Sentences with phrase «against accountability systems»

In a series of important posts, Jay Greene made a strong case against accountability systems that lean too heavily on test scores.

Not exact matches

Lauren Michaels, legislative affairs manager for the California Police Chiefs Association, which donated $ 20,000 to the campaign against Prop 64, noted that her organization supports medical marijuana in the state but opposes the proposed recreational system because «there's much less oversight and accountability for complying with state regulations.»

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

It would require state accountability systems to designate schools and districts based on their performance against these targets (so there would be a bit more flexibility than NCLB or waivers).

Hence, our policy recommendation is that results from a fully - controlled proportional growth model be reported alongside performance against proficiency targets so that no useful information is lost in the accountability system.

Parents supported reasonable measurement and accountability but were pushing back against a system that they believed compromised educational quality and failed to accurately evaluate teachers.

That is the static view of the marketplace that induced Diane Ravitch, in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, to turn against accountability, charter schools, and school choice.

She believes that when parents choose her school, or any private school, they're choosing against the public school accountability system.

My own research has suggested the potential importance of reference bias due to differences in school climate, leading me to caution in this series against proposals to incorporate survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills into high - stakes accountability systems.

While many in state capitols and Washington, D.C. are placing bets against state and national accountability systems that range from No Child Left Behind to Common Core State Standards, the public remains faithful to its long - standing commitment to hold schools, students and teachers accountable.

The legal action taken by these seven Florida educators will undoubtedly add to the growing momentum against misguided accountability systems that rob students of actual learning and tangle up teachers» performance evaluations with unreliable test scores.

Probably the strongest argument against using growth models as the centerpiece of accountability systems is that they don't expect «enough» growth, especially for poor kids and kids of color.

With a clear focus on homework from OFSTED: «Teachers use well - judged teaching strategies, including setting appropriate homework that, together with clearly directed and timely support and intervention, match pupils» needs accurately» we have to guard against schools driving homework to «death» whereby teachers feel they have to set homework for the sake of it to satisfy accountability measures and / or internal monitoring systems.

No one argues against the notion of a rigorous, fair accountability system.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

We will push back against proposals that would undermine a public school system that serves nearly nine of every 10 students in America, or any plan that lacks accountability for the expenditure of tax dollars.

Testing: Continued justification of the Florida Standards Assessment, high stakes and push - back against altering the flawed Florida A-F accountability system.

Unlike some other states that didn't take a break from their accountability system and touted the Common Core as «this is what Arne Duncan wants,» the California leadership consistently put up a fight against the feds on waivers and a number of other issues... I actually accused them in another EdSource opinion piece of treating us like «Southern sheriffs.»

This purpose can be accomplished by ensuring that high - quality academic assessments, accountability systems, teacher preparation and training, curriculum, and instructional materials are aligned with state academic standards so that students, teachers, parents, and administrators can measure progress against common expectations for student academic achievement.

By 2001, however, while running against former West High School principal Libby Burmaster, who would go on to beat him, Evers had publicly opposed the expansion of vouchers beyond Milwaukee and said the system's level of financial and academic accountability must increase.

You asked what accountability system produces a bell curve in which teachers are measured against each other.

Mr. Davison, who played a lead role in developing the system, added, «If we have accountability systems that go against those principles, then we're shooting ourselves in the foot.»

Teachers widely regarded as highly competent by their colleagues retired early in protest against the new accountability system.

His amendments, for example, would require state accountability systems to set performance, growth, and graduation targets for all students, including all subgroups of students, and make performance against those targets matter for all schools.

We believe our parents understand the value of assessment but stand firmly against the continued distortion of curriculum driven by this flawed accountability system.

«We are also troubled by the lack of accountability for policing and justice system responses to violence against Indigenous women and girls,» says Kendra Milne, Director of Law Reform.

In the same book, Farrow makes a number of arguments against what he refers to as the privatization of civil justice, such as the impoverishment of common law when cases are removed from the public system (this dovetails with Simpson's work), the use of a private (thus, confidential) system to circumvent public policies, public accountability, and basic notions of procedural fairness, and the shielding from the public of transactions that would not withstand public scrutiny.

emphasises the accountability of governments for socio - economic outcomes among different sectors of civil society by treating these outcomes as a matter of legal obligation, to be assessed against the norms established through the human rights system;