Sentences with phrase «sort of accountability»

Some people can't handle responsibility without some sort of accountability or supervision.»

In effect, it imposes a sort of accountability upon the judiciary.

And there is no accountability for their actions other than a side show Congressional hearing in which contempt for any sort of accountability was totally transparent in the men running those companies.

To expand on this, since the score is what is important to the industry, and not the reviewer themselves, this sort of accountability should be paramount when reading or judging a review.

And, even if Wolf moves forward with the veto, GOP leaders say this bill is the sort of accountability measure the governor will have to swallow to get a funding boost in this year's budget.

Is it fair to subject math and English / language arts teachers to this sort of accountability and not everybody else?

Most Americans now believe that some sort of accountability in which communities can compare the academic performance of their students with their contemporaries» nationwide is essential.

And it would allow some sort of accountability opt - out for schools that don't want to be part of the default system.

I know Jack Kruse takes about calories don't matter but there seems to be some sort of accountability to break plateaus and or get a bit leaner.

You know, there needs to be some sort of accountability and...

An initiative lacking in resources and / or any sort of accountability program may not have your weight - loss best interest in mind.

An epistemology of the cross exercises a critique that is, in the first instance, a call for this sort of accountability.

If Twitter is serious about being a force for good in the world and a haven from harassment for its users, it will have to start by making it harder to tweet without any sort of accountability.

That sort of accountability produces results, she said.

Not exact matches

In the interests of accountability and transparency, I read through 300 pages of evidence and pulled out the sort of uncomfortable revelations that Ottawa doesn't want U.S. oil customers, industry investors or Canadian taxpayers to know.

And there are all sorts of rules — including various policies and principles of good governance — that establish how that power and accountability is to be implemented.

By the mid 1990s, then, the consensus seemed to be that the right regime was some sort of inflation target agreed between a government and the central bank (if not set out in legislation), operational independence for the central bank in pursuing the target, and a system of communication and accountability.

Prelatures with no accountability or oversight foster and cultivate a spirit within the Church that allows this sort of thing to happen.

I'm not sure that something like this could have been heard above the din that came from a failed financial model, the loss of an admittedly cool place to worship, and the general pushback against any sort of moral accountability.

How exactly does one who represents himself to be supremely dedicated to accountability, such as yourself, manage to make these sorts of pronouncements without providing supporting evidence?

It also tells me that there will always be some sort of higher power accountability for his actions.

The accountability made possible by the net is often of the trivial, superficial sort (as with Emily Thornberry MP's resignation from cabinet for tweeting a picture of a van), while the major deceptions (over the NHS, foreign wars, tax havens) have not resulted in anyone being held to account.

Not that we don't have our own problems here in Albany, of a familiar sort, as our despotic governor continues his quest to consolidate more and more power under his control while continuing to diminish independent oversight, accountability and transparency.

Under his plan, a global monitoring system would be constructed «on the strict understanding that it is a facilitative process for transparency and accountability, and that it will not have any punitive implications of any sort.»

Though NCLB's consequences were too rigid and hard to enforce, they were rooted in the basic premise that a top - down accountability system can only work if parents have some sort of recourse when schools fail.

I was thrilled to hear it: this is the sort of collective accountability to which all professionals should aspire.

And yet the sheer amount of this sort of thing that has been imported under the mantra of «accountability» is as remarkable as it is appalling.

There are no top - down accountability systems in Finland, with their implied distrust of teachers, of the sort that dominate the discussion in the United States.

NCLB and state accountability policies mandate standardized testing, and there are all sorts of benefits to that.

While fully aware of the specific weakness of ESCRs accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally, this paper will show how international law establishes a number of limits — a sort of red line for ESCRs — that states should not overstep.

Add it up and, despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

While fully aware of the specific weakness of ESCR accountability mechanisms, both nationally and internationally (2), this paper will show how international law establishes a number of limits — a sort of red line for ESCR — that states should not overstep.

A second kind of instructionally insensitive test is the sort of standardized achievement test that many states have developed for accountability during the past two decades.

In requiring states to identify certain categories of schools for «comprehensive» and «targeted» support based on their accountability systems, ESSA depends upon some sort of summative rating system (which could be A-F grades, a star or numeric system, some sort of color - coding, etc.).

Like it or not, the world of education accountability is headed in a normative direction — 42 states, the District of Columbia, and eight large school districts in California are all making normative decisions now — and this should change how we look at all sorts of issues.

There is now way more accountability associated with the job than there ever had been before, and a lot of that work is technical in nature, but also sort of «low level».

• Empower county superintendents to enforce accountability rules, make the independently elected state superintendent of public instruction a sort of «inspector general» for school quality, place state education policy under the governor, and make the state board of education advisory to the governor.

Despite frantic efforts by a number of groups to preserve some sort of federal accountability mandates in the next ESEA cycle, I think these should go away and almost surely will.

For over a decade now, test - based accountability has acted as a sort of insurance policy to make sure disadvantaged and struggling students are not ignored.

This market - based approach is debated by teachers» unions, parents and others in the public education field — but all 50 states have adopted some sort of testing accountability.

Currently the primary focus of accountability systems, using standardized tests, is to provide data on student and school performance so as to sort, rate, and rank the performance of students, schools, and districts.

They have this sort of philosophy which is high expectations and accountability, which is they hold students and teachers and principals to really high levels.

The DNPE's own director figured that with private schools taking in taxpayer funds, there would be some sort of demand for increased oversight and accountability.

Gov. Jerry Brown's landmark school funding formula would not only win more money under the state budget blueprint he released Wednesday but also be subjected to the sort of transparency and accountability lawmakers and advocates for needy kids have been seeking since its adoption almost five years ago.

The Accelerated Campus Excellence program is the sort of positive action that accountability systems can produce.

NCLB architect and ranking Democratic committee member George Miller (CA) agreed with «the need to balance the accountability we worked so hard to implement in NCLB with greater flexibility at the local level and less prescription at the federal level,» but cautioned that some sort of federal oversight was needed lest schools return to a time when group averages obscured individual student performance in schools.

Another word for this sort of responsibility is «accountability,» a much - maligned word in the education arena, often clustered with other imprecations like «No Child Left Behind,» «Race to the Top,» «standardized tests,» and «value - added teacher evaluations.»

For example, in the 1990s, as the standards movement was gaining momentum but before NCLB prescribed what sorts of measures states must report, states began experimenting with different indicator systems for school accountability.

Develop an accountability model designed to drive continuous improvement, in contrast to the current model of ranking / sorting / sanctioning.

Most appealing would be assessments that are classroom - based and individualized in nature, with the option of aggregating these sorts of data at the classroom and school levels when accountability comes knocking.