Sentences with phrase «accountability for high»

However, as Deming and I point out in a recent essay, providing accountability for higher education institutions is easier said than done.

«The public charter school bargain (has) more flexibility to innovate in exchange for accountability for higher student achievement.

Getting it Right: Crafting Federal Accountability for Higher Student Performance and a Stronger America

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened its new term Monday with a high - stakes dispute between businesses and human rights groups over accountability for foreign atrocities.

«It means even high - level executives or employees are not exempt from accountability for such behavior,» she says.

The number of such states would be even higher, according to the Constitutional Accountability Center, if not for important rulings by three federal appeals courts.

In these strange times, we need the majority of business leaders to accept a higher level of accountability for reviving the economy, through commitment, innovation and a broader view of success that includes contributing to the island's social and economic advancement.

Then, hire based on talent, and pay for that talent to perform at a high level of accountability and integrity.

Instead of doing what he did, says Garrett, «Hire based on talent, and pay for that talent to perform at a high level of accountability and integrity.»

She is also responsible for the accountability of each startup in his division and leads the relationships between entrepreneur and Start - Up Chile with high quality standards and customer service.

«Social media has forced higher levels of transparency, responsibility and accountability for people on a personal and business basis.

Portfolio Manager for Smith Barney where he created a business model that demanded higher levels of accountability to investors.

This includes establishing a much higher level of accountability and consequence for our actions and the impact we have on customers.

I can not answer for Pence's heart and motivation behind his personal boundaries, but I do think we could benefit from more leaders — regardless of their ministry, industry or politics — who are willing to hold themselves to a higher standard of accountability and transparency.

In summary, there are four major reasons for the high amount of sexual violence and overall violence in TV produced in the U.S.: (1) monopoly control of program production and distribution by a handful of powerful companies (2) the drive for profits far in excess of those enjoyed by the vast majority of U.S. businesses (3) a lack of accountability on the part of sponsors and

It also tells me that there will always be some sort of higher power accountability for his actions.

If our account of alienation as a repeating process is reliable, then the American Catholic institutions of higher education are nearing the end of a process of formal detachment from accountability to their church, and instead of exerting themselves to oblige that church to be a more credible patron of higher learning, they are qualifying for acceptance by and on the terms of the secular academic culture, and are likely soon to hand over their institutions unencumbered by any compromising accountability to the church.

As the firm's business has grown, John Nagle Co. says its management has recognized the need for it to operate on an ever - higher standard of quality, tracking and accountability.

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You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

The National Alliance for Youth Sports (NAYS) has created the NAYS Coach Accountability and Enforcement Policies to help local NAYS Member Organizations achieve the highest standards for its NAYS Coaches.

The Superfood for Babies recommendations include: «To encourage companies to improve their policies, practices and accountability, FTSE4Good should, by 2015, extend its criteria for the inclusion of a BMS company on its index to include the company's activities in all countries, rather than just those countries listed as higher risk, and should bring its criteria into line with the International Code and resolutions.

And while affirming the Great Repeal Bill and a desire for the «widest possible consensus», we heard nothing to guarantee that the sweeping powers ministers want to do away with laws out of sight of MPs will be accompanied by the very highest standards of accountability.

We have to insist on higher standards and accountability for ALL officials.

The senior advocate said the Socio Economic Rights and Accountability Project had approached a Federal High Court to compel the Office of the Accountant - General of the Federation to account for the recovered funds but that despite getting the court order, the OAGF refused to provide the information.

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, was endorsed by more than 35 civil rights organizations to ensure high standards and accountability for the progress of all students, the official said.

«The Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that lacked transparency and accountability,» he said.

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 reality is the Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that has lacked transparency and accountability,» Murphy said.

«We as Democrats demand the highest levels of transparency and accountability in our government, yet within our party, we see PACs erode our very own Democratic values and for which we are unable to follow the money.»

«The bill is also counterproductive, especially at a time Nigerians are witnessing a sprawling gap in accountability for grand corruption, and high - ranking public officials accused of corruption are getting away with reduced punishment, and allowed to keep their ill - gotten wealth.»

«The Republicans have controlled the Senate for over 50 years and that has resulted in higher taxes, a crippled upstate economy, out - of - control mandates and a State Senate that has lacked transparency and accountability.

Under a Thompson Administration, we will have zero tolerance for violating the public trust and we will enforce that with the highest levels of accountability standards.»

«Women have a higher incremental risk of suffering an arrhythmia after taking these drugs than do men probably because (1) the interval between heart muscle contractions is naturally longer for women than for men and (2) male sex hormones moderate the heart muscle's sensitivity to these drugs,» the U.S. General Accounting Office (now the Government Accountability Office) concluded in 2001.

More and more of us are awakening today to a higher level of awareness and personal accountability for all of our actions.

Hundreds marched 6 miles through the heart of the nation's birthplace on Tuesday in the first high - profile street protest for more police accountability during the Democratic National Convention.

The report also addresses a second, widely used accountability policy: high - school exit exams that hold students responsible for meeting a set of content standards.

In 2013, Deming was named a William T. Grant Scholar for his project, The Long - Run Influence of School Accountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement collegAccountability: Impacts, Mechanisms and Policy Implications, which explores the impact of test - based school accountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement collegaccountability on post-secondary attainment and earnings, how high - stakes accountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement collegaccountability impacts outcomes, and how test - based accountability in high school can complement collegaccountability in high school can complement college preparation.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

Scores for the latest round of the Kentucky Education Reform Act's controversial assessment and accountability portion were released last week, and the results show gains in all content areas in elementary, middle, and high schools across the state.

The state earns its highest grade for policies related to standards and accountability.

After many years of bipartisan support, key elements of the reform agenda — higher standards, better teachers, test - based accountability, parental choice — are starved for oxygen in both the Republican and Democratic party platforms.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

To accommodate that, we need high expectations for all children, married with accountability and transparency in results so parents can make informed decisions.

The push for higher standards, rigor and accountability often means that our students» humanness gets pushed to the wayside in some classrooms.

These academies receive more freedom than traditional public schools in return for high levels of accountability.

Mindful of both the challenges the country faces and the new opportunity that state leaders have to set matters right, the analysis in High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA does two things.

Standing for reform apparently means supporting rigorous testing, a back - to - basics curriculum, higher standards, more homework, more science and math, more phonics, something called accountability, and a host of other often daunting initiatives.

It says that testing and accountability, by themselves, can not lift the United States to the level of accomplishment reached by the world's highest - achieving countries, an extraordinary standard for evaluating a policy innovation.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studeHigh Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all studehigh - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.