Sentences with phrase «education accountability program»

The group also built upon superintendents» request for a full review of the state's education accountability program, which several groups have questioned in the months since testing took place.

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(7) to increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.

Increase the accountability of Federal education programs to the President, the Congress, and the public.

Weekly visits are an integral part of the program because they provide continued support, education, and accountability.

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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.

What are the most common barriers to implementing a strong accountability system for online education programs?

Would you like to elaborate on how accountability standards differ between face - to - face programs and virtual education?

About midway through my term as board president, when I was knee - deep in implementing Virginia's SOL program, I sat on a panel with an education official from another state who also supported standards - based 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.

In 2010, the Florida legislature's nonpartisan Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability estimated that Sunshine State taxpayers saved $ 32.6 million, which is approximately $ 1.44 in state education funding for every dollar lost in corporate income tax revenue due to credits for scholarship contributions.

A new report by the Government Accountability Office finds that many states are not complying with a requirement under the Higher Education Act that they evaluate teacher education programs and identify «at risk» and «low performing» Education Act that they evaluate teacher education programs and identify «at risk» and «low performing» education programs and identify «at risk» and «low performing» programs.

The Troops - to - Teachers program run by the Department of Education has attracted many more men and African - Americans to the teaching profession, when compared with the new - teacher population at large, according to a report last week from the Government Accountability Office.

North Carolina education officials last week ordered a major audit of the state's testing and accountability program to determine the soundness of the system after problems emerged over interim scoring measures for the state's end - of - grade math exam.

Moreover, it will continue to monitor specific data related to financial aid, degree programs, attrition rates, and completion and graduation rates attributed to the quality of education and the effectiveness of higher education institutions.ConclusionThe U.S. Department of Education and other government agencies support IPEDS data collection to ensure accountability and transparency in higher eeducation and the effectiveness of higher education institutions.ConclusionThe U.S. Department of Education and other government agencies support IPEDS data collection to ensure accountability and transparency in higher eeducation institutions.ConclusionThe U.S. Department of Education and other government agencies support IPEDS data collection to ensure accountability and transparency in higher eEducation and other government agencies support IPEDS data collection to ensure accountability and transparency in higher educationeducation.

Most promising, TEAC's heavy emphasis on the obligation of teacher - education programs to produce convincing evidence in support of the claims they make about their own quality has the potential to enhance accountability in teacher education.

Early evaluations of the program by Paul Tuss of Sacramento County Office of Education's Center for Student Assessment and Program Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exiprogram by Paul Tuss of Sacramento County Office of Education's Center for Student Assessment and Program Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exiProgram Accountability found that students who received a home visit were considerably more likely to be successful in their exit exam intervention and academic - support classes and pass the English portion of the exit exam.

But the country's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, still frets that the program lacks sufficient accountability for results: «Voucher students are not included in state assessments, so taxpayers have no way of knowing how the voucher funds have been spent, and how students have fared.»

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.

Despite the frequency with which public programs rely on beneficiaries to hold the quality of services accountable, Sara Mead asserts in an Education Sector report that, «accountability to parents alone is insufficient to protect the public interest or ensure taxpayer money is used well.»

It might be best, however, not to require state accountability testing in a special education voucher program.

The Senate education committee last week approved a bipartisan bill to reauthorize Head Start that would expand eligibility for the federal preschool program, tighten accountability for local grantees, and abolish the National Reporting System, a federal test given to all 4 - and 5 - year - old Head Start pupils.

But if Strauss is inclined to introduce professors fulsomely, she might let her readers know that I am the Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Government and Director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard University, who has spent years researching school governance, school choice, school accountability, and teacher effectiveness rather than referring to me as «Harvard's Paul E. Petersen.»

The history of public - education policy has been decades of state and local superintendents talking all about reform programs — without accountability.

Although the federal government's main accountability lever — eligibility for federal grants and loans — is only implemented at the institution level for most of higher education, the GE data show the value of targeting individual programs, rather than entire institutions.

Dean Lagemann's talk, «Toward a More Adequate Science of Education,» focused specifically on creating new standards of accountability for education research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powerEducation,» focused specifically on creating new standards of accountability for education research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powereducation research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powerful ways.

According to a study released by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) last year, federal stimulus funds were being used for «retaining staff and current education programs» rather than advancing reforms.

Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school law; special - education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.

In the realm of early - childhood education, no program has more stringent accountability demands than Head Start.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.

She is co-editor of The Handbook of Research on Educational Finance and Policy (Routledge, first edition, 2008 and second edition 2015), and the author of many articles on U.S. education policy, with a focus on school accountability, teacher labor markets, charter schools, and early childhood programs.

* The state Education Department plans to apply for a federal pilot program, which may give it the opportunity to use a new assessment system in place of state tests for accountability purposes, Politico New York reports: http://goo.gl/696SoR * SUNY presses ahead with tuition increase plan, the Poughkeepsie Journal reports: http://pojonews.co/1J1tzen * Roberts Wesleyan updates...

For example, Head Start has been and continues to be a leader in its focus on family engagement and comprehensive services, on children with disabilities, and on children from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds; in its commitments to accountability for program quality; in its investments in the professional development of the early childhood education workforce that led to the development of the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential; and in its commitment to and investment in research and evaluation to strengthen quality, improve child outcomes, and reduce the achievement gap.

This emphasis applies both to states where Title I is governed fully by the ESEA's statutory requirements and to the much larger number of states currently operating Title I programs under a series of accountability waivers granted since 2011 by the U.S. Secretary of Education.

In 2013, Alabama adopted the Alabama Accountability Act, an education reform measure that includes two new school choice programs that extend a lifeline to Alabama students trapped in failing public schools.

Hart's recent work has focused on school choice programs, school accountability policies, early childhood education policies, and effects on students of exposure to demographically similar teachers.

Keeping in mind that test - based accountability mostly focuses on the level of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification of how test scores are caused by schools and programs, we have no way of knowing that that the kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.

Newer programs have developed accountability systems similar to those for traditional public schools: the state department of education oversees the choice program and participating private schools take state tests, receive letter grades from the state systems, and are subject to consequences based on those grades.

Even in the area of education most government programs require no formal accountability.

In traditional education, however, there's a nationwide war raging over accountability, with many states seeking ways to rate not only teachers and schools, but also teacher preparation and early childhood programs, based on quantifiable outcomes.

An article on the Philadelphia schools» teacher - accountability program in the Oct. 30 issue of Education Week incorrectly reported the results of Superintendent David W. Hornbeck's performance review.

«School leadership is as demanding a profession as any business or public sector job, especially in an era of rising public expectations and greater accountability for results,» said Robert Schwartz, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and chair of the Executive Leadership Program steering committee.

Mitchell D. Chester, from chief of curriculum and instruction programs, Bureau of Research and Teacher Assessment, Connecticut Department of Education, to executive director, Office of Accountability and Assessment, Philadelphia public school district.

While state education agencies are responsible for implementing federal programs, in many states the governor and the legislature, not the chief state school officer and the state education agency, are in charge of testing and accountability policy.

After seven years of a school accountability program, achievement gaps in California's schools are widening in some grades, according to a recent assessment of the state education system.

Requirements for states to implement systems of standards, assessments, and accountability have been the central feature of federal elementary and secondary education programs since 1994.

Governor Corbett and Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis outlined four key provisions of their plan: «opportunity scholarships, expanding the Educational Improvement Tax Credits program, improved charter school quality and accountability, and more robust and comprehensive educator evaluations.»

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The Early Childhood Education (ECE) Collaborative is dedicated to supporting states as they work to improve standards, instruction, assessment, data systems, and program design and accountability for children from birth to grade 3.

A report by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, criticized the federal Education Department for taking too long to process applications, which did not give districts and schools enough time to figure out the program's tricky framework.