Sentences with phrase «notions of accountability»

Authentic Democratic notions of accountability simply don't jibe with Republican ideals of choice.

He points out that notions of accountability arise only when brains interact, which neuroscience is barely beginning to understand.

What my research inclines me toward instead is the idea that we need to rethink our notion of accountability altogether.

Focusing on a notion of accountability which is broader than just league tables and published measurement scores, the Big Education Inquiry argued for greater local control over schools and education and a democratic input into local school systems.

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

In like fashion, scientists present their best judgement on the issues before them, and so long as they do so in good faith, the notion of accountability is inapplicable to them.

BTW, I'm beginning to like your notion of accountability.

It is really just thuggery by members of Congress who feel threatened, who don't feel comfortable with transparency, who simply don't like the notion of accountability, and use their authority to harass journalists and documentarians, simply because they can.

Not exact matches

1) Many people think that since war consists by definition in the breakdown of civility, it is not only counterfactual but also counterproductive to try to retrieve the notion of moral accountability within the struggle.

If Mr Seymour really values the contribution of a strong second chamber, he must not yield to the notion that «expertise» should trump election and notional «independence» should necessarily be valued over real accountability.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

And I didn't foresee that test - based accountability would fundamentally corrupt the notion of good teaching, to the point where many people can't see the difference between test prep and good instruction.

Education policy in the United States has long been dominated by the notion that the way to reform education is to set performance standards and establish a system of accountability.

The burden of «proficiency» is replaced by the role of curious play, and notions of «accountability» are publicly — and permanently — rebalanced.

In essence, NCLB was an effort to link «conservative» nostrums of accountability to Great Society notions of «social justice.»

Ed Trust changed all that with a single - minded focus on equity, hitched to the relatively new notion of school - level accountability.

But, here's the real rub for those of us who still hold on to quaint notions like that old autonomy - accountability thing: you can't just mess around with one side of an equation.

No one argues against the notion of a rigorous, fair accountability system.

The notion of statewide testing started taking shape in 1968 with the passage of the Educational Accountability Act which instructed the Commissioner of Education to expand the Department of Education's capability for constructive educational change and services to achieve greater quality in education.

The entire standards and accountability movement, in fact, is based on the implied notion that all children, regardless of background, should get the same high quality education — and that means common curricula.

Also critical is the notion of shared accountability — that all teachers whose work touches students share responsibility for the success of those students.

The Improving America's Schools Act — the 1994 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, or ESEA — cemented accountability as a strictly academic notion.4 The No Child Left Behind Act, or NCLB — the 2001 reauthorization of ESEA — strengthened this premise and required districts and schools that failed to make academic progress to take specific improvement actions.5 NCLB also required states to hold schools accountable for an academic indicator other than student achievement in reading and math.

Standards - based reform traces its roots to the 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk by Secretary of Education Terrel Bell's National Commission on Excellence in Education.1 With its warning of a «rising tide of mediocrity,» notions of excellence, achievement, and accountability became the primary goals of state and federal education policy.

What was ultimately titled a «Value - Added Smackdown» in a blog post featured in Education Week, let's just say, got a little out of hand, with the «smackdown» ending up focusing almost solely around our claim that Harris believed, and we disagreed, with the notion that «value - added [was and still is] good enough to be used for [purposes of] educational accountability.»

In the same book, Farrow makes a number of arguments against what he refers to as the privatization of civil justice, such as the impoverishment of common law when cases are removed from the public system (this dovetails with Simpson's work), the use of a private (thus, confidential) system to circumvent public policies, public accountability, and basic notions of procedural fairness, and the shielding from the public of transactions that would not withstand public scrutiny.

Transparency is another major obligation under GDPR, which expands the notion that personal data must be lawfully and fairly processed to include a third principle of accountability.

Underlying the Government's concern about Indigenous control is a notion of loss of accountability.