Sentences with phrase «new age of accountability»

And while we may regret their passage, a new age of accountability and consumer protection is upon us, demanding a new standard of our licensees.

Not exact matches

Premise: After the events of Avengers: Age of Ultron, another international incident involving Captain America (Chris Evans) and the Avengers results in collateral damage, prompting politicians to form a system of accountability and a governing body to determine when to call in the Avengers, which results in the fracturing of the team into two opposing factions — one led by Captain America who wishes to operate without regulation, and one led by Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.) who supports government oversight — while they attempt to protect the world from a new enemy.

Mindful of both the challenges the country faces and the new opportunity that state leaders have to set matters right, the analysis in High Stakes for High Achievers: State Accountability in the Age of ESSA does two things.

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.

I'm also quite sure of how difficult a task it is to push the standards rock up the status quo hill, particularly in a day and age when we are wary of testing in general and many are waiting to see what will become of the accountability standards in NCLB as wishes move to reauthorization, multiple measures, and a new look on federal education policy.

At primary level the definition will apply to those schools who for the first 2 years have seen fewer than 85 % of children achieving level 4, the secondary - ready standard, in reading, writing and maths, and which have also seen below - average proportions of pupils making expected progress between age 7 and age 11, followed by a year below a «coasting» level set against the new accountability regime which will see children being expected to achieve a new higher expected standard and schools being measured against a new measure of progress.

The problem, writes Marc Tucker, is that the United States is attempting to address a new challenge (the need to educate all students to high standards to meet the needs of the knowledge economy) with an old accountability model designed to meet the needs of the industrial age.

Considering that young men make up three out of every five children who drop out, account for two out of every three students aged 5 to 21 relegated to special ed ghettos, and, among young men who are high school seniors, read a grade level behind their female peers, it would make sense to make sure that any new accountability system address those issues, something for which Richard Whitmire and I have argued over the past two years.