Sentences with phrase «standards and accountability as»

She doesn't view standards and accountability as I do (or as I think much of the country does) and is overly impressed by the achievements wrought by some big - spending interventions (such as New Jersey's «Abbott districts»).

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B Corps, as they are commonly known, are certified by B Lab, a U.S. - based not - for - profit organization, according to standards involving the environment, community, employees, governance and accountability.

Everything today is out there — to be tracked, measured, reported and shared — and every business, source, publisher, supplier and vendor will be held to new standards of measurement and accountability as users and customers increasingly demand concrete results and performance metrics to justify their outlays.

As one of the first public companies in the cryptoasset and blockchain sectors (OTC: CRCW), we are proud to comply with even higher standards of accountability and governance.

She cites Superintendent Beverly Hall's turnaround program in Atlanta as positive because Hall «established accountability targets for every school, including the percentage of students who meet standards and the percentage who exceed them.»

As the firm's business has grown, John Nagle Co. says its management has recognized the need for it to operate on an ever - higher standard of quality, tracking and accountability.

As a founding Canadian B Corporation, we've had our business audited to ensure we meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

«And four: as someone appointed to head NEITI, an organisation saddled with the weighty responsibility of promoting transparency and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others And four: as someone appointed to head NEITI, an organisation saddled with the weighty responsibility of promoting transparency and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others to.

As for the governor, he made no appearances yesterday, but issued yet another lengthy statement insisting he won't sign off on more state education aid unless the budget includes reforms that address «accountability, performance and standards.»

The Ministry of Trade and Industry engaged in serious ethical violations by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit;

James Klutse Avedzi and Dr Dominic Ayine accused the Ministry of engaging in unethical violations «by allowing its credibility as a public agency to be used to amass profit for a private non-profit organization which it can not hold to public standards of accountability as well as by using the name of the President of the Republic as a means to make such profit».

Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

While the word «accountability» never appears in Risk, its call for higher academic standards and its focus on student achievement as the main barometer of quality laid the intellectual groundwork for the rigorous curricula and tests envisioned by the promoters of standards - based -LSB-...]

As many countries move towards increased accountability of teachers through standards, inspections and appraisals, Finland has moved away from these trends.

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

After years of stagnation in the late 1980s and early 1990s, achievement began to rise again in the late «90s — particularly in the earlier grades and most notably in math — as states set new academic standards, started testing their students regularly, and installed their own versions of «consequential accountability» systems.

The NAACP, for example, has called for a moratorium on charter school expansion until, among other things, charters «are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools.»

While government regulation must set basic standards for quality and accountability, we need other tools, such as market - and reputation - based accountability, to complement government regulation and provide incentives for schools to go further.

Libertarians want states to reject standards, testing and accountability overall; conservative opponents urge states to move to what they see as «higher» standards.

On both sides of the sea, standards, assessments, accountability, and school choice were surfacing as ideas, and becoming policies and programs.

In an article on National Review Online, Jeb Bush describes what he sees as the reforms that are the key to raising student achievement, focusing on standards and accountability, including the Common Core.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

That model, I think, is now well known across the state: standards - based curriculum, radically better assessments,... a fair but rigorous accountability system which, as you know, the Regents will soon put into regulations creating the framework of evaluation for principals and teachers.

The most recent revision, completed in the fall of 2000, was promoted by NCATE as having aligned its standards with the broader movement toward accountability and outcome standards.

That distinction mimics DeVos's account on her web site, where she reiterates her support for high standards, accountability, and local control, noting, «When Governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.»

Greening said in a letter to the education committee chair, Neil Carmichael, that she was «determined to continue to raise standards» and would include the new «strong pass» as an accountability measure for schools.

On one side: the informal network of advocates, philanthropists, educators, and nonprofit organizations that all back higher academic standards, greater accountability, and improved teaching, and who saw the city as a potential proof point for their theories of how to improve student outcomes.

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.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

This is why the President went on to say that now is the time to «make our public elementary and secondary schools just as good by raising standards, raising expectations and raising accountability.»

As American education reformers try again, under the Common Core State Standards, to create a sensible system of standards, assessments, and accountability, what can we learn from our earlier mistakes?

For example, what if top - down accountability as defined and enforced by states and the federal government were limited to basic skills, something like the MCTs of the 1970s but based on clear, empirically validated standards about what students need to know and be able to do to hold down the types of jobs that do not require a college degree?

I remembered Ed Koch recently as I thought of the morass we have gotten ourselves into with standards and accountability.

Dean Lagemann's talk, «Toward a More Adequate Science of Education,» focused specifically on creating new standards of accountability for education research, new infrastructure for research, and new programs of research training — as a means of linking theory and practice in powerful ways.

New means of accountability, such as the Standard & Poor's School Evaluation Service and Just for the Kids, provide powerful ways of analyzing school performance (including financial data) and can be easily accessed by parents via the Internet.

My post earlier this week framed the piece that Jeff Henig and I contributed to Ed Week's print edition and laid out the need for education reformers to review the evidence and admit that closing achievement gaps is not as simple as adopting a set of standards, accountability and instructional improvement strategies.

Writing in her Guardian column in March, she cited greater accountability, autonomy and the demand to raise standards as being the triggers for «an even greater revolution for governors.

As the 1990s progressed, however, and the state standards movement gained strength, the ambiguity around accountability — for charters but also for other public schools — started to recede.

Although the threat of a lawsuit should not deter states from developing rigorous standards and tough but fair accountability systems, it should serve as a warning to states...

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.

It is about politicians who push accountability, standards, and testing in order to win votes as much as or more than to improve the schools.

You will explore the elements of a standards - based reform framework: clear expectations for students; rigorous curricula aligned to standards; professional development that improves instructional quality; and assessment as a tool for feedback and accountability.

For the past decade and a half, the fight to improve America's schools has been fought largely on two fronts: academic standards as one battleground, and accountability the other, with the issue of mandatory testing adding heat to a very public — and increasingly...

In standards - based reform, much of the attention has been on states as the entities responsible for setting academic standards, developing testing systems to measure the standards, and then putting accountability systems in place based on those standards.

[23] The designated ESEA requirements that can be set aside in states that obtain such waivers include some of the most significant outcome accountability requirements, such as the requirement that states set performance standards for schools and LEAs aiming toward a goal of 100 percent student proficiency in reading and mathematics by the end of the 2013 - 14 school year and take a variety of specific actions with respect to all schools and districts that fail to make adequate yearly progress toward this goal.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Almost every state is now instituting accountability systems to measure progress in standards - based reform, and almost every such system depends heavily on testing as an indicator of student or school performance.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

Support this effort through a range of tiered incentives, such as providing states with greater flexibility in the use of existing federal funds, supporting a revised state accountability structure, and offering financial support for states to implement the standards.