Sentences with phrase «to hold schools accountable»

The state will also hold schools accountable for student achievement in science and writing, in addition to the core math and reading scores.

The new federal education law encourages the use of new ways of holding schools accountable.

Each year a strong majority of the public has expressed support for federal efforts to hold schools accountable by requiring that students be tested in reading and math.

The federal government should require states to change their plans if they aren't holding schools accountable for how groups of students do.

How a test - based school accountability system can hold schools accountable if schools don't have an incentive for testing their students is not something I've been able to figure out.

Supporters also believe that disadvantaged students can be better served by holding their schools accountable when they perform poorly on tests.

In fact, exit exams are only holding schools accountable for teaching basic skills, always assumed to be their primary responsibility.

And the charter school law is really all about holding schools accountable for student outcomes and for fiscal stability.

Parents are adept at holding schools accountable when they are empowered with choices and armed with information about their options.

I think it's helping hold schools accountable in terms of gender equality, which might always be necessary.

Nor does the law hold schools accountable for recent transfers.

Urban school districts are increasingly considering this model as a way to reform their school systems, believing that it can ensure equity in school choice and better hold schools accountable for performance.

This includes holding schools accountable for making systemic changes through locally controlled professional development and family involvement programs.

The original act held schools accountable to minimum percentages of proficient students, as measured by scores on standardized tests, with the threat of sanctions, including school closure, if they failed.

Most researchers say the biggest factor was that in the late 1990s, states began to implement policies holding schools accountable for improving education for children.

And that kind of transparency and accountability I think is really the best approach to holding schools accountable broadly.

How often to test and which tests should be used to hold schools accountable remains a point of contention.

The answer to the current problems we're seeing is not, in my view, stop holding schools accountable for teaching kids.

Military families already have a difficult time holding schools accountable for a free and public education, and there are federal mechanisms in place to do so.

The state has agreed to not hold schools accountable for the first year's results.

But two of the leading proponents for incorporating these concepts alongside traditional academics have expressed concern about holding schools accountable for emotional and social learning.

Does holding schools accountable for student performance cause good teachers to leave low - performing schools?

But urban leaders — whose schools are most likely to struggle to reach the law's current goals and most apt to face such sanctions — are urging Congress to be more aggressive in holding their schools accountable in the future.

The new law put the burden of holding schools accountable on their authorizers, the organizations providing their charters, and the burden of overseeing the authorizers on the state.

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After the report appeared, stimulating a variety of reform efforts, public evaluations of their local schools climbed steadily to an all - time high of 51 % in 2000, just prior to the national debate over the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, which held schools accountable for low performance.

When Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001, it rewrote much of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, increasing the amount of testing required and demanding that states hold schools accountable for results on those tests.

It also held schools accountable for how they served these historically underserved subgroups of students.

NCLB holds schools accountable for performance of subgroups — major racial and ethnic groups, students with disabilities, and English - language learners.

Ladd plans to hold these schools accountable while at the same time ending the «obsession with test - based outcome measures» by making sure that every school has a certified teacher, shifting good teachers to schools teaching disadvantaged students (without telling us how to identify those teachers), and looking at the total climate of a school, not just its test scores, when deciding whether it is effective.

• Only 19 % supports the federal government holding schools accountable for what students learn, a major premise underlying both the Bush and Obama education policies.

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In a delectable taste of hypocrisy, several of these same quasi-activists even try to lure Black families away from holding schools accountable for students» performance.

Duncan says if state officials can come up with a better way to narrow the socio - economic achievement gap while still holding schools accountable for their progress and performance, the feds won't hold the state to NCLB's «Adequate Yearly Progress» benchmarks (which isn't all good, writes Title I - derland).

The state's ESSA plan also includes a way to hold schools accountable based on how students perform after they graduate from high school, by looking at whether they're employed or pursuing a degree.

EdNext reports a clear plurality in favor of the Common Core when it notes that the standards will be used hold schools accountable and an evenly divided public when the accountability connection is not made.

The department is reviewing state plans for holding schools accountable as required by ESSA.

Results from the assessments have to be disaggregated by these subgroups and if they aren't performing well, ESSA holds schools accountable and requires that they provide interventions.

Karen Mapp: I agree that many parents see this as a way to finally hold schools accountable — especially parents in communities of color.

Nevada holds schools accountable for student performance by publishing test data on school report cards and using the results to help rate schools.

As a result, No Child Left Behind holds schools accountable but, when a school fails, tenure and seniority assured by statute and / or collective bargaining agreements allow lemons to dance on to the school down the street.

«Weaknesses remain in how DET holds schools accountable for their role in managing school assets,» it said.

The 1990s energy around holding schools accountable for results — while simultaneously cutting the strings that held them back — has morphed into an enthusiasm for prescription and regulation of the sort that reformers once decried.

As charter authorizers, this obligation to hold schools accountable looms large, and we inevitably encounter opportunities for both celebration and solemnity when we evaluate the schools we oversee.

Let's change the debate to defining quality and equity and getting a system that transparently holds all schools accountable on those dimensions.

When the California State Board of Education voted last week to once again delay holding schools accountable for their students» performance on new Common Core - aligned assessments, they had one thing right: Schools still haven't effectively transitioned to the new standards and are not prepared to help all children meet them.