Sentences with phrase «making accountability systems»

There is somewhat less progress when it comes to making accountability systems fair to high - poverty schools.

Yet we see somewhat less progress when it comes to making accountability systems fair to high - poverty schools.

And under ESSA, states appear to be making their accountability systems both clearer and fairer: clearer by using A — F grades, five - star ratings, and the like; and fairer by focusing much more heavily on student - level growth, which credits schools for the progress that all kids make while under their tutelage.

Given all these gains, can anyone be seriously unhappy, considering how many states have made their accountability systems fairer to more kids, fairer to high poverty schools, and clearer to parents, taxpayers and educators?

And we have not figured out how to make this accountability system support the development of human beings.

One way to make accountability systems simpler to understand is to ditch the insider lingo.

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Their programs guide consumers to find and make green choices, help green businesses emerge and thrive, tackle climate change, build fair trading systems, and demand corporate accountability.

Green Americas programs guide consumers to find and make green choices, help green businesses emerge and thrive, tackle climate change, build fair trading systems, and demand corporate accountability.

Our programs guide consumers to find and make green choices, help green businesses emerge and thrive, tackle climate change, build fair trading systems, and demand corporate accountability.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

«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 judicial process, the judicial system of Kenya and the election laws themselves make full and adequate provision for accountability in this election,» said Kerry, an election observer for the Carter Center.

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...

Accountability — 15 years — yes, but make sure they can retire and be kicked out for dishonesty or poor attendance, or by a system of recall.

«When the reason became clear, we decided to take the first part of the Bill that has to do with governance, transparency and accountability in order to make the system more efficient for the country.

Sara has published extensively on European affairs, in particular on transparency and accountability in political systems, EU policy - making processes, EU treaty matters, the role of national parliaments, and the consequences of EU enlargements.

Our fight is not yet over to end insider trading in Congress and demand more accountability in our political system, to make our food supply safe for American families, and fix the trade policies that have left our local manufacturers competing on an unlevel playing field.

By 1994 the General Accounting Office (GAO, now known as the Government Accountability Office) issued a report concluding that the «FAA has made little progress toward meeting the [1990] act's goal for deploying new explosive detection systems.»

If you are looking for accountability, build it into the system by stating up front how authorships are decided and by making sure you know how much money is being spent, and by whom.

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Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

With key components from the old system as the foundation, ESSA (which Business Roundtable CEOs supported) is designed to move the federal government out of the decision - making process and give states the flexibility to design their own accountability systems and ensure all students receive an education that prepares them for college and career.

For now, let's celebrate the fact that states, by and large, seized this rare opportunity to make their school accountability systems clearer and fairer.

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

And for both practical and ethical reasons, we need to monitor these accountability systems to minimize unintended negative consequences and make midcourse corrections.

The measures used in the NEPC report — whether schools make AYP, state accountability system ratings, the percentage of students that score proficient on state tests, and high - school graduation rates — are at best rough proxies for the quality of education provided by any school.

A large body of research makes a convincing case that the design of accountability systems influences how schools respond to them.

Making this the norm in classroom practice is no easy task: it will require changes at all levels of the system, including to the evidence base, career pathways, leadership capability, and reporting, accountability and governance.

And it's why many of us have supported «top down» accountability efforts over the past twenty years — to put pressure on school systems to put the needs of kids first and to make the tough decisions they might otherwise avoid.

For example, ESSA only slightly broadens the focus from test scores, does nothing to confront Campbell's Law, * doesn't allow for reasonable variations among students, doesn't take context into account, doesn't make use of professional judgment, and largely or entirely (depending on the choices states» departments of education make) continues to exclude the quality of educators» practice from the mandated accountability system.

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.

Indeed, the Lone Star State made Texas - sized gains from the early - to mid-1990s, as its accountability system got traction.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation that will make some significant changes in the state's accountability system and budgeting requirements for schools, including tougher high school graduation standards and elimination of a requirement that school districts must spend 65 percent of their operating budgets on classroom instruction.

Grade - span accountability solves none of the problems of our current system while making other problems worse.

The NCLB accountability system divides schools into those in which a sufficient number of students score at the proficient level or above on state tests to meet Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) benchmarks («make AYP») and those that fail to make AYP.

«The Accountability Plateau,» by Mark Schneider, just published by Education Next and the Fordham Institute, makes a big point: that «consequential accountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middlAccountability Plateau,» by Mark Schneider, just published by Education Next and the Fordham Institute, makes a big point: that «consequential accountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middlaccountability,» à la No Child Left Behind and the high - stakes state testing systems that preceded it, corresponded with a significant one - time boost in student achievement, particularly in primary and middle school math.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

The whole goal of accountability systems is to make sure that students are learning.

A lot of states have determined what's most important in an accountability system is whether students can read and compute, and whether students are making progress from year to year.

Give more authority to states to design their own accountability systems as long as they make «significant» progress in the proportion of students at or above the proficient level and are closing achievement gaps.

Alexander indicated that he was strongly influenced by the recommendation made at a hearing last week by Professor Marty West of Harvard University that the federal government continue to require annual tests but that it leave the design of accountability systems up to the states.

Yet because NCLB has made accountability tests the tail that wags the dog of the whole education system — threatening remediation and state takeover for schools that fall short — what's not tested often isn't taught.

In a series of important posts, Jay Greene made a strong case against accountability systems that lean too heavily on test scores.

Hickok: The whole purpose of the peer review process is to talk to, listen to, and work with states as they make whatever changes need to be made to align their accountability systems with AYP under the new law.

I now believe that our current understanding of «state accountability systems» is a reflection of a decision made one hundred years ago.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.