Sentences with phrase «with accountability measures»

Join me as we move towards capturing students through engaging instruction utilizing best practices with accountability measures and leveraging your instructional leadership for new outcomes.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

As a nation, we're nibbling around the edges with accountability measures and other reforms, but we're ignoring the immutable core issue: much of white and wealthy America is perfectly happy with segregated schools and inequity in funding.

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For any other leader with a measure of accountability, humility, and a conscience, growing and learning new skills to overcome blind spots that are a detriment to the company's success is par for the course.

«We recommend that Uber focus on four prevailing themes with regard to taking the following remedial measures: tone at the top, trust, transformation, and accountability,» the report said.

Accountability should be measured on the basis of tangible industrial values, e.g., business viability 3 years after CICP purchase, along with demonstrated success in meeting client (government agency) needs.

Each of us also possesses some measure of genuine freedom, with its corollary of some measure of responsibility or accountability for our decisions made in that freedom.

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

So Lambda and its allies are quite right to believe that, in getting the government to declare that millennia of classical, Jewish, and Christian teaching on homosexuality is nothing more than prejudice, «gay people have found far more success in the courts than in Congress» — or in any other institution with a measure of accountability to the American people.

At the same time, officials around the nation have been trying to figure out how to respond to the new Every Student Succeeds Act, which replaced No Child Left Behind in December 2015 and requires each state to come up with its own accountability system that must include at least one nonacademic measure.

We can't define accountability only through those short - term measures where we can sit everybody down with a No. 2 pencil.

We expect many of the concepts associated with NPM such as active management, public accountability through performance measures, and a strong focus on cost, will remain important for some time to come.

The package would require public disclosure of every legislator's outside clients and income, establish an ethics commission with robust investigative powers over both the legislative and executive branches — and institute other measures to introduce badly needed transparency and accountability into our state government.

«Do you support measures that increase accountability, transparency and that increase the input of school district parents in the decision to permit and maintain charter schools, as well as measures to reduce the negative fiscal impact on school districts with large numbers of charters?»

«Governor Cuomo has made unprecedented financial investments in our schools, but has demanded accountability measures to go along with that investment so every child has the opportunity to succeed.

So today I'm proposing a more balanced and meaningful accountability system, with two new measures:

Cuomo's campaign spokesperson, Abbey Fashouer, counters that he «has made education equity a central focus of his tenure, investing a record $ 27 billion with a focus on our neediest schools, while demanding accountability measures so that the door to opportunity is open for every child — regardless of income, zip code or ethnicity.

Walsh's accountability measures include creating an Office of Accountability, Performance and Innovation, along with streaming Common Council meaccountability measures include creating an Office of Accountability, Performance and Innovation, along with streaming Common Council meAccountability, Performance and Innovation, along with streaming Common Council meetings online.

It's time that Albany strengthens the laws to ensure that charter operators admit children with special needs and that they comply with the same accountability measures for enrollment that neighborhood schools must adhere to.

Along with the TSA accountability measure, Katko also introduced the Gerardo Hernandez Airport Security Act.

While the best programs have these types of measures in place, eventually and importantly, the accountability must transition to rest primarily with the client, who ultimately is the only one who can make a change happen.

Because some states are experimenting with value - added approaches to measuring school progress, it's important that federal accountability standards allow for this type of innovation.

Educators must set expectations far beyond the lowest common denominators expected by accountability measures, and must endeavor alongside students to help them grapple with the material.

Under the NCLB - era accountability regimes in many states, practically every school serving lots of low - income students was eventually designated as failing («needs improvement») because the dominant measures of school performance at the time — especially proficiency and graduation rates — are strongly correlated with prior achievement and student demographics.

The new Every Student Succeeds Act, the successor to NCLB, provides an opening for states to broaden their accountability regimes by including a non-traditional measure along with academic test scores.

Yet ESSA provides a reason to be guardedly optimistic: Its enactment stemmed in some measure from a growing dissatisfaction with simple test - based accountability.

Yes, not all that long ago AFT advocated for an ESEA that «judges school effectiveness — the only valid and fair basis for accountability — by measuring the progress that schools achieve with the same students over time.»

With better measures of academic growth and a little extra money, states could attract providers to underserved populations, rather than discouraging them as a result of the requirements of current accountability systems.

Of the elementary and middle schools the survey respondents rated, 14 percent received a grade of «A,» 41 percent received a «B» grade, while 36 percent received a «C.» Seven percent were given a «D» and 2 percent an «F.» These subjective ratings were compared with data on actual school quality as measured by the percentage of students in each school who achieved «proficiency» in math and reading on states» accountability exams during the 2007 - 08 school year.

It's true that test scores are correlated with some measures of later life success, but for test - based accountability to work we would need to see that changes in test scores caused by schools are associated with changes in later life success for students.

Moreover, although I agree that additional accountability measures are needed, continued involvement of the state courts, working in concert with the executive and legislative branches in a new, functional separation - of - powers mode, is essential for holding all parties accountable and for attaining the nation's education goals.

While no one is claiming these efforts will fix what's broken with America's educational system, there remain pockets of support for some type of parental accountability measure.

«It is the Government's obsession with continual change alongside punitive accountability and assessment measures which has created this problem.»

«These high net worth, first - generation folks... approach their gift - giving the way they approached their investing — due diligence, measures of accountability, a lot of involvement, each with an agenda.

In «Graduation Rates Are Insufficient As An Accountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graAccountability Measure,» Chad Aldeman looks at some problems with using highs school graduation rates for accountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graaccountability purposes and presents data showing the large variation in college - going rates at schools with the same graduation rates.

To avoid overwhelming teachers and students with daunting lists of curricular targets, an instructionally supportive accountability test should measure students» mastery of only an intellectually manageable number of curricular aims, more like a half - dozen than the 50 or so a teacher may encounter today.

With states now appropriately crafting accountability frameworks that focus not just on test scores but on multiple measures, we also will hear less heated rhetoric about the consequences of poor results.

Demanding accountability for results and measuring achievement with the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS), a criterion - referenced assessment — actually, a rather blunt instrument — has spurred significant improvement in student achievement.

While this means that some of the students, whose test scores are included in the school's performance measure, may have only been in that school for a relatively short time, it avoids problems associated with excluding the high - mobility students - typically the lowest - performing students - from the district's overall accountability measure.

Indeed, with the exception of student and school accountability measures, Americans as a whole do not stand steadfastly behind any single reform proposal.

The consortia - designed assessments, however, have not fared so well, because their implementation became intertwined with new, controversial teacher evaluations and school accountability measures.

Consequently, massive efforts have been made to deal with these perceived deficits though a combination of top down interventions, accountability measures and changes in governance arrangements.

However, with regard to adequate yearly progress, state officials do not expect a great deal of flexibility from federal officials and have conceded that their current accountability measure, the Academic Performance Index, is not likely to meet federal regulations.

Instead of encouraging innovation with the newly available tech tools, accountability systems based on narrow and dated measures tended to clamp down on new approaches.

This is certainly true of the accountability movement in California, which has a tortured history of reform and retrenchment that for years left the state with no real measure of how its students were performing.

All states that meet federal criteria will now be allowed to take part in the U.S. Department of Education's 2 - year - old experiment with «growth models,» which let states measure individual students» achievement gains as a way of ensuring accountability under the No Child Left Behind Act.

It must be understood that every school in Australia is a «government funded school» therefore accountability must be the same for all schools and any measures of improved performance must be developed in consultation with the profession.

With schools throughout the country facing leaner budgets, the threat of layoffs, and increasingly demanding accountability measures, teachers are experiencing new and varied workplace pressures.

While eliminating applications raises questions for important aspects of the largest federal K - 12 education aid program, the ESEA Title I program, the policy guidance published by USED in March 2015 provides a wide range of options for states and LEAs to implement CEP with minimal interference with Title I funding allocations or accountability measures.

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