Sentences with phrase «subgroup accountability»

Since those kids are more likely to be poor and from minority groups, it makes subgroup accountability per se unnecessary.

The district met 8 of 11 benchmarks designed to measure student achievement within a school district and achievement gaps are narrower than those statewide for 13 of the 16 subgroup accountability measures.

If only the Obama administration would stop forcing states to continue some form of subgroup accountability and allow for more «race - neutral» approaches, then there could be more innovation in accountability that may further systemic reform.

The waivers may allow for the possibility of states targeting gender for subgroup accountability (and thus, addressing the crisis of low educational attainment among young men of all socioeconomic and racial backgrounds) on their own.

And in blessing moves to replace subgroup accountability with A-to-F grading systems and «super-subgroup» subterfuges, schools and districts can ignore their obligations toward the poor and minority kids in their classrooms and still appear to be exemplary.

«Ensuring Equity in ESSA: The Role of N - Size in Subgroup Accountability.»

Yet given that achievement gaps are present in schools that are both high - and low - performing overall, a policy that restricts subgroup accountability to an arbitrary number or a percentage of schools — such as only the lowest - performing schools in a state — is not enough to address existing achievement disparities.

In short, the very subgroup accountability at the heart of No Child's AYP provision.

States also made significant adjustments to their accountability models, including ensuring high schools are held accountable for graduation rates, bolstering subgroup accountability, and strengthening the criteria schools and districts must meet before they are no longer deemed low - performing.

Meanwhile there are reformers (including Common Core supporters and school choice activists) who want to backslide on subgroup accountability.

As Richard Whitmire and I proposed earlier this year, simply requiring gender to be measured as part of subgroup accountability would do plenty to force states and districts into dealing seriously with this problem.

For example, states can add safeguards for subgroup accountability to any school classification system.

A focus on growth will eclipse the need for «subgroup accountability.»

Kress is implying that if we back away from NCLB's federally - mandated «consequential accountability» (and «subgroup accountability») for the vast majority of American schools (which is indeed what the Administration's blueprint proposes — and where Fordham comes down, too), the progress our neediest kids are making will stop or slide backwards.

Tightens the screws on NCLB's «subgroup accountability,» requiring schools to hit targets on dozens of indicators in order to avoid stigmas and sanctions.

Finally, under the new act «subgroup accountability» will require major reporting changes for schools.

For one, instead of focusing on how schools addressed achievement gaps and subgroup accountability, the administration allowed states to develop accountability systems that primarily focused on the worst - performing five percent of schools along with an another 10 percent of schools with wide achievement gaps.

It is also clear that subgroup accountability must be addressed in the ESEA.