Sentences with phrase «testing overkill»
It is a sign that national politicians are starting to pay attention to constituents who are saying «Enough is enough» to testing overkill.
http://www.fairtest.org/
For how states and districts can do this, see FairTest's report, Assessment Matters: Constructing Model State Systems to Replace Testing Overkill.
«The New York City resolution is an important step in the growing, grassroots - powered national movement seeking to replace testing overkill with better, educationally sound forms of assessment.
Reacting to results from the annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools, Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest), said, «Americans are clearly fed up with school - test overkill.
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The rapidly accelerating testing resistance and reform movement has made significant progress to reduce standardized exam «overkill» and win popular support across the U.S., according to a new report released today.
But the sheer number of tests is overkill.
Administration officials said that in many cases, testing is redundant, poorly aligned with curriculum or simply overkill.
In October Obama administration officials also told the AP, «that in many cases, testing is redundant, poorly aligned with curriculum, or simply overkill.»
In my cat's case, the tests may have been overkill to some, but those tests alerted me to the fact that she had kidney issues, so I changed her diet to keep her healthy.
Our tests are overkill.
Similar to the others, the router did well in testing, proving itself to be great for homes with lots of local heavy Wi - Fi needs, but an overkill product for others.