Sentences with phrase «better hold schools accountable»

Urban school districts are increasingly considering this model as a way to reform their school systems, believing that it can ensure equity in school choice and better hold schools accountable for performance.

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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.

Mayoral control would eliminate board members» need to run on party lines, better holding the mayor accountable for the state of city schools, Lavine said.

«There is already a mechanism in place to hold charter schools accountable; Mike Mulgrew should know this better than anyone because his was closed.

Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

It might be important to consider how well a given school is performing with its level of resources, but it wouldn't make sense, for example, to hold a school principal accountable for something he or she can't control.

Although the authors are to be applauded for wanting to hold charter schools accountable to high performance standards, that does not save Dust - Up from being best assigned to the dustbin.

«Growth models» are being held out as a better way to hold schools accountable than the method the No Child Left Behind Act uses now.

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).

All schools will have considerable autonomy — including control over staffing, the authority to set their own budgets, and the freedom to offer extended school days or longer school years — but will be held accountable for results, and funds will follow students as they choose the schools that best meet their needs.

North Carolina is perhaps best known for having a strong system of holding schools accountable for results.

The coalition, we are told, «doesn't say schools and teachers shouldn't be held accountable for how well they do their jobs.

This forms the backdrop to the past half - century of what we now know as «standards - based reform,» which includes the crucial charter school concept of holding a school accountable for its results (measured, for better and worse, primarily by test scores).

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to hold them accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.

Initiatives to provide better incentives for improvement have included the creation of stronger performance cultures in schools, with teachers and school leaders being held personally accountable for improving students» performances.

Ray Pasi, in his book, Higher Expectations: Promoting Social Emotional Learning and Academic Achievement in Your School, tells how he has intra or extra-mural athletes in his schools create contracts, where they set and are held accountable to three goals in each of three areas: how will they make themselves better, how will they make their team better, and how will they make their school or community bSchool, tells how he has intra or extra-mural athletes in his schools create contracts, where they set and are held accountable to three goals in each of three areas: how will they make themselves better, how will they make their team better, and how will they make their school or community bschool or community better.

They view holding schools and teachers accountable for how well students are doing as a key part of improving education.

In the report, Jerald examines the rigor involved in a school inspection in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and to hold schools accountable for performance.

The poor, the disabled, English language learners, and the academically struggling should be given clear and unambiguous rights to enroll in all schools, and schools should be obligated to serve them and held accountable for serving them well.

The newsletter now has an expanded focus: the range of new California academic standards — from the Common Core standards in English language arts and math, to the Next Generation Science Standards and the history - social science standards — as well as how schools will be held accountable for measuring their progress on them.

In the New York Times, Kate Taylor writes about New York City's transfer schools and debates over the best way to hold the schools accountable for results.

And we even consider going back to the original charter concept — allowing schools to negotiate their own unique performance expectations with their authorizers, rather than being held accountable to the One Best System's standards.

Already, many parents intuitively understand that holding schools accountable for performance can not be reduced to a single number, in the same way that they appreciate that their own students may be doing well in one subject but not another.

They may well reflect an authentic increase in certain areas of knowledge and skills, underscoring the need for careful attention to the specific content of the exams used to hold schools and students accountable.

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.

And that kind of transparency and accountability I think is really the best approach to holding schools accountable broadly.

The DfE also claims that a baseline test can be a good predictor of children's future attainment — and that schools can therefore be held accountable for deviations from the prediction that baseline makes.

We can do a better job of holding the schools accountable for the academic performance of English learners.

«Charter schools are leading the way in ensuring that all public schools be held accountable for how well they educate kids,» said Young.

Jerald authored «On Her Majesty's School Inspection Service,» a report examining the rigor of school inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for perforSchool Inspection Service,» a report examining the rigor of school inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for perforschool inspections in England, a system that aims to give parents better information about schools and hold schools accountable for performance.

How can we expect to hold teachers accountable for teaching students to read when we don't know why some youngsters teach themselves before they ever start school and others never learn to read well until they are eight or so?

To hold schools accountable for establishing supportive and caring learning environments for all children and for ensuring students» physical and emotional well - being, there must be evidence that illuminates the most important aspects.

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.

It began with Sarah's memories of watching a sibling with extensive medical and learning challenges navigate her education, as well as her parents fighting for their child's basic educational rights and having to become empowered and educated on the law and holding schools accountable.

Instead, she argues, the best tack is to hold entire schools accountable for creating atmospheres that instill or support these qualities.

«Student assessment is essential to informing good teaching and can help communities hold local schools accountable for effectively serving all students, but children must not be hurt in the process,» said Dr. María Cuca Robledo Montecel, IDRA president and CEO.

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.

Proponents of the program believe that holding schools accountable to enforceable regulations and laws is the best way to achieve long - term reform (Dubnick & Justice, 2006).

«Charter schools grant us the latitude, autonomy, and flexibility to create systems that best serve students, and we strive to develop meaningful relationships with students, because it's an important component of also holding them accountable,» added Dr. Manansala.

I hold myself accountable to the truism that «if I am good enough, they will be smart enough» and I relish that in primary schools we have a real opportunity to fulfil this commitment; the mindsets and learning behaviours children can develop when they are with the same teacher all day, every day, will set them up for life.

If we don't try to find better answers than we have now and improve the ways we hold transfer schools accountable, we not only do a disservice to schools like BCHS that are branded failures when they are not, we also do a disservice to tens of thousands of students who need a school system that will stop failing them and start helping them.

It will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold teachers and schools accountable for educating students.

«Starting now, we are holding our schools and ourselves more accountable as well, using sophisticated measures.»

New York City public schools are not good enough and the Mayor must be held accountable.

«We welcome Justine Greening's commitment to working with the profession to develop an assessment system that works for children and teachers as well as for holding schools accountable for providing a good education for all children.

Critics have pounced on some of the language, which has been used by corporate reformers to support their agenda of emphasizing standardized tests as a way to hold educators, students and schools accountable, as well as expanding school choice through charters.

His claim was that parents, some of whom he represented in that case — and not administrators who oversee public schools — are the best at holding educational providers accountable, because it's the parents who intuitively know best whether or not their students are learning.

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

Lawmakers have instead promised to study how to best hold these private schools accountable and come back with a new bill next year.