Sentences with phrase «rigorous accountability system»

In that role, he helped build the nation's first mayor - run office to authorize public charter schools, creating a high bar for charter school quality and a rigorous accountability system.

It requires a sophisticated new system for enrollment, the incubation of new school operators, and a fair, transparent, and rigorous accountability system.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

When Congress enacted the Every Student Succeeds Act, many reformers voiced concern that states would give up on rigorous accountability systems.

A new study shows that rigorous accountability systems may be pushing schools to place the lowest - performing teachers in the youngest grades.

Not exact matches

«As a fiduciary of the New York City Employee Retirement System for the last 8 years, Scott has worked with his fellow trustees to grow the City's pension funds through prudent investments, improving diversification and ensuring more rigorous assessment of risks to investments such as corporate accountability and violations of environmental regulations.»

But he said Assembly Dems are resisting the governor's plan to delay a boost in school funding until the panel comes up with a more rigorous teacher - accountability system by June.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

The question of whether testing and accountability systems are an effective reform tool has seldom been the subject of rigorous research.

Other rigorous studies have been carried out of accountability systems within states and school districts.

It doesn't erase the need for rigorous standards, tough accountability, vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations (and training, etc.), stronger school leaders, the right of families to choose schools, and much else that reformers have been struggling to bring about.

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

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.

Jennings also appears unaware that there are rigorous studies on the effects of NCLB and other high - stakes accountability systems, such as those by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob (see «Evaluating NCLB,» research, Summer 2010) and those published by Stanford University researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond in 2005, and Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb in 2002.

Although the threat of a lawsuit should not deter states from developing rigorous standards and tough but fair accountability systems, it should serve as a warning to states...

Achieve, which normally assesses accountability systems at the state level for «quality and coherence,» praised the Montgomery County assessments as rigorous, high - quality measures that are good predictors of students» performance on state - level tests.

The waiver application contains the same commitments that all states seeking waivers were required to meet: implementing Common Core or other rigorous standards preparing students for college and careers, developing a teacher evaluation process that includes the results of local and state tests, and creating an accountability system that recognizes that success is more than students» test scores.

We at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute have a longstanding interest in advancing quality school choices for kids who need them and a parallel interest in boosting educational achievement with the help of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

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.

Which is why policymakers are looking for ways to change the system through an injection of market forces, as well as imposing rigorous standards of accountability.

By accountability, we mean that every school or education provider - at least every one that accepts public dollars - should subscribe to a coherent set of rigorous, statewide academic standards, statewide assessments of student and school performance, and a statewide system of incentives and interventions tied to results.

If, rightly, we want to reject a zero - sum trade - off between our values, if what we need are a highly attractive long - term profession for successful teachers, accountability for student results, and a far more rigorous curriculum driving far higher learning outcomes for our students, are we willing to rethink the system from scratch and put everything on the table?

Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards and through annual assessments of student achievement.

Most reports on differences among the states are descriptive, although some analysts suggest that rigorous state accountability systems can raise student achievement.252 How they might do this has not, however, been explored in detail.

«We believe Indiana's growth model is the best student growth measure in the nation, and we believe we can develop an accountability system that uses clear labels, incorporates student growth, and still maintains rigorous standards,» Indiana Department of Education spokesperson Alex Damron said Friday.

No one argues against the notion of a rigorous, fair accountability system.

They also must have accountability systems that recognize and reward high - performing schools and those that are making significant gains, while targeting rigorous and comprehensive interventions for the lowest - performing schools.

This is part of government reforms designed to make the exams and accountability system more rigorous.

«Mississippi has built a strong foundation for its public education system that includes rigorous academic standards for all students, aligned assessments to evaluate student achievement and an accountability model that clearly measures the performance of our schools and districts.

Accountability — Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of studenAccountability — Virginia's accountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of studenaccountability system supports teaching and learning by setting rigorous academic standards — known as the Standards of Learning (SOL)-- and through annual statewide assessments of student achievement.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

When Texas put into place the most rigorous education accountability system in the country in 2009, we thought we were at the culmination of a journey of over 20 years toward a Texas high school diploma that truly represents post-secondary readiness, but somehow we lost our courage and the pushback to that enhanced rigor has been relentless, resulting in a lowering of expectations and a gutting of the standards.

Accountability systems include high standards, rigorous assessments, rewards, sanctions and public reporting, Christie said.

In 2009, after almost twenty years of steady progress in raising public education standards, enhancing accountability systems, and increasing the expectations of both students and educators, Texas finally put in place for the first time a rigorous system of accountability and assessments that, when fully implemented, would make postsecondary (college and career) readiness the organizing principle of the PreK - 12 education system.

«The financial accountability systems in places for free schools are more rigorous than those for maintained schools.

Schools participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program are held accountable for academic outcomes through one of the most rigorous nonpublic school choice accountability systems in the nation.

Let's be clear: The need for rigorous, college - preparatory curricula with strong content is as critical an element in reforming American public education as advancing standards and accountability, overhauling teacher quality, expanding school choice, bolstering Parent Power, improving school leadership and building robust data systems.

The framework provides state criteria that ensure local evaluation systems are rigorous and designed to support professional growth, accountability, and student learning and growth.

Achieving this goal would require the development of rigorous standards, assessments, and accountability systems — difficult work, especially in the field of higher education, where educational aims are highly varied and faculty autonomy is deeply engrained.

Finally, the paper outlines eight system - level characteristics of a high - quality CTE program, including: career - oriented educational systems; strong options for all students; rigorous academic curricula; rigorous technical skill development; employability skills; professional development for teaching staff and leaders; support services for students; and assessment / accountability.

Recent efforts by states to make their educator accountability systems more rigorous represent a «seismic shift rarely seen in education,» according to the National...

«That's why we are raising standards with a rigorous new curriculum, world class exams and new accountability system that rewards those schools which help every child to achieve their best.»

«I am pleased with this vindication, not for me, but for the work of my colleagues at the Department of Education and for the 1.1 million Indiana students who have benefitted and will continue to benefit from a clear and rigorous school accountability system.»

If you need more accountability and support, or if you've wanted to publish for a long time but can't seem to get it done, I recommend checking out the Self - Publishing School — it's not free, but Chandler Bolt has set up a rigorous system to guide you through the process of actually getting your book finished and published.

All of our products conform to rigorous regulatory oversight and quality assurance systems that are built on consistency, dependability, accountability and traceability.

A human rights based approach... emphasises a holistic, integrated approach, which promotes transparency, accountability and the development of rigorous benchmarking, monitoring and reporting systems and access to forms of redress.