Sentences with phrase «used hold schools accountable»

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.

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Other schools and school systems use NAPLAN to hold teachers and school leaders accountable for improvement, including making test results part of performance reviews.

A Connecticut judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School attack, delivering a blow to an ambitious effort to hold accountable the makers of the assault rifle used in the 2012 massacre before the case ever went to trial.

While Rosenthal has worked to create new school space in the district and carefully (too slowly, to some) move along a school district rezoning plan to address racial segregation in nearby schools, she has also used her background to hold the de Blasio administration accountable related to the budget and contracting practices through her committee work.

«We must use the City Council process to hold the city and developer accountable for providing the full 150,000 square feet of school space.

JB: We hold our charter schools accountable with the same grading system we use for traditional public schools.

Apparently, some people favor using common standards to hold schools accountable, but they don't want those standards to guide classroom instruction.

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.

Note the phrase, «they will be used to hold public schools accountable for their performance.»

Arkansas uses its testing data to track school performance and hold schools accountable for student achievement.

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

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

The more serious difficulties arise when value - added assessments are used to hold schools and teachers accountable, with high - stakes personnel decisions to follow.

«Growth models» are being held out as a better way to hold schools accountable than the method the No Child Left Behind Act uses now.

Some states in the United States have seen improvements on state - wide tests that are used to hold schools accountable, with no parallel improvement in those states» performances on the sample - based, low - stakes National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

Voters and parents are expected to make use of these data in choosing school districts or schools, and to hold administrators and school board members accountable for the schools» performance at each election.

Does that mean that we shouldn't use test scores to hold individual schools accountable?

Now, wherever you stand on the state of testing in education, the reality of your classroom at present is that this data is being collected and it is being used to hold the schools accountable for their work.

For instance, PACE / Rossier asked voters to rate nine options for measures that could be used to hold schools accountable.

Parents use test scores to gauge their children's academic strengths and weaknesses, communities rely on these scores to judge the quality of their teachers and administrators, and state and federal lawmakers use these scores to hold public schools accountable for providing the high - quality education every child deserves.

Indeed, the main use of standardized tests many years ago, when I was in school, was to improve instruction, not to hold teachers accountable.

But when policymakers seek to hold students, teachers, and schools accountable for those standards by using the results from aligned assessments, support is far more likely to falter.

He examined the state's high - stakes exit - examination system — which features tests that students must pass in order to graduate from high school — and state tests that are used to hold schools and districts accountable but carry no official consequences for students.

In the states that have these standards, they will be used to hold public schools accountable for their performance.

The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is the test currently used for holding schools accountable for improved student learning in Philadelphia.

Holding schools accountable for student attendance is ramping up under the Every Student Succeeds Act, as most states so far intend to use some measure of attendance (or absence) as an indicator of school quality.

The law is meant to ensure states are free to make decisions about accountability, school improvement, standards, and assessments without federal interference... If the secretary chooses to ignore the law, then Congress and state and local leaders can use the tools they have to hold the secretary accountable, [a GOP aide] said.

The State of California has also ruled up in la la land that no state testing will be used to judge the learning of children or for schools to be held accountable with, in other words, the State is not using the new State Test to measure learning.

The six states that now have federal approval to change the way they hold schools accountable under the No Child Left Behind Act will use six different ways to distinguish between schools with minor problems and those that need total overhauls.

Bridging the gap between high school and college by using high school assessments for admissions and placement, providing feedback to high schools on the college performance of their graduates, and holding postsecondary institutions accountable for the academic success of students they admit;

That was used to undo the Obama administration's rule for holding schools accountable for student performance under the Every Student Succeeds Act and an Obama - era regulation aimed at strengthening teacher preparation programs.

We created it after I realized how many school leaders just weren't clearing the space for teacher coaching to happen at the highest level: foundational things like creating a vision for their schools, holding adults accountable to meeting schoolwide expectations, designing and holding weekly leadership team meetings, creating and sticking to a daily calendar; and more advanced things like using data to inform the design of responsive PD.

A third group of respondents were not told the standards would be «used to hold public schools accountable for their performance.»

Practically no state was using a growth model to hold schools accountable for the progress students made each year rather than just their final proficiency rates until the Bush Administration specifically invited states to participate in a pilot program.

They may well reflect an authentic increase in certain areas of knowledge and skills, underscoring the need for careful attention to the specific content of the exams used to hold schools and students accountable.

Others, like Mike Petrilli, believe that participating schools should be held accountable by using performance information.

Big changes in the state's student achievement tests, how they reflect student learning and the way they're used to hold schools and districts accountable are starting to roll out this year, DPI spokesman John Johnson said.

Bellwether's report focused on the law's requirements for holding schools accountable: whether the state sets high academic standards, how it will use federal money to identify and raise achievement for the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools and the lowest - performing groups of students in all schools.

Some believe the data used in the SPF isn't comprehensive enough and does not hold schools accountable for their work in early childhood education.

One of the hottest tickets was a session led by Charlotte Danielson, the architect of a teacher - evaluation model being used in a majority of New Jersey school districts as part of the state's new tenure - reform law, which aims to hold teachers more accountable for student performance.

Yet this benchmark is being used to hold schools accountable.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

The other 60 - 70 %, which sometimes includes entire campuses of teachers (e.g., early elementary and high school teachers), can not altogether be evaluated or «held accountable» using teacher - or individual - level VAM data.

We believe states have a unique opportunity before them: to use new flexibilities under ESSA to do more than just change the metrics by which they hold schools accountable or ensure a plan is in place to support improvement in their state's lowest - performing 5 percent of schools.

To get a sense of how many students could become newly «invisible,» consider public elementary schools in Washington, D.C. Applying the same minimum group size currently used for entire schools to the fifth grade only, about half of the city's 119 elementary schools with fifth graders taking math tests would not be held accountable for the progress of low - income or African - American students, because there aren't enough of them in that grade to constitute a reliable sample size.

Just as importantly, what is the point of focusing accountability on growth if the system used for holding schools and districts accountable essentially don't account for it?

More specifically, the PED is actively seizing power and authority over local school districts» teacher evaluation systems, and in this case the extent to which sick leave is to be used to hold teachers accountable for their effectiveness.

Why not hold principals accountable for the success of their schools — and give them the tools to be real managers, bosses, executives — and let them decide to what degree and how they use student test scores in assessing their teachers?

Over the next few years, the state will be moving from WKCE to new computer - adaptive tests that will have similar features to MAP and also be used to hold schools accountable.

After all, if the standards are a necessary part of holding schools that accept taxpayer money accountable for using that money to teach kids things we all agree they should learn, that would be no less true for private schools that accept taxpayer money than it would be for public schools that do.