Sentences with phrase «educational accountability at»

They note in their e-book that because schools are seeing an «increase in educational accountability at different levels» and there are a variety of reading materials are assigned in all subject areas so that teachers can take «formal and frequent» evaluations of their students.»

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UPMC Presbyterian Hospital's infection prevention teams have improved hand washing and sanitizing compliance at the hospital to nearly 100 percent among clinical staff through accountability and educational measures.

Many factors were at work in the Common Core's swift adoption by so many states, but significant among them is the increasingly shared verdict that NCLB, for all its good intentions, demanded accountability without offering any educational vision.

«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,...

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Ms. Boast leads Public Impact's work evaluating educational quality metrics at the school, district and state levels and developing accountability systems to monitor school performance.

We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have a longstanding interest in advancing quality school choices for kids who need them and a parallel interest in boosting educational achievement with the help of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems.

From the standards movement to accountability to charter schools, California has initiated policies aimed at improving educational outcomes for all children.

More than a decade of research, at Harvard and elsewhere, on accountability, school improvement, and school organization has become «increasingly specific,» he said, «about the conditions that promote high - level learning and performance in educational institutions,» within classrooms and in systems as a whole.

At the same time, NCLB needs major revisions to make sure it focuses on the most important kinds of learning, accountability for improvement, and creates genuine educational opportunity for all our children.

Some attribute the comparatively small percentages of students performing at the advanced level to the focus of the 2002 federal accountability statute, No Child Left Behind, on the educational needs of very low performing students.

Though nominally just a commission report, A Nation at Risk (1983) told Americans that we faced a crisis of educational achievement and began to nudge the country through a 90 - degree change of course from the «equity» agenda of the previous quarter - century to the «excellence» obsession of recent decades, complete with academic standards, tests, and results - based accountability systems.

Writing in Education Week, school reform champion Robert Pondiscio recently offered a thoughtful and thought - provoking critique of the open letter on educational choice and accountability issued by scholars at the Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Heartland Institute, and the Center for Education Reform.

On November 16, author and educational rights activist Dr. Howard Fuller will deliver the keynote address at the Alternative Accountability Policy Forum (AAPF).

The data presented analyzes and compares the 2013 - 14 school discipline data for every district in the state that helped uncover promising practices and examples of effective educational accountability while at the same time highlighting the numerous areas for improvement and the deeper systemic issues that still need to be addressed.

Mr. Taylor has overseen a large team at the California Department of Education of educational experts who calculated and reported various state and federal and alternative accountability systems.

A functionality framework for educational organizations: Achieving accountability at scale.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

Hence, while it seems that the residual effects of the federal governments» former efforts are still dominating states» actions with regards to educational accountability, hopefully some states can at least begin to lead the way to what will likely yield the educational reform... still desired...

It should be noted, though, that we as a nation have been relying upon similar high - stakes educational policies since the late 1970s (i.e., for now over 35 years); however, we have literally no research evidence that these high - stakes accountability policies have yielded any of their intended effects, as still perpetually conceptualized (see, for example, Nevada's recent legislative ruling here) and as still advanced via large - and small - scale educational policies (e.g., we are still A Nation At Risk in terms of our global competitiveness).

Rather, Sanders and his associates at SAS Institute Inc. greatly influenced our nation in terms of the last decade of our nation's educational policies, as largely bent on high - stakes teacher accountability for educational reform.

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.

Construct comprehensive and coherent systems of state and local assessments of student learning that: • work together to support instruction, educational improvement and accountability • use multiple indicators at multiple points in time • link assessment to instruction and curriculum • strengthen teacher capacity to assess.

Given our mission here at the Center for Educational Leadership to improve educational outcomes for all students, the last thing I would want to convey is that we are resistant to accountability.

These schools also met all state and federal accountability benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and made significant progress toward goals for increased student achievement and expanded educational opportunities set by the board.

if you are going to look at japan and other high achieving foreign countries, look at their homogeneous nature and their expectations and accountability toward their students by their culture, parents and the educational system.

The concept of growth is at the foundation of the policy and practice around systems of educational accountability.

«There is nothing wrong with seeking high educational standards and accountability, but there is surely something very wrong indeed if this comes at the cost of natural development.»

At the moment, large - scale, accountability - oriented policy contexts are pervasive for educational leaders across the country.

Prior to joining the SCPCSD, Bobby served as the Title I Team Lead for the Office of Federal and State Accountability at the South Carolina Department of Education Primary tasks included the allocation of federal allocation, monitoring school districts for compliance of applicable federal and state rules and regulations, approving school district Title I educational program applications, and overall business operations of the program.

Comparability is at the core of educational assessment and accountability.

The emergence of standards - based reforms and accountability systems at the state and district levels has led to renewed interest in and inquiry into the district role in educational change.

Part One surveyed how the state's skepticism of test - based accountability starts at the top with Gov. Jerry Brown, who successfully took on the federal government; Part Two explored how the elimination of certain data systems has limited educational research...

These schools and divisions also have met all state and federal accountability benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and have made significant progress toward goals for increased student achievement and expanded educational opportunities set by Governor Kaine and the board.

These schools and divisions also have met all state and federal accountability benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and have made significant progress toward goals for increased student achievement and expanded educational opportunities set by the board.

January 10, 2008 — Nineteen school divisions and 478 schools met all state and federal accountability benchmarks for at least two consecutive years and made significant progress toward Governor Kaine's goals for increased student achievement and expanded educational opportunity.

When future educational historians look back at the last few decades of U.S. public schooling, they will surely identify a system in which students» scores on annual accountability tests became, almost relentlessly, the prominent determiner of a school's success.