Sentences with phrase «about accountability systems»

Through telephone surveys, CRSS collected detailed information about the accountability systems for 100 of the largest districts in the nation.

There was clear agreement that policy makers need to respond to complaints from teachers and parents about too much testing, about accountability systems that misidentify schools as being either excellent or in need of intervention, and about state - mandated teacher evaluation systems that have consumed policy attention and controversy for little payoff in student achievement.

Some civil rights advocates have voiced similar concerns about accountability systems that rely exclusively on growth measures, which could allow schools serving disadvantaged students to avoid sanction even if their students» academic progress is insufficient to close achievement gaps.

• The big issues the Department of Education will face when issuing regulations • How states might think fresh about their accountability systems, teacher evaluations, and interventions in low - performing schools • The timeline for the coming two years

While there's still plenty about the accountability systems of many states to criticize — and implementation challenges lie ahead for all of them — the school ratings at least represent more of an improvement on NCLB - era systems than a repudiation of them.

«However, we don't know much about accountability systems» effects on attitudes, work environments or outcomes.

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In a conversation with me, Paul Tough talks about how children (really) succeed and the implications of his work as California designs a new accountability system.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind, gives states considerable flexibility to craft their own accountability systems — in the process asking states to make crucial decisions about what it means to be a successful school, what rate of academic progress is acceptable, and...

«The lesson I've drawn out of the Snowden allegations is that governments need to be much clearer about the purpose for which they infringe on citizens» privacy; about the agencies that have the legal power to do so; about the authority about which it's done; and, critically, about transparency and accountability systems.»

It is a story about men with too much power and too little accountability, and how innocent people can get lost in the system if one of these men takes a dislike to them.

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.

Easton talks about the impact of the governor's proposed education budget, accountability in the education system, charter schools and much more.

The university's system of «safety management accountability and oversight» was inadequate, and no one took note of or learned from earlier incidents that provided «preventative lessons» about impending danger.

My toolkit is holistic and includes nutrition, exercise, a spiritual practice, journaling, a nonjudgmental and compassionate support system, and external accountability — such as being open and honest about my intentions.

San Francisco, CA About Blog Young Minds Advocacy uses strategic advocacy and communications to help youths and their families access mental health services and supports, and improve mental health system performance and accountability.

Mitchell Chester: What the accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those of us in the education profession in a position of having to confront the realities about the kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served by schools.

Yes, much of what was unearthed about state accountability systems could be out of date within a year's time.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

Complaints about pay and working conditions are the most common explanations among teachers, but many cite a lack of administrative support, flawed accountability systems, and the drudgery of paperwork and testing.

Their comparative advantage is to sustain and develop knowledge about how accountability systems can be made to serve the purposes of school improvement.

Thus, while Koretz has reason to be concerned about the perils of test - based accountability, evidence from DCPS suggests that it can work — when «it» is a nuanced system that uses more than tests alone to evaluate schools and teachers (more on this below).

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

For too long, states had no systems for accountability, and the result was too little transparency about student results, system improvement, and the return on our investment of tax dollars.

In particular, states appear to have taken a wait - and - see attitude about changing their accountability systems or their requirements for teacher licensure to bring them into line with the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

Although there are some federal parameters on what and how measures must be included in those systems, states have considerable latitude in how they go about creating accountability systems that work for them.

But the absence of a relationship between average school test scores and incumbents» electoral fortunes in the 2002 and 2004 school board elections raises important questions about the assumptions underlying accountability systems.

The tone of articles about the state's accountability system also shifted drastically during the 2002 and 2004 election cycles.

His work has influenced how we think about a range of education policies: test score volatility and the design of school accountability systems, teacher recruitment and retention, financial aid for college, race - conscious college admissions and the economic payoff of a community college education.

We eventually hit upon what turned out to be The Big Question — the one that ultimately brought about «Pacts Americana,» the report we're releasing today: Does the education world have some kind of time - tested system — something could be brought to bear on ESEA reauthorization — for combining real accountability with real autonomy?

In the new issue of Ed Next, Bill Tucker writes about the new data system being rolled out by Texas, «one that aims to move districts from collecting data solely for accountability to collecting it to improve schools.»

Second, ESSA includes specific rules about how states must weight various factors that go into their accountability systems.

Some are both familiar and basically applicable, such as «set clear goals,» have checkpoints along the way to gauge (and control) student progress, worry a lot about teacher quality (principals, too), finance schools equitably, strike the right balance between autonomy and accountability, strive for a coherent «system,» etc..

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

The starting point for a sensible accountability system, he says, is to think about «what we want to see when we walk into the classroom.

In that spirit I'll offer a taxonomy that has helped me to think systematically about the ways that standards and accountability systems differ.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

Interestingly, it was the education officials from states with more «mature» accountability systems who expressed the most detailed reservations about NCLB.

Despite their rhetoric expressing concern about the role that standardized tests play in our education system, politicians persist in valuing these tests almost exclusively when it comes to accountability — not only for schools, as has been the case since the inception of No Child Left Behind, but for teachers as well, with a national push to include the results of these tests in teacher evaluations.

However, California's policymakers, concerned as they were about the lack of performance information and accountability in the system, decided that the state couldn't wait that long.

There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind - era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.

Matthew Ladner wrote that Fordham's toolkit betrays the Institute's own insights about state accountability systems.

-LSB-...] written, I think the piece that might have had the greatest impact is an open letter I wrote on my personal blog about the design of accountability systems under the new federal education law.

Education policy makers at all levels of government will rely on this book to inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems.

Incentives and Test - Based Accountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountabAccountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountabilityaccountability systems.

The sections below address the most commonly asked questions about California's new accountability system.