Sentences with phrase «modern standards and accountability»

Developments in the 1960s and 1970s brought schools under fire, but the driving force behind the modern standards and accountability movement was the linking of educational to economic concerns in the 1980s.

Despite its lofty goals for every student and the support of some of the most powerful national players in education reform, the modern standards and accountability movement has hit a rough patch, if you haven't noticed.

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It explains reformers» enthusiasm for test - based accountability; for «college and career - ready standards»; for teacher evaluations based, in significant part, on student outcomes; for «data - based instruction»; and for much of the rest of the modern - day reform agenda.

In fact, the modern accountability movement, right through to the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, owes much to Shanker's relentless calls for higher standards, assessments, and consequences for poor performance.

State - level standards, assessments, and accountability schemes are not up to the challenges facing a modern post-industrial nation in an age of globalized competition, yet we have no sure mechanism for pushing this responsibility to the national level.

Until the justice system and the legal profession strictly adhere to the Rule of Law and adopt modern standards of transparency, independent oversight and external accountability, Canadians can not truly say that the justice system and courts belong to all of us.

The powerful Canadian legal profession must be brought into compliance with modern standards of independent oversight and external accountability.

To the benefit of all Canadians, we need your financial support to force modern standards of accountability, transparency and performance upon the Canadian Judicial Council — the organization mandated to investigate and discipline Canada's federal judges.

It is intended to align corporate governance requirements with the modern standards of corporate accountability, while allowing some flexibility for Indigenous corporations to structure their own arrangements to suit their particular and specific needs.