Sentences with phrase «improving school accountability measures»

As the North Carolina General Assembly opens its long session on January 25, WakeEd Partnership has released its Public Policy Agenda (PDF) with an emphasis on teacher talent management, improving school accountability measures, and ensuring student equity for all...

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One of only 16 states to reward high - performing or improving schools, South Carolina also fares well on measures of school accountability.

It must be understood that every school in Australia is a «government funded school» therefore accountability must be the same for all schools and any measures of improved performance must be developed in consultation with the profession.

The use of a proficiency index or providing schools credit for students at different points in the achievement distribution improves the construct validity of the accountability measures over the NCLB proficiency rate measures (Polikoff et al., 2014).

The color of the bubble reflects a metric composed of factors that taken together are warning signs that a district's alternative schools are of poor quality or that a district may be using alternative schools to improve accountability measures.

Upon reflecting on what each of these experts said, the good news is that the core principles of accountability that have guided progress in our schools are still widely agreed to: setting high standards, assessing regularly to those standards, measuring improvement, and providing supports for students and consequences for schools that don't improve.

During his tenure, he made the MTA the voice of the profession and established the teachers union as a partner in developing and implementing state and federal policy such as teacher - evaluation frameworks, new curriculum standards, district and school accountability measures, while strengthening labor - management collaboration focused on improving student achievement.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Promote evidence - based practices and accountability for student success by improving the use of data, research, and evaluation to assess longitudinal student outcomes, improve school and program results, and otherwise measure progress toward consistently delivering high quality programs and services.

Assessment and Accountability for Improving Schools and Learning calls for replacing the one - shot tests used to impose sanctions under NCLB with multiple measures that better support high - quality teaching and increased student achievement.

Pro-voucher groups aren't trying to fight accountability, but are working to make sure that an equitable process is developed to measure the success of school choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice Wiscschool choice programs in improving academic achievement, says Jim Bender, executive director of School Choice WiscSchool Choice Wisconsin.

The ESSA requires states to measure school quality and improves on the No Child Left Behind Act by allowing states and districts to round out their accountability rubrics with measures beyond test scores.

The board would be created by a constitutional amendment and be charged with approving all administrative rules related to the DPI; design and issue a new state report card and audit the DPI's accountability measures to «ensure DPI is effectively using, but not abusing, its authority to help low - performing schools and teacher preparation programs improve.»

California's school funding model is based on a powerful idea: improve outcomes by directing more resources to high - need students and use a multiple - measure accountability system that supports local decision - making.

Joseph Martineau joined the Center as a Senior Associate in January 2014, and has led and contributed to work on growth models, prepared for and analyzed the effects of interruptions of online testing, developed and improved testing and accountability systems, measured achievement gaps, conducted standard setting, evaluated test security, designed comprehensive assessment systems, conceptualized high school assessment under ESSA, designed educator certification testing, and implemented educator evaluation systems.

In New Mexico, she's working to keep up the pressure on schools to improve, including deciding that the state would not suspend its accountability measures even as the state adopted new tests.

While many state policymakers are continually drawn to accountability measures that rely on sanctions and rewards, effective school and district leaders know that true accountability can only be attained when teachers have the necessary knowledge and skills to improve student learning.

On June 26, Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed into law a measure that strengthens the state's home visiting programs and establishes a system of accountability that will help ensure strong outcomes such as improved health for mothers and infants, and children being better prepared to learn when they start school.

The full report provides details about the kinds of measures that can be used to support a focus on SEL — for use in a state accountability system, which reveals how different groups of students may be experiencing school and how they are being supported; and for use at the school or district level, to help educators improve classroom and school practices.