Design
accountability mechanisms for schools and teachers that is supportive and avoid punitive mechanisms, especially those based on narrow performance measures.
These
new accountability mechanisms will be vital to ensuring that disruptions are held to the most student - centered metrics and truly grow with quality.
She said agencies would have to demonstrate more collaboration, transparency and
accountability mechanisms if they wanted «full funding from British taxpayers».
It could also
develop accountability mechanisms, including performance contracts, that are sensitive to the independence of private schools as well as the need for public accountability.
«The consensus view of our members is that [the Internet] wasn't broke and didn't need to be fixed — but they also recognize that the toothpaste is out of the tube, and that the responsible thing to do is to push for
strong accountability mechanisms to replace the U.S. role,» Corwin told the E-Commerce Times.
While fully aware of the specific weakness of
ESCRs accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally, this paper will show how international law establishes a number of limits — a sort of red line for ESCRs — that states should not overstep.
I came out very publicly against former Secretary Arne Duncan's Race To the Top initiative, not because I disagreed with everything in it but because it made no sense to me to implement the Common Core (which I favored) while still beholden to the NCLB
accountability mechanisms based on the old state tests.
Using meaningful international comparisons to help support increased student achievement, grow a professional and high - quality educator workforce, and use
appropriate accountability mechanisms should be reasons for participating in and evaluating the results of comparative international assessments.
It allows them to develop a critical approach to the relationship between
other accountability mechanisms in conflict / post-conflict settings, such as truth commissions, hybrid tribunals and amnesties.
Ultimately, it should lead to consolidated agreements between the states and Commonwealth for Indigenous affairs, be built into funding agreements for housing, health, education and other services, with compliance and
accountability mechanisms affecting the distribution of Special and General Purpose Payments by the Commonwealth.
The NSFY team in Tennessee is working to put students on track to fill high - wage, high - demand positions with an overhaul of the state's career pathways system that includes
better accountability mechanisms as well as a range of supports — including scholarships and grants — for students and school districts.
These changes are being driven by the use of
school accountability mechanisms that mean that our schools get measured and judged by the performance of their pupils in certain specific ways - ways that amplify the priorities of government.
IRM reports are conducted by independent national researchers * and are seen by OGP insiders as the
key accountability mechanism for planning and implementing national action plans.
made the appeal on the sidelines of a district town hall meeting organized by MAP International, a Christian Non Governmental Organization implementing the Ghana Strengthening and
Accountability Mechanisms Project (GSAM) in the Brong Ahafo Region.
There seems to be no consensus about whether the across - the - board increases in U.S. graduation rates reported by the federal government last week are the result of No Child Left Behind -
era accountability mechanisms or the data - based decisionmaking stressed under the Obama administration, more early - warning systems to identify potential dropouts, or fewer high school exit exams.
They examine the startlingly broad range of education policy changes enacted in Florida during Bush's first term, including moves toward privatization with a voucher system, more government control of public education institutions with
centralized accountability mechanisms, and a «superboard» for all public education.
Proponents contend that charters offer alternatives to traditional public schools that better match children's needs and inject healthy competition in the system while adhering to some of the
same accountability mechanisms.
By contrast, Denmark and Finland, with their focus on formative assessment and school self - evaluation, rely less on
external accountability mechanisms and more on building capacity for and confidence in professional accountability.
Teachers» organizations and others who favor advancing the teaching profession have promoted
professional accountability mechanisms, such as the accreditation of teacher preparation institutions and upgraded requirements for licensure.
The structure for a responsive and
responsible accountability mechanism was recommended in 1991 by the Special Study Panel on Education Indicators and presented to the Acting Commissioner of Education Statistics, Emerson J. Elliott, then Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander, and Assistant Secretary of the Office of Educational Research and Improvement Diane Ravitch.
However, in the absence of binding commitments, progress can still be made within the UNFCCC, itself a legally binding agreement, with regard to the specificity and ambition of the pledges made under the UNFCCC and the transparency and
accountability mechanisms around those pledges.
In recent years, he has traveled to South Africa, The Hague, Bosnia - Herzegovina, Serbia and Rwanda to research how post-conflict societies
forge accountability mechanisms for war crimes and other human rights abuses.
The thinking about the procedure for the new
accountability mechanism appears to be based on precedents like the Special Court for Lebanon or the Lockerbie tribunal.
She also warned that implementation of the new National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Plan was at risk without a ten - year funding commitment and
clear accountability mechanisms.
All states must develop a system of early childhood care and education with appropriate regulatory, governance, finance, &
accountability mechanisms so that: