Sentences with phrase «own standards and accountability»

If midwives want to provide services to women at a medically vulnerable time, there must be standards and accountability.

We have to insist on higher standards and accountability for ALL officials.

«The bottom line is that SUNY intends to create an insulated and self - regulated system, which would contradict and undermine state and national efforts to raise standards and accountability in teacher preparation and certification.»

The new federal Every Student Succeeds Act, was endorsed by more than 35 civil rights organizations to ensure high standards and accountability for the progress of all students, the official said.

To be the «students» lobbyist» — that is, to stand up to the teachers unions and their hirelings in the Legislature and bring standards and accountability to public education in New York.

Now the battle of the week ahead is to shape Brexit negotiations to put jobs, living standards and accountability centre stage.

Meanwhile, Goldrick - Rab's prescriptions actually sound similar to the standards and accountability movement in K - 12 circa 2000: government provides funding in exchange for more institutional accountability.

Enduring and broadly distributed gains, if any are to be had, will come from this manner of classroom - facing work long before it comes from doubling down on standards and accountability.

Illinois scores above average in standards and accountability.

The state earns its highest grade for policies related to standards and accountability.

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

Those states that have instituted reasonably tough standards and accountability systems have experienced real gains in achievement.

Performing near the national average in standards and accountability, the state could improve on its assessment and accountability measures.

In standards and accountability, West Virginia ranks among the top states in the nation.

The state receives its only above - average grade in standards and accountability.

But support for standards and accountability systems should not be equated with support for high - stakes tests.

The state earns its only above - average grade in standards and accountability.

In standards and accountability, the American Federation of Teachers has rated Colorado's standards clear, specific, and grounded in content, except for social studies at the elementary and high school levels.

Quality Counts 2006, like the nine previous editions of the report, tracks key education information and grades states on their policies related to student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, and resources.

Provides comprehensive data for individual states in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, resources: equity and spending.

Achieve, the independent non-profit organization formed to follow - up the Summit, is a permanent resource center supporting high academic standards and accountability in education.

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.

Louisiana is the highest - scoring state in standards and accountability.

Standards and Accountability: This year, Louisiana received the second - highest grade in standards and accountability.

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

Standards and Accountability: West Virginia is one of 12 states that earned A's for standards and accountability this year.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

(It escapes me why he then urges that states be placed in sole charge of school standards and accountability with no federal involvement at all.)

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.

Idaho fares well in standards and accountability, where it scores just above average and has a strong showing on school accountability indicators.

In an article on National Review Online, Jeb Bush describes what he sees as the reforms that are the key to raising student achievement, focusing on standards and accountability, including the Common Core.

The state earns a below - average grade in standards and accountability, in part, because it has not adopted academic standards in social studies.

Rising state standards and accountability initiatives have spotlighted the weak academic progress of many ELLs.

Plaintiffs in these lawsuits say they favor high standards and accountability and then point to data showing that large numbers of students in urban districts fail to meet heightened standards.

Why States Are Turning to a Hybrid Strategy for Judging Schools (and Why Some Experts Say They Shouldn't)(Chalkbeat) Andrew Ho and Marty West discuss proficiency standards and accountability, and states approach to evaluating students and schools.

The state ranks near the bottom of the nation in standards and accountability.

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.

That's because, in response to the national push for academic standards and accountability, movements fueled by philanthropy, states now are required to test students and report on the results.

Teachers seemed to have somewhat mixed feelings about the standards and accountability policies that drove the district's effort to align the curriculum.

Within the evolving standards and accountability movement, states (rather than the nation or school districts) have borne the responsibility to develop standards, tests linked to those standards, and a system of rewards and punishments for schools depending on their performance.

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.

Upon taking office in 1999, the governor pursued a multipronged strategy of education reform: an emphasis on reading, standards and accountability for public schools, and new choice options for students.

JR: We all believe in high standards and accountability and want students to graduate high school college - and career - ready.

The state receives an average grade for standards and accountability.

This includes how to design an optimal standards and accountability system.

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.

At some point the prevailing standards and accountability approach to education reform will be replaced with new designs that are more productive, or at least different.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

The era of high standards and accountability for schools, teachers, and those who train them — an era that never entirely gained traction in New York — was over.

In that spirit I'll offer a taxonomy that has helped me to think systematically about the ways that standards and accountability systems differ.