Sentences with phrase «through high stakes tests»

Did they think teachers and their unions wouldn't politically resist an effort to compel compliance to Common Core through high stakes tests?

In her talk, she ripped into Gov. Scott Walker's budget, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top, the obsession with measuring student progress through high stakes testing, privatization of education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing teachers.

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But with increasing dissatisfaction over the high - stakes testing currently consuming mainstream education; the growing recognition of the many benefits a child receives through experiences with art, movement, and nature; a concern over a reliance on technology by younger and younger students; and the news that leaders in the high - tech industry are touting the lifelong benefits of low - tech Waldorf schools in educating their own children, more and more parents and educators are taking a closer look at the Waldorf approach and what it has to offer.

Thursday's City Council schedule will include a meeting of the Committee on Governmental Operations for its preliminary budget oversight hearing; a meeting of the Committee on Veterans to consider a resolution «calling upon the New York State Legislature to pass and the Governor to sign S. 752, the Veterans» Education Through SUNY Credits Act»; and a meeting of the Committee on Education to consider multiple resolutions, including one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to reject any attempt to raise the cap on the number of charter schools,» one «calling upon the Department of Education to amend its Parent's Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to include information about opting out of high - stakes testing and distribute this document at the beginning of every school year, to every family, in every grade,» and one «calling upon the New York State Legislature to eliminate the Governor's receivership proposal in the executive budget for New York City.»

Mathematical Mindsets: Unleashing Students» Potential Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages, and Innovative Teaching Jo Boaler's 2015 book traces the research behind math anxiety, the crippling response to high - stakes testing and rote mathematical drills that, according to Boaler, follows students from elementary school through adulthood and results in a lifelong fear of the sThrough Creative Math, Inspiring Messages, and Innovative Teaching Jo Boaler's 2015 book traces the research behind math anxiety, the crippling response to high - stakes testing and rote mathematical drills that, according to Boaler, follows students from elementary school through adulthood and results in a lifelong fear of the sthrough adulthood and results in a lifelong fear of the subject.

Summative assessments, or high stakes tests and projects, are what the eagle eye of our profession is fixated on right now, so teachers often find themselves in the tough position of racing, racing, racing through curriculum.

In the push for accountability through high - stakes tests, many policymakers are inadvertently undermining high - quality teaching and learning.

We agree with Rick Hess, for example, that «through - course assessments» — high - stakes tests to be taken a half dozen times a year — will pressure schools to follow a particular scope and sequence — and that this is a serious infringement on school - level autonomy.

He talks about how the emphasis in his classroom is on learning through real world experience rather than on cramming for high stakes tests.

One way of enforcing standards of excellence is through standardized testing, linked to high stakes - such as holding students back until they pass the tests or delaying their graduation.

Bringing statistical terms down to earth, Daniel Koretz takes readers through the most fundamental issues that arise in educational testing and shows how they apply to some of the most controversial issues in education today, from high - stakes testing to special education.

As I look out over the current school reform landscape I see it is categorized by policies that seek to standardize, homogenize, and corporatize public education through the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards, high stakes testing, micro-management of school operations from distal bureaucrats, teacher evaluation policies based on mis - interpretations of current research, and heavy reliance on corporate education providers camouflaged as non-profits operating via charter schools.

Reclaiming Camelot: Capturing the Reflections of Exemplary, Veteran Middle School Teachers in an Age of High Stakes Testing and Accountability Through Narrative Inquiry, Nancy Fichtman Dana, Darby Claire Delane, and Paul George

During his tenure as the Assistant Superintendent for Instructional Services at the Chula Vista Elementary School District in California, he oversaw the district's dramatic improvement in academic performance and high - stakes test scores through the implementation of a student - centered instructional framework and a cloud - based differentiated instruction solution.

The requirement to include students with disabilities in standards - based reform holds promise, but high - stakes tests should not be the only means through which students can demonstrate what they know and are able to do.

Education policymakers have become preoccupied with preparing young people for the marketplace through high - stakes testing and accountability.

The move follows years of pressure from teachers, parents and educationalists opposed to putting young pupils through high stakes national Sats tests.

Facing challenges to improve teaching and learning in the current context of high - stakes testing and accountability and as they contend with discrimination, inequities and injustices in the status quo, effective school leaders approach their work through a social justice lens.

(Reuters)- A backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive - and even some longtime advocates of testing call for changes.

On the other hand, these reforms were poorly designed to ensure quality education for all students and left many schools severely under - enrolled through the process of unregulated / unplanned school choice and constant crisis from high - stakes testing.

The US has been through a disastrous era focused on high - stakes testing and privatization since the passage of NCLB in 2001.

Clearly, a backlash against high - stakes standardized testing is sweeping through U.S. school districts as parents, teachers, and administrators protest that the exams are unfair, unreliable and unnecessarily punitive.

If your students don't have experience with this — whether it's through low - stakes formative assessment or high - stakes summative tests — they may struggle on test day.

One need to go no farther than a short drive down the turnpike to civil rights expert, Dr. Yohuru Williams of Fairfield University, who has demonstrated with thunderous authority, through the actual words and sayings of Dr. Martin Luther King, that the leader of the U.S. civil rights movement would have never stood beside those who seek to privatize and monetize public education, nor would he have supported the high stakes testing obsession that has crippled the promise of public education, dehumanized children, and driven countless educators out of the profession.

Strategies 1 through 3 pretty much describe what high - stakes testing is supposed to do: raise standards, ignite harder effort from teachers and students, and produce more learning.

Either directly through prescriptive laws, such as ones that mandate precisely how local boards of education must evaluate their employees, or indirectly through schemes and mechanisms that place high stakes on invalid and unreliable tests such as the SBAC, we rank and sort kids, schools, and teachers based on test scores.

This factor alone will cause the pressures of high stakes testing to go through the roof.

Shepard (1991) pointed out that teachers have little control over the policies proscribing accountability through «high - stakes» tests.

High stakes testing has primarily assessed math and literacy for students moving through the K - 12 experience and attempting to achieve a high school diplHigh stakes testing has primarily assessed math and literacy for students moving through the K - 12 experience and attempting to achieve a high school diplhigh school diploma.

You make teachers more accountable (lowering benefits, replacing tenure with «merit pay») and you put students through high - stakes testing to make sure they've learned the exact body of knowledge you want them to have, or, alternatively, how to pass a standardized test.

They are heavily funded by a handful of millionaires and billionaires and passed through groups like Stand for Children, ALEC, Democrats for Education Reform, and 50CAN, who use their funding to advocate for privatization, for high - stakes testing, for evaluating teachers by test scores, and for stripping teachers of any due process so that experienced teachers may easily be replaced by newcomers who will work at entry - level wages and leave without ever collecting a pension.

That's because the minute you click on any link from Michelle Rhee, sugar - coated as each one is in the gingerbread of her lies about how much she supports «great» teachers, she will add you to her pretend army in her crusade to destroy public schools through privatization, high - stakes testing for students, teachers and schools, charters, vouchers, «virtual school.»

The abilities acquired through training are tested to a greater extent and more emphasis given to those abilities at each higher level; Qualifying more so than Derby and the All Age stakes more so than Qualifying.