Sentences with phrase «real accountability measures»

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The bill arrived in the House containing some rare charter school accountability measures such as preventing operators from profiting off of third party real estate schemes.

And there is an obvious structural hurdle facing the insurgents: like all unions, teachers» unions exist to protect their members, creating a natural conflict between, say, maintaining job security for everyone and implementing measures that differentiate based on performance or create real accountability for results.

«We believe there's a real opportunity for the expansion of school choice throughout Wisconsin that includes effective accountability measures,» Fraley said.

Little mention is made of our reality here, however, given the real and deleterious effects we witness, for example, as current teacher educators when we work with potential / future teachers who almost daily express serious concerns about joining a profession now with very little autonomy, not much respect, and a stark increase in draconian accountability measures that will be used to hold them accountable for that which they do, or do not do well.

Only there has been little real change — to my knowledge — in the status quo because schools are seemingly still beholden to accountability measures that link to the quantifiable measures of NC levels.

The act's emphasis on test scores as the primary measure of school performance has narrowed the curriculum, and the one - size - fits - all accountability system has mislabeled schools as failures even if their students are demonstrating real academic growth.