National Assessment of Educational Progress

achievement at our school has been and will continue to be fueled by data and data assessments throughout its existence. From a representative core of data assessments, we have formed our plan of restructuring. Instructional teacher strategies, teacher and parent developed student safety nets, ramp-up classes along with parental involvement and assisted behavior guide patterns form the bases of our academic progress plan. We expect to elevate our scores to a higher percentage level in each…

Many of us have took the SAT, ACT, and for Virginians the SOL throughout elementary, middle, and our junior or senior year of high school. Most colleges have standardize assessments’ for course placement of their students in which I find unfair in determining their capabilities. I find these standardize test very stressful and very complex because it makes students use applied knowledge which is not taught in the classroom by teachers. The SAT and ACT both are unbearably stressful because it…

There a plethora of concerns, as it relates to educational leadership in the P-12 setting. Understandably, some issues are more unyielding than others. Therefore, school leaders must determine the issues deemed most prevailing to them, with respect to their present setting. I’ve spent my entire career thus far in the same school system. For 17 years, I worked in a P-8 setting. However, for the past two years, I have worked in a high school setting. Ironically, I’ve noticed that the issues…

overshadowed by countless problems that seemed to do more harm than good (Tooley 1). Shortly after its passing, NCLB sustained waves of disagreement that brought it into the national spotlight. State and county politicians refused to succumb to national standards while teacher unions fought to stop mandatory testing and assessments. According to Cory Turner of NPR, the motivation behind Bush’s strict enforcements and stringent approach rested heavily on the idea that “states weren’t doing enough…

Curriculum in the school’s systems has been altered or changed throughout the century to provide children the knowledge that needs to be learned. Education is more important than the grades you receive but the understandings needed to live in our today’s world. Education allows us to process the information we receive on a daily basis and make conclusions and inferences based on what we already know (ROWAN, 2014). If education is so important, why are schools starting to “dumb down” education?…

States and local education agencies are permitted to transfer up to 50 percent of the funding they receive, under the 4 major State grant programs, to any one of the programs, or to Title I. The listed programs include: Teacher Quality State Grants, Educational Technology, Innovative Programs, and Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Thanks to NCLB, schools and agencies now had the autonomy to send money to areas and programs that would best help their…

ascertaining future educational staff requirements, through an assessment that is based on current economic trends (Bray & Varghese, 2010). According to EFA (2014), the manpower requirements approach has had an important effect on the design and available human resources for schools around the world. EFA (2014) described an example of how this planning approach assisted in accurately estimating the educational staffing needs in the African country of Tanzania. The national government of this…

is providing interventions for their students. These interventions take three forms: academic assessment, behavior intervention, and psychological assessment. According to the New York Association of School Psychologists, in 1989 there was tremendous growth of people getting jobs as school psychologists, and a dramatically corresponding increase in the number of state associations resulted. The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) developed many journals, newsletters, and studies…

their day to day living. This chapter will outline the importance of the child being active in their educational setting to develop the child holistically in primary schools. Many theorists such as Maria Montessori and Vygotsky’s state that they child should be active learners and be at the center of their learning from an early age. This suggest the child…

does it matter? What are some of the intended and unintended consequences of high-stakes testing? Also, what arguments do the proponents and critics have about high-stakes testing? High-Stakes Tests Defined A high-stakes test is a single, defined assessment that has significantly high consequences that are influenced by the score. There is a clear distinction between passing and failing. Furthermore, there are direct consequences outlined for passing or failing the test.…