Sentences with phrase «wrote about the standardized testing»

For example, the Associated Press recently wrote about the standardized testing situation in New Jersey where Governor Christi, like Governor Malloy, is a big fan of having more standardized testing.

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Dick Tilton After writing a serious rant about all this, I reconsidered: This is — hopefully — about improving effectiveness in standardized testing, NOT about limiting pepperoni from school curricula.

But the scientists, the economists and neuroscientists and psychologists who I've been studying and writing about are really challenging the idea that IQ, that standardized test scores, that those are the most important things in a child's success.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

When reform - friendly commenters and cheerleading journalists write about the NOLA transformation, it's become de rigueur to offer a standard qualifier — words to the effect of, «We still have a long way to go, but...» In this formulation, poor overall reading and math proficiency based on standardized test scores is a mere speed bump before long and laudatory discussions of the remarkable growth demonstrated by the city's charter schools and students since Katrina.

The Tribune's Diane Rado writes a very disturbing story this morning about the Illinois State Board of Education's proposed new state standardized tests and rating system for schools.

Jon, AF pays its teachers about 10 % more than their host district pays its teachers on average, spends slightly less total $ $ on a per pupil basis, and academically outperforms its host districts by wide margins in terms of standardized tests in reading, writing, and math, graduation rates, and college entrance.

In 2009, a test scorer in Jacksonville, Florida wrote a two - act play about his career, a drama he said highlights the «silliness» of standardized testing.

AP Classroom PBL Tips Embedded AP Assessments I wrote a blog on a similar topic about embedding standardized testing stems in a PBL project.

Ravitch frequently writes about topics including Common Core, charter schools, vouchers, and standardized testing and is well respected across partisan lines.

Last week Jason Stanford of the Texas Observer wrote an article, titled «Mute the Messenger,» about University of Texas — Austin's Associate Professor Walter Stroup, who publicly and quite visibly claimed that Texas» standardized tests as supported by Pearson were flawed, as per their purposes to measure teachers» instructional effects.

Last week she and a number of other leading authors and illustrators wrote a powerful letter to President Obama about the inappropriate use of standardized testing and the failings of the corporate education reform movement.

More specific to VAMs, I wrote about how ESSA will allow states to decide how to weight their standardized test scores and decide whether and how to evaluate teachers with or without said scores.

will recall that over the past year I have written numerous pieces about Connecticut's charter schools and how they are «creaming off the best students» so that they can make it appear that they do a better job when it comes to getting standardized test scores up.

It's possible that Success students are very good at taking standardized tests, but in my book, the true test of a quality education is the ability to write coherently and analytically about topics covered in the curriculum.

I've just written a book on this topic, The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed with Standardized Testing — But You Don't Have to Be, and Steve Inskeep sat down with me to ask me a few questions about it.

In a self - congratulatory news release, the governor announced that he wrote to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to begin a «dialogue» about how to reduce one standardized test for 11th graders.

Presentations include: analyzing student - teacher perception to improve school culture and climate; dropping everything to write to increase standardized test scores; using hip - hop to engage students in the writing process; advising math, literacy and test prep boot camp to address fundamental skills; transforming culture through continuity, expectations, and organization; promoting courageous dialogues about the perceptions of race; and discovering bills and taxes through real - life applications.

In a guest column published in the Star - Ledger Thursday, New Jersey acting Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf writes that about half of a teacher's evaluation will come from student «learning outcomes» like progress on standardized test scores.

Written by Carrie Wilson, Executive Director (more about Carrie) After more than a decade of placing far too much emphasis on standardized test results, there is (finally) growing acknowledgement that standardized tests can not be...