Sentences with phrase «increase standards and accountability»

While in the governor's office, he worked to support collective - bargaining reforms, increase standards and accountability, expand school choice, and keep college affordable through innovative reforms.

Not exact matches

The Senate bill would increase the cap to 460 schools from 200 schools and establish new standards for accountability and services to special education students and English language learners.

«Yet when we poll Americans, we see strong support even among gun owners for stricter standards and increased accountability.»

As many countries move towards increased accountability of teachers through standards, inspections and appraisals, Finland has moved away from these trends.

Chief among these were common standards and the assessments to go with them, and increased teacher accountability through new evaluation systems that included student test scores.

Bush's No Child Left Behind Act emphasized accountability, higher standards, parental involvement, and increased resources to help students and schools most in need.

«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,...

However, it is questionable whether higher standards and increased accountability will benefit students who have fallen behind in their learning, reduce levels of disengagement among these students, or decrease Australia's «long tail» of underachievement.

The goal of increased assessment and accountability in NCLB was to improve student achievement, reduce the achievement gap, and align instruction to academic standards.

But here the story is more complicated, because Massachusetts combined strong non-financial remedial measures — strong standards, enhanced assessments, and strict accountability measures — with increased funding.

This increasing diversity of the school - aged population has occurred within the context of the standards - based education movement and its accompanying high - stakes accountability testing.

While elements such as state standards, accountability measures, and value added measures are gaining acceptance, other important components, especially performance - based pay and increased choice options, are opposed by powerful forces — such as the politically connected teachers unions — with vested interests in the current system.

If accountability only means increased achievement scores, and if standards only focus on the acquisition of information, then we are using a very narrow view of those terms.

In the coming months, I will be improving school and teacher accountability, increasing literacy, and strengthening academic standards for Hoosier children.

In combination, these initiatives have progressively increased the demands on teachers and their students and have laid the groundwork for what was to come next - an unprecedented federal intervention on state level education policy - making that directs all states toward a single goal (i.e., 100 % of students reaching «proficiency») via a single system of implementation (i.e., standards - based assessment and accountability).

Second, it provided principals with increased responsibility and accountability of ensuring that tenured teachers met tenure performance standards.

In a timely op - ed in The Hechinger Report, NISL CEO Bob Hughes and the Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro, argue that improving the effectiveness of school leaders is even more critical in the current climate of tight budgets, rigorous standards, and increased accountability.

State and federal efforts to bolster standards and accountability place increasing demands on schools and aim to transform the role of the principal.

In fact, though most public high schools do not track or publish college graduation rates, many high - performing charter networks have a new, unified goal of increasing college graduation rates and raising their own standards for accountability.

Among other goals, it would increase high school course and credit requirements, raise student accountability and assessment standards, and include a model curricula for districts.

With the pendulum poised to shift away from a narrow focus on high - stakes accountability and rigid standards toward a more balanced «systems» approach to increasing student achievement, school leaders have an unprecedented opportunity to become what education theorist and author Michael Fullan terms «motion leaders.»

This year it is waiver of NCLB standards, as we hear of cheating, students and schools that are not meeting the latest standards, increased pressure for student accountability, and state and federal budget woes.

increased capacity to improve the effectiveness of governing boards in line with the «Competency framework for governance» (particularly boards» ability to provide strategic leadership and data - driven accountability for educational standards and financial performance)

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

The increasing use of state - mandated public high school exit exams is one manifestation of the current movement in U.S. public schooling toward more explicit standards of instruction and accountability.

Supporters argue that the tables help drive up standards by increasing the accountability of schools and providing valuable information for parents.

As a member of the task force, I am excited for the opportunity to join my colleagues in making recommendations to craft a new structure to improve California's education system focused on inclusive education practices, high expectations for students and education leaders, and providing evidence - based instruction and learning supports so that all students have an opportunity to learn the standards in all core subject areas, which will ultimately lead to increased accountability and academic success for all.

Increasing funding in 2002, No Child Left Behind required the adoption of a common set of english and math standards correlated with achievement goals along, measured by standardized testing for federal accountability.

The gap between official statistics and the perceptions of the profession seems vast; school leaders across the country report that they are struggling to fill vacancies with suitably qualified permanent staff, right at the time when they face increasing numbers of pupils, higher accountability standards and more demands on subject specialisms.

It focuses mostly on standards for accountability and transparency, and vastly increases the amount of information states will be required to share in annual «school report cards,» which will give parents better data on school performance and help guide where federal education money is most needed.

The state's shift to higher standards and increased accountability has brought about a much - needed focus on student achievement.

In 2009, after almost twenty years of steady progress in raising public education standards, enhancing accountability systems, and increasing the expectations of both students and educators, Texas finally put in place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education system.

• Academic Accountability — Significantly increase the State standards for K - 12 district and campus performance, add college readiness as a standard, measure it with the SAT or ACT exam for high school exit, and install urgent and serious consequences for underperforming campuses.

Regardless of the qualifications one might add to this number, this represents the continuation of an increasing trend in graduation rates over the past 20 years of standards and accountability based reform in Texas public education, and we should applaud educators across the state for this achievement.

Kudos to Kelly Griffith and Victor Sensenig for their clear exposition of graduation rate trends and the potential relationship between flat or falling graduation rates and increases in state standards and accountability demands.

«Each of these schools has maintained full state accreditation despite a significant increase in the rigor of the commonwealth's standards, assessments and accountability benchmarks,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said.

«ASCD embraces the need for high standards, improved assessment, and increased accountability for U.S. schools, especially those serving children in poverty,» said Carter, speaking for the 165,000 - member nonpartisan Association.

«We have worked to raise academic standards, promote accountability, and provide greater competition and choice within the public schools, including support for a dramatic increase in charter schools.»

With charters facing increased scrutiny regarding accountability and general standards, it is remarkable that the state with perhaps the most undeniably transformative charters would reject their expansion.

It means higher academic standards and increased accountability.

Any proposals to increase child - care money must include more meaningful incentives and accountability to assure quality, and better compensation has to be offered to teachers to reach those higher standards and, once there, to stay in the profession.

Among them: stringent graduation requirements, national standards, new approaches to how reading and math are taught, smaller classes, smaller schools, greater accountability through increased testing, and a focus on recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers.

NCLB is a federal law that mandates a number of programs aimed at improving U.S. education in elementary, middle and high schools by increasing accountability standards.

She recognized the increased focus on academic performance and accountability that is prevalent in an era of standards - based reform.

Increasing accountability with dashboards that provide detailed reports on student and classroom progress towards meeting challenging academic standards.

«The current law that sets the bar at 20 percent before needing additional performance review is adequate, and increasing this threshold to 30 percent would be a loosening of the standards and accountability when the discussion this week on many bills has been about increasing accountability,» said Jewell.

This law has opportunities for states to set their own accountability standards and for school districts to incorporate social - emotional learning in professional development and in the classroom; a recent meta - analysis shows an average increase of 13 percentile points in academic performance for students with SEL exposure over their non-SEL peers.

State licensing programs for groomers and other service providers may seek to codify standards and increase accountability, which are certainly laudable goals, in an effort to reassure uncertain customers.

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