Sentences with phrase «what little accountability»

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It turns the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) into what The Globe and Mail described as a «secret police force,» with little oversight or accountability.

Taxes — like accountability — are for what Leona Helmsley referred to as the «little people» (not referring to Irish leprechauns).

And there is accountability too which I know we will talk probably a little bit more when we talk about kind of the downside of the groups, sometimes what can happen, but accountability is huge and obviously you get that a lot in person and you can really develop those relationships even further.

The page that users were directed to features a photo of Obama and the quote: «We've seen and lived the consequences of what happens when there's too little accountability on Wall Street and too little protection for Main Street.

What became clear from the mark - up is that there's very little support in Congress for federal oversight of state accountability systems.

EW: What would you say to teachers who say accountability pressures leave them with little time to be creative?

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

What these reveal is a state charter law that allows charter schools to operate loosely, with little if any accountability or transparency to the public.

The people we draw into teaching are less than our most talented; we give them short or nonexistent training and equip them with little relevant knowledge; we send many of them to schools afflicted by high levels of poverty and segregation; and when they don't deliver the results we seek, we increase external pressure and accountability, hoping that we can do on the back end what we failed to create on the front end.

Instead, we found that despite Massachusetts» detailed system of standards and accountability measures, most new teachers we interviewed received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it.

What was ultimately titled a «Value - Added Smackdown» in a blog post featured in Education Week, let's just say, got a little out of hand, with the «smackdown» ending up focusing almost solely around our claim that Harris believed, and we disagreed, with the notion that «value - added [was and still is] good enough to be used for [purposes of] educational accountability.»

My thoughts drifted to what Alphie Kohn wrote, «Invoking such terms as «tougher standards,» «accountability,» and «raising the bar,» people with little understanding of how children learn have imposed a heavy - handed, top - down, test - driven version of school reform that is lowering the quality of education in this country.»

Today's crisis has been brewing for decades if not longer, and comes after years of what looks like bad management decisions with little accountability or supervision by New York's attorney general, who oversees nonprofit institutions.