Sentences with phrase «impose standards and accountability»

And Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute report that «NCLB and state - level efforts to impose standards and accountability on the schools are plainly boosting the kids who need it most — surely a good thing.»

We in the U.S. operate instead as if externally imposed standards and accountability will magically cause thousands of isolated individual teaching efforts to somehow add up to improved system performance.

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But I join Mr. Forstmann in believing that the «accountability» mechanism that should be attached to those standards and test results is a parent «driven marketplace rather than state «imposed rewards and sanctions.

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

Carrying out this work amidst the pressures of coverage, standards, externally imposed mandates, and accountability can be challenging.

Consistency may be the hobgoblin of small minds; yet the contrast between allowing taxpayer support of private schools, which are neither accountable nor transparent to the public, and imposing the most stringent reporting and accountability standards on all public schools should alarm the fair - minded.

Is it imposing sorely needed standards and accountability on K - 12 education?

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Again, these reforms were popular on both the political left and right: the left saw in standards a way to create greater uniformity across the school system; the right saw in accountability a way to impose greater pressure on an unresponsive public bureaucracy.

My thoughts drifted to what Alphie Kohn wrote, «Invoking such terms as «tougher standards,» «accountability,» and «raising the bar,» people with little understanding of how children learn have imposed a heavy - handed, top - down, test - driven version of school reform that is lowering the quality of education in this country.»