Sentences with phrase «chapter on accountability»
Their chapter on accountability truly «breaks set» and the book is a must - read for the bold, courageous educators we all wish to be!
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Tucked into the middle of the book, in a chapter about teacher evaluation, is a passage that gets to the crux of the debate on accountability:
This volume includes a series of thoughtful chapters on the practice of this «new accountability.»
In a project that I'm working on examining accountability across a variety of professions, I devote one chapter to accountability «success stories» and one to the «downsides» of accountability.
In DRC's most recent Technical Report chapter on validity, for example, they list the main purposes of the PSSA, the second of which is to «Provid [e] information on school and district accountability» (p. 283).
Chapter 3 focuses on federal accountability, Chapter 4 on state accountability, Chapter 5 on accrediting agencies, Chapter 6 on private - sector endeavors (with a particular focus on college rankings and ratings), and Chapter 7 on efforts by students, faculty, and staff to change institutional priorities.
High school graduation rates are at an all - time high at over 80 percent (see Chapter 1: Student Achievement).7 8 9 Research on NCLB's accountability provisions has shown modest effects on school performance, particularly in schools seeking to avoid a first year of missing AYP or in schools facing the severest penalties.10 Despite this progress, however, high school test scores are flat, achievement gaps persist, and many low - performing schools are not improving.
This chapter provides an overview of the history, theory, and evolution of standards - based accountability and school improvement and a status check on where the movement stands heading into the implementation of ESSA.
The chapter concludes that the emphasis for representative bodies is now on organisational transparency and accountability.
Social Justice Report 2003 Download the Social Justice Report 2003 Executive Summary Recommendations Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Reconciliation and government accountability Chapter 3: Indigenous participation in decision making - Transforming the relationship between government and Indigenous peoples Chapter four: Responding to petrol sniffing on the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Lands: A Case Study Chapter 5: Addressing family violence in...