Sentences with phrase «current accountability systems»

Second, many current accountability systems hold individual educators accountable for outcomes, which is in direct tension with a focus on collective responsibility for performance.

Do our current accountability systems guided by the uneven application of No Child Left Behind regulations encourage and reward the teaching of discourse?

And it would be most unfortunate if attempts to improve teacher accountability exacerbated one of the most criticized aspects of current accountability systems, namely the overreliance on standardized tests.

Current accountability systems rely predominantly on the «percent of children reaching proficiency,» which educational measurement experts call a «status» measure.

In sum, «Next Generation» accountability systems aim at «a loftier goal — universal college and career readiness — a goal that current accountability systems were not designed to achieve.

Value - added measures have caught the interest of policymakers because, unlike many of the uses of test scores in current accountability systems, it purports to «level the playing field» so that value - added measures of teachers» effectiveness do not depend on characteristics of the students.

English Language Learners and complexity theory: Why current accountability systems do not measure up.

In many of our current accountability systems, we focus much more on levels of achievement (Advanced, Proficient, Basic, or Minimal) than we do on the progression of

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

There is broad agreement that states» current accountability systems are overly dependent on standardized tests that do not (and can not) capture all the skills that students need to acquire, and that have sometimes encouraged teachers to engage in harmful curriculum narrowing and «test prep.»

, commissioned by the NUT showed how the current accountability system is having a disproportionately negative impact on disadvantaged pupils.

One of the implicit assumptions of the current accountability system is that, when it comes to the measured outcomes, it is not possible for all schools to excel.

The database would build on the current accountability system that the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board implemented this past year.

Unless we address some of the worst aspects of the current accountability system, including acceptance of the inherent limitations of data, even the most sensible assessment arrangements will become skewed.

Officials at teacher preparation programs say they are eager for guidance, and they point to flaws in the state's current accountability system for teaching programs, which looks at factors like admissions requirements and class offerings before approving programs.

Nick Brook, the NAHT's deputy general secretary, claimed there is a consensus that the current accountability system is not «quite working the way it should», and said the commission wanted to address the current «vacuum» of «credible alternatives».

In the end, the current accountability system for Priority schools is fair.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's primers include individual state by state accountability system fact sheets, which detail each state's current accountability system, what could change under ESSA, and what to be asking state leaders.

The current accountability system, which was enacted in 2013, continues the tradition of using EOG scores in grades 3 - 8, and End of Course tests in high school, but ESSA will require more when regulations are released later this school year.

He sees firsthand the injustices and pressures that the current accountability system places on them.

«The current accountability system has led districts to fixate on testing and sanctions, has squeezed out vital parts of the curriculum that are not subjected to testing, and has sacrificed much - needed learning time,» AFT President Randi Weingarten said.

Not exact matches

You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

«The bill would flip the current incentives of a broken system to provide real accountability and transparency from higher education institutions,» the senator's office said.

Commenting on the statement by the Secretary of State for Education setting out proposals to reform the system of primary assessment, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «It is important to recognise, and as the NASUWT has stated consistently, that many of the concerns expressed about statutory primary assessment are the direct result of their use in the current high stakes school accountability regime.

Computer scientists from the Center for IT Security, Privacy and Accountability (CISPA) have now developed a matching application for the current version of the Android smartphone operating system, allowing for a more precise monitoring of malicious apps.

Very often, responses to accountability and the No Child Left Behind law are defined by the sense of urgency with which one hopes to change the current educational system.

In taking accountability away from school systems and placing it on individual schools and their employees, reform calls into question the current system of governance — and leaves no room for «excuses» such as weak family structures, poverty, discrimination, lack of aptitude, peer pressure, diet, television, etc..

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

In Ontario, Canada, one of the great PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) success stories, the current provincial administration took over from one that had instituted a province - wide curriculum and matching assessments, along with a tough accountability system.

In good measure, the failures of the current system have festered as long as they have because many of the advocates of test - based accountability simply didn't want to face the evidence.

The current system of procedural accountability within special education law is a logical response to the problems that led Congress in 1975 to enact the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (now known as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, or IDEA): the total exclusion of some students with disabilities, the inadequate education of others, and the segregation of those in school from their nondisabled peers.

If the current law's minimum competency standard produces gains among students near the proficiency threshold but disadvantages others, the rules of the accountability system need to be modified, perhaps to reward improvements across the entire achievement distribution.

Grade - span accountability solves none of the problems of our current system while making other problems worse.

Still, the current federally mandated accountability system falls well short of what is needed.

I now believe that our current understanding of «state accountability systems» is a reflection of a decision made one hundred years ago.

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

The authors look at how current education accountability systems have become similarly skewed and suggest some very useful alternatives.

The dearth of student accountability for test score results other than tests given by teachers in the classroom is a remarkable aspect of current test - based accountability systems in the U.S..

Wiggins» blueprint for state assessment would provide students with timely and useful feedback on how to improve their work, something the author believes current statewide accountability systems fail to do.

Of course, whether these comparative first - wave results can be applied to the current generation of accountability systems is clearly open to conjecture.

-- The Seventy Four «Washington Post reporter Russakoff's fascinating study of the struggle to reform the Newark school system reveals the inner workings of a wide range of systemic and grassroots problems (charter schools, testing, accountability, private donors) plaguing education reform today... Russakoff's eagle - eyed view of the current state of the public education system in Newark and the United States is one of the finest education surveys in recent memory.»

CORE's accountability system would replace the current system, with most schools in Program Improvement, facing NCLB sanctions, with a three - tiered system that rewards top Schools of Distinction and identifies the 15 percent of Title I schools needing improvement.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

Similarly, Ted Kolderie just argued in Education Week for a «split - screen» approach to accountability: Allow the current system to continue its efforts to improve while freeing up some schools to do things differently, even dramatically so.

Congress should maintain the law's current annual testing requirements while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems.

Meanwhile, the 1.4 million - member American Federation of Teachers declared that the Race to the Top initiative «would simply layer another top - down accountability system on top of the current faulty one.»

The brief was informed by a 50 - state scan conducted by AYPF to better understand the current system structure and accountability of education in juvenile justice facilities.

And, a majority of the states that have applied for ESEA waivers to opt - out of the current No Child Left Behind (NCLB) accountability system include school climate and / or prosocial education as part of their desired alternative accountability system.

«The topic of principal evaluations has largely been ignored in the current debate over evaluations, but teachers want to see principals lead by example and that is why we need an evaluation system that not only will help principals improve, but also increase accountability and ensure that teachers are fully supported.

Phillip Lovell, vice president of federal advocacy at the Alliance, said the current waiver system isn't addressing graduation rate accountability.