Sentences with phrase «stakes tests become»

With No Child Left Behind, high stakes testing became more prominent in public education.

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Homework has long inspired strong feelings — and creative excuses — in children, but it has more recently become an area of growing concern for parents in a scholastic system increasingly focused on high - pressure, high - stakes standardized testing.

«In a world where educational achievement was becoming a stronger and stronger predictor of economic security, high - stakes test results helped us see the need to educate our students better.

With high - stakes testing, it has become even more important that we focus on what students are supposed to know.»

Our schools» emphasis on and devotion to standards - based instruction and high - stakes testing reflects a desire for students to become proficient at memorizing terms, and facts as well as and mastering various sets of skills.

High - stakes testing has become the cornerstone of education policy in this country, and it is having tremendous effects on schooling, on teachers, and on kids.

With the unprecedented emphasis on tests, the stakes have become high for American students and school leaders.

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

Then in the 1970s and 1980s, measurement researchers became intimately involved in policy - related issues during the minimal competency testing (MCT) movement when high stakes were attached to test performance.

Translation: Whatever rhetoric the vendors use to mask the loss of local control, it is important to remember that the national test frameworks and eventually the released test items will become the actual local curriculum due to the stakes attached to the test results.

Other parents view opting out as a form of outsider protest; they support public education, but believe that high - stakes standardized tests have become the tail that wags the dog, driving far too much of what occurs in their children's classrooms.

«Formal education has become such a serious business, defined as success at abstract thinking and high - stakes testing, that there is no time and no context for play.»

It became apparent to observers that private schools, without so much attention to preparation for high - stakes testing, were able to permit students to put more time into the projects during school hours.

Education policymakers have become preoccupied with preparing young people for the marketplace through high - stakes testing and accountability.

After years of tinkering with the state's education policy, including withdrawing from the national Common Core standards, the decisions by the GOP - majority Legislature now pose a political liability, because parents and educators have become increasingly weary of high - stakes testing.

We also need a plan to evaluate and scale these assessments up along the way, starting with small pilots in a few schools, with incentives to build demand so that successful ideas reach more students in more districts and become worthy alternatives to current high - stakes testing.

Data has become a loaded term in our high - stakes and test - driven world, but don't let the buzzwords skew the value of good information.

Then, without much preparation for teachers or principals, it became a high - stakes affair that emphasized test preparation.

«Our conversations with parents show that they want tests and assessments which help schools understand their children - on a regular basis with lower stakes - rather than what are fast becoming high - profile, high - pressure exams.»

Back in 1976, social scientist Donald Campbell predicted what would happen if standardized tests became high - stakes.

In the past two decades, however, schools have undergone a period of constant reform and restructuring, and the talk surrounding public education has become mean - spirited and antagonistic, giving greater attention to vouchers, «choice,» charter schools, and winner - take - all high - stakes tests as the only viable solutions to the crisis in public education.

With 6 sample lessons, 42 instructional techniques, and tips for differentiation, this practical resource will empower you to help the students you love become capable, literate individuals who are also well - prepared to ace high - stakes tests.

The reality that nobody at NYSED appears willing to examine is that parents understand that there are very real and actually tangible costs to making standardized testing as high stakes as it has become in the No Child Left Behind era, and, worse, they are increasingly aware that those policies do not work and should be set aside.

Hundreds of thousands of families across the country are opting out in what has become largest revolt against high - stakes testing in...

In a study released in June 2011, the National Bureau of Education noted the direct correlation between job losses and decreasing student test scores — especially the high - stake test scores that have become synonymous with NCLB.

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.

This change allows schools to continue to count the high - stakes test scores of students who are no longer classified as LEP, because they have attained English proficiency, in the LEP subgroup for two additional years after they have become English proficient.

Connecticut Governor Malloy and his Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor, have become the poster boys for the education reform industry's obsession with the overuse of «high - stakes» Standardized Testing.

Today, government officials, along with leaders of corporations, foundations, universities, and other institutions, determine what all students «need» to know, and this becomes educational policy, expressed in standards, state - mandated textbooks, high stakes testing, and relentless control over teaching and learning.»

In addition, once a test becomes high stakes, teachers and administrators may feel pressured to sacrifice valuable learning time to teach test - taking strategies, and narrow their instruction to focus on the small sample of questions likely to appear on the test.

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.

Explain that standardized, high - stakes tests have become a controversial issue.

At a time when keyboard proficiency is becoming more important at younger ages than ever — thanks in part to those same high stakes tests — cursive instruction was one of the first of those subjects to go.

The same core testing has been used to confirm and communicate accountability for all districts and charter schools in the state, and this reporting became even more high - stakes after the inception of No Child Left Behind.