Sentences with phrase «testing in the public schools today»

And the amount of testing in the public schools today isn't just excessive — it's extreme.

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Concerned about children's exposure to lead found in drinking water, lawmakers met with reporters today at the state capitol in Albany to discuss a last - minute push to require lead testing in all public schools.

Westchester County Rob Astorino on Tuesday said he and his wife will have their children not take the new round of standardized tests starting today in the state's public schools.

As public school students in New York state sit at their desks today taking the Common Core based English Language Arts tests, a nationally known opponent to the core is in Syracuse.

One last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly report a wide array of data related to test scores, poverty rates, teacher characteristics, and much, much more.

The legitimacy of test score increases in District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardizedSchools (DCPS), in particular those at Crosby S. Noyes Education Campus, are the focus of the latest installment in USA Today's «Testing the System,» a multi-part series exploring the extent and causes of cheating — by teachers, principals and schools — on standardizedschools — on standardized tests.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah public school students on average improved in mathematics and science and held steady in English language arts (ELA) end - of - level tests in 2016, according to data released today by the Utah State Board of Education.

Today, most public - school students in New Orleans attend charter schools, and test scores and graduation rates are rising.

In an article he called «Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow — Using Accountability to «Reform» Public Schools to Death» Alfie Kohn shared,

Today, while much of the discussion about «Education Reform» revolves around the diversion of scarce public funds to privately owned and practically unaccountable charter schools and the debate about whether the Common Core Standards are useful or appropriate and whether the unfair and discriminatory Common Core testing scam can be derailed, there is a growing realization that the rise of the Common Core is one of the biggest public relations snow jobs in American history.

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

TRENTON — New Jersey's public school students racked up slightly higher test scores in most grades in the 2010 - 11 school year, despite Gov. Chris Christie's cutting about $ 1 billion in state aid to schools that year, according to standardized test results released today by the state Board of Education.

Results of national science tests announced today show that Virginia public school students are among the highest achieving in the nation in the subject.

Those oh - so - elusive SBAC results: after millions of dollars squandered on broadband improvements, tedious test prep, and time diverted from actual learning, our students, parents, and teachers have been prevented from getting the test results because no one in educational leadership today has figured out how to «spin» the results without facing the consequences of this poorly designed, invalid, questionably - standardized assessment that was perpetrated on our public school students.

In a published report today in the CTMirror, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, Joeseph Cirasuolo, has announced that superintendents in Connecticut will now recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing AND that students who opt out will be provided with an alternative location where they can read a book, do homework or engage in some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC testinIn a published report today in the CTMirror, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, Joeseph Cirasuolo, has announced that superintendents in Connecticut will now recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing AND that students who opt out will be provided with an alternative location where they can read a book, do homework or engage in some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC testinin the CTMirror, the Executive Director of the Connecticut Association of Public School Superintendents, Joeseph Cirasuolo, has announced that superintendents in Connecticut will now recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing AND that students who opt out will be provided with an alternative location where they can read a book, do homework or engage in some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC testinin Connecticut will now recognize the right of parents to opt their children out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium SBAC Testing AND that students who opt out will be provided with an alternative location where they can read a book, do homework or engage in some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC tTesting AND that students who opt out will be provided with an alternative location where they can read a book, do homework or engage in some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC testinin some other educational activity for the eight to eight and a half hours of the SBAC testingtesting.

Today's vote goes a step further by putting the full weight the CEA RA behind that position and providing great detail about teachers» objectives in ensuring less testing and more learning in Connecticut public schools.