Sentences with phrase «taking a standardized test designed»

Many teachers, parents and students think that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

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.

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You can't throw a rock inside a school without hitting a standardized test; every time your son or daughter turns around, they are taking some test designed by some far away bureaucrat or testing company.

While ESSA was designed to reduce unnecessary standardized testing, the new educational policy requires that schools take an annual statewide assessment.

As Wendy Lecker explains in her column entitled, «Opting out, parents answer to a higher authority,» the Governor Malloy's Commissioner of Education, Stefan Pryor and the Malloy administration are telling local school superintendents, principals and teachers that they are to instruct parents that their child MUST take Connecticut's standardized tests and MUST take the new poorly designed and unfair Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Field Test.

Each of these standardized tests is designed to take a minimum of 3.5 hours to complete.