Sentences with phrase «unfair high stakes tests»

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

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These kinds of high - stakes tests can be unsound academically, unfair, and actually racist.»

It is unfair to our children, teachers, and our society that data collection and high stakes testing has trumped instruction time.

High stake testing just highlights inequity in schools, as a result of unfair advantages and distribution of resources.

Using high - stakes testing to evaluate third grade teachers on their performance in the first year of implementation of these standards is grossly unfair.

(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.

As the opt out movement explodes nationwide, the tour for the new book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing has been generating inspiration, excitement, strategy, and tactics in the struggle against unfair testing across the Testing has been generating inspiration, excitement, strategy, and tactics in the struggle against unfair testing across the testing across the county.

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.

High - Stakes Testing: Excessive reliance on standardized exams narrows the curriculum, promotes teaching to the test and leads to unfair and unreliable evaluations of students, teachers and schools.

Early childhood experts have questioned the competition's emphasis on assessment, fearing it could lead to high - stakes testing of young children, make unfair employment decisions for early educators based on test results, and detract from the importance of play and exploratory learning.

For example, Haladyna, Nolen, and Haas (1991) studied Arizona teachers» views of the state - mandated high - stakes test and found that many teachers thought the test was unfair to minority and ESL students.