Sentences with phrase «better at accountability»

Until that's clear while TV will reach more people the press will generally employ more journalists, provide a different kind of news, be better at accountability journalism at national and local level and offer a greater plurality of views.

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One of the best ways to develop this type of culture is to start with accountability at the top of the food chain.

Paul Beirne, a principal at Bernstein Global Wealth Management who supports Clinton, said there had been some movement toward better accountability in CEO pay, but more work was needed.

Our Government will increase performance accountability in the Public Service to provide better service to Canadians, at a reduced cost, and to better recognize dedicated and effective employees.

«There should not be unequal voting rights as they could allow management or minority share owners to override the wishes or best interests of majority shareholders for personal benefit and compromise accountability, leading to potential entrenchment issues,» Mary Leung, head of advocacy for Asia at CFA Institute, an association of investment professionals, said in a statement.

The good news, for Enbridge and the federal government anyway, is that they don't really have to; accountability at this stage of the environmental process is primarily intended for the ballot box, not the court room.

On March 22, 2018, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) published a 132 - page report at the request of Congress entitled «Financial Technology: Additional Steps by Regulators Could Better Protect Consumers and Aid Regulatory Oversight.»

And finding ways of allocating power well and having accountability might be one of the things that parts of the church are not at all bad at.

Oldham praises the Brewing Co.'s team, which includes General Manager Nate Rey, who grew up in the area and gained experience at Mullen's Bar and Grill and P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc. «He's brought us up to a new level as far as teamwork, service and accountability, as well as helping us getting our brand out there,» she says.

The man is just good at deflecting accountability and any other reason than his fault and what's happening on the pitch.

Add to that that there is absolutely NO real accountability for a midwife in the form of peer review, loss of privileges, or malpractice insurance, and you have a very volatile situation where well - meaning parents - to - be are left with no recourse when a birth goes horribly wrong at the hands of an incompetent midwife.

According to her: «Digital technology can, at its best, ensure quality and standards of care are improved and maintained the ability to track, trigger actions and provide accountability empowers midwives and other health workers to lead the way with quality care, adapting to their own situational awareness.

In a statement signed by the Deputy Executive Director of ACEP, Benjamin Boakye, he said «In spite of many implementation challenges, the PRMA has been a model for many countries and Ghana can only do better at improving on transparency and accountability around the use of the oil revenues.

He is also currently a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster teaching innovations in democratic practice, as well as a research assistant at INLOGOV, University of Birmingham researching accountability in local governance.

Parliamentary scrutiny of the negotiations would aim to increase transparency and accountability, but would not aim to do so at the expense of securing the best possible agreements which could be secured.

The local accountability basis of the Framework is a good approach to take, however, smaller authorities will, because of cuts, be unable to maintain any road safety targets at all.

At a Democratic candidates forum hosted by the Village Independent Democrats (VID), a Democratic club, on Tuesday night, Scott Caplan, police misconduct and corruption officer for the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, asked Nixon to state in her own words whether she thinks de Blasio and the NYPD can do better in the areas of mass incarceration, marijuana, police accountability and police discipline.

Outlining three key pillars in a democracy, the Nobel peace prize laureate said there is the need to include all persons in the governance process as well as ensure transparency and accountability of leaders at all times.

These include: • Establishing that all HASA vendors are reviewed at least every two years; • Adding more resources to ensure the completion of all unfinished audits; • Moving HASA's contract monitoring to the HRA's Office of Program Accountability to provide better quality control; • Developing a new HASA client bill of rights with a clear method for making complaints.

«If we want to talk about accountability, there's no better way to do that than to get out in a public forum and ask questions between people,» Katko said this morning at the Manlius Chamber of Commerce's annual candidates breakfast.

«It was clear that they needed to be looking a lot harder at accountability and what was really working and whether they were really being guided by the best understanding of STEM education,» he told the committee about the findings from the 2008 report.

And yet I came to the Gates Foundation because I am so thrilled at something fundamental that Bill and Melinda have brought to thinking about making the world better, and that is accountability, metrics, a lens of return on investment.

The authors argue not only for more resources, but for an integrated national health care system, built around a strong public primary care system with a clearly defined supportive role for the private and indigenous sectors, that (i) addresses acute as well as chronic health care needs; (ii) offers choice of care that is rational, accessible, and of good quality, (iii) is cashless at the point of service delivery, and (iv) is governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure accountability.

A 1987 General Accountability Office review put the total number of cases in which waste had migrated from Class 1 hazardous waste wells into underground aquifers at 10 — including the Texas and Pennsylvania sites.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently estimated the cost of the robotic portion of the ARM mission (not including launch) at $ 1.72 billion, money that Smith said would be better spent on habitats and propulsion technologies.

This is pivotal and something very important to your long term gains and success... Accountability is key and without this group, your results would be suboptimal at best... A lot of the guys become friends and end up scheduling hangouts throughout the country and the rest of the world.

At their best, walkthroughs are viewed as a part of an ongoing formative assessment process that finds teachers and administrators engaged in a system of reciprocal accountability.

Beyond basic health and safety regulations, top - down accountability measures are generally unnecessary at best and harmful at worst.

There may be 100 ways of accomplishing the transformation away from monopoly, but the best path will involve policy and finance reform at the state level; municipal rather than district oversight; and a combination of entrepreneurial energy with appropriate public accountability.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

Hanushek writes that the NRC's average estimated impact of test - based accountability at 0.08 of standard deviations of student achievement «may well be too low.»

18, no. 2), Dan Goldhaber takes aim at my new book, The Testing Charade: Pretending to Make Schools Better, in which I argue that test - based accountability has failed on balance and that it is time to explore alternatives.

Julian said: «Having worked at the centre of government, I know that the architects of England's school accountability system are motivated by the best of intentions: to expose serious under - performance and raise standards.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

«We used to think that what's good for all students is good for English learners, but now we think what's good for English learners is good for all students,» says Robert Linquanti, who directs English learner evaluation and accountability support at WestEd.

On February 6, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan visited the Ed School for the Askwith Forum, «Fighting the Wrong Education Battles,» at which he discussed either - or orthodoxies about school reform, including competing claims about the importance of in - school and out - of - school influences on student achievement, and the struggle to advance both a well - rounded curriculum and school accountability.

From the standpoint of public accountability, mayors were the smart point of contact, those most naturally inclined to see the value of autonomy, flexibility, and choice; most likely to embrace an outcomes - based approach to governance; and most effective at articulating the value of education to overall community well - being.

Indeed, at a time when parents are being admonished to develop their children's emotional and social intelligences as much as their academic ones, it may well undermine parents» confidence in a results - based accountability system if all that system does is measure academic outcomes.

This simple form adds another level of accountability as well as incentive for students to stick to their at home reading promise to you.

The good news is that, in large part because of NCLB and the accountability measures that federal law has encouraged at all levels of school reform — not to mention the dogged efforts of Diane Ravitch and Sol Stern to keep Bloomberg and Klein on their toes — these arguments are smarter and more refined — and, yes, despite public relations — more transparent.

But just as access to online coursework has grown, so have the number of skeptics and calls for better accountability (or any at all).

Many factors were at work in the Common Core's swift adoption by so many states, but significant among them is the increasingly shared verdict that NCLB, for all its good intentions, demanded accountability without offering any educational vision.

Delisle pointed out that educators often lose sight of creating well - rounded students because they are busy fighting over accountability and who is at fault in the classroom.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

We at Fordham have argued for many years that transparency for results is a better trade - off for federal funding than prescriptive accountability rules.

Hickok: While well have some Department folks in the process for sure, were going for folks who are either researchers in accountability or actively engaged at the local level in instilling accountability.

Those who follow federal education policy or work on education at the state level are well aware of a few big changes wrought by the Trump team (with some help from Congress) in its first hundred days, including wiping out the late Obama ESSA accountability regs and easing off on bathroom access rules.

Effective schools have clear leadership roles, accountability and systems for ensuring that all teaching is at least good, has impact and is focused on learners» needs.

For Winn, a better alternative would be to base accountability not on a student's academic «status» at any one point in time, but instead on documented «growth» in achievement.

The logic of test - based accountability was that if we held people accountable for just a few of the things we value in education, primarily test scores in a few subjects, the other important things would get better, or at least not get worse.