Sentences with phrase «school accountability policies»

The effect of school accountability policies on children's health.

Would the proponents of school accountability policies such as standardized testing come out on top, or would the findings support the opinions of the critics?

The sole authorizer has put several school accountability policies in place through regulation.

The pattern of differences across schools, across and within school districts, argues for enacting school accountability policies that hold schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

In 1996, the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) began implementing a new school accountability policy designed to improve student performance by providing a combination of consequences and support to

After expressing confidence in a steadily improving state economy, Gov. Bill Owens said this month that he would oppose any effort to weaken state school accountability policies, and he vowed not to retreat from education approaches such as school choice, charter schools, and home schooling.

«Our results suggest that school accountability policies hold promise for raising school performance, particularly for students in disadvantaged schools and neighbourhoods.

California has a school district - focused policy structure that combines some charter school accountability policies with a multi-tiered appeal structure.

The author argues that oversimplified and undemocratic state and federal school accountability policies are increasing inequities, trivializing schooling, undermining the teaching profession, and misleading the public about the state of education.

School choice, however, can be a powerful tool to improve education when it is tied to strong school accountability policies for student achievement.

The impact of NCLB is identified using a comparative interrupted time series analysis that relies on comparisons of the test - score changes across states that already had school accountability policies in place prior to NCLB and those that did not.

Moreover, the cross-school differences in the relative success of advantaged and disadvantaged students argue for enacting school accountability policies that shine the light on the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

Students with Disabilities who Drop Out of School: Implications for Policy and Practice (July 2002) NCSET Issue Brief Amid new school accountability policies and stiffer promotion and graduation requirements, what interventions work to lower an unacceptable high dropout rate for students with disabilities?

A handful of states, such as Texas and North Carolina, began implementing «consequential» school accountability policies in the early 1990s.

Again, it can't be Common Core, or testing, or school accountability policies, because those are almost universal.

This study examines the major shift in California and across the nation in school accountability policy.

Hart's recent work has focused on school choice programs, school accountability policies, early childhood education policies, and effects on students of exposure to demographically similar teachers.

In conducting the study, researchers with RAND convened a panel of experts on school accountability policies, reviewed published research, conducted interviews with educators and reviewed the measures employed in each state that publishes its own school ratings in addition to those required under NCLB.

A number of studies have examined the impact of school accountability policies, including No Child Left Behind (NCLB), on student achievement.

The differences in school performance levels were pronounced in many cases: The difference in performance between a closed and newly assigned school's policy points — the district's school accountability policy — was 21 percentage points, on average.

However, development of the latest generation of standardized tests has faced its challenges over the years, much as have school accountability policies.