Sentences with phrase «standard and accountability»

In this era of standards and accountability, educators have to move themselves from the sidelines to the forefront of public education reform to meet the needs of a 21st century society.

The state performs more poorly than the average state in standards and accountability.

Regardless of what happens, the experience provides much fodder from which states and advocates can learn as they continue to push for high standards and accountability for results.

The book makes clear the importance of high standards and accountability systems.

Currently, the focus on state standards and accountability systems is driving local decisions and policies in ways that are unprecedented.

But currently, the focus on state standards and accountability systems is driving local decisions and policies in ways that are unprecedented.

We have serious concerns about using government funds to send our students to private schools that do not have to adhere to the same standards and accountability as do public and public charter schools.

Working with business leaders over the years, I've noticed two big challenges to setting performance standards and accountability.

That law put standards and accountability at the center of education nationwide, even as it left the determination of standards to the discretion of the states.

They can create their own standards and accountability standards which are usually tied to their overall goals and agenda.

When the original charter school law was passed in 2013, it was designed to emulate the best policies around the country, including strict standards and accountability.

While in the governor's office, he worked to support collective - bargaining reforms, increase standards and accountability, expand school choice, and keep college affordable through innovative reforms.

Students know that things like standards and accountability assessments carry weight and influence their lives, though perhaps in ways less tangible than classroom - based assessments.

But this type of system is now viewed as lacking standards and accountability.

This includes how to design an optimal standards and accountability system.

Is it imposing sorely needed standards and accountability on K - 12 education?

Any fair assessment of the events of the two decades since Risk must conclude that we are well on our way to high and rigorous standards and accountability.

State and federal efforts to bolster standards and accountability place increasing demands on schools and aim to transform the role of the principal.

The role of the state beyond standards and accountability should primarily be to enable and encourage new teaching and learning methods through the use of technology and innovations in scheduling and delivery.

The state receives its only above - average grade in standards and accountability.

We have to insist on higher standards and accountability for ALL officials.

«They show readiness to embrace higher standards and accountability with support, but are concerned that their voices are not adequately heard in the policy debate,» the report's authors write.

The law that was passed in 2013 incorporated many of the best practices for charters from around the country, including strict standards and accountability.

They rail against state standards and accountability systems, but offer few practical alternatives for ensuring that all public schools perform at a high level.

In fact, the entire movement toward standards and accountability based reform over the past twenty years confronted its most significant opposition when it began to extend accountability for student achievement to the educators and their preparation programs, primarily the traditional colleges of education.

Since the beginning of the Texas commitment to public education standards and accountability based reform in 1993, the state has made remarkable progress in student achievement.

Instead, we found that despite Massachusetts» detailed system of standards and accountability measures, most new teachers we interviewed received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it.

(It escapes me why he then urges that states be placed in sole charge of school standards and accountability with no federal involvement at all.)

As Dropout Nation and others have pointed out ad nauseam, Winters» view is factually incorrect; the standards were crafted by the 45 states that are implementing them through the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (which serve as their policymaking bodies), and are just the natural evolution of the decades of work started by governors and chambers of commerce in southern states (and championed by standards and accountability advocates).

that «for all its complexity, the Education Reform Act can be reduced, in essence, to two propositions: We will make a massive infusion of progressively distributed dollars into our public schools, and in return, we demand high standards and accountability from all education stakeholders.»

This phenomenon is consistent with the NAEP results in Texas — for all of our progress with standards and accountability based reform over the past 20 years, we are simply not seeing much in the middle and secondary years, and this is reflected in SAT and ACT test scores as well.

Achieve, the independent non-profit organization formed to follow - up the Summit, is a permanent resource center supporting high academic standards and accountability in education.

From where I sit, the biggest changes in U.S. K — 12 education have been those forced by policy shifts outside the schoolhouse: the right of millions of families to choose their school rather than being told where to go; the emergence of statewide standards and accountability regimes; and the appearance of more non-district public schools — charters mainly — even as the traditional private sector has shrunk.

And Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute report that «NCLB and state - level efforts to impose standards and accountability on the schools are plainly boosting the kids who need it most — surely a good thing.»

They preach tough standards and accountability for the public schools they chronically underfund.

Developments in the 1960s and 1970s brought schools under fire, but the driving force behind the modern standards and accountability movement was the linking of educational to economic concerns in the 1980s.

«Anyone who talks about charters and choice without standards and accountability is misguided.»

which she alleges «have made little progress under this mayor's leadership» and continue to operate without appropriate standards and accountability.

State Education Agencies (SEAs) report major shifts in the focus of their work brought about by state and federal standards and accountability legislation.

McKay students do not have to take the annual state tests administered to public school students, and McKay schools are not required to report any information on student outcomes — which goes against the national trend toward standards and accountability in public education.

Unfortunately, there is a widespread belief that teachers already know how to do this if only we could unleash them from today's stifling standards and accountability metrics.

«The bottom line is that SUNY intends to create an insulated and self - regulated system, which would contradict and undermine state and national efforts to raise standards and accountability in teacher preparation and certification.»

To be the «students» lobbyist» — that is, to stand up to the teachers unions and their hirelings in the Legislature and bring standards and accountability to public education in New York.

Now the battle of the week ahead is to shape Brexit negotiations to put jobs, living standards and accountability centre stage.