Sentences with phrase «accountability efforts on»

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Governments have made efforts to improve accountability by requiring lobbyists to register their activity and making campaign contributions public, predicated on the idea that transparency will reduce the risk of undue influence.

There will also be a parallel call for benefits, professional development, and compensation that smooths out the rough patches in this on - demand labor life, but such efforts will lag behind the exploitation of said labor because big business has more resources and big tech moves too fast for human - scale responses of accountability and responsibility.

Whether or not Trump can be held criminally liable for obstruction, Mueller may end up documenting a pattern of very serious misconduct, which could shed new light on just how far Trump went to shield himself and his cronies from accountability, something that could have serious implications for our politics and for our efforts to restore the integrity of the rule of law amid Trump's nonstop degradation of it.

«The sooner this case is resolved, the sooner she can focus her efforts on seeking accountability for Mr. Weinstein,» she said.

Tightened Sanctions on Iran: In effort to deter Iran's nuclear program, signed Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act (2010) to punish firms and individuals who aid Iran's petroleum sector.

Flanagan indicated he wanted a broad - based review of economic development spending, including some areas that are potentially sensitive to Cuomo, such as the money his administration spends on advertising job - creating efforts and a review of the «lack of accountability for major deals and projects that fail miserably when it comes to creating jobs.»

It is on record that in these efforts to ensure transparency and accountability, the current DG is the only chief executive in history of the agency that implemented almost 100 per cent of the Auditor - General of the Federation's audit recommendations regarding financial and other irregularities in the agency.

The Electoral Commission (EC), has said that as part of efforts to deepen transparency and accountability, it will brief the media on hourly basis on election day, December 7.

Two factors underlie the problem in Nigeria, Sidibé says: little effort to focus resources on the regions of the country that have the biggest problems, and no strong «culture of accountability» to ensure funds are well spent.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

There is evidence that accountability systems with concrete goals change the behavior of school systems, at a minimum by refocusing efforts on disadvantaged students.

With accountability standards creating more public scrutiny than ever before, educational leaders must focus their efforts on instruction

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

For that to happen, small schools must mature into a stronger movement by formulating serious proposals for assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseers.

And it's why many of us have supported «top down» accountability efforts over the past twenty years — to put pressure on school systems to put the needs of kids first and to make the tough decisions they might otherwise avoid.

Accountability provisions such as these are likely to be muted under the new NCLB waivers, which stipulate that states must focus their improvement efforts on the lowest - performing 15 % of schools, but de-emphasize performance of student sub-groups in every school.

Efforts to rationalize schools through NCLB style accountability just double down on the existing structure, and are largely impotent to create the kind of significant improvement we say we seek.

Broader deregulation efforts to form charter schools and create accountability systems have been slowed by such barriers as state lawmakers» reliance on mandates, equity questions, and the lack of credible...

Riley: Possibly the most dramatic impact on inclusion efforts across the nation is the inclusion of students with disabilities in the assessment and accountability provisions of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

On a policy level, Vallas's efforts to bring strong accountability to Chicago schools were his signature approach.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

Michael Kirst's essay on the ups and downs of California's accountability efforts should give pause to any who take for granted that the new federal law will be implemented.

Third, the efforts of the school board and superintendent have been focused on the accountability function: supporting schools that perform well, assisting schools that are earnestly struggling to improve, and creating alternatives to failed schools and ineffective central - office initiatives.

If an accountability system places greatest weight on growth, it creates an incentive to maximize the rate and amount of learning for all students and supports an ethos of effort and improvement.»

In my piece from January, I cited several studies on accountability which all came to similar conclusions: School rating systems can help focus schools» attention on the students who need the most help, and those efforts lead to improved short - and long - term outcomes.

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

I'm not saying that we should give up on all efforts at top - down accountability.

As the Programme continues to expand, the Department must build on its efforts to reduce costs and tackle accountability concerns if it is to reduce the risks to value for money.»

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.

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.

Important evidence for the effect of student accountability on effort and achievement comes from the literature on curriculum - based external assessments.

Bringing «choice» and «accountability» to the education system sounded good on paper, but in reality, that effort has failed.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

In recent years there have been increasing efforts to use accountability systems based on large - scale tests of students as a mechanism for improving student achievement.

EW: How does the current emphasis on standards and accountability affect efforts of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented to encourage whole school reform?

And Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute report that «NCLB and state - level efforts to impose standards and accountability on the schools are plainly boosting the kids who need it most — surely a good thing.»

Rather than provide states and districts with more control over their accountability and improvement systems, as Congress intends, the side effects of the CRA can actually impinge on these efforts.

Brandon Wright and others have already weighed in on some of the implications of this move, and how it could hamper efforts to implement the new law and states» ability to meaningfully use ESSA to innovate and adopt novel approaches to school accountability and improvement.

«These efforts, as well as many others, were focused on teachers and classrooms, rather than measures of accountability.»

(Va.) Despite recent efforts of the Obama administration to provide states more flexibility in developing new accountability systems, school districts across the nation continue to rely on performance measures tied to conventional testing systems, according to a new report.

Thus, as the federal government continues to review and approve states» plans and states begin to implement their new accountability frameworks and school improvement strategies, they must work together to remember the teachers standing in front of our nation's classrooms — for they are critical to all of these other efforts and, ultimately, will have the most impact on their students» learning.

Beyond the class - size mandate, we continue to call on education leaders to implement real accountability and transparency in all the new school choice efforts.

In this piece, she shares an update on the Association's academic accountability efforts.

A + Colorado is encouraged by the legislative efforts to update the accountability clock A + believes that a deeper challenge than the accountability policy structure is a lack of political will to intervene in even the most dramatic circumstances A + Colorado calls on the Colorado legislature, our Governor and the state board of education to enact...

Although SB 70, the education budget bill, could be subject to change depending on the outcome of the many issues swirling about the June election, it is a clear signal from the Legislature that they do not want a repeat of this year's almost chaotic efforts to comply with the accountability update.

With this month's newsletter theme of teacher evaluation, I want to focus my message on the larger national education conversation that has spawned, among other things, the effort to overhaul teacher evaluation and accountability systems.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy changes.