Sentences with phrase «more effective accountability»

[54] More effective accountability at the community level is a consequence of greater autonomy.

What can educators and policymakers do now to start on the path toward more effective accountability?

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Some parents have learned more effective skills for managing behavior, and have worked hard to develop what James calls a culture of accountability in their homes.

According to the USDA, these tweaks will help «establish a unified accountability system designed to ensure that school food authorities offering school meals comply with program requirements» and are «expected to strengthen program integrity through a more robust, effective, and transparent process for monitoring school nutrition program operations.»

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

By that more appropriate standard of judgment, the committee's own data indicate that testing and accountability have proven effective, if not quite the spectacular success promised by those who enacted NCLB into law.

No Child Left Behind is important in the efforts to continue this progress, and urban districts must continue effective practices that have brought about promising results: high standards, strong and stable leadership, better teaching, more instructional time, regular assessments, stronger accountability, extra resources, and efficient operations.

As both a former schoolteacher and a parent of two children who went through public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program.

Requiring such things unrelated to student performance dilutes accountability and detracts from things that would make them more effective.

We conclude by considering how student accountability and student agency might combine for an even more effective approach in the future.

Contents include: an «Introduction» by Milli Pierce; «The Limits of Change» by Richard F. Elmore; «The Six Principles of Effective Accountability» by Douglas B. Reeves; «The Challenge of a Changing Nation» by Marcelo M. Suárez - Orozco, with responses from Harold L. Hodgkinson and Robert J. Murphy; «Does More Choice Mean Less Equity?»

Penned by AQA's head of curriculum Alison Wood and director of research and innovation Dr Anton Beguin, the publication calls for «a more effective balance between assessment and school accountability» and comments on how teacher assessment should be «professionalised, expert and should contribute substantially to students» results».

Sound and effective governance can mitigate this — as Onora O'Neill commented: «Intelligent accountability requires more attention to good governance and fewer fantasies about total control.»

No Child Left Behind's aspirational aims were more effective as rhetoric than as an accountability regime.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which... Read More

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

Yet there is still much that Governor Murphy's Department of Education can do to assuage educators and parents about accountability embedded in federal law that, after all, is designed to drive the nation towards more equitable and effective schools.

As briefly noted prior, «a few states have been working to put more supportive, humane accountability systems in place, but others remain stuck in a compliance mindset that undermines their ability to design effective accountability systems» (p. vii).

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

With the onset of standards and school accountability, states have undertaken initiatives to assist classroom teachers in providing more effective instruction to ELLs.

Because annual state testing is still obligatory under ESSA, and the vast majority of states are still using the Common Core, the only news story worth emphasizing related to this issue is that congressional «spending committees have generally ignored the Trump blueprint»: the president's lack of influence at present means that non-rich Americans have no practical means of avoiding sticking with the status quo of the two previous administrations, a test - based accountability strategy that has here been no more effective in promoting social mobility than it has in its original setting, Margaret Thatcher's Britain.

The accountability movement in education — which was inaugurated by teachers unions, a fact nearly always overlooked by critics — has led to greater understanding of the power of teaching to change students» lives and the power of teachers to become more effective in response to feedback from peers and administrators.

However, the PROSPER Act's approach to accountability ignores important lessons from state performance - based funding systems, many of which have been shown to funnel limited state dollars to well - resourced institutions that enroll the most affluent and academically prepared students while failing to support institutions that serve a more representative community.2 Rather than applying an immediate penalty through the blunt instrument of an artificial threshold, an effective accountability system would reward colleges that enroll and graduate Pell - eligible students while providing underperforming and underfunded institutions the time, resources, and support they need to improve.

-- Andy Hargreaves A new report, Data - Driven Improvement and Accountability, authored by Boston College professors Andy Hargreaves and Henry Braun, offers recommendations for establishing more effective systems and...

She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.

Whilst increased accountability for schools and more rigorous means of ensuring that accountability have characterised academy chains it would appear that many are still searching for effective chain wide school improvement strategies and models that can ultimately lead to transformational outcomes for young people, particularly for those whose start in life too often makes educational achievement and success that much harder.

Receiving four out of a possible four stars indicates that the Surfrider Foundation outperforms other charities in America in successfully managing its finances in an efficient and effective manner, which is extremely important as donors are demanding more accountability, transparency and quantifiable results from the charities they support.

The Court referred to the purpose of access to environmental information as expressed in recital 2 of the Aarhus Regulation, which is to promote more effective public participation in the decision - making process, increase the accountability of decision - making and contribute to public awareness and support for the decisions taken.

This morning the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO) announced that the international «Dieter Meurer Prize for Legal Informatics» for 2008 -LRB-(Sponsored by the German Association for Computing in the Judiciary («Deutscher EDV - Gerichtstag e.V.») and the German - language legal information service provider «juris GmbH» (Germany's «LexisNexis» or «Lovdata»)-RRB--RRB- has been awarded to Morten Bergsmo for his creation and development of the Case Matrix, a tool designed to make work on accountability for international crimes committed in armed conflicts more precise and effective.

In coalition with 17 other organizations, West Coast LEAF has issued a press release urging the BC government to take immediate action to improve safety on the Highway of Tears, repair transparency and accountability, and implement effective strategies to address the Read More

This means more cost - effective services as well as greater accountability and predictability in the services provided.

Within three months, gained trust of teachers, who adopted a philosophy of teacher and student accountability and cooperated more cohesively to turn IIT / Edison into a high - functioning, effective...

Professional Experience United States Army (City, ST) 2009 — 2011 Logistics Specialist • Oversee US Army logistics, inventory, and supply program ensuring effective operations • Train and direct junior team members in US Army procedures and policies • Conduct inventories for U.S. Army signal equipment valued in excess of $ 60 million • Identify and remove $ 1 million of unserviceable equipment cutting significant storage costs • Responsible for more than $ 500,000 worth of sensitive equipment with 100 % accountability • Decrease monthly inventories time frame by 15 % through strong organizational skills • Generate monthly sub hand receipts for sub hand receipt holders • Administer supply documents using ARIMS (Army Record Information Management System) • Oversee all orders, deliveries, and tagging of equipment essential for daily operations • Consistently recognized and promoted for excellent in management and administration

The report calls for a commitment to overcoming indigenous disadvantage as an urgent national priority and makes 14 recommendations including negotiation of a national framework agreement (or treaty), an entrenched guarantee against racial discrimination, better accountability and transparency of Governments and processes to ensure more effective participation of Indigenous peoples in the decision - making process.