Sentences with phrase «for educational accountability»

Eager to showcase his compassion, he drew upon his record as an education reformer in Texas to make the case for educational accountability.

Self - monitoring assessments for educational accountability systems.

Standards for educational accountability systems (CRESST Policy Brief 5).

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You may recall that the original impetus for focusing on this previously unexplored set of skills, in How Children Succeed and elsewhere, was the growing body of evidence that, when it comes to long - term academic goals like high - school graduation and college graduation, the test scores on which our current educational accountability system relies are clearly inadequate.

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.

She will advocate for strong local control of schools; improved teacher, student and parent accountability; and renewed pre-eminence for Iowa's educational system.»

Joining de Blasio on a press call this afternoon, Duncan insisted that the mayoral control system has both led to improvements to local schools and created a rare kind of electoral accountability for educational performance.

You can see a rationale for current trends toward measurement and accountability in everything from research funding to educational testing in public schools.

Bolder, Broader Action: Strategies for Closing the Poverty Gap Education Week, May 27, 2011 «We have set the nation's highest standards, been tough on accountability and invested billions in building school capacity, yet we still see a very strong correlation between socioeconomic background and educational achievement and attainment,» writes Senior Lecturer Paul Reville.

However, the positive impact of accountability systems, particularly for the poor and minority students who traditionally have been excluded from educational opportunities, outweighs the risks.

The move toward federally imposed accountability standards is necessary to ensure that federal funds are enhancing educational opportunity, especially for poor and minority students.

Eligible schools were notified in November of 2007, leaving relatively little time for teachers and administrators to alter their educational plans before accountability exams were administered in January for reading and March for math.

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.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

Spell out flexibility for state educational agencies (SEAs) to contemplate accountability that looks different in urban areas with many charter schools.

He is currently directing studies that will explore new methods for evaluating gains in scores on high - stakes tests and evaluate the use of value - added models in educational accountability systems.

However, a key reform of NCLB, Rotherham writes, was that it «changed the unit of analysis for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.»

Since the No Child Left Behind Act links accountability so closely with standardized testing, it is difficult for corporate educational programs to evaluate their programs» progress accurately.

We also adjusted the data to account for changes in state spending on education and for parents» educational levels, which provides controls for simultaneous changes in state policies or differences in demographics that might confound the analysis of how accountability systems influenced student achievement.

While no one is claiming these efforts will fix what's broken with America's educational system, there remain pockets of support for some type of parental accountability measure.

Its primary recommendation is that the accountability system for special education be redesigned to focus on educational outcomes.

The No Child Left Behind law changed the unit of analysis for educational performance and accountability from schools to students.

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.

Even as the state - and federal - led accountability movement presents new challenges to local control, the political, economic, and educational arguments for local control are also likely to continue to enjoy support.

He wants the feds to provide funds for adolescent literacy programs and state data systems; to ensure that every school is staffed by «skilled» teachers and principals; for district efforts to «personalize the educational experience»; and much more; and he calls on Congress to establish «meaningful high school accountability» (though the details are vague).

«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.

He has a commanding grasp of the complex issues plaguing the educational system, and will avoid well - intended but simplistic principles like the idea that test scores can be the basis for accountability.

If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational alternatives for families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.

In 2008, the NEA unveiled the «Great Public Schools for Every Student by 2020» project, in which the union committed to «creating models for state - based educational improvement,» «developing a new framework for accountability systems that support authentic student learning,» and «fostering a constructive relationship with U.S. Department of Education leadership.»

Rising educational expectations, increasing accountability, equitability for diverse populations, and new technologies are creating opportunities for gaining growth and higher outcomes for every student.

The school district accountability groups for each grade level will include all students enrolled in a public school in the district or placed out of the district for educational services by the district committee on special education or a district official.

One option, given the high rate of students from low - income families in CEP schools, is to simply consider all students in these schools to be from low - income families for accountability purposes, including eligibility for supplemental educational services and school choice priority, where relevant.

Some states have tied student eligibility for educational choice programs to the state's district school accountability system, offering vouchers or ESAs to students assigned to district schools receiving «D» or «F» grades, for example.

Specific actions, such as public school choice and supplemental educational services for students in schools identified for accountability consequences, become optional in waiver states, and few waiver states continue to require these specific interventions.

While it is too early to know how the implementation of the Common Core State Standards will play out over the next several years, the authors point out that most states are already using CCSS - aligned assessments for the purposes of educational accountability.

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 Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

While states, districts, and schools have long collected certain education data for accountability purposes and in an attempt to be more data - driven, there is growing interest in leveraging new digital learning tools, online services, educational «apps,» and other technologies in the classroom.

Eliminating the requirement to calculate adequate yearly progress (AYP) and replacing it with a requirement for each State educational agency to develop an accountability system that --

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

«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.»

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.»

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.

Likewise, the government could ensure that ESA funds are spent on qualifying educational products and services, but the accountability for results should lie with parents, who are in the best position to evaluate those results.

The data currently being gathered by CORE provide a unique opportunity for researchers to study this question and others related to the role of schools in developing student skills and the design of educational 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.

Local governing boards provide oversight and accountability, partnering with Imagine Schools for comprehensive educational and operational expertise, support and programmatic variety.

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.