Sentences with phrase «real accountability in»

«Educators know that real accountability in public schools requires all stakeholders to place student needs, not profits, at the center of all efforts.

That's why NEA is also calling on lawmakers to repeal federal requirements that state standardized tests be used to evaluate educators and implement «real accountability in our public education system,» said Van Roekel.

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When we are making decision of that great importance, they can not be negotiated in secret with no accountability to citizens and with no any real independent analysis.»

If your statistics regarding the donations are correct, then I believe a quicker way to real results would be independently investigating the organizations (such as the Red Cross) receiving the donations to insure their accountability and focus is meeting the needs of the victims of the system we have in the US.

I railed against institutions and organizations, wouldn't darken the door of a «real» church, became fluent in fault - finding and cynicism, the word «orthodoxy» made my left eye twitch, while you tacked hard the other way, steering towards seminary, conservative denominations, structures, authorities, you longed for accountability.

I want accuracy and honesty in our government along with real accountability.

Add to that that there is absolutely NO real accountability for a midwife in the form of peer review, loss of privileges, or malpractice insurance, and you have a very volatile situation where well - meaning parents - to - be are left with no recourse when a birth goes horribly wrong at the hands of an incompetent midwife.

Primaries help the right because they stop the left using class entryism to employ working class conservative votes in support of a socially progressive project they do not wantThey help the right, in other words, because they provide real accountability.

The governor and the legislative leaders had the opportunity to restore the public's trust and put real accountability measures in place and instead they did nothing.

It seems, if I read this right, that the public revenue is being tapped as a knee jerk political response, and no real evidence of need or accountability is in open debate.

«In the national political climate, passions are certainly high on both sides, and there's a real risk that there isn't accountability at the local level.»

O'Malley's campaign said the former governor would send «an open letter to the Too Big To Fail Wall Street mega-banks telling them how — as President — he will pursue every avenue to put in place real structural and accountability reforms that will rein in their reckless behavior.»

It is national parliaments, which are, and will remain, the true source of real democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU.

Turning rhetoric into reality will be a tough call — public spending cuts show no sign of letting up and the combination of rising demand for school places, lack of accountability and cuts to education budgets in real terms will need careful consideration if we are to improve standards and equity in education within the next administration.

It would be great to think that before elected police commissioners come in, this anomaly could be removed — allowing real accountability for their priorities, the style of policing and also the shape and level of resources required to meet the demands of a public who are still very wary.

We are proud to join this campaign for greater accountability of NYCHA, and to help push for increased state investment in public housing to ensure that long overdue repairs finally get made,» said Maritza Silva - Farrell of the Real Affordability for All Coalition.

«This project has never had any real oversight or accountability or full public transparency, so it shouldn't come as a shock that a member of the Bloomberg administration has money invested in it,» said Councilwoman Letitia James, whose district includes the 22 - acre project footprint within Prospect Heights.

To a large extent duing the tory rule in the 80s and 90s there was no real democracy in scotland, with no democratic accountability.

Her in - person and virtual programs focus on real food, accountability, support, and solutions that are tailored for the individual.

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The evidence from Florida also suggests that the gains produced by such an accountability system are real indicators of improvement in learning, and not simply teaching to the test, cheating, or other manipulations of the testing system.

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

I refuse to pretend that it's caused no mischief in our schools — narrowing curriculum, encouraging large amounts of ill - conceived test prep, and making school a joyless grind for too many teachers and students alike — but neither can any fair - minded analyst deny that there have been real if modest gains in our present era of test - driven accountability, especially for low - income black and Hispanic children, particularly in the early grades.

Connecting accountability to the learning process in real time requires two things: a) Say, See, Do Teaching so you have time to check students» work during each input - output cycle, and b) plenty of time during Guided Practice to check work rather than service helpless handraisers.

The combination of competitive pressures from below, and accountability pressures from above, will create a new political environment, one in which unions and civil servants have no real alternative but to accept reform instead of oppose it — out of sheer self - interest.

Rather than providing students skills that have real currency in today's labor market and preparing them for gainful employment, accountability provisions in the federal No Child Left Behind Act and Race to the Top funding program have focused on increasing short - term gains that measure success or failure of schools.

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), said:» We need to see real and significant changes to teachers» working lives, both in terms of pay and conditions as well as reducing the punishing accountability system that is overburdening the profession and blighting children and young people's education.»

He is equally caustic when it comes to those who pursue change via accountability, incentives, and choice, faulting their failure to pay sufficient heed to the importance of local culture, social capital, and trust in making change real.

Given the accountability pressures in schools, we worry that this development could reduce the experience of practical work for students, particularly if the separate mark for this element is viewed as less important than the A-level grade, a real worry.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Even though accountability is increasingly recognized as the linchpin of education reform, only a few states have made real progress in establishing accountability systems.

Students can't improve or become managers of their own learning without constant, real - time assessment and feedback, referred to in PBL instruction as assessment for learning, as opposed to assessment for school, district, or classroom accountability.

Once the students feel risk in admitting what they didn't do, honesty and real accountability are compromised.

This is certainly true of the accountability movement in California, which has a tortured history of reform and retrenchment that for years left the state with no real measure of how its students were performing.

But from a standpoint of their being responsible, both of them check their own grades on a regular basis, so it's a real accountability thing for them too, and I'm really pleased with that, that I'm not going in and being the heavy all the time.»

Students with ADHD frequently lack skills required in the real world, including problem solving, time management, fiscal responsibility, personal accountability, communication skills, and public speaking.

Finally, these trends will be provided to policy makers in a «State of the Nation» report about the real, but often hidden, costs and benefits of initiatives such as the introduction of a national curriculum and changes to national testing and accountability requirements.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confidently.

We could credibly say to schools in the districts, «We are evaluating our people just as you are evaluating your people, with the same level of seriousness, and with real accountability for people who work here.»

Provide real development and accountability for teachers: Ensure that all teachers have access to constructive feedback, and that students are not stuck in classrooms where little learning goes on.

«The real accountability system is in the tasks that students are asked to do... [T] he task predicts performance.»

That's why it is not enough to prepare them in a «regulation first» system that shields real accountability and just hopes for the best.

Beyond the class - size mandate, we continue to call on education leaders to implement real accountability and transparency in all the new school choice efforts.

To be sure, these accountability measures, which are as much the product of Bush - NCLB as Obama - RTTT, left much to be desired and C3S often argued, at times to the displeasure of other charter advocates, that the accountability to which we were being held was overly narrow and poorly aligned with the needs of a 21st century democracy drowning in real - world problems.

«However, the report fails to grasp that the real reason for the loss of these activities is the high stakes accountability based on pupils» outcomes in tests and examinations which is narrowing the curriculum and the opportunities available to children and young people, and which teachers and school leaders have long been warning is a serious problem.

«With accountability and assessments, we can't have valid assessments without standards to align the assessments to, and we've made a real push to make sure we have highly - qualified, effective teachers in our classrooms as well,» Spradlin says.

In 2012, the frustrations and hopes of a nationally representative sample of school counselors and administrators reflect the central message of this report: although counselors and administrators believe in the college and career readiness mission of counselors, a lack of focus, training, accountability, and resources for counselors stands in the way of real progresIn 2012, the frustrations and hopes of a nationally representative sample of school counselors and administrators reflect the central message of this report: although counselors and administrators believe in the college and career readiness mission of counselors, a lack of focus, training, accountability, and resources for counselors stands in the way of real progresin the college and career readiness mission of counselors, a lack of focus, training, accountability, and resources for counselors stands in the way of real progresin the way of real progress.

Cut a new deal: in exchange for real accountability we'll give you real authority.»