Sentences with phrase «of standards and accountability»

Some early childhood educators eschew teacher - directed lessons, believing that all teaching needs to be conducted in the context of child - initiated activities, and they worry about the effect of standards and accountability on early childhood education.

«The current law that sets the bar at 20 percent before needing additional performance review is adequate, and increasing this threshold to 30 percent would be a loosening of the standards and accountability when the discussion this week on many bills has been about increasing accountability,» said Jewell.

Similarly, the National Assessment of Educational Progress shows gains in mathematics and reading performance for 9 year olds and in mathematics performance for 13 year olds nationally during the past decade, perhaps as a result of standards and accountability.

Instead, we found that despite Massachusetts» detailed system of standards and accountability measures, most new teachers we interviewed received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it.

Laura Jimenez is the director of standards and accountability at the Center for American Progress.

Accountability — examines key models and concepts of standards and accountability, financial issues in accountability, and accountability issues in leadership, diversity, and learning.

«As NCTAF seeks to raise visibility on what teachers need in this new era of standards and accountability, Dr. Lowery's experiences with best practices to encourage effective teaching for all students will prove to be particularly helpful.»

«The department makes sure that money goes through those programs to get through to the places that need it, and without the department there's no way to actually administer the hundreds of programs that are funded through the department,» said Scott Sargrad, director of standards and accountability for education policy at the Center for American Progress and former deputy assistant secretary for policy and strategic initiatives in the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for other states and the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

Regardless of the qualifications one might add to this number, this represents the continuation of an increasing trend in graduation rates over the past 20 years of standards and accountability based reform in Texas public education, and we should applaud educators across the state for this achievement.

In this era of standards and accountability, educators have to move themselves from the sidelines to the forefront of public education reform to meet the needs of a 21st century society.

The bureaucratic role of the standards and accountability movement in public education has removed autonomy and professionalism from teachers (Bushnell, 2003; Day, 2002; Tschannen - Moran, 2009).

There is very little doubt among sophisticated observers that Texas has led the nation in public education reform over the past decade or so and that it has served as a model for the nation in the advancement of standards and accountability.

What is at stake is no less than the future direction of standards and accountability based reform and the continuing progress that Texas has made over the past 20 years in advancing toward the expectation of postsecondary readiness for our children.

So let me start with the half full portion.There is no doubt that Texas has led the nation in public education reform and has served as a model for other states in the advancement of standards and accountability.

The effort, in turn, builds upon the decades - long efforts of standards and accountability activists within the school reform movement — including conservative outfits such as the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and its president, Checker Finn — to improve the quality of curricula in schools; this began in the 1970s with the work of southern governors and chambers of commerce, accelerated during the Eighties with the Reagan administration's release of A Nation at Risk, and supported by Ronald Reagan's successor, George Bush, during his tenure as president.

Laura Jimenez is the director of standards and accountability for K - 12 Education at the Center for American Progress.

Laura Jimenez is the director of standards and accountability for K - 12 Education Policy at the Center for American Progress.

This column could have been written in the late 90s, when California adopted its own set of standards and accountability.

After further discussing voucher school failures and lack of standards and accountability, Pocan concludes:

In one case, the district had sued the state in an effort to stop enforcement of some components of the standards and accountability procedures.

In the area of standards and accountability, Missouri falls far short of average, ranking among the last states in the nation.

Three major developments of the past 20 years are now bearing fruit: 1) the creation of standards and accountability; 2) research on how the brain develops in early childhood and its implications for pre-K education and child care; and 3) an emerging focus on the single biggest factor in student achievement - teacher quality.

In this age of standards and accountability, the tool I rely on the most would be our web - based data warehouse, he told Education World.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

All these lawsuits are riding high on the back of the standards and accountability movement - even though Michael Cohen in «Unruly Crew «shows that states have been slow to implement their accountability systems.

If we were talking about the 1980s and the growth of the standards and accountability movement, we could credit E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy.

One last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly report a wide array of data related to test scores, poverty rates, teacher characteristics, and much, much more.

Is a skills checklist a better way to go in this age of standards and accountability?

Not exact matches

«Verizon is committed to the highest standards of accountability and transparency, and we proactively work to ensure the safety and security of our users and networks in an evolving landscape of online threats,» said Chandra McMahon, Verizon's chief information security officer, in a statement.

«Without strong action from the Department to ensure that DOJ employees meet the highest standards of conduct and accountability, the systemic issues we identified in our work may continue,» Horowitz wrote in a May 31 memo to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

She is also responsible for the accountability of each startup in his division and leads the relationships between entrepreneur and Start - Up Chile with high quality standards and customer service.

To become a Certified B Corporation, startups must meet advanced standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency set by the non-profit organization, B Lab.

As one of the first public companies in the cryptoasset and blockchain sectors (OTC: CRCW), we are proud to comply with even higher standards of accountability and governance.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

I can not answer for Pence's heart and motivation behind his personal boundaries, but I do think we could benefit from more leaders — regardless of their ministry, industry or politics — who are willing to hold themselves to a higher standard of accountability and transparency.

As the firm's business has grown, John Nagle Co. says its management has recognized the need for it to operate on an ever - higher standard of quality, tracking and accountability.

It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

The Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC), brings together seven of the world's most influential voluntary sustainability standards: Fairtrade International, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), GoodWeave International, Rainforest Alliance (RA), Social Accountability International (SAI), Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and UTZ, in its partnership with the ISEAL Alliance, and world - renowned living wage experts Dr. Richard Anker and Ms. Martha Anker.

The award declares that the college's culinary arts program has established standards, accountability and credibility, a high level of professionalism and up - to - date practices.

Navitas is B Corps certified, operating in accordance with rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

The immediate and huge success of the club created a responsibility to evolve the program to teach and promote the game and skills at international standards, while continuing to help the kids learn real core values about both rugby and life, such a respect, honor, discipline, integrity, teamwork and accountability.

The Obama agenda has focused almost exclusively on systemic school reform to address the achievement deficits of disadvantaged students: standards, testing, teacher evaluations, and a continued, if different, focus on accountability.

POTTERThat's, again, why we really — we're working towards licensure in Virginia and achieve licensure for certified professional midwives in Virginia because it creates a mechanism of accountability that not only upholds public safety and allows an overview of competency and a community standard, but it also creates a much better mechanism for review of practices of midwives or any health care providers.

, why would you see a provider that is basically following and probably even promoting the same standard — or lack thereof — of patient care and accountability?

In April 2013 New Mexico passed the Home Visiting Accountability Act, which creates a framework for standards - based home visiting, ensuring a level of quality and consistency in home visiting program...

As a founding Canadian B Corporation, we've had our business audited to ensure we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and USDA have also cited significant challenges under updated standards with student acceptance, participation, food waste and availability of foods that meet the rules.

Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Mr Georg Kell, that confirms its view that the corporate accountability initiative is «worse than useless and lacking in integrity».