Sentences with phrase «at holding schools accountable»

Parents are adept at holding schools accountable when they are empowered with choices and armed with information about their options.

The new study also calls into question the department's success at holding schools accountable for more than $ 1 billion distributed since the mid-1980s through its Magnet Schools Assistance Program.

Not exact matches

A lot of school misbehavior can be dealt with by just letting the school give consequences, but if violence or destruction is involved, parents have to also hold the child accountable at home.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), BuffalAt 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalat Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

Many people believe education is best run at the local level because school boards and school officials better serve the public when they are able to be held accountable by the local community they serve; when the decision - makers have local roots, many believe they do a better job than a monolithic federal bureaucracy hundreds or thousands of miles away.

The new school governance law passed by the state Legislature this summer gives parents and UFT members new tools to hold the DOE accountable and to have input into policy at the central and school levels.

They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't hold the charter chain accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter schools.

At the beginning of a school semester in yoga class, I like to give my teen students lots of important responsibilities; including taking roll call, setting up the room for yoga and holding each other accountable for appropriate behavior.

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

(For high achieving students who are already approaching this standard, schools would be held accountable for making sure they grow at least a year's worth of learning every year.)

Jennifer O'Day: A lot of my work is with low - performing schools, specifically, looking at federal and state policies and programs that assist and hold accountable low - performing schools.

«Efforts to treat principals like professional managers and to hold them more strictly accountable for the success or failure of the school and students at the school is commendable,» adds Jack Burns.

If n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if n is too big, too few schools and students are held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than n do not participate in the accountability system.

Again, it makes sense to empower schools at the same time that we hold them accountable for student performance.

At the same time, they argue that it would be unfair to hold teachers, schools and students accountable for their performance during this interim period.

Rather than hold schools to account for student performance at one point in time, we can now hold them accountable for all students» progress from one year to the next.

As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

But with states in the accountability driver's seat, I could persuade myself that the time has come for at least some foresighted states to set subject matter targets and hold schools accountable for meeting them.

For those schools blessed with high - performing students (as a result of learning either at home or in earlier grades), the proficiency standard to which they are held accountable is often much too low.

At the same time, hold districts accountable from the state and federal levels, by making their (bad) results transparent and forcing them to adopt meaningful (and unpleasant) reforms in their failing schools.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

Voters and parents are expected to make use of these data in choosing school districts or schools, and to hold administrators and school board members accountable for the schools» performance at each election.

Now, wherever you stand on the state of testing in education, the reality of your classroom at present is that this data is being collected and it is being used to hold the schools accountable for their work.

At a hearing on the issue last week, Lamar Alexander, chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), was clearly sympathetic to arguments by several witnesses that Congress should keep the testing mandate but dump the rules that prescribe how states must hold schools accountable for test results.

Crystal Hoel, a former middle school language arts teacher at a school in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said, I think public schools can implement the same strategies, but only if the principal and / or curriculum director truly believe that all kids can achieve and teachers are held accountable.

Although the changes were intended to hold school officials accountable for the educational experiences of disadvantaged children, Congress left intact a short clause in the main K - 12 education law that, in practice, has failed to ensure that money from the federal Title I program only supplements state and local money, researchers and advocates said at a conference here last week.

Spurred by concerns about international competition, economic troubles, and a perceived stagnation or regression in student performance outlined by the now famous 1983 report, A Nation at Risk, the standards debate gained new life as politicians looked for ways to clarify goals, measure progress, and hold schools accountable.

the school has failed to demonstrate, over the three consecutive year period for which accountability determinations have been made pursuant to this subdivision, at least a 25 point gain in its performance index for the «all students» group in each English language arts and mathematics measure for which the school is held accountable; and / or

«Colorado, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Texas proposed models that will support educational innovation while continuing to hold schools accountable for the goal of every student performing at or above grade level by 2014.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

That was used to undo the Obama administration's rule for holding schools accountable for student performance under the Every Student Succeeds Act and an Obama - era regulation aimed at strengthening teacher preparation programs.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

Launched in 1984 by the former superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, Richard Green, the test was part of a strategy to reduce the incidence of «social promotion» and to hold schools accountable for results by testing students» «minimum competencies» at various grade levels.

The EEP has called for an effective teacher for every child (paying teachers as professionals, giving them the tools and training to do their work effectively, and making tough decisions about ineffective teachers); empowering parents by allowing them to choose the best schools for their children; holding grown - ups at all levels accountable for the education of our children; and, very important, having enough strength in our convictions to stand up to anyone who seeks to preserve a failed system.

Video: As policymakers call on schools to help combat childhood obesity, Education Next takes a close look at an innovative P.E. class that holds students accountable for how long and how hard they work out.

At a minimum it looks like states will gain more flexibility in terms of how they hold schools accountable.

Yet, if we really want to hold our schools accountable, we need to also look at school holding power.

I commented at the forum that this broad - based alliance is essential, sinces separately we are accused of «fronting for the teachers» union» (parents), «not wanting to be held accountable» (teachers), «goofing off in school» (students) or «being out of touch in their ivory towers» (researchers)!

If the recent reaction from some schools of education to proposed federal regulations aimed at improving the quality and impact of teacher preparation programs is any indication, we can expect the traditional cacophony of complaints, such as «We can not hold preparation programs accountable for factors outside our control.»

'' [A] nother governor lamented that his state's plan «stymies any attempt to hold schools accountable for student performance and includes provisions aimed at preserving the status quo in failing schools.»»

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Tooley and Bornfreund argue educators should be paying more attention to how schools are building these skills at all ages, and even holding them accountable for it.

Both seem to occur at all costs simply to stay afloat during «rough» times, but both also likely have deleterious effects on students in such schools, as well as teachers being held accountable for the students «they» teach.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) creates a long - term stable federal policy that gives states additional flexibility and encourages states and schools to innovate, while at the same time holding us accountable for results.

«Unfortunately, an independent peer review of state education accountability plans (published at Check State Plans) reveals that Texas» plan is weak in holding schools accountable for the success of all English learners.»

I want to be held accountable by others to implement restorative practices at my school but I have to have support to do that.

The consequences go beyond the likely result in dropout factories and mediocre - performing high schools to not be held accountable at all.

Lenders should know how state laws and authorizer practices hold charter schools accountable; look at every pertinent public record including intervention and probation notices; and ask their own tough questions about trends in academic performance and evidence of fiscal stewardship.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.