Sentences with phrase «educational accountability needs»

We want to work with authorizers and policy - makers on reaching a better understanding of what real educational accountability needs to look like in this century.

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Other educational issues in the interview include the difficulties in getting experienced teachers into troubled schools, programs to aid outside professionals with a desire to teach, and the need for greater accountability in school leadership.

Schools need both support and accountability to implement an educational model built around project - based learning and performance assessment.

All states need to develop accountability systems that deal thoughtfully and usefully with test results, that deploy educational resources so as to aid teaching and learning, and that involve families in educational policy and in schools.

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.

«In this age of educational accountability through standards and assessments with only one right answer and success measured by test scores, we need to keep young minds open for alternative ways of thinking... teach students not to get a job, but create one.»

Some accountability supporters get concerned when there's talk of «testing reform;» that can be a euphemism for «testing backtracking,» meaning less attention to the educational needs of underserved kids.

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.

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.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

26 Accountability Measures In The Special Needs Bill March 3, 2015 by Grant Callen and Brett Kittredge Senate Bill 2695, The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, creates a pilot program to give parents the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with $ 6,500 to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

The Department of Contracted School Services promotes innovative educational opportunities by recruiting and retaining high quality charter and partnership schools, while providing assistance and accountability which supports schools» ability to effectively meet students» needs.

Public charter schools are tuition - free, open - enrollment public schools that have the flexibility to adapt to the educational needs of individual students, while held to strict state academic and financial accountability standards.

I will admit, I am a charter advocate, BUT I also support the need for greater transparency and accountability for all educational programs.

The goal of each of these reforms has been to provide accountability, transparency, and to expand high quality educational options for the students who most need them most.

Sometimes people wonder why I'm so consumed with issues around educational equity, school choice, standards, accountability and the need for a strong federal role in education.

A public charter school is a tuition - free public school that has the flexibility to adapt to the educational needs of individual students, while being held to strict state accountability standards.

For some time now there has been increasing recognition that, in an educational climate of accountability measures and increased top - down control, there is a need to position the work of teachers as extending beyond the classroom and situate teachers» role in education within the broader context of schooling.

People who can not be the one - size - fits - all interchangeable cogs that our technocratic, educational accountability systems need them to be to function.

We also anticipate continuing discussions regarding prioritizing best policies and best actions for students and creating and utilizing the right incentives and accountability systems to improve student achievement, increased educational quality, graduation rates, and capital and technology needs.

The Republican insistence on transferring educational oversight from the federal government to the states fails to recognize, as stated by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, that «history shows that, without some kind of accountability, states and districts do not always meet the needs of the most vulnerable students.»

We need systems of assessment and accountability that effectively and accurately identify sources of educational inequalities, particularly those related to race, economic class, gender, sexuality, home language, and immigration status.

«The current educational accountability system has become overly focused on narrow measures of success and, in some cases, has discouraged schools from providing a rich curriculum for all students focused on 21st century skills they need to acquire.This particularly impacts under - resourced schools that disproportionally serve low - income and students of color.»

They decided, with no educational data to back their decisions, that charter schools, regardless of whether they worked for children or not, whether they served America's need for an educated populous or not, would become stand - alone schools that could be run with little accountability, certification, or even democratically elected boards.

Changes to federal accountability systems — such as the creation of a risk - sharing system that requires institutions to cover a portion of costs when student loans go bad — may provide new incentives needed to encourage institutions to better focus on preventing the educational conditions that later lead to default.8

Your new therapist should have the level of work and educational experience that caters to your specific needs, as well be able to create a sense of safety, trust, accountability, empowerment, understanding, honesty and support for you.