Sentences with phrase «saw federal assessment»
What if, on a given day in May every year, every medical clinic in America saw federal assessment officials measuring the health status of everyone enrolled in that clinic, then aggregated the results to give a score to the clinic and tied doctors» pay to those rankings.
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«So here's where we stand: First, states should be encouraged [by the federal government's funding lever] to stay the course with the Common Core standards and assessments, at least until we [the federal government] see what the tests look like.
The critics of modern school reform that I know are people who see enormous trouble in the public education system, but don't think it will be fixed by spending billions of dollars on questionable teacher assessment systems linked to standardized test scores, or expanding charter schools that are hardly the panacea their early supporters claimed they would be, or handing out federal education dollars based on promises to change schools according to the likes and dislikes of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, whose record as superintendent of Chicago public schools was hardly distinguished.
Yet, because changes in assessment affect our entire education system and infrastructure, from state agencies to test makers to federal officials to classroom teachers, we won't see the real benefits from technology - enabled assessments — improved teaching and learning — without careful attention from policymakers and deliberate strategies to create change.
The union leadership sees this and gets all jizzy, thinking about how to steer some of that dough to their own pockets: «The four corporations that dominate the U.S. standardized testing market spend millions of dollars lobbying state and federal officials — as well as sometimes hiring them — to persuade them to favor policies that include mandated student assessments, helping to fuel a nearly $ 2 billion annual testing business, a new analysis shows.
Most readers will know that this was Taseko's second attempt to secure federal approval for its proposed mine and that the federal review panel that conducted the second environmental assessment (EA) concluded that, like the original Prosperity project, it too was likely to result in significant adverse environmental effects (SAEEs)(for more on the panel's report, see my previous post here)...
That a different regime is seen as necessary where the President is or was a federal judge supports the Commission's assessment that the amendment compromises its independence.