Sentences with phrase «make about accountability»

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So you made a mistake, you took personal accountability for it and you plan to be honest about it — but how do you approach the injured party?

If Twitter is serious about being a force for good in the world and a haven from harassment for its users, it will have to start by making it harder to tweet without any sort of accountability.

He talks about accountability and support structures, about how we need to speak to people, our friends or co-workers, and let them know about the changes we're trying to make.

The report points to September 2015 data released by the Government Accountability Office, which shows about 330,000 people, or roughly 11 % of the Americans who've taken out Parent Plus loans, have gone at least a year without making a payment.

«Making a commitment to your accountability partner about your goal will make the milestone realistically attainable.»

For 25 - year - old Myles Reville, it's about accountability — he enjoys being responsible for making the tough calls for his business, a strength he learned from coaching sailing.

You'd think the same would hold true for a governing Conservative party that came to office in 2006 on a platform of transparency and accountability, or the three opposition parties who make daily denunciations about Prime Minister Stephen Harper's penchant of secrecy.

That makes no sense, how about the MOM and DAD taking some personal accountability and DO N'T HAVE S - EX if you are not prepared to take care of the outcome!!!

After it all, he may conclude that he does not believe but enjoys the structure which a church provides, or that while he believes in his heart, the personal accountability and responsibility intrinsic to non-belief has made him a better person, or just about anything in between.

[Editor's note: Author Craig Gross is cofounder of XXXChurch.com, a website created to make people aware of all the issues about porn and provide Christians with accountability and hope.

We certainly can talk about responsibility and accountability, we just don't allow you to make up the answers.

Furthermore, what happens most often in accountability groups is that if a person doesn't want to talk about his sin, all the accountability group does is make him feel more guilty about it, which then makes him fall into the sin even more.

Under accountability to the highest seat of authority I therefore make bold to say that these words, «blessed is he who shall not be offended in me,» belong essentially to the preaching about Christ, if not in the same way as the words of institution at the Holy Communion, yet at least like the words, «let every man examine himself.»

Part of the problem is that many therapists can't even agree about the definition and treatment of Internet infidelity, which makes addressing trust, accountability and the betrayed partner's ability to express his or her feelings challenging.

Accountability is about making sure you are more than just inspired, that you'll actually make strides toward your vision.

Limits and rules were literally made to be crossed and broken because that's how we, as humans, learn about consequences and accountability.

«Making public data available for re-use is about increasing accountability and transparency and letting people create new, innovative ways of using it,» Sir Tim Berners - Lee, the man widely credited with inventing the internet and a key figure in the development on the site, said.

Happy to put the kettle on, but am asking you and The Observer to withdraw the claims made about our liberal democratic credentials, because I believe in liberal democratic media accountability, and am delighted has processes in place for that to be handled.

«It's disappointing to me that, despite many years of talk from people on both the left and the right of politics we are still stuck with this system which is antiquated and undemocratic... We need to try to get beyond the more tabloid version of this argument and really understand what it says about our democracy — you've got people appointed to the legislature without going through the proper processes of democratic accountability that are taken for granted in most countries in the world and you have people being influenced by making political donations.

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaced No Child Left Behind, gives states considerable flexibility to craft their own accountability systems — in the process asking states to make crucial decisions about what it means to be a successful school, what rate of academic progress is acceptable, and...

Gillibrand's Campus Accountability and Safety Act would require colleges to make annual, anonymous surveys about sexual violence on campus, and force the federal government to increase disclosure of investigations into colleges accused of mishandling sexual violence on campus.

PIs who make the lab's authorship customs clear to all people coming into the lab can avoid conflicts about ethics, accountability, and the accompanying bruised egos.

Scientific leaders who oppose that provision view it as a mechanism for making ideology - driven decisions about what NSF should be funding, and Smith says it's simply an attempt to ensure accountability.

And yet I came to the Gates Foundation because I am so thrilled at something fundamental that Bill and Melinda have brought to thinking about making the world better, and that is accountability, metrics, a lens of return on investment.

This article continues to share on the lack of accountability of high street / fast fashion brands, making me rethink about purchasing from the brands mentioned.

It is a simple question that makes us think about the farmers, factory workers and artisans that are involved in making our clothes but more importantly to ask this question to brands, demanding more transparency and accountability.

If you can not control the actions of others, maintain accountability themselves will prevent the temptation to make someone else's photo to your profile or lie about the past.

Wilson makes it clear that he doesn't share Moore's political beliefs, but the film isn't about ideology as much as accountability.

The data that are necessary to report out for public accountability are different from the data that a teacher needs to make daily decisions about helping a student master a concept.

I've got to believe that it's something about the structure of the charter sector — its governance by mission - driven boards instead of local politicians; its ability to recruit and retain educators that share a vision rather than a collective bargaining agreement (and conventional preparation and certification); its sense of urgency driven by accountability to authorizers and funders — that makes the difference.

This report makes some vitally important points about why this is so damaging, and why the pursuit of exam results and accountability metrics therefore has to be informed by an understanding of the curriculum, and of what it means to master a subject.»

Their comparative advantage is to sustain and develop knowledge about how accountability systems can be made to serve the purposes of school improvement.

These annual volumes make assertions about empirical facts («students» scores on the state tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).

Andy has also blogged about «How Chartering Makes Possible an Entirely New Approach to Accountability.»

A unitary accountability system enables the state to fairly and transparently monitor program compliance and inform the public about performance; make difficult decisions about withholding funds, intervening with local boards, and taking over schools and districts; and uniformly and thoroughly administer federal programs.

This does not make gathering evidence about the effects of accountability impossible.

It is about finding symmetry between accountability and encouragement, and about being creative and making the material accessible to the students in order to keep them interested.

Most promising, TEAC's heavy emphasis on the obligation of teacher - education programs to produce convincing evidence in support of the claims they make about their own quality has the potential to enhance accountability in teacher education.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trust them!).

Join Shael Polakow - Suransky, New York City Public Schools» chief accountability officer, and Rebecca Unterman, a research associate at MDRC, for a discussion about New York City's small schools, what the research says about their performance, and what makes them an effective option for NYC's disadvantaged students.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

John Austin made the comments in an email when asked about accountability of charter public schools.

In any case, though the wooly wordsmithing of his letter may make for good unionizing, it makes me welcome Mr. Iannuzzi's current «support» for charters and accountability with about as much cheer and conviction as I would a Trojan horse wheeled up to the school house door.

Losing comparable data would be a blow not just for accountability, evaluation, and research, but also for communicating about the state of our education system and making smart policy decisions.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

«And by analyzing data from administration to administration, educators and policymakers can identify trends and make informed decisions about instruction and accountability.»

ESSA pushes decision - making power about most aspects of accountability from federal education officials to the states and localities.

This past May, Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY wrote an editorial about Bill de Blasio's plans for the city's «failure factories,» which she alleges «have made little progress under this mayor's leadership» and continue to operate without appropriate standards and accountability.

Policymakers and the public must immediately engage in an open and transparent community decision - making process about the best ways to use test scores and to develop accountability systems that fully support a broader, more accurate definition of college, career, and citizenship readiness that ensures equity and access for all students.

While ESSA required states to add in a couple of additional outcome measures of students and schools, the overwhelming weight of accountability is still upon a single standardized test by which to make important and often high - stakes judgments about students, schools, and districts.