Sentences with phrase «stakes accountability at»

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The principle at stake is this: If public officials can escape accountability simply by using their private e-mails to do their dirty work, the public's right to know will have little meaning.

Why should our leaders be exempt from real - time accountability when so much more is at stake - big decisions about public policy, the use of your money, the course of our future?

Dan Koretz, Reporters Roundtable on High Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.&Stakes Testing Bloomberg, 4/26/13 «Dan Koretz, professor and director of the Education Accountability Project at Harvard University, John Merrow, PBS education correspondent, Kevin Riley, Atlanta Journal Constitution editor in chief, and Greg Toppo, USA Today national K - 12 education reporter, discuss the effects and increased pressure of high stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.&stakes testing on education, test tampering indictments of 35 educators in Atlanta and renewed discussion about standardized test score irregularities in the District of Columbia.»

Amrein and Berliner's basic strategy was to look at how each high - stakes state's scores changed with the introduction of accountability and to compare this with the national trend.

This last item is the basic idea behind SLOs but done at the team level with low - stakes, school - based accountability.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

«Today, curiosity, creativity, and ultimately genuine learning are at risk anywhere high - stakes testing, Big Data, and punitive accountability are the dominant drivers of what teachers and students do in schools.

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

We both worked in public schools at the time and found ourselves living out the advent of the movement for high - stakes accountability.

States that are reluctant to implement a high - stakes high school graduation test might want to look at the old Regents end - of - course exam system as a possible model for a moderate - stakes student accountability system.

It should be noted, though, that we as a nation have been relying upon similar high - stakes educational policies since the late 1970s (i.e., for now over 35 years); however, we have literally no research evidence that these high - stakes accountability policies have yielded any of their intended effects, as still perpetually conceptualized (see, for example, Nevada's recent legislative ruling here) and as still advanced via large - and small - scale educational policies (e.g., we are still A Nation At Risk in terms of our global competitiveness).

Rather, Sanders and his associates at SAS Institute Inc. greatly influenced our nation in terms of the last decade of our nation's educational policies, as largely bent on high - stakes teacher accountability for educational reform.

If Epic is allowed to grow without any transparency, accountability and oversight, the futures of students, families and the greater community will be at stake.»

With so much at stake, we can not afford to ignore the evidence that this race for accountability will require a dramatic investment of time and resources if it is going to be successful.

While the rising percentage of high school graduates described by Murnane occurred at the peak of the testing and accountability movement, it is clear that high stakes accountability disproportionately affects those students in need of the most support.

What is at stake is no less than the future direction of standards and accountability based reform and the continuing progress that Texas has made over the past 20 years in advancing toward the expectation of postsecondary readiness for our children.

Test - based accountability policies have also led educators to focus on students who have a reasonable chance, with additional support, of passing high - stakes tests, to the detriment of those students at the greatest risk of dropping out (Booher - Jennings 2005).

She and others also talked about the larger cultural change in testing that's coming at the same time as other shifts in school funding and accountability, including a new high - stakes teacher evaluation system that will be in place next year.

Doug Christensen, former Commissioner of Education for the state of Nebraska and Professor of Leadership in Education at Doane College, added, «We must decouple accountability from testing or we will never escape the current models of external prescriptions that result in regimentation of the system and require high stakes compliance, both of which restrict the capacity of system to embrace all children and trivializes their education.

«Attempting to equate test results in a high - stake accountability system with serious sanctions is a dubious idea at best.

(The paper, though, did not look at new teachers in the current era of revamped teacher evaluations — a form of more individualized accountability and higher stakes.)

At the same time, the law's aspiration morphed into a high - stakes target for accountability — not for the politicians, with their unachievable demands, but for school officials who were given an impossible burden of meeting annual testing goals.

Perhaps most offensive of all, we equate the need for high stakes testing, and command - and - control policies, with the obligation to ensure the protection of the civil rights for our most at - risk children without any conversation about the funding, or even more necessary, accountability for those holding others accountable.

My friend Adam Emerson at the Fordham Foundation is championing the combination of high - stakes test - based accountability and parental school choice recently adopted by Louisiana, Indiana and Wisconsin, as «sunshine and school vouchers.»

High stakes accountability and incentive system failures, as well as blatant fraud, at Dun and Bradstreet, Qwest, the Heinz Company, and Sears auto repair shops, illustrate that such schemes inevitably bring unintended consequences.

And, more importantly, what is at stake in terms of accountability?

In this day of high - stakes accountability teachers must implement effective assessment strategies to meet intended performance outcomes, determine what students know, and clarify which instructional approaches are most successful at raising achievement s.

One vision is that afterschool and summer learning programs should be aligned with current education reform efforts — high - stakes testing, narrow accountability, and the Common Core State Standards that are directed at just two subjects.

«Educators, parents, students, and policymakers are voicing growing frustration with the current models of high - stakes assessments used across the United States, which rely too heavily on low - level end - of - year tests,» said Bryan Goodwin, president and CEO of McREL International, and co-author of the new white paper, Re-Balancing Assessment: Placing Formative and Performance Assessment at the Heart of Learning and Accountability.

You have to go back to religious assertions of «the following tenets are true because this tenet says so and also says you should be burned at the stake if you disagree» to get that kind of accountability.