Sentences with phrase «debate on accountability»

Sean Harford is a member of the panel for ATL's pre-election debate on accountability, «What's the top priority: inspection or improvement?»

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:

Not exact matches

The current impasse between the Parliamentary Budget Officer and the Government is the result of a clash between the Government's business model, based on a lack of transparency, and accountability; non-evidenced based decision - making; and hostility to public debate and discussion; and, a Parliamentary Budget Officer business model with the exact opposite principles.

The stunning news that the United States may be the most surveilled society in human history has opened a fierce debate on security, privacy, and accountability.

Campaigning backbenchers led by Tory Charlotte Leslie are debating «accountability and transparency in the NHS» on the day health secretary Jeremy Hunt bans gagging clauses silencing whistleblowers.

Teachers from across the UK will be gathering to debate a range of motions on topics including pupil indiscipline, the mental health of teachers, workload, pay and conditions, marking and the school accountability system.

«The public health sector has been absent from this debate,» said Nadia Steinzor, a researcher on the Oil and Gas Accountability Project at the environmental nonprofit, Earthworks.

The many initiatives discussed for changing public education — accountability, standards, standardized testing, homework, arts in the curriculum, and so on — comprise one side of that debate.

It's pretty clear that the coming reauthorization debate is going to focus on accountability.

In the debate over the future of the No Child Left Behind Act, policymakers, educators, and researchers seem to agree on one thing: The federal law's accountability system should be rewritten so it rewards or sanctions schools on the basis of students» academic growth.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

Also in this issue: an analysis of open educational resources and what the federal role should be in facilitating their adoption; an assessment of Mayor Bill de Blasio's first few years in office in New York City; and an expert debate on the merits of two different approaches to designing state accountability systems.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

The Seduction of Common Sense: How the Right Has Framed the Debate on America's Schools; Real Leaders, Real Schools: Stories of Success Against Enormous Odds; Mobilizing the Community to Help Students Succeed; School Accountability, Autonomy, and Choice Around the World; The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship: Possibilities for School Reform

A specific debate rages over what forms of government accountability to impose on private schools participating in choice programs, which already are accountable to parents, who can vote for or against them with their feet.

Greg Richmond is the President and CEO of the National Association of Charter School Authorizers (NACSA) and a leading voice in the nation's debates on public charter school quality, access, and accountability.

The challenge is that while almost all parties involved can agree on what is wrong, there have been few positive alternatives forwarded to provide a note of rationality in the accountability debate.

The impact of accountability on U.S. schools, for good or ill, is a subject of debate and research.

The public debates surrounding teacher quality and preparation accountability often do not address this increasing segmentation and, thus, focus on university - based programs.

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.

As policymakers continue to debate the federal role in education, the Bush Institute offers these Accountability Principles on the importance of...

Smrekar says Hoosiers on both sides of the debate put their trust into former mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat, to create a strong system of accountability in Indianapolis.

But now, as we move to the next level of accountability, this reform «miracle» is being called into question by discrepancies leading to allegations of fraud in dropout reporting as well as the preliminary results of the new, more rigorous, Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test, which, depending on your perspective, reflect either a lack of true student achievement progress in many areas or a backsliding in progress previously reported.Recently, this debate was sharpened with the release of the results in five major U. S. cities of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests, in which Houston participated on a voluntary basis, and the results were mixed at best.

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

It's an important issue and one that gets to the heart of the debate on standardized testing for accountability.

Proving that it can always get worse, Wisconsin Senate Republicans have entered the debate on school accountability with a proposal, Senate Bill 1, even weaker than the bill proposed by their counterparts in the state Assembly.

«Assemblyman Singleton understands the need for greater student achievement in public education and his legislation initiates the debate on many key issues such as independent authorizing authority and greater accountability for New Jersey's public charter schools,» read the statement.

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.

This form of accountability has encouraged a renewed emphasis on basic skills, reigniting a debate that has raged throughout American history: whether basic skills can (or should) be taught at the expense of other objectives.

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.

On a national level, the cheating story cuts to the heart of a major education policy debate over 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.

This is because within this framing transparency is seen as either a) ammunition — a way for those on the outer edges of the debate to target those in the arena whom they disagree with in order to discredit them; or b) a shield — a way to protect the status quo through the illusion of accountability.

Bill C - 300, An Act respecting Corporate Accountability for the Activities of Mining, Oil or Gas in Developing Countries, goes into its Third Reading this Fall Session, and is scheduled for its first hour of debate on the very first day that MPs return to session, September 20, 2010.

Lehrman says her early interest in science sparked a deep appreciation of accountability and public transparency, pointing to the 1975 Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA, when geneticists debated the potential dangers of biomedical research in an attempt to raise public awareness, as particularly inspirational.