Sentences with phrase «accountability like teacher evaluation»

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One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

«School reform» has taken on a very particular meaning in the past decade: reformers are those who support things like charter schooling, accountability, test - based teacher evaluation, and the Common Core.

• Race to the Top's enthusiasm for rigorous teacher evaluations led states to adopt «growth measures» in non-tested subjects (like P.E.) that don't pass the laugh test and are helping to fuel the backlash to testing and accountability writ large.

The only truly strong defense of legislative decisions is having a focus on outcomes — developing a strong accountability system, introducing incentives for higher performance, developing reliable teacher evaluation systems, and the like.

Chris Cerf argued for the critical role of big system changes around things like accountability, standards, and teacher evaluation.

Formerly significant issues like school accountability and teacher evaluations have been watered down or ignored.

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

In doing so, it hands more control to states over things like accountability, testing, standards and teacher evaluations.

Another word for this sort of responsibility is «accountability,» a much - maligned word in the education arena, often clustered with other imprecations like «No Child Left Behind,» «Race to the Top,» «standardized tests,» and «value - added teacher evaluations.»