Sentences with phrase «on the accountability front»

We've already seen some modest progress from the government on the accountability front, although a huge amount remains to be done.

So what do these 11 states want to do differently on the accountability front?

But bellwether Massachusetts has just opted to develop its own version of the PARCC assessment and all states face brand - new federally - granted flexibility on the accountability front.

Still, little was settled on the accountability front.

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Bladow says that his experience with BloomThat has taught him about accountability, how not to be thrown by the things beyond your control and focus on what you can tackle right in front of you.

Questions and criticism have been mounting from multiple fronts about the Harper government's transparency and accountability on its spending decisions and budget cuts.

The team also wore t - shirts with «Change Starts With Us: Justice & Accountability» written on the front and the names of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile as well as the Dallas Police Department emblem on the back to honor and mourn the losses of two black men shot and killed by police and five officers killed on duty last week.

I'm happy to report that we have made major progress on both fronts — with new leadership, a new commitment to accountability and a new push to make sure that there is a level playing field in Rockland County.

With systems of accountability for student achievement now widely in place, state policymakers and others are applying the principle on another front by trying to hold schools more responsible for how they spend their money.

But please continue your support and leadership on the standards and accountability front, too.

In today's environment of high - stakes accountability and limited resources, urban educators must be able to address urgent challenges on multiple fronts.

Which was that we wanted to make a commitment not just to the accountability side of the reforms, but also to what might be called the instructional core and to invest in capacity and the capacity of people on the front lines of the educational systems; to give them better preparation, to give them better tools, to give them better professional development.

For the past decade and a half, the fight to improve America's schools has been fought largely on two fronts: academic standards as one battleground, and accountability the other, with the issue of mandatory testing adding heat to a very public — and increasingly...

Medicine is a field that works relatively well where most of the improvement processes come on the front end (extensive training, clinical science building on basic science, ongoing dissemination of clinical science) with little emphasis on accountability for results on the back end.

I'd also add that a lot of the discussions taking place on the early childhood front are perhaps maybe 10 years behind where the discussions around K - 12 are when it comes to accountability and content.

«Governance systems that produce uncertainty, distrust, and ambiguous accountability can impede district's» progress on any front.»

Thus, as the federal government continues to review and approve states» plans and states begin to implement their new accountability frameworks and school improvement strategies, they must work together to remember the teachers standing in front of our nation's classrooms — for they are critical to all of these other efforts and, ultimately, will have the most impact on their students» learning.

While the No Child waiver gambit hasn't exactly helped on this front, largely because they don't have the force of law that comes with legislation passed by Congress, a new version of No Child can do so if the focus is on expanding accountability.

You can easily surmise that these post-AYP accountability systems essentially proclaim that state leaders (along with those such as Petrilli who support their efforts on this front) don't expect districts to do very much for the black, Latino, and Native kids in their care.

(On the expectations - and - accountability front, Philly is closer to the New York model, and so is its level of success.)

Many successful education systems couple the focus on universal standards and outcomes with efforts to move responsibility to the front line, encouraging responsiveness to local needs and strengthening accountability systems.

In some cases, as in Finland, such practices largely obviate the need for testing and external accountability, because selection and preparation on the front end makes extensive monitoring on the back end unnecessary.

This position would be the inverse of our current approach of providing little up front and demanding heavy accountability on the back end.

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

Meanwhile on the school accountability front, the NEA - AFT coalition offer few suggestions outside of attendance data, school discipline data, graduation rate data, and percentages of kids promoted from one grade to another.

In a separate action on Monday, a rally organized in front of LAUSD's Beaudry Street headquarters by the East Area Progressive Democrats (EAPD) took the school board to task over the selection process and characterized Rodriguez as being emblematic of the board's lack of accountability for charter schools.

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Sen. Al Franken's elicitation of her lack of understanding between growth and proficiency, her disdain for gun - free school zones (in front of a Newtown representative, no less), her view of sexual assault on campuses, her refusal to assure Sen. Tim Kaine that she would hold all schools that receive public funds — traditional, public charter, private, parochial — to the same standards of accountability: Shall we count the ways she equivocated on civil rights, equity, safety and basic comprehension of pressing educational matters?

So it would make senses that the administration would embarrass itself again — and stain both Duncan's and President Barack Obama's otherwise admirable reputations on the school reform front — by, yes, allowing Virginia (along with Arkansas, Missouri, South Dakota, and Utah) to evade No Child's accountability provision as part of the administration's misguided waiver gambit.

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But as these decision - makers determine their accountability programs, they should listen to teachers, the folks who know best because they are on the front lines actually delivering student learning and observing most closely what matters most.