Under the SBE's approved methodology, California could satisfy the federal requirement by giving each state indicator equal weight within the system
of meaningful differentiation.
The proposed regulations go beyond ESSA by requiring that a state's system
of meaningful differentiation assign a single summative rating to each school based on all of the required indicators.
However, they forget that the absence
of any meaningful differentiation in the past has meant that many teachers do not know where they stand.
Not exact matches
With most
of Fawen's competition in the nascent drinkable soup category focused on the refrigerated set, being shelf stable is still a potentially
meaningful point
of differentiation.
ESSA also requires state accountability systems to include «a measure
of student growth, if determined appropriate by the State; or another valid and reliable statewide academic indicator that allows for
meaningful differentiation in school performance.»
[xi] Teacher associations, for their part, continue to push back against teacher evaluation systems that focus on objective measures
of student achievement and provide any
meaningful differentiation between teachers.
«A State must define annual
meaningful differentiation in a manner that... [r] esults in a single rating from among at least three distinct rating categories for each school, based on a school's level
of performance on each indicator, to describe a school's summative performance....»
The bill replaces AYP standards with a requirement for states to annually measure all students and individual subgroups by: (1) academic achievement as measured by state assessments; (2) for high schools, graduation rates; (3) for schools that are not high schools, a measure
of student growth or another valid and reliable statewide indicator; (4) if applicable, progress in achieving English proficiency by English learners; and (5) at least one additional valid and reliable statewide indicator that allows for
meaningful differentiation in school performance.
3) After years
of struggling for
meaningful differentiation, our group
of parents took to creating a gifted magnet school.
Alexandria, VA (07/21/2015)-- Educators will find support in addressing the challenges
of meeting and assessing students» individual learning styles by picking up a copy
of ASCD's newest publications, Rethinking Grading:
Meaningful Assessment for Standards - Based Learning and
Differentiation in Middle and High School: Strategies to Engage All Learners.
The federal law that replaces the No Child Left Behind Act requires states» accountability systems to include at least one «nonacademic» indicator
of «school quality or student success» that «allows for
meaningful differentiation in school performance» and «is valid, reliable, comparable, and statewide» alongside academic data (Ujifusa, 2016).
Brookings, one
of the nation's oldest and most respected non-partisan think tanks, reports that attendance fulfills ESSA demands that the fifth indicator provide
meaningful differentiation between schools, and also that it deliver valid and reliable data that can be drawn statewide across all schools and grade spans.
States should test for
meaningful differentiation through a trial data run
of each indicator, using past student performance data when available.
Any other measure
of growth as determined by the state (not necessarily based on state assessments), or another «valid and reliable indicator that allows for
meaningful differentiation in school performance» for all non-high schools.
Role -
differentiation is not, however, to be replaced by the trump
of the lawyer's morality, but by moral dialogue in which both the lawyer and client treat each other as agents capable
of meaningful moral thought and reflection.
You attain this exalted level
of trust, respect, and
differentiation from your competition by ensuring that every client request and activity delivers
meaningful results, builds the strongest and most sustainable client relationship, avoids the 3 Sources
of Miscommunication, and delivers massive value and impact.
To summarize: although the
differentiation between direct and indirect victimization has sometimes been questioned (e.g., Card and Hodges [2008]-RRB-, the results
of the present research indicate that it is definitely empirically
meaningful to distinguish between direct and indirect victimization.