Sentences with phrase «fights over accountability»

There will be still be fights over accountability, but those will be at the state level, and advocates will need to keep up the pressure for equity.

Delisle pointed out that educators often lose sight of creating well - rounded students because they are busy fighting over accountability and who is at fault in the classroom.

Not exact matches

Under neo-liberalism it's become quite clear that we can drown in proceduralism — there's no problem keeping people busy with paperwork and accountability, or in the case of deliberative democrats for example, we can have important debates about how to redraw and then defend the borders of a democratic country legitimately — but if all those things take up all our time, we'll look up from our papers and our borders one day, and see that there isn't anything left to fight over.

Our fight is not yet over to end insider trading in Congress and demand more accountability in our political system, to make our food supply safe for American families, and fix the trade policies that have left our local manufacturers competing on an unlevel playing field.

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.

On the «managing by results» side, there has been the big battle over the use of test data for accountability purposes (CompStat for schools), culminating in the fight over value - added measurement of teacher performance.

They are not necessarily associated with the 1990s battles over standards and accountability or the 2000s fights over NCLB.

And there are these often bitter political fights, David, right now over Common Core State Standards, over high - stakes testing, over teacher accountability.