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«We congratulate our students, teachers and administrators for their continued exceptional performance on these new tests, which shows they're mastering knowledge crucial to career and college readiness, and we have set our sights on greater success for every child in the coming year,» Superintendent of Schools Dr. Brian V. Hightower said.

Teachers, administrators and union leaders joined forces in what was termed the One Voice United rally, targeting the increasing reliance of the state's education system on standardized testing.

County Administrator Suzanne Sinclair highlighted many of the projects the county is working on including the office of Real Property working on assessment services with the Town of Niles, water quality monitoring and lead testing, improvements to the Cato - Brutus Trail, more efficient tax collection methods and plans for manure management.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

Denis Noncarrow, the town's government liaison officer, and Lloyd Reisenberg, its network and systems administrator, outlined the changes for the Town Board using a test site on Tuesday morning.

Also on Wednesday, Seggos and Zucker sent a letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency administrator Gina McCarthy asking the Obama administration to conduct more thorough testing of water systems that serve fewer than 10,000 people.

Betty Rosa, the Regents chancellor and a former New York City school administrator, noted the current evaluation law has created a situation under which teachers in fields not covered by state tests, such as physical education, often find themselves rated on the basis of student achievement in areas that are tested, such as English and math.

Still, teachers and administrators prefer that the emphasis be on classroom observation as opposed to testing.

On 28 November, William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's human - exploration division, presented plans to test the agency's next generation of heavy - lift rockets with trips to the vicinity of the Moon in 2017 and 2021.

We are testing new payment and service delivery models focused on prevention and population health, such as our Million Hearts initiative, through the CMS Innovation Center,» says Dr Patrick Conway, another study author and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Administrator for Innovation and Quality, in Baltimore, USA.

And computer testing on NovaNET and other online curricula prevents social promotion or the intervention of soft - hearted administrators.

To the extent the program involves student achievement, it bases awards on «student learning objectives» as «created by individual teachers, with the approval of site - based administrators»; these objectives «will be measured by a combination of existing assessment instruments, and teacher designed tools,» as well as by state standardized tests.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

The Fordham Institute hosted a forum on the growing numbers of parents, educators and school administrators calling for a local «opt - out» from state testing systems.

Is it reasonable to expect administrators and teachers to be able to identify students who are likely to be on the cusp of the proficiency threshold at the spring test administration?

While many North Carolina school administrators and teachers are winning praise and cash for meeting or exceeding performance expectations on state tests, others are starting the school year scrambling to respond to their students» low achievement.

In a letter sent to school districts on Oct. 15, the Michigan Department of Treasury, which oversees the MEAP, advised test administrators to instruct students to skip the two questions in the social studies portion of the exam, or to staple or tape shut the relevant pages in their test booklets.

I infer the priorities of administrators and teachers from educational outcomes, as measured by student performance on the state's math test.

By testing students, releasing the results to the public, and attaching rewards and sometimes a few weak sanctions to those results, accountability reformers have attempted to tighten the screws on local school boards, administrators, and classroom teachers.

Resistance to evaluating teachers on results is well - founded at one level: Unsophisticated administrators might use unsuitable measures like norm - referenced tests or unfairly evaluate teachers for failing to reach grade - level standards with students who were poorly taught the year before or who had significant learning deficits.

Throughout the country, and with the passage of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as the No Child Left Behind Act (which requires research - based assessment), student performance on these tests has become the basis for such critical decisions as student promotion from one grade to the next, and compensation for teachers and administrators.

At another faculty meeting, after the release of student test scores, administrators recognized teachers» efforts by waiting on them at candle - lit tables.

Third, there is the danger that a reliance on test - based measures will lead teachers to focus narrowly on test - taking skills at the cost of more valuable academic content, especially if administrators do not provide them with clear and proven ways to improve their practice.

19 - 21 — Minority education: «Expanding Minority Opportunities,» first annual conference, co-sponsored by the Coalition to Increase Minority Degrees, the American Council on Education, Arizona State University, The College Board, the Charles A. Dana Foundation, The Educational Testing Service Southwestern Office, The Hewlett Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation, for students, educators, administrators, foundation officers, and corporate representatives, to be held at Arizona State University, Tempe Ariz..

Cizek cites December 1999 charges by Edward Stancik, the city's special commissioner of investigation for the public schools, that 52 teachers and administrators had assisted students in cheating on standardized tests.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

Reading a statement on behalf of the state PTA, its executive administrator said, «Parents need to trust that testing will actually benefit their kids and right now, that's not what they see.»

In The Four - Day School Week, another School Administrator report, Jack McCoy, deputy director of learning services at the New Mexico Department of Education, said in his district's case attendance for teachers and students improved while scores on standardized achievement tests remained stable.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

The teacher and administrator ratings will be 50 percent based on student test scores.

There's also talk by states» rights advocates of no longer requiring annual testing by states, which would deny parents and educators valuable information about whether students are on track, reduce the ability to measure and improve teacher quality, and make it harder for administrators to know how schools are doing and when they need to intervene.

Schools, teachers, and administrators are evaluated based on a series of performance indicators, including staff and student attendance, student performance on assessment tests, graduation and remediation rates, and the amount of contact with...

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

For example, it is easy for any administrator to place every problem student in one teacher's classroom, then cite an inability for that teacher to manage his / her classes or show «student growth» on standardized test scores.

Danhill sees itself as a willing partner with other districts (the administrator with responsibility for technology talked about the networking that goes on with others in similar positions), with regional institutions of higher education, and with the Educational Testing Service, located in Princeton, New Jersey.

Teachers and administrators alike had been anxiously waiting for more details about the evaluations since Gov. Chris Christie signed a new tenure law that permits them to be evaluated, at least in part based on their students» test scores and other measurements of achievement.

The student - to - teacher ratio is drastically smaller, there was no testing, there were no administrators, and the camp was specifically focused on technology use — to name a few.

LAUSD, Teachers» Union Reach «Historic» Agreement on Evaluations Just days before a court - ordered deadline, L.A. Unified and its teachers» union announced a «historic» tentative agreement allowing administrators to use student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Central administrators made no effort to revise district policy on student assessment despite significant revisions of the state's reading test.

For years, efforts to improve K - 12 schools have focused on developing more rigorous academic standards, testing students, holding teachers and administrators accountable for students» test results, and creating new charter schools.

But when teacher and administrator evaluations are tied to student performance based on one test, it overlooks the complexity of the individual students.

Hartford is just the latest in a series of school districts across the country where school administrators have doctored test results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery Ttest results to make it appear that their students are doing better on standardized tests such as the Connecticut Mastery TestTest.

Prior to conducting evaluations, school and district administrators must pass an evaluation test based on the framework's specific training.

In 40 states, teachers are evaluated in part based on the results from student standardized tests, as are school administrators in almost 30 states.

As we return from spring break and students engage in state testing for accountability, it is a good time for administrators to work on their master schedule, prepare for end - of - year activities, complete observations, and write year - end evaluations of their teachers.

The Florida legislature just passed a bill reducing the weight of test scores on teacher and administrator evaluations from 50 % to 37 %.

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No important academic decision about a student, a teacher, an administrator, a school or a district should be made solely on one type of evidence, such as standardized test scores.

«Most policymakers — and many school administrators — have absolutely no idea what kind of instruction is required to produce students who can think critically and creatively, communicate effectively, and collaborate versus merely score well on a test.