Sentences with phrase «to hold schools accountable for results»

North Carolina is perhaps best known for having a strong system of holding schools accountable for results.

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.

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.

Launched in 1984 by the former superintendent of the Minneapolis schools, Richard Green, the test was part of a strategy to reduce the incidence of «social promotion» and to hold schools accountable for results by testing students» «minimum competencies» at various grade levels.

This forms the backdrop to the past half - century of what we now know as «standards - based reform,» which includes the crucial charter school concept of holding a school accountable for its results (measured, for better and worse, primarily by test scores).

Most importantly, the best, highest standards in the world won't matter if we don't accurately measure whether students are truly learning, and hold schools accountable for the results.

The state also uses data from its assessments to hold schools accountable for results.

That's why, assuming that Congress fails to act to reauthorize the law, in the end the same problem that has vexed the law since 2001 seems likely to plague the waiver process as it grinds on over time: how to give states flexibility yet ensure that they hold schools accountable for results.

The criticism of the secretary's plan, which he and the president rolled out September 23 at the White House, stems from two issues: 1) the secretary's strategy of making receipt of the waivers conditional on states agreeing to maintain or adopt a series of reforms, and 2) the effect of the waivers on efforts to hold schools accountable for results.

He has spearheaded reforms to increase student achievement, close racially identifiable achievement gaps, and hold schools accountable for results,» said Casserly in a prepared statement.

A religious charter - school system would serve the same educational and spiritual needs in America's inner cities — and it would have the added benefit of holding the schools accountable for their results.

Authorizers who serve as the gatekeepers for quality and hold schools accountable for results must also approach their work with a growth mindset.

As long as a significant portion of students aren't reaching these so - called «outdated» state standards, we must continue to assess the skills and hold schools accountable for the results.

In the New York Times, Kate Taylor writes about New York City's transfer schools and debates over the best way to hold the schools accountable for results.

Instead of trying to drive teacher evaluation from the state level, states should allow school principals to decide how to manage and staff their schools and hold the school accountable for results.

The law required states to determine whether their students were meeting state academic standards and held schools accountable for the results.

As Candidate Bush explained in 2000, Texas pioneered a strong system of standards, testing to make sure students meet them, and holding schools accountable for the results.

And parents will exercise their power to hold schools accountable for results — both public district schools and public charter schools.

What links all of these programs together is a commitment to ensuring that schools provide kids with a quality education, to providing schools with the freedom and flexibility to innovate, to producing greater parental choice, and to holding schools accountable for results.

And it holds schools accountable for results.

«If you're going to hold schools accountable for results, you need to make it possible for the leader in that building to decide who is going to work there.

Kate Walsh, the organization's president, said, «If you're going to hold schools accountable for results, you need to make it possible for the leader in that building to decide who is going to work there.

«Holding schools accountable for results is vitally important to students.

Both men genuinely believed in the idea of administering annual standardized tests to schoolchildren and holding schools accountable for the results.

Reformers on right and left largely agreed on the need to expand parental choice, reduce the chokehold of education schools on the teaching profession, boost academic expectations, and hold schools accountable for results.

With her leadership, Denver introduced a cohesive approach to monitoring quality among autonomous schools and holding schools accountable for results.