Sentences with phrase «of accountability measures»

In asking Congressional leaders not to lose sight of the gains many of their districts made because of accountability measures in place, these educators offer a very simple equation for success.

While a simple approach may be easy to administer, there are advantages in getting the right range of accountability measures.

What kinds of accountability measures, if any, would you advocate for early childhood education?

A system of accountability measures was just mandated in 2004 and is in its infancy.

In the case of accountability measures, the combination of strong overall support and minimal partisan conflict suggests that such policies will continue to be central to the nation's education reform agenda.

We believe it is important for school leaders, in the context of an accountability measure, to know that there is as much consistency as possible across schools.

Parents who raise concern are those who should be the focus of accountability measures.

One may even suggest this could have been brought about by the shifting sands of accountability measures, and not fully understanding the changing frameworks for teaching and learning.

This means that similar students can access different amounts of financial aid — and that colleges with the same tuition price can look much different in a range of accountability measures.

The impact of accountability measures on children and young people is the report of independent research commissioned by the National Union of Teachers and conducted by Professor Merryn Hutchings.

The Impact of Accountability Measures on Children and Young People, by Prof Merryn Hutchings of London Metropolitan University, says pupils» emotional health and wellbeing is suffering because of «high - stakes testing».

Then, when he reluctantly agreed that changes were necessary in order to preserve fairness in light of the state's rough rollout of the Common Core standards, Cuomo blamed the State Board of Regents and the Education Department for necessitating what he argued was a weakening of the accountability measures.

By allowing teacher - education faculty to select the standards and evidence by which they will be judged, TEAC permits a tight alignment of accountability measures and program goals.

State education officials - many of them, at any rate - have labored diligently to persuade teachers and school administrators (groups typically not strongly in favor of testing initiatives) to support the strengthening of accountability measures.

The use of a proficiency index or providing schools credit for students at different points in the achievement distribution improves the construct validity of the accountability measures over the NCLB proficiency rate measures (Polikoff et al., 2014).

«These leaders want more formative data that's more actionable, and a lot of the accountability measures are not helping them do that.»

Instead, it's a quirk of the accountability measures decided by government.

The ESSA has scaled back much of its direct oversight of accountability measures, leaving that to state governments — a move that has been praised by many education experts.

However, with so much time and effort undertaken at the state level in the implementation of accountability measures such as Student Learning Objective (SLOs), prescribed teaching standard frameworks or rubrics, and student achievement data, I can not imagine a scenario in which states would abandon their new methods for grading teachers.

There has been a firestorm in recent months about the alleged «cap» supposedly imposed by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) on the percentage of students who are eligible for special education intervention due to disabilities and the related relaxation of accountability measures for students with this classification.

Here in North Carolina, charter schools are already exempt from a broad swath of accountability measures that apply to traditional public schools.

There is a clear hint at some form of accountability measure being reintroduced at key stage 3.

There is currently an unequal distribution of accountability measures between tested subjects in the SPP model, which the Future Ready Index proposes to change as part of the ESSA plan.

For some time now there has been increasing recognition that, in an educational climate of accountability measures and increased top - down control, there is a need to position the work of teachers as extending beyond the classroom and situate teachers» role in education within the broader context of schooling.

And, even if Wolf moves forward with the veto, GOP leaders say this bill is the sort of accountability measure the governor will have to swallow to get a funding boost in this year's budget.

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.

EN: What kinds of accountability measures, if any, would you advocate for early childhood education?

«The problem is that if you don't then make it part of your accountability measure, then schools will not give it the kind of emphasis that it needs.»

In this report, we assessed this accountability system as it relates to pre-existing systems of accountability measures, and made two recommendations of how to expand this system.

Later in the year the board will develop a «rubric» for a range of accountability measures — such as attendance rates and how well students are prepared for college — that local districts will be expected to meet.

Sandy Kress — who, as senior advisor to President George W. Bush, was one of the key architects of NCLB — recently wrote in a New York Daily News op - ed that the Obama administration's proposed changes to the law would gut it of the accountability measures Kress believes are crucial to its success.

«There's no discussion of how to structure it in a way that protects the investment of taxpayers and ensures accountability like the same kind of accountability measures we have placed on our public schools,» said Joyce.

We do not regulate or inspect those who take qualifications, nor do we decide which qualifications are part of accountability measures.»

«Yet when we invite police officers into the schools, we don't have any of those accountability measures to make sure that they are actually making students safer.»