Sentences with phrase «time focused on standardized tests»

«Teachers face a tremendous challenge in providing the best education for all students, particularly when forced to spend so much time focused on standardized tests.

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TOUGH: Well, I think part of it has to do with education policy, that we've been so focused on standardized tests as the measure of whether a school is doing well that we're not giving schools the time and the incentive to work on these other skills.

Although these standardized tests have improved over time, the focus on them still narrows the outcomes that we care about improving.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmetime and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmeTime (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmFocus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character developmfocus on character development).

However, as more of the time in schools is focused on preparing for and taking standardized tests, these more powerful uses of technology are in some places being neglected.

Prompted in part by complaints that high schools were spending too much time on standardized testing, lawmakers last summer ordered a rewrite of the rules for graduation and a significant change in focus.

«I have to focus on standardized test prep and don't have time for PBL.»

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

At a time when a recent report shows that teachers are less satisfied with their jobs than they have been in decades, Mieliwocki acknowledged the challenges that the profession faces and the narrow focus on student achievement and teacher evaluations as measured by standardized tests.

But teachers who took part in the focus groups also had concerns that a new system would rely too heavily on standardized test results, that evaluations from time - crunched principals could be «phony,» and that a new system would not account for students slipping in school because of factors outside a school's control, such as a divorce or death in the family.

These articles, focusing on standardized test cheating during Rhee's time as Chancellor, can be found here.

But this unproductive focus of time, energy and money on the discredited strategy of high - stakes standardized testing is taking us further and further from that goal.

It's time to focus on developing the whole child and stop declaring failure based on third grade standardized test scores.

It's time to focus on developing the whole child and stop declaring failure based on third - grade standardized test scores.