Just as in the market place, many believe that holding
teachers and schools accountable for students» learning will lead to improved results.
How can you hold students and
teachers and schools accountable when no one is holding the Department of Education accountable?
According to its website and news reports, EducationPost will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold
teachers and schools accountable for educating students.
It will focus on three areas: K - 12 academic standards, high - quality charter schools, and how best to hold
teachers and schools accountable for educating students.
It holds principals and
teachers and schools accountable for their students» performance — performance to be measured especially in the elementary and middle schools by standardized tests.
Meanwhile, Chicago also instituted an «academic probation» program designed to hold
teachers and schools accountable for student achievement.
In Australia, as in many other countries, part of the policy response to underachievement has been to set higher standards and to hold students,
teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.
A commonly proposed strategy for raising achievement levels in schools is to specify high expectations or «standards» of student performance and to hold students,
teachers and schools accountable for achieving those standards.
I think the push towards taking noncognitive skills seriously met up with the push towards holding
teachers and schools accountable.
This hasn't stopped advocates from trying to develop those measures — and even to hold
teachers and schools accountable for students» performance on them.
Not exact matches
Schools with the best facilities
and the highest «paid
teachers often fail because they are ultimately
accountable to bureaucrats for regulatory compliance, instead of to parents for results.
«Schoolhouse Rock»: An Education Blog, September 2008 «A true solution to the problem of underachievement in inner - city public
schools is going to require more nurturing families
and safer neighborhoods as well as better
teachers and more
accountable schools.»
At 4:15 p.m., hundreds of public
school parents
and teachers from Kenmore, Lakeshore, Hamburg
and across WNY are expected to rally at Sen. Mark Grisanti's office to «hold him
accountable for breaking his promise to fully fund public education,» 65 Court St., # 213 (Corner of Court & Niagara Square), Buffalo.
It also means that
school administrations,
teachers,
and school boards must be held
accountable for student learning
and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.
Other
schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold
teachers and school leaders
accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.
But, I have to believe that
school administrators, having once been
teachers themselves, will help find the proper balance between holding
teachers accountable and holding
teachers to an impossible standard.
The NASUWT, the largest
teachers» union,
and the
Schools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and p
Schools Co-operative Society, have today entered into a landmark agreement to help ensure that state
schools remain not - for - profit and democratically - accountable to the public and p
schools remain not - for - profit
and democratically -
accountable to the public
and parents.
«The reforms in this Budget build upon measures implemented last year to create an educational system that ensures every child has an opportunity to succeed,
and holds
schools and teachers accountable for the results they achieve.»
«We are relying more than ever on state exams — to measure student achievement, to evaluate
teacher and principal effectiveness,
and to hold
schools and districts
accountable for their performance,» Regents Chancellor Merryl H. Tisch said.
Heads
and teachers should run
schools and they should be more
accountable to parents instead of politicians.
Elia talked about the importance of holding
schools and teachers accountable for their performance in the weeks before the election.
Some want the current majority to maintain control
and continue pushing for changes such as a longer
school day, more charter
schools and a
teacher contract that holds educators more
accountable for performance.
New York has a 3 - to 4 - year probationary periods for new
teachers and a new evaluation system, which established an expedited process allowing
schools to hold
teachers accountable based on
teacher evaluation results.
In this essay, Elmore sets forth a novel vision for
school leadership that would not reside with individuals, but would instead be distributed among various branches that are fully
accountable not only to one another
and to
teachers, but also to the marketplace — in this case, parents
and students.
Instead, he returns to the unilateral concern with holding
schools and teachers accountable.
Mrs. Bush is equally articulate about «backpack spending» (the institute is sponsoring a project on
school - district productivity that includes 20 different researchers» papers);
teacher autonomy («Obviously, if you are held
accountable as the principal of your
school and you don't have the authority to change anything, by either hiring or firing, or setting up another structure that your
school district doesn't allow, then how can you be really
accountable?»)
If we take that definition seriously, then other indicators that districts might chose to use to hold
schools accountable (such as attendance, student
and teacher satisfaction, or community engagement) should rise accordingly.
We propose to study more than a decade of data from North Carolina, where
teachers and schools are held
accountable for the proportion of their students who pass end - of - year exams.
At the same time, they argue that it would be unfair to hold
teachers,
schools and students
accountable for their performance during this interim period.
Accountable for the results of all students in the team, multi-classroom leaders also earn supplements that thus far have averaged 20 percent (
and up to 50 percent) of
teacher pay, within the regular
school budget.
AFT's poll showed that 74 percent of respondents are worried that students,
teachers and schools will be held
accountable for the results of those assessments before they have been fully implemented.
Parents should, through membership of parent
teacher associations
and as parent governors, hold the governance
and management of the
school accountable for the appropriate time, resources, facilities
and value given to art
and design on the curriculum
and in the professional development of its
teachers and support staff
Our
teachers are unionized,
and our
schools take
and are held
accountable to the New York State tests.
American Federation of
Teacher President Randi Weingarten says we hold
schools accountable for how much money they have
and the types of programs they build with that money.
Districts
and charter
schools have begun to embrace Public Impact's vision of an Opportunity Culture, creating pilot
schools that use job redesign
and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent
teachers» reach, directly
and by leading other
teachers, in fully
accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.
It is a story of collective courage, of
teachers and school leaders coming together to hold each other
accountable.
Schools and teachers are
accountable for how much students gain in achievement.
The more serious difficulties arise when value - added assessments are used to hold
schools and teachers accountable, with high - stakes personnel decisions to follow.
From downtown district offices to aging neighborhood elementary
schools to graffiti - sprayed secondary
schools, phrases such as «socializing intelligence»
and «
accountable talk» are rolling off the lips of
teachers, principals,
and district administrators alike.
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.
In this telling, valor is awarded to those willing to make «hard» decisions: these people support merit pay, firing bad
teachers, holding
schools accountable,
and closing failing
schools.
Teachers,
schools,
and principals must be held
accountable for results.
The measures announced by Hinds included a commitment to working with Ofsted, regional
schools commissioners, the Education
and Skills Funding Agency
and multi-academy trusts — to clarify their roles,
and ensure
teachers and school leaders have a clear understanding of who they are
accountable to,
and for what.
The summit concluded by adopting a five - part state «action agenda»: restoring value to the diploma; redesigning the high
school as an institution; strengthening the quality of high -
school teachers and principals; holding high
schools accountable for their results;
and streamlining «education governance.»
Resistance to making standards consequential: When Common Core
and the aligned assessments were launched in 2010, states were also busy adopting ambitious new
teacher evaluation systems
and refashioning the ways in which they held local
schools and districts
accountable.
Under present day standards
and accountability systems, states, pushed
and prodded by the federal government, have moved from trying to force districts to educate students to a minimum level of basic skills
and to do something about
schools that are obviously failing, to holding districts,
schools and teachers accountable for (in the words of the Common Core State Standards Initiative) «preparing all students for success in college, career,
and life.»
These
schools hold students
accountable for achievement; extend the
school day, week,
and year;
and give principals the autonomy to hire the most skilled
teachers.
The coalition, we are told, «doesn't say
schools and teachers shouldn't be held
accountable for how well they do their jobs.
The Philadelphia
school board approved a program last week that will hold
teachers more
accountable for student performance
and give cash awards to successful
schools.
And our practice of holding schools (and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledg
And our practice of holding
schools (
and now teachers) accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledg
and now
teachers)
accountable for year - to - year gains on reading tests only encourages them to focus on things that might get a short term bump (skills
and strategies) and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledg
and strategies)
and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledg
and ignore the things that will make an impact over the long - term (such as content knowledge).