Sentences with phrase «policy around accountability»

So what does this mean for federal policy around accountability?

She works on a variety of issues across ECE and K - 12, but is especially interested in Pre-K to third grade systems, and state policies around accountability and assessments.

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the absence of any serious Ministerial accountability for their decisions (12), meaning that few Ministers ever stay around long enough to be held accountable for policies they enacted;

One of the things we did through the leadership of the Chancellor was to develop a private funding initiative to support Regents Research Fellows, a new group of invaluable policy experts who are working with the new Commissioner on developing policy initiatives around complex regulatory structures surrounding such things as accountability.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

For all of this year's debate about the future of testing, accountability, and other policy issues around the No Child Left Behind Act, virtually no one has brought up the question of how best to give out billions of dollars a year under the law.

Of recent, conversations about accountability in the education policy sphere have centered around the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

The report, North Carolina Charter Schools: Excellence and Equity through Collaboration, looks at policies and outcomes around the state's charter application and approval process and the oversight and measurement of charter school performance, and includes recommendations to improve charter authorizing practices and increase accountability.

As states across the country rethink school accountability under ESSA, most of the policy discussion revolves around how bureaucrats should calculate ratings that parents rarely see, based on standardized test scores that parents barely credit.

In an effort to address concerns on accountability, the UNCF, National Urban League and Education Post recently released a report Building Better Narratives in Black Education focusing on better engaging communities around K - 12 education and driving substantive policy changes.

This report by Ace Parsi and Linda Darling - Hammond is intended to familiarize state boards of education with performance assessments and help policymakers address some of the thorniest issues around these assessments: purpose, sustainability, reliability, accountability, policy...

To flip this around, what limited your ability to implement accountability practices and policies in your work, either as a teacher, charter - school operator, or Education Secretary?

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

With the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act, principals face even greater uncertainty around state policy decisions concerning new accountability requirements, principal evaluation systems, and funding for schools.

Amanda's research interests center around accountability in P12 and Higher Education context with specific interest in the idea of P20 policy and practices and the relationship between accountability demands and those that must make sense of them.

Although state laws vary widely in terms of the policies governing charter school oversight and accountability, these publically funded institutions, which receive freedom from the rules and regulations of traditional district schools in exchange for meeting agreed - upon performance targets, now serve an estimated 2.9 million students in more than 6,700 schools around the country (National Alliance of Public Charter Schools [NAPCS], 2015).

The concept of growth is at the foundation of the policy and practice around systems of educational accountability.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

Participating states (Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont) committed to policy and implementation changes around graduation requirements, assessments, and accountability.

Well - designed accountability policy, on its own, does four things well: first, it requires participants to believe that all students can learn and succeed; second, it measures the academic progress of all students over time; third, it highlights gaps between different groups of students (be they racial, geographic, socio - economic, special education and gifted students, or English language proficiency); and fourth, it assigns consequences for not meeting goals around student progress.

So it isn't surprising that Duncan attempted to dance around yesterday's Center on Education Policy report that showed that just 48 percent of schools were found to be academically failing under No Child's accountability provisions.

Participants provided input on the working paper, reviewed a guide on a policy problem around streamlining accountability structures, and heard from Vincent Costanza on the goals of New Jersey in participating in a Learning Table co-hosted by BUILD and CEELO.

The leading school reform policy in the United States revolves around strong accountability of schools with consequences for performance.

Osler is a program partner of the Information Accountability Foundation (IAF) the preeminent global information policy think tank that works with regulatory authorities, policymakers, business leaders, civil society and other key stakeholders around the world to help frame and advance data protection law and practice through accountability - based informatiAccountability Foundation (IAF) the preeminent global information policy think tank that works with regulatory authorities, policymakers, business leaders, civil society and other key stakeholders around the world to help frame and advance data protection law and practice through accountability - based informatiaccountability - based information governance.

This accountability exists regardless of the quality of the advice they receive on the issue (although it has to be said there were plenty of people around who could have pointed out the problems with the co-payment policy).

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) may bring valuable opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disabilities, but some important questions have arisen around accountability, according to Dr John Gilroy, from the Centre for Disability Research and Policy at The University of Sydney.

Of recent, conversations about accountability in the education policy sphere have centered around the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)

From the development of standards to methods of measurement to state accountability systems, one thing is for certain — policy conversations around SEL are picking up steam.