Sentences with phrase «stakes accountability system first»

The SATs are not about teaching and learning, yet in too many schools the curriculum is distorted to serve the high stakes accountability system first and children's own development second.

Not exact matches

If it can not be proved that those gains are due to improved school accountability, it is heartening to know that Margaret Raymond and Eric Hanushek found, in more precise estimates of accountability impacts, somewhat larger gains on the NAEP in those states that were the first to put accountability systems into place (see «High - Stakes Research,» features, Summer 2003).

As the first large urban school district to introduce a comprehensive accountability system, Chicago provides an exceptional case study of the effects of high - stakes testing - a reform strategy that will become omnipresent as the No Child Left Behind Act is implemented nationwide.

First, U.S. high - stakes accountability systems, which often draw on narrow metrics and unstable test score data, push administrators to control everything in their school buildings — including teachers.