students and may have led schools to adopt strategies that caused long - term harm.

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

«The notion of high - stakes testing was brought on as one component of Louisiana's overall reform efforts and not in isolation,» said Scott Norton, director of standards and assessments for the Louisiana Department of Education.

Did they think teachers and their unions wouldn't politically resist an effort to compel compliance to Common Core through high stakes tests?

These efforts follow a series of studies of high - stakes testing programs in which Koretz found that teachers often respond in ways that produce serious inflation of scores.

Most of Parkville Community School's students know where they are and where they need to go on the states high stakes tests, even if they are not sure why their efforts are so critical.

Influenced by E. D. Hirsch, he supported a national curriculum and serious and high - stakes national tests and was a major figure in the painful evolution of this effort.

Officials at the Department of Education's office for civil rights have expanded a controversial draft guide outlining the proper use of high - stakes tests in an effort to better detail the legal principles involved and ways in which such issues will affect students.

Specifically, parents were frustrated by the rapid and unrealistic timetable for implementation of the Common Core State Standards, the overemphasis on high - stakes testing, and the state's effort to capture and analyze student data without an adequate plan to assuage data - privacy concerns.

Rincón - Gallardo points to reform efforts like high - stakes accountability and testing as examples of bad educational change...

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The list of potential headaches for new teachers is long, starting with the ongoing, ideological fisticuffs over the Common Core State Standards, high - stakes testing and efforts to link test results to teacher evaluations.

Commentators often try to explain away this troubling trend as an artifact of changing student populations, flaws in test design, or declining student effort on low - stakes tests.

«Last year the State Superintendent was able to remove five state assessments in science and social studies in an effort to cut down on the number of high stakes tests students take.

We are more than 10 years into a massive reform effort revolving around high stakes attached to standardized tests, and there is no significant growth in actual learning — even in terms of the test scores most valued by proponents.

From its origins, the TFA - led movement to improve the teacher force has aligned itself with efforts to expand the role of high - stakes standardized testing in education.

With the feedback that formative assessments provide, you can tailor preparation efforts for high - stakes summative testing to your student's needs.

Miami, FL — November 19, 2014 Students, alumni, educators and parents represented the Dade Coalition for Education and Economic Justice at a meeting with the Miami - Dade School Board in an effort to end high - stakes testing and call for all low - performing schools to be transformed into sustainable community schools.

Though his ruling was about Connecticut, he spoke to a larger nationwide truth: After the decades of lawsuits about equity and adequacy in education financing, after federal efforts like No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, after fights over the Common Core standards and high - stakes testing and the tug of war between charter schools and community schools, the stubborn achievement gaps between rich and poor, minority and white students persist.

With congressional efforts underway to reauthorize No Child Left Behind, a burgeoning movement of educators, school administrators, parents and students has blossomed in the fight against high - stakes standardized testing.

Also recently, an alliance of 38 organizations of student and parent groups in black and brown communities joined with 175 national and local grassroots organizations in an effort to end high stakes testing.

After successive years of failing to meet high - stakes testing and accountability mandates required by NCLB (2002), schools across the nation have undergone numerous restructuring practices in an effort to «turnaround» their failure.

Local efforts to reduce the negative effects of high - stakes testing are thus right in line with national PTA policy.

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.

Given the lack of proven links between testing and achievement, as well as extensive evidence about the limitations and problems of high - stakes testing, Parents Across America opposes current efforts to expand the use of standardized tests.

Governor Dannel Malloy has led the effort in his state to expand charter schools and high - stakes testing.

Strategies 1 through 3 pretty much describe what high - stakes testing is supposed to do: raise standards, ignite harder effort from teachers and students, and produce more learning.

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

One vision is that afterschool and summer learning programs should be aligned with current education reform efforts — high - stakes testing, narrow accountability, and the Common Core State Standards that are directed at just two subjects.

From refusal and opting out to protests and organizing letter - writing campaigns, section five, «Resisting and Responding to High - Stakes Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing Testing,» takes a look at a wide range of efforts teachers, students, and communities have employed to oppose the testing testing regime.

Will the efforts of the two national teachers unions to raise awareness about the use of high - stakes tests add to the public's growing distrust of test scores used to evaluate teachers?

It was the coalition and its efforts to enlist the support of the school board for its campaigns — curbing military recruitment, creating alternatives to high - stakes testing — that first brought Caputo - Pearl to my attention.

This new effort could undermine what has largely been bipartisan cooperation on the Core and is coming even as some states are already implementing the Common Core Standards in English Language Arts and math, and giving students high - stakes Core - aligned standardized tests.