Sentences with phrase «too much testing»

Summary: Throughout the state and country educators say the same thing: too much testing, give us back our classroom time.

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There's continued dissatisfaction over the state's implementation of the new Common Core standards, which parents, students and teachers have complained has led to too much testing.

Duncan wrote in a blog: «too much testing can rob school buildings of joy and cause unnecessary stress» and «in too many places, testing itself has become a distraction from the work it is meant to support.»

But it was his first commitment to reducing testing, in response to residents across Ohio complaining last year that too much testing was their biggest concern with education in the state.

However, when stacked on top of SAT and ACT tests in high school, these additional exams may contribute to the notion that there's too much testing these days.

Ruth Wattenberg, the Ward 3 representative on DC's State Board of Education (SBOE), says «too much testing» and the narrowing of the curriculum it has caused were the two issues that had the most resonance with parents during her campaign.

Randi Weingarten and Linda Darling - Hammond recently asserted in a Huffington Post blog entry that the emerging challenges to implementing the Common Core standards are really about too much testing.

Although some testing in schools is necessary in order for teachers to know if instruction is working and how students are doing, there is also a danger in too much testing.

But Common Core has become a lightning rod for those concerned about too much testing, overly rigid teaching methods and federal involvement in education.

Too Much Testing!

Whether caused by anxiety or lack of effort, too much testing can fatigue students such that the results are not accurate, thus not helpful.

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The President always talks about too much testing, but he endorses performance pay based on test scores.

But the survey, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.7 percentage points, also revealed that California public school parents are divided on whether there is too much testing.

The party opposes too much testing; who favors too much testing?

There is too much testing!!!!!!!! It is having effects that are not intended.

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If we accept Title I's basic approach (and we think nothing better is remotely possible from this Congress), it should not be undermined by mandating too much testing, but rather should be actually implemented.

-LSB-...] teachers to know if instruction is working and how students are doing, there is also a danger in too much testing.

Too much testing!

As Dropout Nation has documented over the past three years, the administration's No Child waiver gambit is already damaging systemic reform efforts on the ground; the administration's declaration last Saturday that there is supposedly too much testing, has also given ammunition to traditionalists and movement conservatives otherwise unconcerned with education policy.

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One of the biggest complaints that parents, teachers, and administrators have today is «too much testing!»

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While this new data may put a crimp in the teachers unions» argument, they are sure to keep complaining about that 17 percent, and cite as reasons: poor pay, a good economy, the Koch Brothers, a bad economy, ALEC, too much testing, too little respect, corporate ed reform, etc..

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There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

It led to too much testing during classroom time.

That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and mandating the use of unproven improvement strategies for poorly performing schools.

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That statute has been denounced for causing too much testing of school children, making teachers «teach to the test» to avoid penalties, and...

57 percent said there is too much testing; 29 percent said there is the right amount; and 8 percent said there is not enough.

Gov. Larry Hogan, in a statement reacting to the PARCC results, said he believes there is too much testing.

But we also find that people who are opposed to testing and who think there is too much testing (typically liberal positions) are more opposed to the standards.

Standards - based reform has had more traction but has «gone astray»: too much testing, too much labeling, not enough real alteration in the quality of what's taught and learned.

Is it too much testing, bullying, social isolation or poor home life?

There is a lot of feedback now that some states have too much testing and some don't have enough.

The valid concerns of parents about too much testing also should be taken seriously.

I understand that many of you feel strongly that there's too much testing in our schools.

Miami Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says there is too much testing.

There is too much testing, and it's taking time away from real learning — from art and music, from social studies and science, from time for play and exploration.

In noting that too much testing can «rob school buildings of joy, and cause unnecessary stress,» Secretary Duncan called for states to postpone using test results to evaluate teachers for one school year.

War Horse author Michael Morpurgo has warned that too much testing in schools risks killing the joy of reading for children.

But I also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing, and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students.»

Some rich folks get concerned about testing, President Barack Obama makes a speech, says there is too much testing, and states start rolling back not just testing but also the evaluation systems tied to it.

«That there is too much testing in the schools.»

The Common Core's rollout has been criticized for requiring too much testing and not preparing teachers.

There's continued dissatisfaction over the state's implementation of the new Common Core standards, which parents, students and teachers have complained has led to too much testing.