Sentences with phrase «accountability means today»

Anne Wicks, the Bush Institute's education reform director, and William McKenzie, the Bush Institute's editorial director, describe as well on The 74 what school accountability means today — and how it can be improved.

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Today's «years of growth» measures are often tricky though — both to equate to a state's accountability system as well as to understand what they really mean.

Accountability means accepting responsibility for one's actions, yet it has become the «dirty word of today's education reform.»

Third, today's focus on results - based education, combined with plenty more data on school performance in an era of educational accountability, means that reform - minded education leaders are getting bolder about closing bad schools — and sometimes (but not always) opening new ones in the same building.

Today's Tribune editorial proposed that a renewed No Child Left Behind law be based on Education Secretary Arne Duncan's «waiver» program, by which they mean more testing and «accountability.»

But as Charles Barone of Democrats for Education Reform notes today, the letter doesn't actually mean much of anything, largely because Duncan isn't requesting those states — including the most - egregious offenders, Louisiana, South Dakota, and Indiana (the last of which should know better)-- to revise how they calculate graduation rates for accountability purposes, or to make graduation rates a more - important factor in their accountability indexes.