Sentences with phrase «stakes testing while»

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.

The American Federation of Teachers has been a bit more nuanced; it supports the standards, but President Randi Weingarten has called for a moratorium on high - stakes testing while the Common Core exams are phased in.

Not exact matches

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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.

«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.»

While the state has taken some of the stakes away from the «high stakes» tests, such as not using them for teacher evaluations, districts still see them as crucial.

The teachers of the subjects with high - stakes tests want as much time as possible to work with students on those skills while social studies teachers want the same respect for their content and the time to teach it well.

Koretz bluntly states that high - stakes testing has been «a failure» and «the side effects have been massive... [I] t would be hard to justify continuing with an approach that does so much damage while creating so little benefit.»

In this forum, Joshua Starr, superintendent of schools in high - performing Montgomery County, Maryland, makes the case for a three - year hiatus from high - stakes accountability testing while new standards and tests are implemented.

While more dedicated media education in schools would be great, it is little more than a pipe dream in the current climate of low budgets and high - stake tests.

Even today, the AFT continues to lend some support to standards - based reform, while the NEA has opposed high - stakes testing, supported parents who boycott tests, and funded researchers to try to undermine standards - based reform.

Liberals worried that poor and minority students would be penalized by high - stakes tests, while conservatives wanted to preserve the «local control» of schools.

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.

While breaks can help reset student focus, a useful alternative — especially for older students — is to switch teaching strategies throughout a lesson: Try having students team up on a think - pair - share activity or work in groups, spend a few minutes reviewing concepts, or give a low - stakes practice test at the end of a lesson.

The challenge for educators and policymakers will be to develop a system that captures the obvious benefits of high - stakes testing as a means of providing incentives while minimizing the possible distortions that these measures induce.

While Dede urges the edtech and education worlds alike to consider the impact of high - stakes testing and the process of rolling out such exams, he also recognizes its symbolism in moving the education system forward.

The Winter 2014 issue of Education Next included a debate over the wisdom of a hiatus from high - stakes accountability testing while new standards and tests are implemented.

While the political discourse surrounding education too often seems hung up on the role of high - stakes testing or common core curriculum, many experts now are turning their attention toward ed tech, or the role of technology in expanding educational opportunity.

While this group seems to see that high - stakes testing is bad, they also have seminars involving data collection.

The first two are high - stakes accountability tests, while the MAP test is usually given twice a year to benchmark student progress.

While negotiations between the union and district have stalled over the issue of how much weight to give student test scores, E4E - LA members found that teachers would support incorporating student growth data, but worry about focusing myopically on one high - stakes test.

It cultivates excitement and interest in ELA while preparing students for high school ELA courses and high - stakes testing.

While ESSA required states to add in a couple of additional outcome measures of students and schools, the overwhelming weight of accountability is still upon a single standardized test by which to make important and often high - stakes judgments about students, schools, and districts.

And while many people oppose high - stakes testing, few offer concrete proposals for other ways of measuring student progress.

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.

Comment from Morna McDermott: How can we escape the trap that high stakes testing both serves corporate interest like Pearson at the expense of children's real learning while acknowledging that tests are being used to shut down public community schools for corporate model charter schools that have proven to be no better than the schools they replaced?

Training our students, our future, in the fine art of passing FCAT (arguably one of the highest stakes testing systems in this nation) while neglecting the finer points of abstract thinking and problem solving.

While some believe that No Child Left Behind and high - stakes high school exit exams could exacerbate dropout rates, others say NCLB and the tests actually help put a spotlight on high schools by recording and reporting how students are performing.

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

These are high - stakes tests, and while they are necessary, they do not drive my teaching.

While the brunt of the psychic damage of high - stakes testing falls on children, the true targets of these so - called «student - centered» policies are adults.

This implies teachers only care about disadvantaged pupils while there are high stakes test.

While there are many summative assessment methods, including some that we shared in the last post, the summative assessments that most come to mind are the high - stakes state tests that are used for accountability purposes.

While there are students with disabilities who will do well on high - stakes testing, others won't.

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.

While our call for a temporary moratorium on high - stakes testing hasn't gained traction yet, the work of countless NCTE members continues to promote the positive consequences of effective teaching and collaboration, when it is properly supported.

While high - stakes testing lends itself to fraud, software - based assessment makes it, in theory at least, extremely difficult.

«Pearson's promotion of high - stakes tests is undermining the ability of schools to provide a well - balanced and broad curriculum, while its involvement with low - cost private schools in the Global South is jeopardizing access to education for many children,» Blower said.

As a parent writing to President Obama explained, in a letter posted at the Washington Post blog of Valerie Strauss, «We have something very important in common: daughters in the seventh grade... Like my daughter Eva, Sasha appears to be a funny, smart, loving girl... There is, however, one important difference between them: Sasha attends private school, while Eva goes to public school... Sasha does not have to take Washington's standardized test, the D.C. CAS, which means you don't get a parent's - eye view of the annual high - stakes tests taken by most of America's children.»

I am increasingly convinced that while high - stakes testing may have once had an important role to play, it has outlived its usefulness.

«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.

It is important to note that while opposition to high - stakes testing and value - added analysis often seems self - serving — it is easy to see why ineffective teachers might resist accountability — moving towards embedded software - based assessment actually raises the level of transparency, by allowing us to monitor not just what happens on the day of a high - stakes test, but rather to see how students learn over time.

«The task force should be applauded for maintaining high standards for aspiring teachers who wish to enter the profession while correcting some of the most onerous problems associated with high - stakes testing and the incredibly bad rollout of edTPA,» wrote the group's president, Karen Magee.

While state and national leaders in education have repeatedly noted the importance of teacher quality — while also misrepresenting that importance [emphasis added]-- increasing standards - based teaching, high - stakes testing and value - added methods of teacher evaluation, along with the dismantling unions, have de-professionalized teaching and discouraged young people from entering the fWhile state and national leaders in education have repeatedly noted the importance of teacher quality — while also misrepresenting that importance [emphasis added]-- increasing standards - based teaching, high - stakes testing and value - added methods of teacher evaluation, along with the dismantling unions, have de-professionalized teaching and discouraged young people from entering the fwhile also misrepresenting that importance [emphasis added]-- increasing standards - based teaching, high - stakes testing and value - added methods of teacher evaluation, along with the dismantling unions, have de-professionalized teaching and discouraged young people from entering the field.

While there will still be tests in reading / language arts and math every year from third to eighth grade and once in high school, ESSA removes the high stakes that have been attached to standardized testing under NCLB.

Voters don't want to divert public money to charter schools, while increasing high - stakes testing.

While the absurd Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme is a «high - stakes» test designed to fail students, the NAEP has sought to reflect whether a random group of students have a basic understanding of the key concepts that are actually being taught at each appropriate grade level.

The practice of forcing students to stay in the testing room, despite having been opted out of the SBAC program by their parents, is an ugly strategy to embarrass, humiliate and ostracize children who are inappropriately being required to sit in the testing room for hours while their peers are taking the defective and high - stakes SBAC tests that are designed to unfairly fail a significant number of the state's children.

While the gifted program has not been literally abandoned, the fact that the CCSS standardized test attached to CCSS is high stakes in our state is a good indication of the intent.

And as Kevin Welner and William Mathis of University of Colorado at Boulder remind us in this policy memo, what we need is «sustained, fair, adequate and equitable investment in all our children sufficient to provide them their educational birthright...» That will not happen while high stakes testing is driving our education system.