Sentences with phrase «education standards and accountability»

Since the beginning of the Texas commitment to public education standards and accountability based reform in 1993, the state has made remarkable progress in student achievement.

* Accountability — House Bill 3, passed in 2009, put in place an accountability system that, when fully implemented, would represent the culmination of 20 years of evolution in public education standards and accountability based reform in Texas.

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Americans can't conceive that there are «health care professionals» who are allowed to practice without any education, any standards, any outside monitoring, any insurance, and, finally, any accountability.

In awarding the accreditation, the association reported that Naper Settlement benefits from professional management, adherence to standards and a commitment to improvement, public service, accountability and fulfillment of its mission, to further education and historical preservation.

As for the governor, he made no appearances yesterday, but issued yet another lengthy statement insisting he won't sign off on more state education aid unless the budget includes reforms that address «accountability, performance and standards.»

The Senate bill would increase the cap to 460 schools from 200 schools and establish new standards for accountability and services to special education students and English language learners.

To be the «students» lobbyist» — that is, to stand up to the teachers unions and their hirelings in the Legislature and bring standards and accountability to public education in New York.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

For instance, the opportunity gap would force us to look more at how all students should have access to early education versus the achievement gap which has focused more on developing standards, accountability, and evaluation.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

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.

His work in the Review of Economics and Statistics analyzes the budgetary impact of education aid, and his recent paper (with Scott Imberman and Adam Perdue) analyzes how state accountability standards have influenced education budgets.

Cities that exemplify cooperation are resolving inequitable funding, developing cross-sector strategies for special education, creating common accountability standards across school type, co-training leaders, and partnering on other critical endeavors.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

Maureen Kelleher argues in Education Post that the decline in support is likely caused by «the failure of too many charter operators to live up to the highest standards of transparency, accountability and professionalism.»

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

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

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.

Achieve, the independent non-profit organization formed to follow - up the Summit, is a permanent resource center supporting high academic standards and accountability in education.

When it comes to the study of implementing education reforms, analysts tend to focus on the formal channels of implementation and the standard tools of public administration — for example, intergovernmental hand - offs (federal to state to district to school), alignment of curriculum, assessment and other components of the reform, professional development, getting incentives right, and accountability mechanisms.

Report cards track and compare state education policies and outcomes in six areas: chance - for - success; K — 12 achievement; standards, assessments, and accountability; transitions and alignment; the teaching profession; and school finance.

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

That's why I've asked some of America's top educators, advocates, political and business leaders here today, to mobilize our schools to raise standards, demand accountability, and specifically, to strengthen math and science education and performance all across America.

[8] Critics said that Secretary Duncan was going beyond what the law allows by substituting the Obama administration's favored education reforms (including national curriculum - content standards and tests) for NCLB's accountability measures.

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for teducation in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for tEducation and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

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.

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

«We are committed to establishing a worldwide educational system by simultaneously raising the standards of learning, affording greater autonomy at the local school level, and creating increased accountability for student success,» said Lillian Gonzalez, the director of the Department of Defense Education Activity,...

On top of the daily challenges of education, which include standards - based reform, pressing state and federal mandates, and high stakes accountability, the Meridian educators were facing a year of unfamiliarity in leadership considering a newly - hired superintendent and an administration that is approximately one - third new.

Education Week developed a comprehensive grading across grade - specific standards, testing, and the accountability that goes with them in each state.

Upon taking office in 1999, the governor pursued a multipronged strategy of education reform: an emphasis on reading, standards and accountability for public schools, and new choice options for students.

As American education reformers try again, under the Common Core State Standards, to create a sensible system of standards, assessments, and accountability, what can we learn from our earlier mistakes?

In this age of standards and accountability, the tool I rely on the most would be our web - based data warehouse, he told Education World.

At some point the prevailing standards and accountability approach to education reform will be replaced with new designs that are more productive, or at least different.

The key players in the state's education department, including its commissioner, had all been replaced; the new administrators were issuing challenging curriculum standards, requiring new statewide tests, and demanding more accountability.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

During the 1994 reauthorization of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which ultimately forced the states to begin developing their accountability systems, Shanker was a staunch proponent of tough standards, and penned a pivotal article blasting a proposal to water down the bill.

At another level, you have an alliance between some of those who have historically always opposed testing and accountability, who see with the onset of these standards and the assessments associated with them an opportunity to beat back a movement in education toward accountability that they never supported in the first place.

The American public shows growing support for online learning and merit pay for teachers and continued support for accountability, standards, testing, and charter schools — education innovations that have been endorsed by leaders in both major parties.

Is it imposing sorely needed standards and accountability on K - 12 education?

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.

My post earlier this week framed the piece that Jeff Henig and I contributed to Ed Week's print edition and laid out the need for education reformers to review the evidence and admit that closing achievement gaps is not as simple as adopting a set of standards, accountability and instructional improvement strategies.

«Going forward, standards, accountability and innovation will be the watchwords of this board and the state Education Department,» promised Merryl Tisch when she was named Chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents in 2009.

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According to a White House background report, the Education Accountability Act is «designed to hold students, teachers and schools to high standards, and to ensure that school districts and states provide students with a high quality educatioEducation Accountability Act is «designed to hold students, teachers and schools to high standards, and to ensure that school districts and states provide students with a high quality educationeducation.»