Sentences with phrase «take meaningful measures»

If Mayor de Blasio wants mayoral control, he needs to start leading and take meaningful measures to turn around chronically failing schools and give our students the high - quality education they deserve.

Not exact matches

NCLB launched a decade of building states» data infrastructure; ESSA is about taking advantage of this infrastructure to not only create more meaningful accountability measures, but to also provide greater transparency, empower decisionmaking, personalize learning, and ensure we keep kids on track for success.

And so, sans meaningful accountability — or, put another way, whether the district takes responsibility for and responds to unacceptably low student achievement, as well as other measures of school performance and culture — parents will make other choices.

Instead of «thick slice» assessment (data taken from a single point in time, and / or data with very large blocks of time between measurements), formative assessments are conducted at meaningful «thin slice» points measured throughout the academic year.

Use of such scores is statistically fraudulent because they only take one measure of one student; there is no baseline data from which to extrapolate any meaningful data.

Let's take a closer look at how each of these meaningful measures can be collected, and the benefits of doing so.

ESG supported the development and execution of a CCSSO Task Force, going on to author the report, Opportunities and Options: Making Career Preparation Work for Students, outlining a set of far - reaching recommendations for states to take to deepen employer engagement, build high - quality pathways, and implement meaningful accountability measures.

While it could be argued it is based around a curriculum (including its range of «academic» GCSEs) that is not necessarily suited to all students at secondary moderns, the fact it takes into account the starting point for students in a school means it marks an extremely welcome step towards a much more meaningful accountability measure.

One reading in a year being taken in a grid box is no sort of measure whatsoever, and there should be some basic crietria set down before we accept that the huge variabilty of readings and the paucity of them, can go towards making a statistically meaningful data base with all the importance that is attached to it.

Washington has taken some measures to address gun violence, but we have far to go to achieve meaningful action.

Meaningful sharing requires measures to be taken to redress Indigenous disadvantage, as a relationship built on sharing, as equals, is not possible under conditions of poverty and dependence.

The Committee recommends that the State party take appropriate measures to ensure that the reconciliation process is conducted on the basis of robust engagement and effective leadership, so as to lead to meaningful reconciliation, genuinely embraced by both the indigenous population and the population at large.