Sentences with phrase «education accountability efforts»

But between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, federal education accountability efforts have taken a very, very, very wrong turn.

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«By every measure, Governor Cuomo's tax cap has successfully reined in out - of - control property tax increases and has been a key part of this administration's efforts to restore fiscal sanity to this state and bring accountability and rigor to our education system.»

Targeting additional resources to early childhood education, extended day, summer programs, prudent class - size reduction, or enhanced accountability structures is likely to have a higher return in these communities than racial desegregation efforts.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

Our study overcomes the limits of short - term analysis by asking: when schools face accountability pressure, do their efforts to raise test scores generate improvements in higher education attainment, earnings, and other long - term outcomes?

Indeed, one of the most contentious education reforms of the last decade was the effort, spearheaded in the federal Race to the Top initiative, to create accountability around teachers» performance.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

I am an education policy researcher who's taken a few detours into policy jobs — once in the Office of Data and Accountability of DC Public Schools, and once as the Deputy of Educator Preparation for the State of Delaware under its Race - to - the - Top efforts.

The 16 - state Southern Regional Education Board released the report last week as part of a new effort to improve accountability in the region by studying the successes and failures of its member states, which stretch from Texas and Florida as far north as Delaware.

Leveraging the federal role by using the Higher Education Act to offer students incentives to graduate ready for college and the workplace, support state efforts to raise high school exit standards and strengthen postsecondary accountability, and by aligning the 12th grade National Assessment of Educational Progress to ADP's benchmarks; and,

Bringing «choice» and «accountability» to the education system sounded good on paper, but in reality, that effort has failed.

Education reform efforts have been largely focused on one - off interventions, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a prominent example of such an effort, but it is only the continuation of a steady trend toward greater test - based accountability in education that has been going on for decades.

He serves as a principal investigator for the federal study of the implementation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, including its provisions related to accountability and efforts to improve low - performing schools.

«States are at the forefront of efforts to improve accountability, equity, and transparency in K - 12 schools through ESSA state plans,» said Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, Chair of the NGA Education and Workforce Committee.

Quality Counts 2005, the ninth annual edition of the report, continues to track state policies and information across key areas of education: student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and financial resources.

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.

The Donnell - Kay Foundation is undertaking a large - scale effort to create a new system of public education delivery that would use different accountability metrics.

Beyond the class - size mandate, we continue to call on education leaders to implement real accountability and transparency in all the new school choice efforts.

LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy has expressed great enthusiasm for the 10 - district effort to win a so - called «waiver» from some aspects of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, which sets accountability rules and governs the distribution of billions in education funding from Washington.

That's the scenario that the California State Board of Education has been bracing for and why the Brown administration has so vigorously fought off efforts by the U.S. Department of Education to use the results for federal accountability purposes.

A + Colorado is encouraged by the legislative efforts to update the accountability clock A + believes that a deeper challenge than the accountability policy structure is a lack of political will to intervene in even the most dramatic circumstances A + Colorado calls on the Colorado legislature, our Governor and the state board of education to enact...

Although SB 70, the education budget bill, could be subject to change depending on the outcome of the many issues swirling about the June election, it is a clear signal from the Legislature that they do not want a repeat of this year's almost chaotic efforts to comply with the accountability update.

With this month's newsletter theme of teacher evaluation, I want to focus my message on the larger national education conversation that has spawned, among other things, the effort to overhaul teacher evaluation and accountability systems.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policyEducation Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policyEducation focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policyeducation and driving substantive policy changes.

Freed from the efforts of AEI's education czar, Rick Hess, to spin the results in support of his opposition to accountability and focusing on achievement gaps, Ahn and Vidgor point out that AYP has «beneficial» effects on student achievement.

The report examines progress in the performance of students in high - poverty schools, the development of state standards and assessment systems, accountability systems and school improvement efforts, the targeting of Title I funds, Title I services at the school level, support for family involvement, services for students in private schools, and services provided under the Even Start, Migrant Education, and Neglected and Delinquent programs.

Chester E. Finn, Jr., president emeritus of the Fordham Institute and vice president of the Maryland State Board of Education, authored an opinion piece on Maryland lawmakers» efforts to «prevent the State Board of Education from installing a new school - accountability system that prioritizes pupil achievement...

In this age of widespread democracy, accountability is taken to mean a variety of things, and is a major focus of recent education reform efforts being made at national and state levels.

It examines questions about the effectiveness of vocational education in improving student outcomes, the consequences of new funding and accountability provisions for programs and participants, the implementation and quality of vocational education, and the extent of its alignment with other reform efforts.

This series is part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's multi-year effort to develop a «results - based accountability» (RBA) approach to its K - 12 education portfolio.

While U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minorEducation Arne Duncan did his best to spin the administration's efforts as a solution for No Child's supposedly «broken» accountability measures, which he proclaimed, was «misleading» in identifying schools and districts — especially in suburbia — failing to provide high - quality education to poor and minoreducation to poor and minority kids.

The claim that charter schools achieve superior test results as a result of effort, choice, accountability, educational program, governance structure, or some other reason, is frequently cited by charter school lobbyists at the legislature and the CT State Department of Education.

He underscored the importance of engagement efforts between state education departments and stakeholder groups as the accountability...

No one should be surprised that the U.S. Department of Education's new guidance for 41 states to renew the waivers granted to them under the Obama Administration's effort to eviscerate the No Child Left Behind Act and its accountability provisions effectively allows states to get away with continuing their shortchanging of poor and minority children.

(Calif.) Lawmakers appear resolute in their efforts to strengthen school district accountability under the state's new education finance system, proposing two bills that would more closely monitor spending on programs for disadvantaged youth and require proof that those students are, in fact, making academic gains or risk having funds withheld.

Many successful education systems couple the focus on universal standards and outcomes with efforts to move responsibility to the front line, encouraging responsiveness to local needs and strengthening accountability systems.

An effort to develop a statewide school accountability system marks a turning point in Wisconsin, education experts said last week as a public effort to design the system got under way.

Still, as constituents and politicians demand more accountability from schools, and dissatisfied parents seek more education options for their children, charter schools have become the most identifiable and popular effort for school reform and improvement.

And he was part of — and widely considered a leader in — a national effort for greater accountability in public education shared across partisan lines.

With the promise of local accountability and coordinated efforts to improve, the district is one of nine in a consortium called the California Office to Reform Education — which includes Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco — seeking a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education.

Thanks to the Obama administration's own effort to eviscerate No Child's accountability provisions through its waiver gambit, the president (and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan) have done more to weaken the very reform efforts centrist Democrats embrace than any opposition from traditionalist circles.

Recent efforts by states to make their educator accountability systems more rigorous represent a «seismic shift rarely seen in education,» according to the National...

Judy continues to assist districts, national organizations, state departments of education in their efforts to update and realign curriculum frameworks, instruction, and assessment, and accountability that include all students.

Puckett, who taught at Chipman and quit because of the changes following from NCLB, also contextualizes the eventual closure of the school, and the devaluation of what it stood for, in the broader context of education reform and accountability efforts nationwide.»

From high standards to aligned assessments, data transparency to school accountability, advocates for reform are championing efforts in their states to ensure that kids get the great educations they deserve.

Instead of calibrating regulation to address the problems spread by charters, the report explains, «efforts by auditors and some education regulators to produce greater accountability have been resisted... That hands - off approach by the education regulators is not an accident, but rather it is overwhelming evidence of the industry's vast money, power, and influence.»

Given the collapse of the Campaign for High School Equity (which once served as the convening body for civil rights - based reformers) and the efforts by the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers to co-opt such groups by peddling a version of accountability that lets states, school operators, and adults off the hook for failure, Ed Trust deserves praise for rallying so many civil rights players to stand up for our most - vulnerable children.

Chapter 8 outlines ten lessons learned from accountability efforts, and I conclude in Chapter 9 by highlighting five key questions that will influence the future of higher education accountability.