Sentences with phrase «stakes accountability pressures»

Purpose / Focus: The purpose of this study was to investigate what happens when low - performing urban schools bring high - stakes accountability pressures to parent programs, to shed light on possible new directions in family engagement.

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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.»

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

In school environments where thick tension and palpable stress levels are all too common thanks to the pressures of high - stakes accountability, administrators struggle daily to navigate challenging terrain.

An Arizona teacher who teaches in a very urban, high - needs schools writes about the realities of teaching in her school, under the pressures that come along with high - stakes accountability and a teacher workforce working under an administration, both of which are operating in chaos.

As is true elsewhere, New York City's education leadership is struggling to calibrate the right balance between pressuring schools to change in response to high - stakes accountability and supporting them to change by promoting networks, coaching, and collaboration to build a trust - based, professional culture.

Now we know for sure that student grades are being changed by teachers, often under pressure from principals, after CPS turned grades into high - stakes measures for selective enrollment high school applications and for high school «on - track» accountability measures.

In this era of high - stakes accountability, the pressure has never been greater for principals to excel also as instructional leaders.

Due in part to the pressures of high - stakes accountability, a significant amount of research has been conducted on effective mathematics instruction.