Sentences with phrase «threatening high stakes tests»

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A new book from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University finds that the current overreliance on high - stakes testing threatens to deepen America's educational inequities.

New Book from The Civil Rights Project Highlights the Limits of Test - Driven Reforms A new book from The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University finds that the current overreliance on high - stakes testing threatens to deepen America's educational inequities.

As I have repeatedly said would eventually happen, the teacher unions are turning against Common Core in New York and threatening to do the same in other states if high stakes tests aligned to those standards are put in place.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.

The national group, Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, issued a statement explaining: «As public schools are increasingly threatened by a view of education that supports privatization, zero - tolerance discipline policies, less funding, and high - stakes standardized tests, AROS is fighting back with a broad vision of American public education that prioritizes racial justice, equity and well - resourced, world - class, public community schools.»

In recent years, attacks on teachers, high - stakes testing and the encroachment of privatization have increased, threatening the ability of schools to play their vital role as pillars of our democracy.

The Obama Administration's «Race to the Top» program, as well as its «Blueprint» for revising ESEA, threatens to force systems to further expand high - stakes testing, to the detriment of children and schools across the country.

The tsunami of high - stakes testing and accountability has crashed on our educational shores with full force - threatening the foundations of teaching and learning, as well as the democratic aspirations of public education.

The Obama administration's focus on teachers is a significant shift from the Bush administration's No Child Left Behind law, which uses high - stakes tests like the annual Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Exam (WKCE) to identify schools and school districts that are failing to meet the needs of children and then threatens to cut funding if they don't make the grade.