Sentences with phrase «other accountability measures»

While at TaskStream, Sackman was a regular presenter at national education conferences and helped school districts and pre-service teacher education programs around the country to incorporate electronic portfolios and other accountability measures into the infrastructure of their programs to better address changing accreditation requirements.
«We are in ongoing conversations with the USDOE to ensure that our revised evaluation process and other accountability measures fully align with grant requirements and state laws.»
Contemporary accountability policies have created the added expectation that districts will differentiate support to schools on the basis of achievement results from state testing programs and other accountability measures, with particular attention to be given to schools where large numbers of students are not meeting standards of proficiency.
This finding has a significant impact on teachers and schools as policy makers put more emphasis on the labels for performance funding, teacher evaluations and other accountability measures.
NUT general secretary Christine Blower said her union has «long argued that league tables, high - stakes testing and other accountability measures have a negative effect on children and young people».
The passage of ESSA turned control of the country's K - 12 education system back over to the states, giving local legislatures more flexibility surrounding decisions about standards, assessments and other accountability measures.
The Obama administration offered waivers from the law's requirement that states steadily increase the number of students graded proficient on standardized exams to 37 states that agreed to other accountability measures, including new evaluations for teachers and principals.
According to the State of the States in Gifted Education, a biennial analysis of state laws and policies to support high - ability and high - potential students conducted by the National Association for Gifted Children and the Council of State Directors of Programs for the Gifted, 28 states lack even a single gifted education performance indicator on their annual report cards or other accountability measure.
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