Sentences with phrase «take standardized tests made»

In a city where school reform has become a cottage industry, her insistence that African - American children be taught to take standardized tests made her an outcast from the established reform community.

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The online RefuseCommonCore.com website offers New Yorkers the ability to write a message directly to the Governor to respect the rights of parents to make important decisions on the educational future of their children and enable parents to have their children refuse to take the high stakes Common Core - based standardized tests.

The governor also asked the state Legislature to eliminate K - 2 standardized testing, saying that «there's no reason school districts should make 5 - year - olds take standardized tests.»

For example, the study compares results from schools that took several different standardized tests without making any effort to ensure that the results are comparable.

Because standardized tests often differ from state to state and district to district, Ritchhart, a research associate with Harvard University's Project Zero, accentuates the importance of making students familiar with the form and format of the specific test they will be asked to take.

Many students — even the ones who've taken challenging classes, earned perfect grades, aced standardized tests, and made valuable extracurricular contributions — have trouble getting beyond describing the details of their experiences.

It encourages colleges to revise their applications to ask students about two or three extracurricular activities, rather to encourage them to submit long lists of sports and clubs they participate in and to consider make standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice.

Among the report's recommendations for reducing undue pressure on high - school students are making standardized tests optional or discouraging students from taking them more than twice, raising awareness of overloading on Advanced Placement or International Baccalaureate courses and prioritizing quality, not quantity, of extracurricular activities.

These tests, which are not required by the federal government, make up nearly 80 % of the more than 200 hours of standardized tests students have to take over their 12 years of school, DeMaria told the state school board.

The vendors also fail to tell us that the national standardized tests will be driving all decision - making about special populations anyway and that all special populations will have to take the same test as non-special populations.

What makes the Finnish school system so amazing is that Finnish students never take a standardized test until their last year of high school, when they take a matriculation examination for college admission.

Making students take standardized tests?

Colorado students in 2014 took slight steps backward on the small academic gains made on standardized tests in recent years, part of a long - term trend of flat scores, results released Thursday show.

In New York, value - added measures — for those teachers whose students take standardized tests — will only make up 25 percent of their rating.

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

State House lawmakers seemed to take up that criticism when they approved their version of the budget in May, ordering one standardized test for voucher students in order to make academic comparisons.

As teachers spent more time preparing students to take standardized tests, the curriculum was narrowed: Such subjects as science, social studies, and the arts were pushed aside to make time for test preparation.

I think people who make up standardized tests should either take each others» tests or sit down with a few students afterward and go over the tests, asking the students why they answered the way they did.

In reading stories from the Chicago press, about how they keep sending out directives saying isolate the kids, tell the kids they have to sit and make an affirmative statement — it's a hysterical response, about «oh my God, some child, somewhere, might not take a standardized test.»

We believe that standardized tests provide part of the picture in determining student achievements, but students must have the time to experiment, make mistakes, and develop their own deep understanding, even if this means it takes them longer to pass a test.

All they need, they say, is a quick, fly - by - night crash course on how to make children sit and succeed at taking standardized tests scores.

The bill would allow the Malloy administration to repeal a form of local budget flexibility that was granted to certain cities and towns during last years» legislative session if that school district was unable to persuade 95 % of parents to make their children take the Common Core aligned standardized testing that take place in grades 3 - 8 and 11.

When the National Education Association held its membership conference over Independence Day weekend, it made headlines for endorsing Barack Obama early; for a speech Joe Biden gave about keeping the union - supporting «family» in tact; and adapting a teacher evaluation policy that would — barring a few caveats — take into account student performance on standardized tests.

He took versions of his state's high - stakes standardized math and reading tests for 10th graders, and said he'd make his scores public.