Sentences with phrase «makes subgroup accountability»

Since those kids are more likely to be poor and from minority groups, it makes subgroup accountability per se unnecessary.

Not exact matches

With respect to the research on test - based accountability, Principal Investigator Jimmy Kim adds: «While we embrace the overall objective of the federal law — to narrow the achievement gap among different subgroups of students — NCLB's test - based accountability policies fail to reward schools for making progress and unfairly punish schools serving large numbers of low - income and minority students.

The 100 percent proficiency target set by No Child, for example, was an ambitious statement that all kids should get the education they need to write their own life stories, while AYP's emphasis on subgroup accountability made clear that states, districts, and schools need to do well by all children, regardless of who they are.

His amendments, for example, would require state accountability systems to set performance, growth, and graduation targets for all students, including all subgroups of students, and make performance against those targets matter for all schools.

States also made significant adjustments to their accountability models, including ensuring high schools are held accountable for graduation rates, bolstering subgroup accountability, and strengthening the criteria schools and districts must meet before they are no longer deemed low - performing.