They undercut the progress of the past few decades by requiring parents to sign away hard - sought rights and do
not hold schools accountable for students» progress.
The state has agreed to
not hold schools accountable for the first year's results.
Some believe the data used in the SPF isn't comprehensive enough and does
not hold schools accountable for their work in early childhood education.
What Times readers were not told, however, was that before NCLB, North Carolina, like almost every state, did
not hold schools accountable for the performance of various subgroups, like minorities and special - needs students.
We couldn't hold the school accountable.
Not exact matches
Someone who was
not held accountable for their actions when they were expelled from
school.
This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to
hold teachers and
schools accountable for students» performance on them.
«I don't understand why the DOE thought its job was to
hold schools accountable,
not support them,» he said.
Mr. de Blasio has said he'll be
held accountable for
schools, and that if they don't improve within three years, he'll close them — something he criticized Mayor Michael Bloomberg for doing, arguing the process happened too hastily.
The board is divided on whether Ciminelli should be
held more
accountable for how it spent $ 1.4 billion in taxpayer money, but all members Monday agreed that the supplemental information requested in previous months by
school board members Larry Quinn and Carl Paladino was
not provided to the board early enough for a careful review.
They also claim that the city's Department of Education doesn't
hold the charter chain
accountable and fails to abide by state education law requiring equity in capital spending at co-located district and charter
schools.
There were proposals to, among other things,
hold schools accountable only for the progress of the lowest - performing students in the bottom quintile;
not disaggregate data by race and ethnicity; require states to deal only with the lowest - performing
schools; or ignore test results altogether as an accountability tool.
For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary
School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students
hold themselves
accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.
Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and
hold schools accountable for the results.
Not so, says the Task Force, calling instead for systemic change that will
hold schools accountable, give parents more choices, and provide citizens with a transparent education system whose accomplishments they can assess.
Apparently, some people favor using common standards to
hold schools accountable, but they don't want those standards to guide classroom instruction.
Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on
school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are
held accountable as the principal of your
school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your
school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really
accountable?»)
EdNext reports a clear plurality in favor of the Common Core when it notes that the standards will be used
hold schools accountable and an evenly divided public when the accountability connection is
not made.
«
Holding principals
accountable,
not for the circumstances of their
schools and students, but for what they choose to do with the raw materials they have in hand, is a must.»
The real disagreement among reformers is
not whether there should be accountability, but to whom
schools should be
held accountable: parents or bureaucrats.
If
n is too small, statistical reliability is at risk; if
n is too big, too few
schools and students are
held accountable, as those with subgroup enrollments less than
n do
not participate in the accountability system.
It might be important to consider how well a given
school is performing with its level of resources, but it wouldn't make sense, for example, to
hold a
school principal
accountable for something he or she can't control.
These efforts are driven by the desire to
hold schools accountable for the performance of all their students — a hugely important goal that history does
not allow us to take for granted.
Taken together, Weingarten is arguing we should
hold schools accountable for resource equity, but
not actually take any steps to alleviate funding inequities within a district.
Equity is fundamentally about fairness and resources, and it should be a funding decision,
not something we
hold individual
schools accountable for.
For some time now, I've been giving the Department a hard time about
not releasing enough data on the performance of the SIG (
School Improvement Grants) program — I'm trying to
hold them
accountable for the Secretary's talk of turning around 5,000 persistently failing
schools over the course of five years.
Holding teachers
accountable for students» academic achievement gains is
not inconsistent with students» accomplishing other things in
school.
NCLB
held schools accountable for every subgroup that had a sufficient number of students (called the minimum «
n - size»).
In ordinary language, only individuals,
not entities such as
schools, can be
held accountable.
Unless you still believe in
holding schools accountable for things they can't control — and in those bold timelines politicians and bureaucrats are so fond of concocting — a
school rating system like Colorado's should suit you.
It is unacceptable to
hold students
accountable for meeting standards that their
schools are
not staffed to help them meet.
Although the authors are to be applauded for wanting to
hold charter
schools accountable to high performance standards, that does
not save Dust - Up from being best assigned to the dustbin.
We do
not raise any principled objections to
holding schools accountable or testing students annually.
Not only are many charter schools enjoying success, but they are also held accountable in a way regular public schools are n
Not only are many charter
schools enjoying success, but they are also
held accountable in a way regular public
schools are
notnot.
It also re-creates a pretty inequitable system, given that each
school will have different groups of students that meet minimum
n - size that will be
held accountable under each component.
Does that mean that we shouldn't use test scores to
hold individual
schools accountable?
Authorizers,
not SEA staff, would
hold those
schools accountable, and they would do it in a nuanced way — by crafting
school - specific performance contracts with each.
The coalition, we are told, «doesn't say
schools and teachers shouldn't be
held accountable for how well they do their jobs.
Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in
school, was to improve instruction,
not to
hold teachers
accountable.
If
schools are
not held accountable by choice, then they have to be
accountable by some mechanism.
But choice unleashes new forces that work from the bottom up to redistribute power, to give
schools and teachers strong incentives to perform, and to
hold them
accountable - through consequences that are automatically invoked (the loss of kids and resources)- if they don't do a good job.
Raising the expected performance standard in each year of
school and
holding all teachers and students
accountable for achieving these higher standards may
not be the most effective way to improve levels of performance in Australian
schools.
Schools are
not held accountable for their students» performance on the Stanford - 9.
Gov. Jerry Brown's new
school funding system is based on the idea that
school districts,
not Sacramento, should be given control over spending and then
held accountable for students» results.
The State of California has also ruled up in la la land that no state testing will be used to judge the learning of children or for
schools to be
held accountable with, in other words, the State is
not using the new State Test to measure learning.
Many proponents of private
school choice — both the voucher and tax credit scholarship versions — take for granted that
schools won't participate (or shouldn't participate) if government asks too much of them, regulates their practices, requires them to reveal closely
held information and — above all — demands that they be publicly
accountable for student achievement.
We created it after I realized how many
school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their
schools,
holding adults
accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and
holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.
A third group of respondents were
not told the standards would be «used to
hold public
schools accountable for their performance.»
It rightfully focuses on authorizers as the lynchpin of charter quality; they are, after all, the entities that screen and approve new charter
schools and then
hold them
accountable for results (or — as is sometimes the case — do
not).
As long as a significant portion of students aren't reaching these so - called «outdated» state standards, we must continue to assess the skills and
hold schools accountable for the results.