Sentences with phrase «test by schoolchildren»

A test by schoolchildren has found that Wi - Fi does affect plant life negatively.After... Read more

Not exact matches

The ambitious legislation identified test - based accountability as the key to improving schools and, by extension, the long - term prospects of American schoolchildren.

LAST week's report on how Washington schoolchildren did on their statewide tests included some positive data on the promise of the state's charter schools, even as they are threatened by another lawsuit.

One paper that Fryer and Levitt wrote suggested that the gap in early test scores between black and white schoolchildren is largely caused by the fact that most black children attend worse schools.

Average test scores for American schoolchildren usually lag behind those of many other nations (although results vary somewhat by test and subject).

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.

The 50 stories gathered here, along with hundreds of others, were submitted as part of the Rethink Learning Now campaign, a national grassroots effort to change the tenor of our national conversation about schooling by shifting it from a culture of testing, in which we overvalue basic - skills reading and math scores and undervalue just about everything else, to a culture of learning, in which we restore our collective focus on the core conditions of a powerful learning environment, and work backwards from there to decide how best to evaluate and improve our schools, our educators, and the progress of our nation's schoolchildren.

Sadly, most superintendents, boards of education and even the teachers» unions are letting parents and schoolchildren down by not informing them of the pernicious nature of the SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium) test.

AMERICA»S SCHOOLCHILDREN TREATED LIKE LAB RATS, by John W. Whitehead «In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance SSCHOOLCHILDREN TREATED LIKE LAB RATS, by John W. Whitehead «In almost every state across the nation, schoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Sschoolchildren are being subjected to behavioral exams and mental health tests, often without their parents» knowledge or consent... One such program is the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS).