Sentences with phrase «stakes testing pushing»

Is high - stakes testing pushing the worst elementary teachers into the K - 2 world?

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For far too long these controversial standards have been pushed along without input from parents, and with the governor's proposal to increase use of high - stakes testing in teacher evaluations, now is the time to return control back to them.»

At a time when the corporate education reformers like Governor Cuomo scapegoat teachers, underfund public schools, and push high - stakes testing linked to Common Core as way to justify the expansion of privately - managed charter schools, she has persistently brought forth real facts about how poverty, segregation, and inequitable school funding affect testing and achievement in public schools.

Andrew Cuomo pushes a game of competitive grants, charter schools, and high - stakes testing.

The unions» petition follows their aggressive push for a three - year moratorium on using tests aligned to the rigorous Common Core standards for «high stakes» decisions affecting teachers and students.

Unions and advocacy groups have pushed legislation that would cut down on testing or dilute the state's reform agenda by enacting a three - year moratorium on using scores from Common Core - aligned exams for «high stakes.»

Niagara Falls parents and teachers were the latest to speak out against the relentless push continues against the Common Core and 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.

Instead of the privatization schemes pushed by Cuomo and Republican candidate Rob Astorino, Howie Hawkins and Brian Jones are calling for fully funded, quality public education, qualitative assessments instead of the punitive high stakes testing model, and an end to the attack on teacher's unions.»

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.

He pushed several changes in the state budget that eased stakes associated with Common Core - aligned tests for students, and he signaled he would amend his signature teacher - evaluation system to shield teachers from the exams, too, at least temporarily.

The spread of whole - school reform models such as Success for All; the imposition of standards and high - stakes tests; the lowering of class sizes and slicing of schools into smaller, independent academies; the explosion of charter schools and push for school vouchers — all these reforms signal a vibrantly democratic school system.

In the push for accountability through high - stakes tests, many policymakers are inadvertently undermining high - quality teaching and learning.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Young people in the United States today, she says, are suffering because of «school stress, the college admissions process, high - stakes testing, cutthroat competition, the emphasis on stardom rather than on enjoyment of activities, sleep deprivation, parental pressure, the push for perfectionism, the need for escapism, the Age of Comparison, [and] the loss of leisure and childhood...» Among her favorite culprits for this state of affairs are testing in general, the SAT in particular, the «Nation at Risk» report, and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which she believes turned elementary schools and junior high schools into testing factories.

Dressed in battle fatigues, she had students marching, chanting slogans, and dropping to the ground to do push - ups for not completing assignments as part of a four - week math boot camp to get seventh graders ready for Mississippis high - stakes tests.

Past federal policies, including No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, pushed corporate - styled, top - down reforms such as high - stakes testing and draconian accountability schemes.

Today's Common Core State Standards are aligned to high - stakes testing that closes schools and pushes good teachers out.

High stakes testing can pressure schools to push out low - scoring students or transfer them to vocational school, or pressure low - scoring students to leave school or parents to remove vulnerable students from the testing pool and «protect» them in private, parochial, or home school.

Testing: Continued justification of the Florida Standards Assessment, high stakes and push - back against altering the flawed Florida A-F accountability system.

First, U.S. high - stakes accountability systems, which often draw on narrow metrics and unstable test score data, push administrators to control everything in their school buildings — including teachers.

High - stakes testing comes along with the push to include students in regular education.

And you're still pushing the lies about the high - stakes test refusal movement being white and rich even though New Jersey's more than 120,000 refusals last year were disproportionately Black and included a substantial share of Latino and low - income students.

Instead of trying to improve failed practices such as a reliance on high - stakes testing and «zero tolerance» discipline policies, Noguera said the center will push for transformations — new approaches to educational challenges such as improving the educational outcomes of African - American and Latino students.

While the US continues to push early intervention and instruction, more homework for younger children, lack of breaks, and high stakes testing for young students, here are some crucial points on Finland's education system.

For too long, policymakers have pushed an education agenda that imposes top - down standards and high - stakes testing while ignoring the supports that students need.

What they did have was the backing of the national «education reform» movement, which pushes charters and high - stakes testing.

LONDON — The American Federation of Teachers, along with teachers unions and nongovernmental organizations throughout the world, will speak out during Pearson's annual general meeting Friday, April 29, in London to call for a review of its business model that pushes high - stakes testing in the United States and privatized schools in the developing world.

«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.

With these strategies, midyear benchmarks can become an engine for growth, engagement, and partnership that ensure a successful push toward high - stakes testing and the end of the school year.

Hasn't the regime of harmful testing mandates and punitive stakes perfectly set the stage for Trump to now push school choice and justify the ramming through of Betsy DeVos?

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

With the heavy push for high - stakes testing, the questionable negative rhetoric by the Obama Administration and others about STEM, and the dramatic changes to the curriculum with Common Core State Standards, is this country going to wake -LSB-...]

Test, Punish, and Push Out: How «Zero Tolerance» and High - stakes Testing Funnel Youth Into the School - to - prison Pipeline.