In the final scoring,
academic quality counts for more than price.
Not exact matches
This led him to speculate that if
academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation
counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching
quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»
It's exactly what one would want from a publication named
Quality Counts: a nice, clear focus on
academic results, namely student achievement, measured on the best yardstick available.
We know, for example, that teacher
quality counts more than almost any other external factor, including class size or neighborhood attributes, in determining
academic success.
However, until the reviewers bring a broader and
academic perspective to their observations, we can not
count on accreditation to upgrade the
quality of our teacher preparation programs.
The Scholars» Paradise model would use «scale scores» or a «performance index» for the «
academic achievement» indicator; measure growth using a two - step value - added metric; pick robust «indicators of student success or school
quality,» such as chronic absenteeism; and make value added
count the most in a school's final score.
The list of qualifications included has also been restricted to those which the government says are of the highest,
academic quality and the number of non-GCSEs
counting has been capped at two.
According to Education Week's recent
Quality Counts 2001 study, 49 states have
academic standards in at least some subjects.
The
Quality Counts report from the non-profit Editorial Projects in Education, the Maryland publisher of Education Week, studies the
academic, social and financial forces that are shaping school districts.
The 2016 edition of Education Week's
Quality Counts report — Called to Account: New Directions in School Accountability - released January 2016 - examined the role the most recent state and federal strategies have in helping schools meet
academic standards as well as role these strategies have in implementing accountability measures: