Sentences with phrase «number of accountability measures»

From the big picture, Mrs. Jenks has embraced multiple curriculum transitions, various testing format changes (local, state, and national), and a number of accountability measures during her time in the classroom thus far.

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Accountability should be judged on tangible industrial measures like start - up tech company survival rates after three and five years, number of new products and services brought to market annually by companies that IRAP supported, and overall ROI after three or five years.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

In a recent survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association, 705 of 1,300 respondents said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

Indeed, a 705 of 1,300 respondents to a survey conducted by the Design and Technology Association, said that government accountability measures were resulting in decreasing numbers of pupils opting to study the subject at GCSE and, in some schools, it has been cut entirely.

To avoid overwhelming teachers and students with daunting lists of curricular targets, an instructionally supportive accountability test should measure students» mastery of only an intellectually manageable number of curricular aims, more like a half - dozen than the 50 or so a teacher may encounter today.

Because an accountability test that supports teaching is focused on only a very limited number of challenging curricular aims, a student's mastery of each subject can be meaningfully measured, letting teachers determine how effective their instruction has been.

Responding to the need to look beyond test scores to measure school quality, an increasing number of school districts are striving to incorporate socio - emotional learning measures in their accountability policies.

Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.

And beyond the school and district accountability provisions spawned by No Child Left Behind and its kin, many states have upped the ante to incorporate teachers» contributions to their students» test performance into teacher evaluation systems, and these value - added measures require testing large numbers of students.

Tuck said his campaign will focus on ensuring that Gov. Jerry Brown's new school funding formula — which provides additional money to districts with large numbers of poor children, English learners and foster youth — is really funneling money to the neediest students and that its accountability measures are more understandable for parents and the public.

By contrast, the ECS reported that in 2002, the year the NCLB law was signed, the number of states that measured those indicators in school accountability was 32, eight, and 21, respectively.

Currently, these quantitative accountability measures are in place in every state, although the Obama administration has granted waivers of some NCLB requirements to a number of states.

The Obama administration offered waivers from the law's requirement that states steadily increase the number of students graded proficient on standardized exams to 37 states that agreed to other accountability measures, including new evaluations for teachers and principals.

That accountability said if your students didn't meet certain targets on standardized tests, you had to to take a number of harsh measures or lose your federal funding.

In years past, K - 12 accountability measures focused on data points such as third - grade reading scores, the number of ninth - graders taking algebra, or setting new records for the most number of AP tests taken and passed.

Since Indiana began taking steps to enforce the measures outlined in our school accountability law, the number of schools chronically underperforming has reduced dramatically — from 24 in 2009 to four in 2011, and this year just one school faced state intervention.

As an accountability measure, schools should undertake regular audits of course enrollments that analyze disparities in enrollment numbers among racial subgroups and that critically examine the criteria being used by teachers and counselors to determine student readiness for advanced coursework.

There are a number of measures states are already planning to include in their accountability systems — such as chronic absenteeism, English language proficiency, teacher absenteeism, student discipline, school climate, etc. — that could easily include students in kindergarten through second grade.

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