Sentences with phrase «accountability grades needed»

Schools received target scores based on their accountability grades, and schools with lower accountability grades needed to make larger improvements to reach their targets.

Not exact matches

It notes that states must include all schools in accountability systems and may need to use alternate methodologies to include some schools based on their specific contexts, if they remain uncovered after they have combined data across grades and years.

Certainly there is a need for accountability systems to provide comprehensive - yet - simplified data, and A-to-F grading, in particular, attempts to make that a reality.

In this age of federal mandates for high - stakes assessment and accountability, educators need easily accessed data that will help them predict if all students are on - track to meet grade level expectations.

As Dropout Nation has noted ad nauseam, few of the accountability systems allowed to replace No Child's Adequate Yearly Progress provision are worthy of the name; far too many of them, including the A-to-F grading systems put into place by such states as New Mexico (as well as subterfuges that group all poor and minority students into one super-subgroup) do little to provide data families, policymakers, teachers, and school leaders need to help all students get high - quality education.

In order for the Michigan Department of Education to replace its current top - to - bottom accountability system with the A-F grading system, it would've needed the state legislature to act by June 30, 2017.

One measure to which I would give priority is for children throughout Africa, from the first grade of primary school through the last year of secondary school, to be taught the values of justice, fairness, and accountability as part of the normal curriculum, so they might grow into the leaders and citizens that Africa needs.