Sentences with phrase «schools and teachers accountable»

Meanwhile, the Common Core standards, related assessments, and how they are used to hold schools and teachers accountable will remain a top education issue within statehouses around the country and will likely continue to echo through campaign rhetoric on national and state stages.

It is also entirely possible to hold schools and teachers accountable without our mass testing ritual and all of the distortions it causes to genuine learning.

Only testing every child in every grade allows us to hold districts and schools and teachers accountable.

[1] And along with all other students, they are included in standards - based reforms — policies that hold their schools and teachers accountable for what they do or do not learn.

For the past several decades, American education reformers have focused on reading and math test scores as the primary means of holding schools and teachers accountable for improving student performance.

Those policy makers have been pursuing a «Test - and - Punish» policy primarily relying on tests as a way of holding schools and teachers accountable and using threats to pressure schools.

They view holding schools and teachers accountable for how well students are doing as a key part of improving education.

Under present day standards and accountability systems, states, pushed and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills and to do something about schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts, schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career, and life.»

The more serious difficulties arise when value - added assessments are used to hold schools and teachers accountable, with high - stakes personnel decisions to follow.

Instead, he returns to the unilateral concern with holding schools and teachers accountable.

Elia talked about the importance of holding schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.

«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed, and holds schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»

Not exact matches

Schools with the best facilities and the highest «paid teachers often fail because they are ultimately accountable to bureaucrats for regulatory compliance, instead of to parents for results.

«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public schools is going to require more nurturing families and safer neighborhoods as well as better teachers and more accountable schools.»

This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

I think the push towards taking noncognitive skills seriously met up with the push towards holding teachers and schools accountable.

At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public school parents and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.

It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

But, I have to believe that school administrators, having once been teachers themselves, will help find the proper balance between holding teachers accountable and holding teachers to an impossible standard.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, and the Schools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and pSchools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and pschools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and parents.

«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate teacher and principal effectiveness, and to hold schools and districts accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.

Heads and teachers should run schools and they should be more accountable to parents instead of politicians.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing schools to hold teachers accountable based on teacher evaluation results.

In this essay, Elmore sets forth a novel vision for school leadership that would not reside with individuals, but would instead be distributed among various branches that are fully accountable not only to one another and to teachers, but also to the marketplace — in this case, parents and students.

Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers); teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held accountable as the principal of your school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really accountable?»)

If we take that definition seriously, then other indicators that districts might chose to use to hold schools accountable (such as attendance, student and teacher satisfaction, or community engagement) should rise accordingly.

A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students, teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.

We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where teachers and schools are held accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.

At the same time, they argue that it would be unfair to hold teachers, schools and students accountable for their performance during this interim period.

Accountable for the results of all students in the team, multi-classroom leaders also earn supplements that thus far have averaged 20 percent (and up to 50 percent) of teacher pay, within the regular school budget.

AFT's poll showed that 74 percent of respondents are worried that students, teachers and schools will be held accountable for the results of those assessments before they have been fully implemented.

Parents should, through membership of parent teacher associations and as parent governors, hold the governance and management of the school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities and value given to art and design on the curriculum and in the professional development of its teachers and support staff

Our teachers are unionized, and our schools take and are held accountable to the New York State tests.

American Federation of Teacher President Randi Weingarten says we hold schools accountable for how much money they have and the types of programs they build with that money.

Districts and charter schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot schools that use job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

It is a story of collective courage, of teachers and school leaders coming together to hold each other accountable.

Schools and teachers are accountable for how much students gain in achievement.

From downtown district offices to aging neighborhood elementary schools to graffiti - sprayed secondary schools, phrases such as «socializing intelligence» and «accountable talk» are rolling off the lips of teachers, principals, and district administrators alike.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

In this telling, valor is awarded to those willing to make «hard» decisions: these people support merit pay, firing bad teachers, holding schools accountable, and closing failing schools.

Teachers, schools, and principals must be held accountable for results.

The measures announced by Hinds included a commitment to working with Ofsted, regional schools commissioners, the Education and Skills Funding Agency and multi-academy trusts — to clarify their roles, and ensure teachers and school leaders have a clear understanding of who they are accountable to, and for what.

The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high - school teachers and principals; holding high schools accountable for their results; and streamlining «education governance.»

Resistance to making standards consequential: When Common Core and the aligned assessments were launched in 2010, states were also busy adopting ambitious new teacher evaluation systems and refashioning the ways in which they held local schools and districts accountable.

These schools hold students accountable for achievement; extend the school day, week, and year; and give principals the autonomy to hire the most skilled teachers.

The coalition, we are told, «doesn't say schools and teachers shouldn't be held accountable for how well they do their jobs.

The Philadelphia school board approved a program last week that will hold teachers more accountable for student performance and give cash awards to successful schools.

And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledgAnd our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledgand now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledgand strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledgand ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).