Sentences with phrase «tests as a civil rights»

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The crisis we face is at least as morally urgent as the civil rights movement — maybe even more so, since this is a ruthlessly timed test.

Instead, Orfield states that The Civil Rights Project strongly supports the recommendation of the National Academy of Sciences» report entitled High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation (1999) that single tests never be used as the sole determiner of graduation or grade promotion.

«Texas is frequently heralded as a successful model for the nation of how tests can improve the academic performance of students, particularly poor and minority students,» says Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project.

As part of the settlement, Disability Rights Advocates, the civil - rights organization that had represented Breimhorst, and the College Board, the consortium of colleges that owns the SAT, agreed to jointly appoint a panel of «experts» to study whether scores on the SAT should continue to be flagged when students take the test with extendedRights Advocates, the civil - rights organization that had represented Breimhorst, and the College Board, the consortium of colleges that owns the SAT, agreed to jointly appoint a panel of «experts» to study whether scores on the SAT should continue to be flagged when students take the test with extendedrights organization that had represented Breimhorst, and the College Board, the consortium of colleges that owns the SAT, agreed to jointly appoint a panel of «experts» to study whether scores on the SAT should continue to be flagged when students take the test with extended time.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

But civil - rights advocates have recognized that shining light on disparities of result, such as the requirement that test data be disaggregated by racial and income groups under NCLB, is an important first step to reform.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

Just as the education - reform movement is starting to figure out how to use test - score data in a more sophisticated way, the Obama administration and its allies in the civil - rights community want to take us back to the Stone Age on the use of school - discipline data.

Much of this diaspora is associated with a handful of ideas: the championing of public education as «the civil rights movement of our time»; executive - style leadership; charter schools; and an emphasis on data, especially test scores.

Once civil rights statutes banned such de jure — i.e., legally enforced — discrimination, some fire departments came up with ways to maintain the discriminatory status quo, such as requiring applicants to pass standardized tests before being hired, tests that African American and Latino applicants tended to fail.

For children of color, annual test data (as required under the No Child Left Behind Act and state laws) is helpful in the fight for ensuring their civil rights.

Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption on historical grounds, empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.

We can not, of course, say that these groups came to the defense of high - stakes, standardized testing at the behest of the Gates Foundation, but we should be clear that their politics align with that of the Gates Foundation, and so the fact that these particular civil rights organizations came out in force to support a central reform backed by the foundation should come as no surprise to anyone.

Civil rights leaders such as Rev. William Barber, the voice of the Moral Monday Movement, have called on politicians in Washington, D.C. to «fix public education and end high stakes testing.»

Under whatever name you call it: «turnaround schools,» «Commissioner's Network,» or «schools of choice,» the bottom line is that citizens in the communities designated as under - performing based on these inadequately - developed and unproven tests have been stripped of their civil rights.

As Dropout Nation noted last month, AFT, along with National Education Association, is struggling to gain support for its efforts against accountability (and, more - importantly, standardized testing) from civil rights groups such as Education Trust and NAACAs Dropout Nation noted last month, AFT, along with National Education Association, is struggling to gain support for its efforts against accountability (and, more - importantly, standardized testing) from civil rights groups such as Education Trust and NAACas Education Trust and NAACP.

This violates the test laid out by the Supreme Court in the Firearms Reference: «if the effects of the law, considered with its purpose, go so far as to establish that it is mainly a law in relation to property and civil rights, then the law is ultra vires the federal government».