Sentences with phrase «stop holding schools accountable»

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This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

I would, therefore, ask Hanushek and Lindseth to stop tilting at windmills and to join with me in instituting a dialogue in major areas in which we do agree, like the fact that courts can and should hold states and school districts accountable for better performance, and that «school funding policies must recognize the underlying heterogeneity of students and their educational challenges and ensure that all schools have the means to succeed» (Hanushek and Lindseth, Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses, page 218).

Principals must commit to creating an environment where «excellence is the expectation» and they must never stop holding every teacher and child in their school accountable for teaching and learning.

If we don't try to find better answers than we have now and improve the ways we hold transfer schools accountable, we not only do a disservice to schools like BCHS that are branded failures when they are not, we also do a disservice to tens of thousands of students who need a school system that will stop failing them and start helping them.

There are two intersecting trends here: 1) holding schools / teachers accountable for putting a stop to bullying; and 2) to stop suspending / expelling consistently disruptive students who exhibit «willful defiance.»