Sentences with phrase «too focused on test scores»

Finally, the article suggests that Rocketship is too focused on test scores, to the point where teachers have students retake standardized tests in order to boost scores (Kamenetz 2016).

Pallone was concerned that NCLB was too focused on test scores rather...

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At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores, and performance, leaving little time for kids to develop the necessary skills to become resilient, ethical, and motivated learners.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has released broad principles for renewing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act that seek to address perennial complaints that the law's current version — the No Child Left Behind Act — is inflexible and focuses too narrowly on student test scores to get a picture of a school's achievement.

«Focusing too much on test scores can reinforce the identity of the discarded child,» Ungar explains.

Still, its detractors argue that the law has had unfortunate side effects: too much time spent teaching to narrow tests, schools focused on boosting the scores of students who are just below the proficiency threshold, and some states lowering their standards to reduce the number of schools missing their achievement targets.

Education: Too Much Focus on Testing (Seattle Times) Mentions Daniel Koretz's book, The Testing Charade, which explains why high - stakes policies such as graduation tests lead to score inflation.

Some researchers speculate that those programs didn't offer big enough rewards and that they focused too narrowly on test scores rather than the instructional practices teachers can control more directly.

For years, critics have complained that the law's focus on test scores offers far too narrow a picture for judging school quality.

Promoting small schools, they grumble, is a goal too narrowly focused on raising test scores and too insensitive to the communitarian roots of the preexisting small - schools movement.

More Than a Score parents give CPS a «D» grade for a promotion policy that continues to focus too much on test scores and ignores the value of report cards.

But its inflexible accountability provisions have become an obstacle to progress and have focused schools too much on a single test score.

It's well known that NCLB's narrow focus on reading and math test scores meant that too many students, especially poor students, ended up with little in their school day other than preparation to take tests in math and reading.

Too often the focus is just on improved scores while little focus is on how that goal will be achieved, besides the usual test - prep.

-- The 2014 proposed rule, focused on increasing teacher prep program accountability, received thousands of comments — many of them negative — about how much it would ultimately cost states, whether it would stretch their data collection capacities and whether it relies too much on student test scores.

so to only look at test scores is too narrow of a focus to stand on its own merit as a single parameter for selecting a new home.