Sentences with phrase «insistence on accountability»

We are proud of our challenging approaches, insistence on accountability, high academic expectations and relentless emphasis on college completion.

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In its critique of ways of knowing based on power and privilege, an epistemology oriented to the cross expresses the insistence that accountability entails taking steps to become aware of such realities.

Since the Christian's ultimate loyalty is to God and not the state in its demand for obedience to the law, the Christian always tempers his loyalty with insistences on justice with love that calls for an equality and liberty that holds the state's necessary powers of coercion under restraint and accountability to God.

Buhari said his insistence on probity, transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors was to secure the future of the country for all Nigerians, especially the youths.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

Responding to a few legislators» insistence on modifying the state accountability and assessment system, a group of influential policymakers developed an accountability reform plan that went well beyond adjusting rating and reporting requirements.

The Republican insistence on transferring educational oversight from the federal government to the states fails to recognize, as stated by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, that «history shows that, without some kind of accountability, states and districts do not always meet the needs of the most vulnerable students.»