Sentences with phrase «of effective accountability»

These classifications are just one small part of effective accountability systems.

Outlining the basic tenets of effective accountability models that ensure local communities access the necessary resources when found to be struggling will avoid a hodgepodge of watered - down systems weighing various factors differently.

Even the 1994 federal Title I reforms, which required states to develop the three major prongs of an effective accountability system (academic standards, tests linked to the standards, and a mixture of assistance and sanctions for low - performing schools) did little to stimulate California into action.

Contents include: an «Introduction» by Milli Pierce; «The Limits of Change» by Richard F. Elmore; «The Six Principles of Effective Accountability» by Douglas B. Reeves; «The Challenge of a Changing Nation» by Marcelo M. Suárez - Orozco, with responses from Harold L. Hodgkinson and Robert J. Murphy; «Does More Choice Mean Less Equity?»

As both a former schoolteacher and a parent of two children who went through public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program.

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Effective Supply Chain Accountability: Investor Guidance on Implementation of The California Transparency in Supply Chains Act and Beyond identifies good corporate practices to ensure corporate compliance with the law, the business case for compliance, shareholder expectations, and the elements of a comprehensive human rights due diligence framework.

Past achievements include building the case for deficit reduction in the 1980s and early 1990s, for consolidation of the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans in the late 1990s, a series of shadow federal budgets and fiscal accountability reports in that began in the 2000s, and work on marginal effective tax rates on personal incomes and business investment, which has laid the foundation for such key changes as sales tax reform, elimination of capital taxes, and corporate income tax rate reductions.

That the companies whose spyware was used to target Mansoor are all owned and operated from democracies speaks volumes about the lack of accountability and effective regulation in the cross-border commercial spyware trade.

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

To address this gap and accelerate progress toward fulfilling company supply chain commitments, the Accountability Framework initiative (AFi) is developing and promoting a framework of common definitions, norms, and guidelines for effective and credible implementation of such commitments.

Some parents have learned more effective skills for managing behavior, and have worked hard to develop what James calls a culture of accountability in their homes.

Another byproduct of using the three effective parenting roles is that you're going to create a «Culture of Accountability» in your home.

The authors point out that the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes could be an effective mechanism if adequate investment is made to ensure its implementation and accountability across all countries.

External enforcement has addressed short - term political expediency at the expense of effective internal scrutiny and accountability.

«This does not include the hundreds of millions of dollars believed to have been lost through inflated contracts as the President has presided over the effective shredding of the Public Procurement Act, giving him and his people the free range to award contracts without the very transparency and accountability he is now promising to deliver if re-elected.

In the medium to long term, we must amend the law and constitution to strengthen Parliament's ability to oversight the executive (in order to promote effective checks and balances); inject meritocratic selection and fiduciary accountability into the governance of the state corporate sector; and allow for popular election of district mayors to promote local government decentralization and effectiveness.

SERAP believes that this power implies that the National Assembly including the Senate will serve as a crucial bastion of transparency, accountability, and the rule of law that are necessary to reduce poverty, establish a corruption - free society, and effective enjoyment of human rights.»

Stratified reports could also raise awareness of racial disparities in care, provide a framework for feedback and accountability of health plans and clinicians, and ideally promote effective efforts to improve care for patients who experience worse outcomes, particularly black Americans with diabetes, hypertension, or heart disease.

Accountability has been a central theme of education reform for almost two decades, driven by the unchallenged central finding of James Coleman's seminal 1966 study: Although some interventions are demonstrably more effective than others, there's no direct link between what goes into a school by way of resources and what comes out by way of student learning.

By that more appropriate standard of judgment, the committee's own data indicate that testing and accountability have proven effective, if not quite the spectacular success promised by those who enacted NCLB into law.

The 14 earlier studies and the 4 later ones produce a wide distribution of estimated impacts, but the committee makes no attempt to investigate whether the unusual estimates suggest circumstances under which accountability seems particularly effective (or ineffective).

The question of whether testing and accountability systems are an effective reform tool has seldom been the subject of rigorous research.

In a 2009 study, the Center for Public Education released Teaching the Teachers: Effective Professional Development in an Era of High Stakes Accountability, a national research report indicating that «most professional development today is ineffective.»

It was abundantly clear that in most districts there was no effective accountability for teachers after they were granted tenure, which in most locations requires only a few years of teaching....

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.

The criteria for the Social Innovation Leadership Award include the following: Effective and sustainable mobilization of resources in support of program and project work, including support from local communities, incorporating ethical values, efficient management of financial and human resources, good governance practices, transparency and accountability, and effective communication, and finally, involvement in communities and protection of the envEffective and sustainable mobilization of resources in support of program and project work, including support from local communities, incorporating ethical values, efficient management of financial and human resources, good governance practices, transparency and accountability, and effective communication, and finally, involvement in communities and protection of the enveffective communication, and finally, involvement in communities and protection of the environment.

The mayors, a group that here also includes elected town administrators, view their offices as the locus of accountability, particularly for the efficient and effective use of tax dollars.

But until teachers are held responsible for the performance of their students, it is unlikely that accountability systems will prove effective.

From the standpoint of public accountability, mayors were the smart point of contact, those most naturally inclined to see the value of autonomy, flexibility, and choice; most likely to embrace an outcomes - based approach to governance; and most effective at articulating the value of education to overall community well - being.

Mesma is an adaptable, versatile and cost effective web - based resource, which enables important areas of the self - assessment process, associated improvement planning activities and observations of teaching and learning to be allocated to authorised people within a education environment, driving greater accountability in the delivery of training provision for apprentices.

The move to a results - based accountability system would entail a switch from the guarantee of a «free and appropriate education» to an assurance of a «free and effective education.»

They believe good leadership, effective management, compensation based on performance, competition, the targeting of resources, and accountability for results can all pay dividends for education as well as for foundations.

In school systems where parents are engaged and feel comfortable going toe - to - toe with school administrators, this rights - based accountability system is effective in guaranteeing access to a range of interventions for disabled children.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

His work examines the promise of distributed leadership, the potential for improved incentive systems to promote effective practices and bring them to scale, and the necessity to maintain a tight focus on instruction within an internalized accountability system.

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.

Based on cost data from Massachusetts, we believe that the actual costs for tests of the quality necessary for an effective accountability program may run as much as twice the GAO's estimate.

Section 1 Experience and performance as a senior leader Section 2 Self - awareness and self - management Section 3 Delivering continuous improvement Section 4 Modelling excellence in teaching Section 5 Learning focus Section 6 Efficient and effective Section 7 Personal Drive and Accountability Of course, every form will be unique to the individual, however knowing how much it would have helped me has led me to offer it on here.

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«All that we ask,» said New York official Ira Schwartz, «is that we be given sufficient flexibility so that we can meet the spirit of No Child Left Behind without having to dismantle what we think is, and what has been judged by others to be, a very effective system of standards, assessment, and accountability.»

Penned by AQA's head of curriculum Alison Wood and director of research and innovation Dr Anton Beguin, the publication calls for «a more effective balance between assessment and school accountability» and comments on how teacher assessment should be «professionalised, expert and should contribute substantially to students» results».

One of the most effective ways to boost an organization's productivity, profits, and professional accountability is by creating a winning performance management online training strategy.

By allowing students to choose their group partners, encouraging individual and peer accountability in groups, and intentionally empowering all students, we can teach effective collaboration for all of our students.

This will help you comply with the accountability principles of the GDPR, which requires you to have effective policies and procedures in place.

On Thursday, February 6, the Institute for Justice, the nation's leading legal advocate for school choice, will ask a judge to rule on behalf of parents who are using the Alabama Accountability Act to get their children into safe and effective schools of their choice.

Members of the National Advisory Board work with NACSA to advance excellence and accountability in the charter school sector through effective charter school policy and thoughtful charter authorizing practices.

An effective accountability system also requires that parents have a clear and concise measure of school performance.

For educators and policymakers across the country struggling to implement effective education reforms in the context of increased accountability, the lesson of Chicago is that accountability can and does encourage teachers and principals to pay greater attention to the lowest - performing students in their classrooms.

Challenging and clear standards of achievement and accountability for all children and effective strategies for reaching those standards.

Brown noted the progress of several states around the above goals, noting rapid progress on strengthening the alignment and standards, but noting that states have made less progress in the area of creating effective accountability systems.