Sentences with phrase «histories of accountability policy»

A comparative and international history of school accountability can explore the relationships among individual national histories of accountability policy and discourse and broader questions of international trends and patterns.

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Koretz also reminds us of the history of testing as a policy tool: test - based accountability long predates the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), suggesting that the passage of NCLB's successor in 2015, the Every Student Succeeds Act, is unlikely to eliminate it.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

The history of public - education policy has been decades of state and local superintendents talking all about reform programs — without accountability.

Organizational school improvement Student learning Accountability Enhancement of professional development / Teacher capacity and leadership Non-specific education policy or history (general)

Although this is explicitly permitted in ESSA statute (just as it was in NCLB), history suggests that without guidance from the US Department of Education, this policy can be overlooked or misinterpreted by states, and charter autonomy and accountability can suffer.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

Superfine's research interests focused on the intersection and history of education law and policy, school finance reform law and policy, standards - based reform and accountability policies, teacher evaluation policy, and the role of science in the educational policy process.

You may also need that person's permission to buy a policy on them, since life insurance companies must access the medical history of someone who's looking to be insured and, according to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that person (the insured) usually has to sign a written consent form to release his or her medical records.

Given the history of lack of consultation, lack of participation and lack of engagement in government policy making and program development to date, the recognition of the right to self - determination in a Human Rights Act would provide an important foundation that would promote Indigenous peoples» democratic inclusion and improved accountability.