Sentences with phrase «by less accountability»

Torture is done in secret and the agency empowered to torture will find itself bound by less accountability.

Not exact matches

[2] Quotes out of context, which is a ploy used by the less able [3] Shows a marked desire to escape moral accountability and [4] Relegates man to animal status

There are things that warrant disengagement, accountability and justice, but just because you've had your personal feelings hurt by less egregious (unintentional) acts, doesn't mean you should be cynical.

Among them: determining what constitutes acceptable state tests; establishing criteria by which to approve a state's school accountability plan; defining «qualified» teachers; and deciding how broadly to interpret a clause that lets schools avoid sanctions if their students make lesser gains than those required under the bill's «adequate yearly progress» provision.

«The bill being considered by the City Council would undermine the accountability that has been essential to the department's success and make our city less safe.»

Reforms lead to less accountability, more centralisation and vulnerability to capture by vested interests — as we've seen with idiotic Free Schools (seen to be failing in Finland).

In fact, with a new Department of Education seemingly more inclined to abide by what ESSA actually says and less inclined to make things up as it goes along (see: Obama ED's adventures with «supplement not supplant»), states have big opportunities when it comes to testing, accountability, school improvement, and more — and the responsibility to take advantage of them.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

Contents include: an «Introduction» by Milli Pierce; «The Limits of Change» by Richard F. Elmore; «The Six Principles of Effective Accountability» by Douglas B. Reeves; «The Challenge of a Changing Nation» by Marcelo M. Suárez - Orozco, with responses from Harold L. Hodgkinson and Robert J. Murphy; «Does More Choice Mean Less Equity?»

[xii] With the pressure of federal accountability removed by the passage of ESSA, states may feel even less need to adequately fund public education.

Success is declared when an overly rigid federal accountability statute is replaced by a less forceful accountability law.

Still, Harmony is upheld by charter opponents as an example of how charters can choose not to operate in the public interest with less formal accountability than traditional public schools.

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.

The AFT website moves into Bizarro territory when it concludes its mini anti-choice rant by informing us that public money used to subsidize private school tuition means «less accountability for taxpayers» dollars, a false hope for a handful of kids, and fewer resources for school reforms that actually work.»

In the present context of schools» heightened accountability for instruction and student outcomes, non-school sanctioned activities result in less instructional time, conflict with important instructional activities, and may diminish the school's ability to increase student achievement as required by federal and state mandates.

«They need to understand that anything less than an A for Christel House compromises all of our accountability work,» Bennett wrote in a Sept. 12 email obtained by The Associated Press.

By 2006, the Washington Times reported, «The D.C. public school system's $ 170,000 per - year chief accountability officer is scheduled to interview for a job with another school district today, less than 18 months after filling the newly created D.C. position.»

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

But his less - than - honest autobiography has been accepted unquestioningly by allies like Arne Duncan who use it, as he does, to support needless test obsession for millions of schoolchildren, on the theory that more accountability for teachers will cure our social ills.

The resolution called for Duncan to abandon his «failed education agenda» in favor of one endorsed by unions — basically more money, fewer tests and less accountability for teachers.

«Under this system, districts can escape notice or attention simply by shining in categories that are less than academic and whose outcomes they control,» said Chad Aldeman, an education policy expert whose Boston - based nonprofit group flagged this problem in a recent report on California's school accountability system.

But many families aren't taking advantage of these plans — less than 3 % of households save through either a 529 plan or a Coverdell ESA, according to a 2012 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).

(3) Stronger centralized management in firms will include (a) increased accountability and less autonomy for partners; (b) greater emphasis on every partner being a «working partner»; (c) more merit - based compensation decisions; and (d) diminishing feelings about «entitlements» to partners by virtue of seniority.

Every Partner a Working Partner: Mid-size law firms will have stronger centralized management, including (a) increased accountability and less autonomy for partners» concerning their actions / inactions; (b) greater emphasis on every partner to be a «working partner;» (c) more merit - based compensation decisions; and (d) diminishing feelings among partners about those «entitlements» to older partners by virtue of seniority.