Sentences with phrase «stakes tests represent»

What we don't know is: Do these improvements on high - stakes tests represent real learning gains?

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Accountability and high - stakes testing ESSA represents a fundamental shift of authority over education from the federal government to the states.

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.

But the teaching of reading veered significantly off track when those personal connections (also well represented on some high - stakes state assessments) began to dominate the teaching and testing of comprehension, often leaving the text itself a distant memory.

essay - Arrogance, Ignorance and the Myth of the «High Stakes Test, the education «industry» represents a $ 500 billion a year revenue source for Big Businesses.

Cruz, WEAC member and president of the Racine Education Association, which represents hundreds of educators in the district, and a coalition of several other public education stakeholders, including students, parents, and community leaders, have asked the Board of Education for an audit of all the high - stakes standardized tests district students are required to take.

«The work represents traditional painting, in the sense that each artist engages with painting's traditions, testing and ultimately reshaping historical strategies like appropriation and bricolage and reframing more metaphysical, high - stakes questions surrounding notions of originality, subjectivity, and spiritual transcendence,» states the museum.