Sentences with phrase «little accountability on»

The page that users were directed to features a photo of Obama and the quote: «We've seen and lived the consequences of what happens when there's too little accountability on Wall Street and too little protection for Main Street.

But, I suppose some people want that kind of institutional Christianity that provides them some assurance and little accountability on how they are living the rest of their life.

Not exact matches

We are still a club with no benefactor to bankroll us so the books have to be balanced.That is a way of life that we must live with and accept.But from now on there can be little or no excuses in the players we buy.Wengers control in these matters have been taken from him so the emphasis and accountability lies with Ivan Gazidis and his new teams.We can't get things wrong.Big and better players cost more in fees and wages so it's certainlg going to be interesting.

State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli said the state needs more accountability when giving out economic development funds, noting this year's budget again relies heavily on lump sum appropriations that have little oversight regarding their allocation.

«We're spending hundreds of millions of dollars on contracts with vendors and consultants that have been added... there's little accountability.»

President Obama has put little political capital behind his transportation objectives; Congress has yet to hammer out a new transportation bill; the Highway Trust Fund is nearing bankruptcy; Governor Andrew Cuomo has yet to take a position on Gateway, and hasn't shown much enthusiasm for transit in general, and Christie seemed to express his position on mass transit with the cancellation of ARC, which has been the subject of a very damaging report by the Government Accountability Office.

When a New York attorney general brings a lawsuit against a prominent business person, there are two things you can count on out of that office — lots of political bluster and little accountability.

The staff member, Victor E. Franco, in his second day of testimony at the trial in Manhattan, elaborated on the budgetary process, as prosecutors sought to illustrate that Mr. Silver controlled it all with little transparency or accountability, particularly on the Health Department grants that are the focus of the case.

Two factors underlie the problem in Nigeria, Sidibé says: little effort to focus resources on the regions of the country that have the biggest problems, and no strong «culture of accountability» to ensure funds are well spent.

In Indiana and Michigan, for example, there are virtually no restrictions on home schoolers and very little accountability to government.

But in all the acrimonious discussion surrounding NCLB, surprisingly little attention has been given to the actual impact of that legislation and other accountability systems on student performance.

In fact, we know very little about the impact of test - based accountability on students» later success.

For too long, states had no systems for accountability, and the result was too little transparency about student results, system improvement, and the return on our investment of tax dollars.

With the NEA opposed to meaningful accountability, genuine school choice, and anything resembling merit pay, politicians have little to gain from trumpeting reforms that might get schools back on track.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

These scandals have aroused public concern, but there has been little hard evidence on the extent of cheating by school personnel on the type of tests required by recently enacted accountability legislation.

We bury them in committees, schedules, supervision, volunteer programs, data analysis, before - school and after - school meetings, materials, activities and evening events, training, special programs — and sprinkle a little goal - setting, demands, testing, accountability, evaluations, and relentlessly high expectations for change and improvement on top for good measure.

States with waivers from NCLB like Maine are now using normative comparisons to make accountability decisions, meaning the absolute proficiency levels have little bearing on a school's accountability.

The problem stems from parents» concern that their own children might be denied promotion or graduation based on a test score; from voters» confusion when their own upscale suburban schools are deemed to be failing by state or federal accountability systems even though most of the graduates do just fine; and from frustration when parents — often prompted by teachers — conclude that the basic - skills testing regime yields too much «drill and kill,» too little flexibility, and insufficient attention to art, music, and other creative disciplines.

Still, little was settled on the accountability front.

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

Provide real development and accountability for teachers: Ensure that all teachers have access to constructive feedback, and that students are not stuck in classrooms where little learning goes on.

The results show that students in high - accountability states averaged significantly greater gains on the NAEP 8th - grade math test than students in states with little or no state measures to improve student performance.

Suggested individual or study team activity: Research conducted by Wiliam (2010), Amrein & Berliner (2002), and Cizek (2005) has found that use of accountability tests has little effect on student achievement.

KNOWLEDGE BRIEF 15 by Stephen Raudenbush Student scores on standardized tests are used as measures for teacher accountability, but, arguably, helping children score well on an achievement test is of little value in itself.

As North Carolina looks ahead to school vouchers being implemented next year, read on to understand why residents can anticipate very little accountability for private schools receiving taxpayer funds.

Over the past eight years, NAESP has been leading the charge on Capitol Hill on behalf of Pre-K-8 principals to address the many challenges that educators have faced due to the shortsighted one - size - fits - all federal accountability requirements, misguided school improvement schemes, and little to no capacity - building for educators to ensure effective practice is supported.

They argue that accountability should be based on a metric that is a little more reality - based.

The National Research Councilconcluded that test - based accountability under the No Child Left Behind Law (NCLB) had «zero to little effect» on achievement.

The National Research Council determined that 10 years of No Child Left Behind test - based accountability has had zero to little effect on student achievement.

Otherwise, there is very little specifically on the difference between intervention activities in charters versus traditional schools, and almost no states are incorporating authorizer accountability measures into their plans.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

That said, we need extrapolate only a little to question the current direction, and underlying theory of action, beneath the continued press to tighten the screws on the package of high - stakes testing, school accountability, and educator performance evaluations tied to student achievement scores (which, as I noted in a previous Educational Leadership column, researchers caution is fraught with concerns of its own).

«Democrats pushed to restore a punitive accountability system, much like NCLB,» education historian Diane Ravitch wrote on her personal blog, calling the vote, «evidence of how little Congress knows about education.»

Standardized tests with high stakes are bad for learning, studies show (Statesman, 3/10/2012) A National Academies of Science committee reviewed America's test - based accountability systems and concluded, «There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress.»

So far, there's little research on how A-F accountability systems could impact the way families use school vouchers.

This position would be the inverse of our current approach of providing little up front and demanding heavy accountability on the back end.

Technology continues to be used primarily for administration rather than instruction; there is little systematic professional development for pre-service or in - service teachers on ICT - based instruction and few accountability measures exist for reporting on teachers» efforts to integrate ICE in instruction; initially cited by Larry Cuban in his 2001 publication of Oversold and Underused: Computers in the Classroom.

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

It is interesting to note, that these articles reported on the fact that the state continues to provide dollars for vouchers to schools that have been rated as D or F for many years with little to no accountability.

This finding prompted him to conclude that «despite its increasing popularity within education, there is little empirical evidence on test - based accountability» (p. 4).

The study notes that in cyber schooling, there's little financial and academic accountability, as well as little research on their effectiveness.

Add in the fact that in some states — most - notably Virginia — the accountability measures, along with proficiency levels on state tests, are secondary in importance to shoddy accreditation processes, and suddenly, the waiver gambit has done little more than create even more mess.

As part of the accountability - for - flexibility tradeoff, charter schools must be regularly examined for renewal, but little data exists on how often underperforming charters are shut down.

In its 2011 report to Congress, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed America's test - based accountability systems and concluded, «There are little to no positive effects of these systems overall on student learning and educational progress.»

According to the author, current law only provides an increasing cap on the number of charter schools and little or no accountability.

It makes little sense to see borrowers left in the lurch after such an emphasis on accountability.

Management teams can rely on Kemp Little as their single point of accountability, overseeing all legal aspects of the investment with practical and sound business judgement.

The response to the first round of consultation highlighted a lack of accountability on the part of supervisors; lack of consistency in approach between supervisors in the same sector; insufficient powers to require information and / or carry out spot checks and too little / too much / inconsistent / out of date guidance from supervisors which has created uncertainty for business.