Sentences with phrase «rigorous standards and accountability»

Any fair assessment of the events of the two decades since Risk must conclude that we are well on our way to high and rigorous standards and accountability.

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It's a project that the company had been working on ever since the partners heard what B Corps are all about: for - profit companies certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Navitas is B Corps certified, operating in accordance with rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

As a founding Canadian B Corporation, we've had our business audited to ensure we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

This is a more general certification given to companies that meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

Standing for reform apparently means supporting rigorous testing, a back - to - basics curriculum, higher standards, more homework, more science and math, more phonics, something called accountability, and a host of other often daunting initiatives.

Such an accountability movement would continue to call for rigorous standards, regular testing, and interventions in schools that don't measure up.

For comparison, the Common Core standards are new and more rigorous than existing standards, but they're only one component of the full accountability apparatus, and all the states that have adopted the standards are relying on either one of the two assessment consortia or ACT to create assessments for them.

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.

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.

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.

NCATE president Arthur E. Wise attributes this growth to «the new climate of accountability and the desire of institutions to be able to demonstrate that they have met rigorous national standards.»

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

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.

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 promise and potential of standards - and accountability - driven reform is that, by setting clear and rigorous expectations for what students should know and be able to do, teachers can better prepare students for the more advanced work that they will be asked to do in later grades, in college, and beyond.

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...

You will explore the elements of a standards - based reform framework: clear expectations for students; rigorous curricula aligned to standards; professional development that improves instructional quality; and assessment as a tool for feedback and accountability.

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.

Mark Murphy was Delaware's Secretary of Education adopting rigorous educator preparation standards into law, updating the state's charter school law to improve school accountability and support, tackling college readiness and retention challenges, implementing the Common Core State Standards and assessments and promoting school choice.

As hard as I have worked to bring rigorous, content - rich standards, reasonable assessments, inspiring curricula, and accountability to public schools, I am dumbfounded to see how little of it has permeated the private schools I visited.

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.

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.

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

The accreditation process ensures institutional accountability, self - appraisal, improvement, and innovation through peer review and rigorous standards.

«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.

Nor did Duncan admit that one reason why states and districts complained about No Child's accountability and proficiency goals was because of their own gamesmanship, failing to elevate (and in some cases, deliberately lower) standards and proficiency targets more - rigorous in the first place, then moving to ramp them up just a few years before the 2014 target would come into play, aided and abetted by Duncan and his predecessors.

But school accountability simply means measuring the progress of all students against rigorous standards and assigning consequences to the results.

In a timely op - ed in The Hechinger Report, NISL CEO Bob Hughes and the Missouri Commissioner of Education Dr. Chris Nicastro, argue that improving the effectiveness of school leaders is even more critical in the current climate of tight budgets, rigorous standards, and increased accountability.

«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.

Accountability - oriented reformers such as Michelle Rhee have pointed out weaknesses in the tentative agreement and called for state legislation to set an even more rigorous standard.

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.

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.

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.

This idea came to be known as school accountability, and it was built around three principles: Creating rigorous academic standards, measuring student progress against those standards, and attaching some consequence to the results.

When the state standards and accountability movement began in the 1990's, it was conceived as a way to make learning more rigorous in K - 12 curricula in an effort to close the college and job readiness gap.

And higher standards, of course, don't guarantee better student achievement, which depends on effective curricula, quality teaching, useful assessment and rigorous accountabiliAnd higher standards, of course, don't guarantee better student achievement, which depends on effective curricula, quality teaching, useful assessment and rigorous accountabiliand rigorous accountability.

Even as educators are integrating these more rigorous standards into their instruction, student and school performance continue to be judged using No Child Left Behind's (NCLB) outdated testing regimen and accountability measures.

«And I think there also has to be accountability, rigorous accountability, that we hold those private schools to exactly the same standards and the same rigor of accountability that we would hold charters and public schools to.&raqAnd I think there also has to be accountability, rigorous accountability, that we hold those private schools to exactly the same standards and the same rigor of accountability that we would hold charters and public schools to.&raqand the same rigor of accountability that we would hold charters and public schools to.&raqand public schools to.»

In the era of high - stakes national, state and local accountability, and with the advent of common core standards and NCLB, teachers across the nation face the daunting task of ensuring mastery of increasingly rigorous learning standards in increasingly diverse classrooms.

[6] States should maintain rigorous standards for substitute teacher quality and accountability for all substitutes, but especially for long - term substitutes who are expected to stand in for teachers for long stretches of time.

«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.»

In 2015, Assurity was certified as a B Corporation by the non-profit B Lab for meeting rigorous standards of environmental and social performance, as well as for transparency and accountability.

Combining rigorous, comprehensive implementation of the No Kill Equation with best practices and accountability of staff in cleaning, handling, and care of animals, must be the standard.

They use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems, and they have met rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.