Sentences with phrase «reformed systems of accountability»

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Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

The addressing system, he said, is part of the institutional reforms by the government aimed at easing business registration and other accountability and management purposes.

At noon, Citizens Union will unveil its position on a variety of police oversight reforms and urge New York City government officials to enact local laws that create a more cohesive system of public oversight with enhanced accountability to New Yorkers, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

However, once the proposed reforms are published, I hope to see further changes to ensure better public interest accountability and a visible improvement for all of us who wish to see a thriving 21st century railway system in our country.

Among other reforms, he suggests that improving the representativeness of MEPs by using open - list voting systems, increasing the accountability of the -LSB-...]

They want a tougher system of accountability, and I think a reformed electoral system would help deliver that.»

But perhaps most substantially, there is a growing awareness in the world of education reform that the big battles over getting new teacher - evaluation laws passed or school accountability systems implemented are not the end of the story («The Teacher Evaluation Revamp, In Hindsight,» features, Spring 2017).

The question of whether testing and accountability systems are an effective reform tool has seldom been the subject of rigorous research.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

For going on two decades now, the twin movements to expand parental choice and foster accountability have been the major drivers of reform in the K - 12 education system.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

With the advent of competitive reforms such as merit pay, test - based accountability, and market - based systems like vouchers and charters, we are already seeing unintended consequences in the forms of cheating, competition for scarce resources, and a system of winners and losers.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

In addition, the report takes a hard look at the Adult Basic Education (ABE) system at the state Department of Education (DOE) and calls for a series of reforms, new investments, and accountability measures.

Even though accountability is increasingly recognized as the linchpin of education reform, only a few states have made real progress in establishing accountability systems.

Which was that we wanted to make a commitment not just to the accountability side of the reforms, but also to what might be called the instructional core and to invest in capacity and the capacity of people on the front lines of the educational systems; to give them better preparation, to give them better tools, to give them better professional development.

A unique blend of education - savvy business leaders, a superintendent with stamina, and a mature accountability system has made Houston into the darling of urban school reform.

She would undo most if not all of the «structural» reforms that have been put in place in recent years — mayoral control, performance - based pay, charter laws and other choice schemes, reliance on entrepreneurship and market incentives, federal efforts to incentivize and prod the system to change in constructive directions, testing - and results - based accountability and more.

Education policy in the United States has long been dominated by the notion that the way to reform education is to set performance standards and establish a system of accountability.

Even the 1994 federal Title I reforms, which required states to develop the three major prongs of an effective accountability system (academic standards, tests linked to the standards, and a mixture of assistance and sanctions for low - performing schools) did little to stimulate California into action.

This legislation replaced the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) system of school accountability with a more narrowly tailored and flexible approach to school reform.

In standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standards.

In my new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, I describe how I came to repudiate my support for choice and accountability, though not for curriculum reform, which I still believe is necessary and valuable.

Almost every state is now instituting accountability systems to measure progress in standards - based reform, and almost every such system depends heavily on testing as an indicator of student or school performance.

2015 promises to be a pivotal year for several major reforms in public education, including the continuing rollout of the Common Core State Standards, the state's new school financing and accountability system, and the administration of the online Smarter Balanced assessments.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

Over the past decade, California has been a holdout from some of the big national reforms that most other states have embraced, especially clear and tough school accountability systems and test - based teacher evaluations.

It goes something like this: Step away from federal heavy - handedness around states» accountability and teacher credentialing systems; keep plenty of transparency of results in place, especially test scores disaggregated by racial and other subgroups; offer incentives for embracing promising reforms instead of mandates; and give school districts a lot more flexibility to move their federal dollars around as they see fit.

Each State approved to use a differentiated accountability model must agree to provide data to the Department comparing its model to its existing accountability system, the impact of the interventions applied to schools and districts, and the effects of differentiating accountability on student achievement and school reform.

While the Mayor's most recent predecessor Mike Bloomberg, with Chancellor Joel Klein, used a two - pronged strategy, approaching reform both from within the system (doubling down on accountability and giving principals more autonomy) and from without (rapidly expanding school choice through charter schools), de Blasio and his Chancellor Carmen Fariña, who share what Alexander Nazaryan calls an «out - sized antipathy» towards charters, are betting the whole ball of wax on an inside job.

With the potential to reform school finance, a new academic accountability system, and the expiration of Classroom Site Fund monies on the horizon, advocacy is more important now than ever.

Callen: Poll shows Mississippians want school choice Grant Callen, Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.

Formative reform: purposeful planning for the next generation of assessment and accountability systems.

Importantly, these are the skills that standardized tests are least effective in assessing, rendering our state accountability system outdated and in need of substantial reform.

As you would expect, fair weather accountability hawks within the school reform movement such as Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute criticize Education Trust for clearly pointing out once again that these systems — including the A-to-F grading approach used in the Sunshine State — are concealing the failures of schools and districts to address achievement gaps.

Even before Ed Trust issued its latest report, there have been plenty of concern (especially from the civil rights wing of the school reform movement) about the displacement of AYP with new accountability systems.

He served as CEO and Superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools system, initiating sweeping reforms, including online assessments of all students, new accountability measures, and a first - of - its - kind student safety plan.

This is part of government reforms designed to make the exams and accountability system more rigorous.

FairTest supports the authentic accountability plan proposed by the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE) proposed a comprehensive accountability system that uses a balance of local and state assessments to describe school improvement and student progress.

So why then do they not act more decisively to reform the accountability system, lessen its grip on the confidence of school leaders, and aim to encourage good practice rather than to stimulate insecurity?

In 1999, David Driscoll was named Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, where he has overseen the implementation of the MCAS high school exit exam, the school and district accountability system, the educator certification test, and significant reforms to special education.

On the California Office of Reform Education (CORE) school accountability system, which was released this year, Grape Street scored a 30 out of 100, while the average score at LA Unified was 60.

The Texas Legislature should tie to a new school finance system that meets the needs of equity and adequacy bold, comprehensive reform legislation to take Texas to the next level of accountability.

However, having made these uncontroversial statements she then states that we need to «test» that pupils have mastered the basics and then links this to reform of the accountability system.

It is long past time to move to the next level of reform and accountability — the extrinsic type — and this is the trend we must and will see over the next several decades in what I believe will be the civil rights revolution of the 21st century, which I think will play out simultaneously on the two tracks I have just mentioned: the delivery system for education and the means by which we prepare and compensate educators, primarily teachers.

Grant Callen, Clarion Ledger Guest Columnist, January 10, 2016 Over the past four years, our state Legislature has adopted a handful of key reforms designed to strengthen our education system by providing students with new education options and taxpayers with more accountability and transparency.