Sentences with phrase «in school accountability systems»

This could be a boon for youth voice advocates who would like to see measures like «school climate» included in school accountability systems.

In this Q&A, he suggests it's a bad idea to include standardized measures of character strength in school accountability systems.

But the states» performance assessments were costly and technically inadequate for use in school accountability systems.

A more immediate source of anger is the idea that an assessment that will play such a major part in the school accountability system should be carried out on pupils who are so very young, and that it should happen so early in their time at school.

They can try to do so indirectly, via initiatives to recruit and retain talented teachers, to implement high - quality curricula, or to include measures of student engagement in school accountability systems.

States must include each major racial / ethnic subgroup in school accountability systems and can not use a combined «super subgroup» of minority students.

For example, ESSA requires states to include a broader set of factors in school accountability systems rather than just test scores; provides funding for states and districts to audit and streamline their testing regimes; and allows states to cap the amount of instructional time devoted to testing.

Education Week examines whether the «widespread worry that states would walk away from making sure that particular groups of students — English - language learners, students in special education, and racial minorities — mattered in their school accountability systems» under ESSA is well founded.

In a letter sent Thursday to Jason Botel, the department's acting assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education, the National Science Teachers Association and the STEM Education Coalition said that the department's recent feedback on states» plans for the Every Student Succeeds Act improperly discourages states from using science in school accountability systems.

Brown vetoed similar legislation last year from Steinberg and state schools chief Tom Torlakson that sought some of the same changes in the school accountability system.

«HB 978 would allow schools to shirk their responsibility to educate ALL Maryland students to high academic levels by making student learning a lower priority in the school accountability system.

CORE districts, which also include Los Angeles Unified and San Francisco Unified, are the first in the country to weigh social - emotional aspects in a school accountability system.

Nearly two years later, not a single state's plan to comply with the federal education law — and its broader vision for judging school performance — calls for inclusion of such measures in its school accountability system.»

Valuing the Early Years in State Accountability Systems Under the Every Student Succeeds Act raises «the possibility of including preschool in school accountability systems, and suggest some questions for states to consider in deciding whether that makes sense in their context.»

Should Noncognitive Skills Be Included in School Accountability Systems?

They have an article in Educational Researcher and have been giving interviews emphasizing that while non-cog skills appear to be a very important part of later life success, our methods of measuring these concepts are still not very strong — certainly not strong enough to include in school accountability systems.

But we can't simply wish it away — which is why «closing the achievement gap» remains a powerful aspiration, but a terrible principle to embed, quite literally, in school accountability systems.

Should Non-cognitive Skills Be Included in School Accountability Systems?

Should non-cognitive skills be included in school accountability systems?