This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools
accountable for students» performance on them.
It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held
accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.
Cuomo said the deal will make the state «a national leader in holding teachers
accountable for student achievement.»
When programs are held
accountable for student progress, they are responsive.
In addition to calling for the readiness assessment, panel members proposed that a national student - assessment system be used to improve instruction, as well as to hold educators
accountable for student progress.
The state licenses providers and holds
them accountable for student performance by testing children within their first month of kindergarten.
The No Child Left Behind law — the 2002 update of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act — effectively scaled up the federal role in holding schools
accountable for student outcomes.
Adequate yearly progress (AYP) is the measure by which schools, districts, and states are held
accountable for student performance under Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB), the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
States like California and districts like Boston, Denver and Houston, among others, have been transitioning to a finance model that gives principals greater authority over their schools» budgets in exchange for being held
accountable for student outcomes.
Again, it makes sense to empower schools at the same time that we hold
them accountable for student performance.
The merit award program enhances the state's ability to hold schools
accountable for student achievement.
Last year, they released a series of white papers on college accreditation, holding colleges
accountable for student outcomes, and improving the provision of consumer information in higher education.
Arkansas uses its testing data to track school performance and hold schools
accountable for student achievement.
Rather than hold schools to account for student performance at one point in time, we can now hold
them accountable for all students» progress from one year to the next.
Nevada holds schools
accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.
How would the tutors be trained, and how would they be held
accountable for student learning?
They are
accountable for student learning; they form strong and lasting relationships with students and families; and they are known to all members of the Match community, from full - time teachers to administrators.
Both student and school are held
accountable for student success.
Holding teachers
accountable for students» academic achievement gains is not inconsistent with students» accomplishing other things in school.
Texas is frequently cited as a national leader in efforts to raise academic performance and hold schools
accountable for student performance.
And it surely doesn't mean that teachers can't be held
accountable for student performance.
Identify the adult who is
accountable for each student's outcomes, and clarify what people, technology, and other resources (s) he is empowered to choose and manage.
We've written here and here about the importance figuring out as a nation how to «extend the reach» of great teachers to more students, since great teachers
accountable for student learning are the one «intervention» we know can close achievement gaps and raise the bar for all students.
Eighteen of the 25 institutions that train teachers in Florida have lost state approval of one or more of their education programs under a law that holds
them accountable for their students» performance on the state's basic - skills test for teachers.
Consequently, school administrators and educators are being held
accountable for student achievement on state - mandated assessments, now more than ever, through the Tennessee Educator Acceleration Model (TEAM).
... Through this process we were in there getting our hands dirty with them and making sure that we were
accountable for the students» learning as well.
In other states strong teachers unions may mobilize high turnout among members, their families, and friends, and punish and reward board members for their treatment of teachers rather than hold
them accountable for student test scores.
The recommendations come from the Academic Achievement and Accountability Commission, known as the A + Commission, which has spent a year weighing how to hold the state's public schools and districts more
accountable for students» academic performance.
As I recently heard Susan Patrick, head of iNACOL, explain, competency - based assessment has huge implications for accountability 3.0: in competency - based systems we will hopefully have more and deeper evidence of student learning by which we can in turn assess school and providers efficacy and hold
them accountable for their students» track record.
Studies have repeatedly shown that students benefit when schools and educators are held
accountable for student outcomes, as part of a multi-measure system.
Solution: Extend standards - based reform to high schools by making
them accountable for their students» achievement and completion rates.
They promise to strengthen public education by making it more
accountable for student achievement, more attentive to the wishes of families, and more innovative in its use of scarce resources.
The Philadelphia school board approved a program last week that will hold teachers more
accountable for student performance and give cash awards to successful schools.
Voters and policymakers should hold school districts and their employees
accountable for student learning.
The solution is to have dollars follow students and free up individual schools to spend dollars in the way that they decide makes the most sense and to hold
them accountable for student outcomes, but this requires significant changes in policy and regulation.
Meanwhile, the current approach has fostered a leadership culture that is ill - suited to manage by objective, ill - equipped to implement new technologies, and reluctant to be held
accountable for student learning.
In light of widespread efforts to hold schools
accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.
Standards coupled with assessments can thus provide the basis for holding students, teachers, and schools
accountable for student learning in K — 12 education.
Of principals surveyed in 2001, 48 percent thought it a «bad idea» to «hold principals
accountable for student standardized test scores at the building level.»
Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo and the Legislature put in place a strong teacher evaluation system to improve teaching and learning by holding teachers
accountable for student achievement.
The unique position of RGSE students — in that they have actual teaching jobs — also makes
them accountable for students» success.
Schools are not held
accountable for their students» performance on the Stanford - 9.
Holding schools
accountable for student attendance is ramping up under the Every Student Succeeds Act, as most states so far intend to use some measure of attendance (or absence) as an indicator of school quality.
But beginning in 1996, the Chicago school district launched an initiative designed to hold students and teachers
accountable for student learning.
With increasingly rigorous teacher evaluation policy, teachers» classroom instruction isfrequently observed and evaluated, and teachers are held
accountable for their students» achievement gains.
Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding system is based on the idea that school districts, not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then held
accountable for students» results.
In his State of the Union address, President Obama outlined his plans for reforming U.S. public education, including distributing competitive grants, raising test scores, and holding teachers
accountable for student achievement.
By giving teachers the freedom to innovate and try new ways to improve student achievement, public charter schools can be more responsive and create an environment tailored to the needs of individual students, while still being held more
accountable for student learning.
And in the vast realm of regulation, perhaps the touchiest will turn out to be (or so we've been admonished by the critics and worry - warts mentioned above) the requirement that private schools administer state tests and be held publicly
accountable for student achievement as measured by such tests.
Many proponents of private school choice — both the voucher and tax credit scholarship versions — take for granted that schools won't participate (or shouldn't participate) if government asks too much of them, regulates their practices, requires them to reveal closely held information and — above all — demands that they be publicly
accountable for student achievement.