Not exact matches
After contributing an essay to the blueprint, Lightman said: «For too long the way children are assessed has been dominated by the
demands placed on schools by performance tables and a culture of high -
stakes accountability.
With high -
stakes accountability and the ever - increasing
demands placed on school leaders, the job of the principal has become more difficult than it's ever been.
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.
Teachers have a tough job meeting the
demands of national and state initiatives, parents, high -
stakes testing and
accountability, and increasing student diversity.