Sentences with phrase «discussion about accountability»

As framing home ownership as the embodiment of the «American Dream» stoked the zeal behind subprime loans, a buzzword like «school choice» fuels charter expansion, making it difficult to create space for a reasonable national discussion about accountability.

This major forum features a discussion about accountability among a diverse group of stakeholders in teacher education, including teacher educators in university and alternate settings, policymakers, and school district leaders.

If students signed a team contract at the start of the project, use this document to frame discussions about accountability.

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Communication not only allows you to have healthy discussions about expectations and productivity with your employees, but it also helps foster openness and accountability.

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»

Somewhere here is a larger discussion about the thin line between useful accountability and overly worrying about the relatively small personal expenses that officeholders sometimes incur.

An advocate for transparency and accountability, Citizens Union hails the vigorous discussion about revising Council rules.

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

Koretz uses this precept to frame the discussion of test - based accountability efforts as well as more in - depth discussion in later chapters about some of the more pernicious corruptions of test - based accountability: artificial test - score inflation, undesirable types of test preparation, and outright cheating.

Not surprisingly, the release in November 2011 of the newest NAEP Mathematics and Reading Report Cards set off a new round of discussion about the impact of NCLB and accountability more generally.

Join Shael Polakow - Suransky, New York City Public Schools» chief accountability officer, and Rebecca Unterman, a research associate at MDRC, for a discussion about New York City's small schools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged students.

Education policy makers at all levels of government will rely on this book to inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountability systems.

Incentives and Test - Based Accountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountabAccountability in Education will inform people about the motivation of educators and students and inform policy discussions about NCLB and state accountabilityaccountability systems.

Elaine Allensworth of the Chicago Consortium for School Research emphasized that researchers and practitioners are having discussions about how the tool is used for accountability.

The main topics covered were: 1) the respondent «s perceptions of the major state - level policy initiatives of importance over the last few years (allowing the respondent to determine the starting year / policy); 2) specific policy initiatives in two arenas: accountability and promoting school leadership; 3) a discussion of the policy initiators and actors, and their stakes and stands on major policy initiatives; and 4) their comments about the way in which groups and individuals work together or separately to exercise influence over educational policy.

This is the question that hasn't been answered in the discussion about school accountability.

Addressing the state's persistent achievement gaps and ensuring a pathway to excellent education for all students, particularly those who are most vulnerable, led the Board's discussion about the new accountability system and new charter school regulations, which will be voted on during the Board's October meeting.

We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school accountability system under ESSA.

Michael Lancaster, superintendent of Madison Diocese schools, said school officials who participated in a recent web - based discussion about the program have raised several questions about the program's requirements, including an annual financial audit that can cost anywhere from $ 10,000 to $ 70,000, a $ 900 registration fee and how the state's report card accountability system will apply to voucher schools.

I think we should speed up the failing school timeline and I think incorporated into that should be a discussion about district accountability...

Meanwhile, a recent hearing before the House education committee that was billed as a forum on federal education accountability turned into a discussion about the priorities for reauthorizing ESEA and revealed that the partisan divide that ruled House committee action last year continues to do so today.

COPAA — the Council of Parents, Attorneys, and Advocates — states, «We are gravely concerned about Chairman Alexander's ESEA discussion draft, due to its complete dismantling of accountability for the outcomes and improvement of all students, including students with disabilities.

In order to inform community discussions about the Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP) in SCUSD and at individual school sites, below are links to all «Required Data» (per the Legislative Analyst's Office) associated with each Priority laid out in the LCAP by the State of California.

The meeting is delayed by an hour, and my supervisor presents our district's accountability ratings and a bit of discussion occurs about the district's performance rating.

We can not have an honest discussion about education reform and increasing accountability without closing the charters that are chronically underperforming.

«The current law that sets the bar at 20 percent before needing additional performance review is adequate, and increasing this threshold to 30 percent would be a loosening of the standards and accountability when the discussion this week on many bills has been about increasing accountability,» said Jewell.

When Tom expressed his concerns, Lori got a wake - up call that led to greater accountability, as well as a discussion about a budget they could both agree on.

In this discussion, Lee talks about accountability, media consumption, and the implications of gradually shifting to digital journalism.

The program focuses on accountability and personal responsibility for engaging in meaningful discussions about long - term co-parenting.

: A teacher talks about how to incorporate student phones to support accountability in small group discussion.

ACCOUNTABLE TALK USING CELL PHONES: A teacher talks about how to incorporate student phones to support accountability in small group discussion.