Sentences with phrase «testing tail wagging»

If attaching stakes to individual teachers is a bad idea and leads to the testing tail wagging the school dog, it's hard to see what will change four years from now.

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This tail - wagging - the - dog scheme is approaching a critical test in Boulder, Colorado, where Minneapolis - based utility Xcel Energy is rolling out one of the first systemwide installations of a smart grid.

Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system — threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short — what's not tested often isn't taught.

This satisfied Governor Wilson's desire to promote parental responsibility by sending home test scores for each child as soon as possible, but the Stanford 9 rapidly became the tail that wagged the accountability dog.

Other parents view opting out as a form of outsider protest; they support public education, but believe that high - stakes standardized tests have become the tail that wags the dog, driving far too much of what occurs in their children's classrooms.

«Testing is an important part of education and life, but it's time that we step back and see whether the tail is wagging the dog,» he said.

The extra front - end grip could be just the thing that some drivers need for inclement weather and provided reasonably neutral, slightly understeer - y handling in the dry, but fans of sweet powerslides and sporty tail - wagging will definitely want to take a test drive in the RWD version first, which comes standard with stickier summer performance tires with wider 255 / 35R18 staggered rear rubber.

He wagged his tail when the team showed him a 4 - foot doll, to test his response to children.

(You can say that again) «It is likely that control of the flexure of the vertebral column is the same for the tail as well as the rest of the column, but the method we used for scoring tail - wagging responses and the panels flanking the body of the animal in the test - cage minimized any effect of asymmetric posture associated with spine bending.»