Sentences with phrase «even more accountability»

However, if you have two large containers of poker chips you are using or fake Monopoly money that you're keeping score with, everyone in your house can see your results, and it will be quite apparent to everyone if you break your money management discipline, this gives you yet even more accountability.

When the federal No Child Left Behind law was implemented in 2002, the state had to comply with even more accountability measures.

Not exact matches

Corporate accountability may weaken even further as stock appreciation becomes more dependent on index inflation than bottom - line performance.

One and perhaps even two more rounds of finalists are likely, said Greg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, a Washington D.C. - based nonprofit that promotes economic accountability in development deals.

Furthermore, what happens most often in accountability groups is that if a person doesn't want to talk about his sin, all the accountability group does is make him feel more guilty about it, which then makes him fall into the sin even more.

And there is accountability too which I know we will talk probably a little bit more when we talk about kind of the downside of the groups, sometimes what can happen, but accountability is huge and obviously you get that a lot in person and you can really develop those relationships even further.

«But even more than a payment, there needs to be greater accountability in school food service in D.C.,» she said.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, which has been the main target of efforts to fire feds faster, dismissed more than 500 employees this year — even before a new accountability law took effect.

And while he can't fix the problem overnight — or even by Election Day 2018 — by demonstrating constant leadership on the issue, proposing new ideas regularly, demanding accountability, and owning the problem (no one dislikes de Blasio more than I do, but trying to pin the blame on him assures mutual destruction), he can convince voters he's on their side and best equipped to (literally) run the trains on time.

«I'm going to do my job the way people expect me to do it; I'm going to stand up for the pension fund even when people attack it; I'm going to defend my staff when they do the right thing; and in this era when we need more transparency and accountability in state government across the board, my office is uniquely set up to do that job.

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«There is something fundamentally wrong when the union leaders, representing our teachers, refuse to even discuss my proposal to bring more accountability to our school system,» she said.

... Many groups were profoundly disappointed by the outcome of last year's session, and the accountability for delivering or not delivering on his own key priorities is even more heightened at this point in time.»

«What makes this even more infuriating is the frequent lack of accountability, which is why I urge the U.S. Department of Justice to launch its own investigation,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said in a statement.

This means that when you're distressed, negative, lacking social grace, or sick, it will affect your family, co-workers, peers, and even people on the street, giving you a sense of accountability and responsibility to more than just yourself.

It is true that the major food industries continue to influence dietary recommendations today, but starting in the 1980's, and even more so now, more accountability and disclosure about special interests have been part of the regulations.

And while accountability metrics that rely on gains are statistically preferable to proficiency ones, gains are even more subject to volatility when samples are small.

Even though ESSA won't in itself do enough to reduce the distortions created by test - based accountability, this dissatisfaction with the past offers some hope that ESSA represents the beginning of a shift to a more sensible and productive approach.

That is, even when we measure the extent to which schools contribute to student test - score growth — something that test - based accountability systems rarely do — we can not consistently predict which programs or schools will help students be more successful later.

Educators revile test - based accountability even more.

Again, these simple comparisons are not the best way to examine these questions, but the results of even these crude analyses confirm the findings from the more sophisticated approach we describe below: greater accountability is accompanied by improved student performance.

A results - based accountability system would allow special education teachers and administrators to spend more time tracking each student's progress (and using that information to generate even more progress) and less time holding meetings and completing paperwork.

The Republican leaders in the executive and legislative branches, which once championed accountability, have turned to school choice as the primary strategy to produce reform (even as public opinion on choice, especially more extreme forms such as vouchers, has begun to sour).

All of this is to say that, if Republicans are successful in repealing the current accountability regulations, the education department ought to replace them with new ones immediately — even if they do little more than officially grant states the leeway that Republicans in Washington are promising.

So we have an accountability system that can't be sustained politically because it labels too many schools as failing, and the solution is to replace it with a new system that will surely produce even more bad news?

We conclude by considering how student accountability and student agency might combine for an even more effective approach in the future.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

First, it can allow districts to game accountability systems by rearranging school calendars so that students have more time in school prior to the exam, even as the overall length of the school year remains constant.

(It bears noting that charter schools are not on this list — indeed, charter schools remain locked into existing accountability pressures and arguably these pressures are even more acute in some states where poor performance can lead authorizers to not renew a charter.)

Budgeting in the Accountability Age Doing more with less has been the challenge for school districts in recent years, but now the demands of the No Child Left Behind Act, coupled with shrinking resources, are making budgeting even harder.

Many Obama supporters thought he would de-emphasize test scores, but instead his administration made them even more important for «accountability» purposes, and teachers found themselves in the crosshairs of unreasonable evaluation systems, sometimes being assessed by the scores of students they didn't have and / or subjects they didn't teach.

Indeed, the regular classroom is becoming even more standardized as schools adjust to meet the testing and accountability mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

What might be even more notable is the lack of vocal defense being mustered for annual testing by long - time advocates for strong accountability.

Putting aside the fact that NCLB requires assessments to be given to all students and even dings schools in its accountability requirements if they have low participation rates (after all, the law could change), sampling would make it more difficult to produce usable achievement data for individual districts and schools, especially in small schools or rural areas.

Designing a state accountability system is like that, but even more complicated because there are more dimensions to take into account and the trade - offs more complicated.

In a timely op - ed in The Hechinger Report, NISL CEO Bob Hughes and the Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro, argue that improving the effectiveness of school leaders is even more critical in the current climate of tight budgets, rigorous standards, and increased accountability.

Even if a state ultimately wins a waiver — a decision that rests with Secretary Duncan — the proposals reveal how much more work states have to do to fully usher in this new era of accountability.

These insights are even more important as a growing number of states adopt chronic absence into their accountability systems for school improvement.

Accountability - oriented reformers such as Michelle Rhee have pointed out weaknesses in the tentative agreement and called for state legislation to set an even more rigorous standard.

Making the whole situation even more «complex,» in addition to running Pryor's «turnaround» operation, Morgan Barth also heads up the State Department of Education's «Charter School Accountability» program.

California, however, is about to adopt an accountability system that has even more indicators of progress than will be required by the federal law.

That's a tall order in the best of times; and it's even more difficult in a policy environment in which teachers are under great scrutiny and subject to greater accountability than ever before.

With this new law, Texas has even more control over the quality of our schools, and it is imperative that we don't use that power to further backslide on accountability.

It is also true that the earlier consensus around accountability and the place of testing in the grand scheme of things is in flux, creating even more uncertainty.

Questions about its effectiveness are being asked more often by a growing cadre of critics, and even advocates concede that the e-learning movement needs to take a harder look at putting better accountability measures in place.»

Held to a higher standard of accountability than traditional public schools, but with the benefit of added autonomy that puts local school leaders and teachers in charge, Tennessee's public charter schools are empowered to create a challenging and focused learning environment for students, while giving parents even more direct and meaningful opportunities to participate in their children's education.

Harris continues that «The point is that it would be a shame if we went back to a no - feedback world, and even more of a shame if we did so because of an over-stated connection between evaluation, accountability, and value - added.»

Even as educators are integrating these more rigorous standards into their instruction, student and school performance continue to be judged using No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) outdated testing regimen and accountability measures.

Add in the fact that in some states — most - notably Virginia — the accountability measures, along with proficiency levels on state tests, are secondary in importance to shoddy accreditation processes, and suddenly, the waiver gambit has done little more than create even more mess.

Perhaps most offensive of all, we equate the need for high stakes testing, and command - and - control policies, with the obligation to ensure the protection of the civil rights for our most at - risk children without any conversation about the funding, or even more necessary, accountability for those holding others accountable.