Sentences with phrase «like standards and accountability»

Reflecting on Carlson's observations and two related papers, College Board's Stefanie Sanford observed, «The theme here is that people like standards and accountability... until they don't.»

Not exact matches

Despite the pressure to teach for measurable results like assessment and accountability standards, don't lose sight of core virtues like cooperation, honor, and hospitality.

Would you like to elaborate on how accountability standards differ between face - to - face programs and virtual education?

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

Together, they pushed an education reform agenda, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), that emphasized higher standards and more accountability, a results - based approach that parents liked.

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

Policies like top - down accountability, No - Child - Left - Behind style, are «hard,» but they have a «thin» theory of change — namely that if we set standards and hold people accountable for meeting them, they will figure out how to hit those benchmarks.

For example, what if top - down accountability as defined and enforced by states and the federal government were limited to basic skills, something like the MCTs of the 1970s but based on clear, empirically validated standards about what students need to know and be able to do to hold down the types of jobs that do not require a college degree?

Chris Cerf argued for the critical role of big system changes around things like accountability, standards, and teacher evaluation.

Michigan is one of 42 states to receive a waiver from the 13 - year - old federal law in exchange for implementing requirements like career - and college - ready standards, stronger school accountability standards and a system to evaluate teachers and identify underperforming ones.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

Pricey administrators also like to promote the orthodoxy of accountability and standards, getting the public to think that the problem is the teachers, meanwhile they cut out specials and enrichment.

Like Rhode Island's other public bodies, charter schools are also held to high standards of accountability and transparency.

It also didn't woo Republicans like Seliger, who fear for rural district funding and worry about sending public money to private schools that aren't held to the same accountability standards.

In doing so, it hands more control to states over things like accountability, testing, standards and teacher evaluations.

But accountability simply means that states are responsible not only for adequate inputs like sufficient funding, ambitious course content standard, and high - quality instruction, but also for outputs like accurate measures of student learning and teacher effectiveness.

These enhancements, like those in the new CAEP standards, should go beyond independent accreditation into state law and policy that includes transparent data linkages of students with their teachers and the preparation program from which they graduated, and with meaningful «teeth» for accountability.

We have learned many lessons along the way and have identified best practices that we would like to share with others who may be interested in implementing robust accountability standards in their own states as well as state charter associations seeking to build accountability frameworks to guide their advocacy efforts.

Like other public schools in our state, Avalon must meet intense external accountability measures, including 133 graduation standards and hundreds of benchmarks.

I'd like to see climate campaigners seek the same level of accountability and tough standards in this industry — and international carbon accounting — as they called for in gas drilling.

Adam also noted that, as regulators tighten the requirements for transparency and accountability, technology providers like FactSet must, out of necessity, evolve in order to meet clients» needs and set technical standards in the industry.

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Meantime, new marketing practices are sure to emerge as green building industry standard - bearers, like the U.S. Green Building Council, reimagine their data offerings through evolving technologies that improve engagement and accountability in green certification processes.