young people's academic and professional careers are still being controlled by high-stakes standardized testing regimes and teachers are increasingly being held accountable for student performance. As a result, it is little wonder that there has been a growing tendency on the part of many educators to "teach to the test." Indeed, and as also underscored by the epigraph above, the classroom testing process itself can be viewed as being counterproductive to the extent that it detracts from long-term learning and the development of the critical thinking skills young people need today to be competitive in the workplace. This paper reviews the literature… Continue Reading...
Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) standardized testing as aligned with the school district’s educational missions. In addition, a survey of Survey of stakeholder needs, an analysis of student performance data with NJCCCS/CP Indicators, and a description of curricular, cross content, co-curricular, and extracurricular content is followed by a discussion of procedures for curriculum design, approval, and steps for implementation. Finally, a description of the procedures that will be used for curriculum evaluation and the 5-year evaluation cycle that will be used for subjects is followed by a discussion concerning the technology tools for teaching and… Continue Reading...
by many states and the use of standardized testing regimens, the fact that the primary mission of the nation’s public high schools is decided on a state by state basis means that the type of education that is received by students in the Bronx may differ widely from that received by students in Fairbanks, Alaska, for example.
Furthermore, there are also significant within-state differences in the views about the primary mission of public high schools, making any across-the-board evaluation of their effectiveness difficult if not impossible. In this regard, Parker, a policy analyst at Education Commission of… Continue Reading...
culture’s continued fixation on standardized testing. The use of social media in general, some psychology researchers believe, has had a seismic impact upon how humans cognitively process their environment. According to the Association for Psychological Science, getting appreciation from social media in the forms of likes and comments has an addictive potential: “The same brain circuits that are activated by eating chocolate and winning money are activated when teenagers see large numbers of ‘likes’ on their own photos or the photos of peers in a social network, according to findings from a new study… Continue Reading...
twenty-first century labor market. In fact, educational policymakers have been taking desperate measures to increase high-stakes standardized testing at the expense of a liberal arts approach to education (Hickman, 2015). America needs to reconsider its relationship to education in order to stimulate genuine student interest in high achievement. The future of the country depends on it.
Education in core subjects, particularly STEM, will remain the cornerstone of building an effective student body. Students need to be armed with expansive understanding of STEM fields no matter what career pathway they may take. Yet students in the United States also need to be able to think critically and… Continue Reading...
