Sentence examples for accountable testing from inspiring English sources
Far from holding schools accountable, testing resulted in massive cynicism.
Republicans who have opposed Democratic initiatives to raise teacher salaries and hold schools accountable with testing regimens are gleefully painted as obstructionist, and the effects are visible.
Make students accountable by testing as needed and as required by the school district and by the state.
Williams likes pithy sayings, so here's one: Why are test-takers being held more accountable than test-makers?
If the pressure for high test scores and the insane notion that "we" should hold teachers accountable for test scores continue to drive policy discussions concerning teacher effectiveness, the most valuable experiences associated with learning will be dismissed.
That system for holding schools accountable for test scores has encouraged states to lower standards, teachers to focus on test preparation, and math and reading to crowd out history, art and foreign languages.
The cabinet will therefore be more powerful, and more accountable.The test will be taking on the bureaucracy.
He made principals accountable for test scores and tried to make it easier to sack bad teachers.
Some found that art, music, history and other classes were being taught less frequently as schools focused on reading and math, since the federal No Child Left Behind law holds schools accountable for test results in only those subjects.
The theory behind the No Child Left Behind Act was that holding schools accountable for test scores would force them to improve instruction for groups of children whom they had historically shortchanged.
Ms. Feldman, whose 1 million-member organization is the smaller but often more aggressive of the nation's two teachers' unions, sees her proposal for a transitional year as a temporary one, intended to help a generation of students who were not subject to the rigorous new curriculum in the lower grades but will be held accountable by tests in high school.
