Thus, one can try to understand the difference in impacts between the two
kinds of accountability by asking: in each situation, what was the least costly method of achieving a higher rating?
Not exact matches
Mitchell Chester: What the
accountability system does, and what No Child Left Behind does, is create some transparency in the system and put those
of us in the education profession in a position
of having to confront the realities about the
kind of achievement we're accomplishing with kids — especially kids from groups that traditionally have not been well - served
by schools.
The third possibility — the one I'm betting on — is that we're in a transformative period fueled
by a
kind of restlessness that nobody is getting
accountability right, the achievement problem remains, and ideas are not manifold about what to do next.
Student
accountability enables a
kind of «loose - tight» management
of students,
by which they are afforded greater flexibility over how to acquire a set
of knowledge and skills (loose) and held strictly accountable for their outcomes (tight).
Keeping in mind that test - based
accountability mostly focuses on the level
of test scores, not changes, and virtually never relies upon a rigorous identification
of how test scores are caused
by schools and programs, we have no way
of knowing that that the
kinds of schools, programs, and practices that we are pushing in education will actually help kids later in life.
The data most useful to parents and policymakers focus on how well students and schools are doing; this is the
kind of data required
by No Child Left Behind and collected
by state
accountability systems.
We are also asking educators to go back to their communities with the school success indicators developed
by the NEA Great Public Schools project, and have discussions about what
kinds of changes we all want to see in our schools, and how we can express our values through the school
accountability system under ESSA.
It is exactly this
kind of public oversight and
accountability that Milwaukee parents would lose if MPS schools are handed over to private third party operators in the current state budget bill passed last week
by the Joint Finance Committee.
The second report, Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context
of New
Accountability prepared by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new kinds of quality and success outcomes through the accountability ma
Accountability prepared
by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new
kinds of quality and success outcomes through the
accountability ma
accountability mandate in ESSA.
«The push in the United States has been so deeply around
accountability based on high - stakes assessments that educators have become more and more fearful that the
kind of going deeper [learning emphasized
by «deeper learning»] has not been celebrated and prioritized,» said Berger.
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.»
(For a detailed treatment
of the subject, please see «Judicial Independence and
Accountability: The Right and the Wrong
Kind,»
by the author.)
By the time a parenting coordinator is called in, the parents» relationship has deteriorated to a place where any
kind of cooperation, co-parenting and
accountability has ceased to exist.
The second report, Encouraging Social and Emotional Learning in the Context
of New
Accountability prepared by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new kinds of quality and success outcomes through the accountability ma
Accountability prepared
by Learning Policy Institute discusses the opportunity schools have to measure new
kinds of quality and success outcomes through the
accountability ma
accountability mandate in ESSA.
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