Sentences with phrase «emphasis on both accountability»

Mr. Flaherty's emphasis on accountability is important because one of the major weaknesses of regulatory structures as they exist now is a lack of clarity over who's responsible for safeguarding the entire system, something officials call «macroprudential regulation.»

«But with emphasis on accountability, they now go into government coffers for the use of the people.»

The committee recommended a sustained focus on HIV / AIDS through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) with continued emphasis on accountability, efficiency, and measurement of results.

To most outside observers, the ingredients of the Chicago formula for success seemed clear: mayoral control, a nontraditional superintendent, and a strong emphasis on accountability.

During the past year or so, the deteriorating condition of state budgets and the Bush administration's new emphasis on accountability have made class - size reduction less of a priority.

I began to re-evaluate my views as early as 2004, as I watched the implementation of mayoral control in New York City, with its heavy emphasis on accountability and choice.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

Here, as in other writings, Giroux laments the «proletarianization of teacher work,» their demotion to «high - level clerks,» and their «deskilling» and «demoralization,» all of which he blames on a conservative - driven «emphasis on accountability schemes, teaching to the tests, and... the growing corporatization of the schools.»

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

«These assessments are administered at a single point in time and provide after - the - fact data that do not inform instruction,» the authors wrote, concluding that the resulting education system is one that places more emphasis on accountability goals than it does on the improvement of student learning.

In the mid-1990s, the movement to boost educational standards failed on political concerns; next came the emphasis on accountability with its reliance on standardized testing.

The goal of this approach is not only to evaluate programs but also to improve them systemically via collaboration among implementers and evaluators, triangulation through multiple methods of data collection, an emphasis on accountability, impact, and effectiveness (Kemis & Lively, 1997), and results that are both rigorous and relevant to all stakeholders.

Currently in education, especially K - 12, there is an emphasis on accountability and a pressure for rapid, large - scale implementation.

These key lessons provide insight into what alternative settings do well, areas for improvement, opportunities for innovation, and issues requiring further inquiry, with a particular emphasis on accountability for these settings.

Huston says that also means the General Assembly can not stop working after broadening school choices, placing more emphasis on accountability for statewide test scores and implementing a statewide teacher evaluation mandate.

The passage of the No Child Left Behind Act — with its emphasis on accountability for results, increased flexibility and options for schools and parents, and «doing what works» — creates new opportunities and a strong impetus to identify, select, and implement effective school improvement strategies.

They're doing something right and that probably includes ongoing oversight of teachers and a strong emphasis on accountability for students and staff.

It makes little sense to see borrowers left in the lurch after such an emphasis on accountability.

When new investments are made in publicly funded services for children and families, there is often a greater emphasis on accountability.

We place great emphasis on both accountability and goals, which has pushed our office to continue to be on top.

Not exact matches

After all, the emphasis on personal accountability created by Quinn helped take the team to the Super Bowl in 2017.

Based in a top - floor loft in Midtown Manhattan, CustomShow is made up of a small team with a strong customer focus and an emphasis on professionalism, ongoing learning, accountability, and quality of work life.

There is «an enormous emphasis on personal accountability» and obedience to biblical injunctions.

Browning's emphasis on ethics reflects his judgment that contemporary churches are disposed to avoid the ethical import of the Christian message, offering care without accountability.

We are still a club with no benefactor to bankroll us so the books have to be balanced.That is a way of life that we must live with and accept.But from now on there can be little or no excuses in the players we buy.Wengers control in these matters have been taken from him so the emphasis and accountability lies with Ivan Gazidis and his new teams.We can't get things wrong.Big and better players cost more in fees and wages so it's certainlg going to be interesting.

We also put a huge emphasis on environmental and social accountability, looking at the fiber, spinning and weaving processes, and how they affect the water that leaves our factory.

And especially in this moment when we really care a lot about accountability in schools, there has been an increasing emphasis on finding measures — like a student's standardized test scores — to tell us if a teacher is a good teacher.

The emphasis here has to be on how to reform state institutions into modes of accountability and operation that are more reflective of the kinds of relations that citizens want to have with their public thing, the state.

Collaboration with parents is vital to improving struggling schools, promoting educational equity, addressing the over emphasis on high - stakes testing, and increasing charter school accountability.»

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

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.

«My sense is that this could be linked to the current emphasis in our public schools on accountability and results,» she says.

For example, the blueprint for the next iteration of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (current version is the No Child Left Behind Act, 2002) proposes more accountability - based emphasis on assessment and instruction that support content learning and higher - order skills.

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.

States could also create entirely separate accountability systems for alternative schools, weighting existing measures differently (e.g. placing less emphasis on proficiency and placing more emphasis on academic growth) and using different indicators, such as high school completion rates instead of cohort graduation rates.

In light of widespread efforts to hold schools accountable for student learning, a push highlighted by the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, we were interested in seeing how much emphasis programs placed on assessment and accountability within the core curriculum.

The study says: ``... schools were more likely to be renewed if they had a higher [SPS](a state - determined school accountability measure based on test score levels), higher school value - added, or a higher NACSA rating (emphasis added).»

The theme goes on in another brilliant Fordham report, the Accountability Illusion (emphasis added by yours truly):

With increased emphasis on assessment - led pedagogy and accountability, teachers are improving their skills in data collection and analysis.

This emphasis on identifying and acting to reduce achievement gaps in schools is especially great in the majority of states that have received ESEA accountability waivers.

A key aspect of Title I is an emphasis on outcome accountability requirements.

A new section on the U.S. Department of Education's website notes that the government is «currently rethinking its accountability system in order to shift the balance from a system focused primarily on compliance to one that puts more emphasis... on educational results and functional outcomes for children with disabilities.»

But his emphasis on assessment and accountability as tools for managing education bureaucracy is only part of the story — and cold comfort for families who want and need the information to access the best education for their children now.

EW: How does the current emphasis on standards and accountability affect efforts of the National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented to encourage whole school reform?

But the accountability movement, with its focus on high - stakes tests, sidelined the growing emphasis on developing PLPs.

«This is a consequence of a continued emphasis on threshold attainment measures that do not take into account pupil starting points — it is ironic that this announcement was made on the final day for schools to opt in early for the new accountability measure of Progress 8.»

This finding has a significant impact on teachers and schools as policy makers put more emphasis on the labels for performance funding, teacher evaluations and other accountability measures.

Solutions to this problem lie in fundamental changes to the nature of the school accountability system and to the culture of testing, not in placing more emphasis on the need for private tuition.