Sentences with phrase «tougher school testing»

The union has called for a three - year moratorium to the Common Core program, a federally mandated initiative that requires tougher school testing.

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Tough says that people who test high in conscientiousness get better grades in school and college, commit fewer crimes, and stay married longer.

Staying positive has been tough and I'm experiencing some post-holiday blues regarding the weather, the back injury issue, as well as it being crunch time at school for testing.

Playing 48 minutes of high school football is not only a test of athletic skill, power, and raw talent but is tough on a player's neck.

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.

-- From «Schools» Toughest Test: Cooking,» by Kim Severson, The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2009

While he has protected and promoted the growth of charter schools, other aspects of his education policy have not gone as planned - these include the rollout of the common core learning standards and tougher teacher evaluations by tying them more closely to the results of student standardized test scores.

That suggested the standardized test score ratings were tougher than the evaluations teachers and school leaders developed.

As predicted by state education officials, scores on the first English and math tests given statewide to elementary school students under tougher new learning standards are not very good.

Pending the governor's approval, New York State will have tougher anti-heroin laws, a new requirement to test for lead in schools» water, alcohol sales at Sunday morning brunches will be allowed, and online daily fantasy sports will be permitted.

The state's English test is tough — but at some of the city's top schools, students aced it.

Cuomo has suggested $ 1.1 billion in additional education spending — but only if lawmakers agree to implement tougher tenure rules, teacher evaluations more reliant on student test performance and the authorization of more charter schools.

Schools have already begun teaching, and students testing, based on the tougher material, and the test scores are being used to evaluate teachers and principals.

The study's most disturbing finding, the authors say, is that neither boys nor girls get many tough math questions on state tests now required to measure a school district's progress under the 2002 federal No Child Left Behind law.

CER could have been tougher regarding school autonomy, especially on Florida and states that mandate NNR tests, but in general the high marks were warranted.

Tough presents particularly compelling narratives about the progress of one Promise Academy elementary school and the middle school, the former achieving dramatic increases in test scores, and the latter temporarily closing its doors to new students as a result of poor (albeit improving) performance.

NCLB has unwittingly and unfortunately encouraged schools to focus instruction inordinately on reading and math, the subjects that NCLB requires be tested annually and to which it has attached the tough accountability regime.

Thus they face an even tougher form of accountability than state standards and tests: the ability of parents and students to leave the school if they aren't satisfied.

Steiner — an academic with Oxford and Harvard degrees who also had pioneered new teacher training programs as head of Hunter College's School of Education — had «charged out of the gate galloping,» observes Meyer, instituting greatly tougher benchmarks for the state's 3 - 8 tests and initiating a major effort to write a statewide curriculum.

He was a powerful contributor to Massachusetts» preeminent education achievements and a highly respected leader among chief state school officers nationally,» said Professor Paul Reville, former Massachusetts Secretary of Education, noting Chester's impressive ability to find constructive middle ground on tough issues in the Commonwealth, such as the controversy over assessment tests PARRC and MCAS.

Some education reformers and media outlets are already using the results of the new, tougher tests to brand schools as «failing» if most of their students don't meet the higher standards.

And without full - fledged school choice, it is a tough theory to test, though not impossible.

Longtime Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley had won control over the school system in 1995 and generally received accolades for rising scores on state tests; hard - charging superintendents, including Paul Vallas and Arne Duncan; tough accountability measures such as reduced social promotion; and a slew of new schools and shiny buildings.

And even if by some political miracle the new PARCC test could be used to impose tough sanctions on schools and educators who failed to comply with Common Core, it's a really bad idea to try to run school systems with a test.

Indeed, under the late Al Shanker, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) was known for tough - minded talk on issues like standards, testing, and failing schools.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb has said that tougher tests for primary school children are needed to encourage pupils to utilise a «beautiful command of English».

It helped raise test scores, showed that tough love for troubled schools has benefits, and more.

Muñiz - Sarduy, Lopez and Rodriguez - Rosario all led schools where students struggled on the state's tough Common Core tests.

Mr. Carvalho has joined other superintendents and school board members in the state in calling for a delay in the use of new tests, including the not yet validated Florida Standards Assessment — a Common Core variant, with tougher standards than the last assessment used — to grade the state's schools, teachers and students.

Less than half of Maryland elementary and middle school students passed the state's tough new standardized tests, a result school officials attribute to a major revision of teaching and testing standards.

Q: What steps can the government take to best inform parents of their options so that they can select schools without reverting to test scores and other hallmarks of «tough - minded accountability?»

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

Still, if states» higher standards and tougher tests are leading to real changes in the classroom — especially as schools adopt high quality curriculum like Eureka Math — we ought to start seeing a bump soon, at least at the fourth grade level.

Mr McGovern said that tests in England's schools needed to be tougher to catch up with international competitors.

The district begins placement testing in 5th grade and continues each year, allowing middle school students to accelerate their course sequence for those ready for a tougher math curriculum.

In one study soon to be published in an education policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in the study.

«However, it will be particularly difficult to measure children's progress over the next few years as schools are dealing with a new «more rigorous» national curriculum, new key stage 2 tests, new, tougher GCSEs and new scoring systems.

The Obama administration wants states to compete for the money by showing they're ready to take - on tough reforms — reforms that use student test scores in teacher evaluations, as well as reforms that encourage the creation of more charter schools.

But with the joint imprimatur of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, advocates of standardized testing, school choice, merit pay, and tough accountability measures like school closings heralded these measures as «reforms.»

During an otherwise routine gathering of state school superintendents on Friday, Secretary Duncan suggested that much of the opposition to the new reading and math guidelines is coming from soccer moms whose kids are facing tougher standards and tougher tests.

Urban charter schools, many of which are run by white leaders, have been stereotyped as embracing a boot camp - like environment that elevates test prep and tough discipline, while downplaying arts and athletics.

Nicky Morgan, education secretary, has promised that «no more» than «1 percentage point more» would fall below the floor this year, as schools work under a tougher, more rigorous curriculum and testing regime.

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

As districts across the country brace themselves for low student scores on tough Common Core tests this spring, the staff at Sturgis Charter Public School in Hyannis, Massachusetts, isn't sweating it.

Charter schools and test scores fit into four broad goals that Obama wants states to pursue - tougher academic standards, better ways to recruit and keep effective teachers, a method of tracking student performance and a plan of action to turn around failing schools.

Many of these no - excuse model schools attain excellent test scores that can not entirely be explained away on the basis of «counseling out» tough kids and not backfilling empty seats.

Armed with a court order mandating the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations, Los Angeles Unified Superintendent John Deasy now faces the tough job of selling his achievement - based review system to the district's teachers, union leaders and even its school board members.

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But he's worked before with the Latino Caucus which, like PEAC, pushes for a tougher stance against certain district policies, like reconstituting schools and using student test scores for teacher evaluations.

Those involved in helping students prepare for the test say a lower bar to passing is an imperfect solution to a genuinely difficult problem — how to create an exam that is aligned to the tougher standards now being implemented in high schools, while addressing the fact that most of those trying to pass the exam — both young people who dropped out of high school years ago and adults — never had any exposure to the Common Core.