Sentences with phrase «debate about accountability»

Most of the news stories about the voucher program focus generally on the debate about accountability and diverting money from the underfunded public school system.

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If, say, questions about austerity or the regulation of banks are in the public eye, different ideologies will try to win the debate by appealing to the virtues of private enterprise, or to the need for public transparency and accountability, or to the greater redistribution of wealth.

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

If — as the pundits suggest — the May 7 election produces another form of coalition government, tensions surrounding what to do about the provision of places for all are likely to increase along with the ongoing debates into local accountability over education.

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:

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

But using their approach in a systematic manner will at least reveal the degree to which their decisions about what information to include and to exclude distorted the facts and thereby confused the debate over accountability.

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For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

So, while the debate may ensue about the time required and benefits of standardized assessment driven by accountability initiatives, the classroom formative assessment — when applied as intended — can have powerful effects on teaching and learning.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

From assessment and accountability to standards and research - based instructional strategies, reformers are debating long and hard about what our teachers should be doing differently to improve student achievement.

Education advocacy — and I'm talking mainly about the debate on charter schools, vouchers, and tracking school progress (aka accountability)-- deserves your attention.

While her nomination gave exposure to an honest and passionate debate about charter schools as an alternative to traditional public schools, her hardline opposition to any real accountability for these publicly funded, privately run schools undermined their founding principle as well as her support.

At the crux of the debate are questions about who gets to speak on behalf of racial minorities and low - income children, and what school accountability should look like in the age of Donald Drumpf.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

A proposed media - relations budget of $ 600,000, not counting any money for advertising, would be directed at science writers, editors, columnists and television network correspondents, using as many as 20 «respected climate scientists» recruited expressly «to inject credible science and scientific accountability into the global climate debate, thereby raising questions about and undercutting the «prevailing scientific wisdom.»»

At the same time as the ATSIC Review was taking place, there were ongoing debates between the Government and the ATSIC Board about the corporate governance structures and accountability of ATSIC.

This article examines current debates about educational standards, accountability systems, and school reform from the perspective of Deci and Ryan's Self - Determination Theory.