Sentences with phrase «test prep factories»

Without tenure schools will turn into instant test prep factories supported by young cheap teachers who come out of these new test prep college teaching training programs.

Some are great, but some are merely test prep factories, and for whatever reason, schools pass out advertisements for these programs as if promoting them.

The fact that Achievement First (call it non profit, it is a private corporate - reform model of «school» — test prep factory Is more like it) does not accept any and every child who walks through the doors is already a form of «creaming» and narrowed access.

Yes, when the above named vultures, along with Obama, Emanuel, Bloomberg, Christie, Malloy, Duncan and the rest of the clowns, send their kids to a KIPP or AF test prep factory, manned by TFA temps and Stepford test prep drones trained by the Lemov control tactics, then we can talk about «reform» and equal opportunities for all.

Not exact matches

There isnt good research on this topic, but I do nt believe that any school that can be considered a test - prep factory will ever have test scores as high as schools that teach a solid, interesting curriculum tied to a set of high standards.

Yet in the agreement, NYSUT caved, condemning our schools to become joyless, test - prep factories.

It took years to turn them into test - prep factories; turning them back into places of wonder and learning may take longer.

Garcia has pushed back against the federal requirement that schools test students every year in math and reading from grades 3 through 8 and once in high school, calling it «toxic testing» that has turned schools into test - prep factories.

And it applies awful pressure on teachers and schools to become test - prep factories.

Turning our nation's schools into factories for Common Core test prep is beneficial to those making money on creating the tests and to those who can call themselves bold reformers by demanding «rigor» and «higher standards,» but to the real students in our classrooms these are hollow and empty words.

«Schools that serve more black and brown students have become test - prep factories rather than incubators of creativity and critical thinking.

Over a decade of research shows that an over emphasis on high - stakes standardized tests narrows curriculum, creates social and emotional stress for students and families, drives committed teachers out of the profession, and turns schools into test - prep factories with principals forced to comply as overseers — especially in low - scoring schools.

Both NCLB and RttT institutionalized the destructive corporate education reform policies that are turning our public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories dedicated to «test prep» around a narrow curriculum, rather than a broad - based, comprehensive education the ensures every child is provided with the knowledge and skills they will need to live more fulfilling lives,