Sentences with phrase «raises academic accountability»

The UK's Education Act 2011 points to an interesting approach: it raises academic accountability by means of reforming qualifications, a concept almost unheard of in American education politics, which practices giving out money to students primarily in proportion to their poverty instead of to their having earned that public support.

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The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

The nationwide push toward greater school accountability and common standards has generated a chorus of calls for raising the level of academic rigor in U.S. schools.

Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve, Inc., (www.achieve.org) is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship.

This 2001 federal law is designed to raise academic standards, close achievement gaps, encourage more school accountability, and offer more choices to families and students.

The nation's public schools can dramatically raise academic achievement among struggling students over the next two decades with a coordinated strategy that puts greater emphasis on accountability, urban schools, and early - childhood education, argues a report released here last week.

His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.

«CCSA has led the way for increased accountability by raising standards that value academic rigor, while also giving schools credit for academic growth, and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students,» said Elizabeth Robitaille, senior vice president of Achievement and Performance Management, CCSA.

SB 645, authored by Senator Joe Simitian (D - Palo Alto), would create new and more stringent academic accountability requirements for charter schools, while raising standards for student performance and outcomes.

«We have worked to raise academic standards, promote accountability, and provide greater competition and choice within the public schools, including support for a dramatic increase in charter schools.»

These news stories repeatedly and overwhelmingly raise concerns about funding and academic accountability across all state contexts, matching the concerns that have emerged in the academic literature.

Created by the nation's governors and business leaders, Achieve, Inc, is a bipartisan, non-profit organization that helps states raise academic standards, improve assessments and strengthen accountability to prepare all young people for postsecondary education, work and citizenship.

The CCSA Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged Accountability Framework guides CCSA's efforts to raise accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged accountability standards in a way that values academic rigor while also giving schools credit for growth and for taking on the challenge of serving traditionally disadvantaged students well.