Sentences with phrase «school accountability policies hold»

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

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The report also addresses a second, widely used accountability policy: high - school exit exams that hold students responsible for meeting a set of content standards.

As we'll see, the possible reasons our results differed so dramatically from one time period to the next hold important implications for the design of school accountability policies.

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.

But none of them hold as much promise for student learning as any one of the many school reforms on the nation's agenda — student and school accountability, school choice, and changes in teacher recruitment, compensation and retention policies.

In reaction to criticism of the policy, Cate Swinburn, head of data and accountability in the D.C. school system, stated, «In no way does DCPS hold our students to different expectations based on their skin color or language ability or special learning needs».

It's not like it is difficult to find startling hypocrisy in what passes for public policy debates these days, but the battle over public education seems especially rife with maddening examples, most of them around the notion of accountability, that teachers and schools should be held to high standards and measurable results for the public dollars they use.

«Establishing high - quality school options in every neighborhood throughout Chicago is among our highest priorities, but we can not make that a reality without a rigorous accountability policy that holds every public school in Chicago to the same standard,» he said.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

An approach to accountability that holds states responsible for the conditions to learn while holding communities responsible for equity and achievement: The current federal policy framework holds schools to unreasonable targets, using narrow assessment tools, with punishments that do little to improve school performance.

Labour MPs will hold an inquiry into school improvement and accountability in an attempt to «flesh out» the party's education policies, Schools Week can exclusively reveal.