Sentences with phrase «need systems of accountability»

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If your statistics regarding the donations are correct, then I believe a quicker way to real results would be independently investigating the organizations (such as the Red Cross) receiving the donations to insure their accountability and focus is meeting the needs of the victims of the system we have in the US.

In the Dricoll / Mars Hill situation, a desired outcome would be a greater awareness of the level of transparency and care that is required of pastors and the mechanisms needed when there are repeated, substantiated reports of pastoral abuse with failed systems of accountability.

«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.

With sharper accountability, a more ambitious curriculum and world class qualifications, I believe we can create an education system which can compete with the best in the world — a system which gives every young person, regardless of background, the high quality education, high aspirations and high achievement they need and deserve.

«The lesson I've drawn out of the Snowden allegations is that governments need to be much clearer about the purpose for which they infringe on citizens» privacy; about the agencies that have the legal power to do so; about the authority about which it's done; and, critically, about transparency and accountability systems.»

Secondly, party proportionality is only one criterion, and there are at least three that need to be considered when judging a voting system — the level of local representation, the basis of the system and how open it is to individual accountability and independents, and national outcomes.

«However, they need to be held accountable for the right things and no fit - for - purpose accountability system should be capable of being abused in such a way that it creates a climate of fear in the workplace.

The authors argue not only for more resources, but for an integrated national health care system, built around a strong public primary care system with a clearly defined supportive role for the private and indigenous sectors, that (i) addresses acute as well as chronic health care needs; (ii) offers choice of care that is rational, accessible, and of good quality, (iii) is cashless at the point of service delivery, and (iv) is governed by a robust regulatory framework to ensure accountability.

After years of experiencing a one - size - fits - all federal approach to school accountability and intervention, ESSA provides states with an opportunity to excel by designing new systems that reach far more children with intervention strategies that meet their needs and the needs of their schools.

The Fordham Institute's new report, High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveAccountability in the Age of ESSA, examines whether states» current or planned accountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serveaccountability systems for elementary and middle schools attend to the needs of high - achieving students, as well as how these systems might be redesigned under the Every Student Succeeds Act to better serve all students.

Many states need to revamp their policies for including limited - English - proficient students in state tests and accountability systems if they want to continue receiving all of their federal Title I aid, according to the Department of Education.

But for proponents of accountability, it's just as easy to hold up these educators as an example of why strong objective systems are needed to oversee and measure educators» performance.

There is considerable evidence that during the past decade in Texas the needs of minority students have received increased attention as a result of an accountability system that demands that a school show not only overall progress, but also progress among its most disadvantaged charges.

If we want charter schools to earn a broad base of popularity, we need to build stronger authorizing systems that enable school leaders to drive innovation while setting clear expectations about outcomes and accountability.

Some of his more controversial points included the need to embed responsibility and accountability systems deep into every classroom and office, and the importance of identifying and then removing superfluous burdens from school staff to enable them to improve teaching and learning outcomes with pace and certainty.

What is needed is a vision of a networked system of decentralized, community based, sustainable economies in a diversity of settings, which stands on a foundation of ecological integrity, social accountability and an economically equitable distribution.

But these three trends — the steady centralization of funding, the imposition of statewide accountability systems, and the expansion of choice — are creating a system that favors bottom - up accountability and obviates the need for local boards.

Nick Timothy, director of the New Schools Network, said: «There needs to be more accountability in the system so parents can get the change they want when a local school is failing.

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.

Further, it is unlikely that district authorizers will move beyond the regulatory - driven, compliance - based accountability systems that are the hallmark of public education or the troubling hit - and - miss formation of new schools that is raising questions about the ability of charter schools to deliver improvement on the scale that our country needs.

The new version of the law, he said, will need to ensure effective teachers and principals for underperforming schools, expand learning time, and devise an accountability system that measures individual student progress and uses data to inform instruction and teacher evaluation.

If the current law's minimum competency standard produces gains among students near the proficiency threshold but disadvantages others, the rules of the accountability system need to be modified, perhaps to reward improvements across the entire achievement distribution.

We need an accountability system that holds schools and school systems accountable for all of their students, including the lowest - and highest - achieving.

To fix the NCLB accountability system, we need to find ways of holding accountable the individuals, that is, the students and teachers, who are involved in the education process.

While Popham's preferred solutions may cause some chuckles among accountability proponents — he champions the use of «affective inventories,» student work samples, and the like — his analysis constitutes a meaningful critique of the NCLB accountability system and raises hard questions that NCLB proponents need to address.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

Still, the current federally mandated accountability system falls well short of what is needed.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said:» We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's education.»

Too many states try to include too many measures into their accountability system, and then none of the individual measures are really important or really guide schools on what their learning outcomes need to be.

«If we're going to design an accountability system that's true to the broad purposes of education, we need to bring back that kind of national assessment,» he said.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

This all means inevitable increased direct accountability to match new levels of autonomy, an increase in the number of small / medium MATs adopting corporate governance and management structures, the centralisation of some functions and leadership responsibilities and a need to develop internal capacity to respond the new local complexity in the system.

Hill's paper tackles the other side of the coin of the costs of online learning, as he works through the ideal funding system that would promote innovation but strike the right balance with the need for accountability for public funds.

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.

At the same time, the federal government lacks the capacity to design an accountability system that is appropriate to the needs of each state, and has a poor track record when attempting to dictate the required elements of efforts to improve under - performing schools.

The accountability for schools under such a varied system of education providers and services would probably need to be market - based.

• Second, since schools are designed to be similar and families don't choose which schools their kids attend, the accountability system doesn't need to provide parents with fulsome information of school performance.

It reduces the number of components... within the accountability system and places the focus on students who truly need the most help....

ECS members spotlighted the need for high - quality teachers prepared to meet the challenges of new state accountability systems during the July 11 - 14 conference.

Some of the more controversial points that he will be discussing include the need to embed responsibility and accountability systems deep into every classroom and office, and the importance of identifying and then removing superfluous burdens from school staff to enable them to improve teaching and learning outcomes with pace and certainty.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

It is already clear that many charter schools will be labeled «in need of improvement» under state accountability systems and NCLB.

«The DfE needs to take a long hard look at this picture once the number of academies stabilises and design a more coherent system for the future which ensures proper accountability for schools.»

Ohio needs to resolve its long - term funding crisis, develop a more coherent system of preschool through higher education, adopt stronger academic standards and graduation requirements, create a better pool of teachers and principals, and ensure that all schools are held to the same accountability standards, the group says.

We need to streamline our systems of accountability.

We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have a longstanding interest in advancing quality school choices for kids who need them and a parallel interest in boosting educational achievement with the help of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems.

The Thomas B. Fordham Institute was one of the leading voices offering these ideas in a mutually reinforcing framework, recognizing that innovative schools needed the yardstick for quality that standards create, and accountability systems alone don't build the pressure that the school choice agenda promised.

Studies on the design of state accountability systems should start with the needs of various constituencies and move to a determination of the extent to which timely, straightforward, and equitable results can be produced, and in what manner.

They need to signal to private - school skeptics that Catholic schools are willing to participate in a system of standards, assessments, accountability, and transparency.

AB 2548 would have helped guarantee that our state's new system of accountability will provide parents, educators and community groups with the information they need to help increase equity and close achievement gaps that deprive the state's most vulnerable students of a level playing field.