Sentences with phrase «with standards and accountability»

He is still very much enamored with standards and accountability.

I remembered Ed Koch recently as I thought of the morass we have gotten ourselves into with standards and accountability.

Not exact matches

She is also responsible for the accountability of each startup in his division and leads the relationships between entrepreneur and Start - Up Chile with high quality standards and customer service.

As one of the first public companies in the cryptoasset and blockchain sectors (OTC: CRCW), we are proud to comply with even higher standards of accountability and governance.

The Global Living Wage Coalition (GLWC), brings together seven of the world's most influential voluntary sustainability standards: Fairtrade International, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), GoodWeave International, Rainforest Alliance (RA), Social Accountability International (SAI), Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN) and UTZ, in its partnership with the ISEAL Alliance, and world - renowned living wage experts Dr. Richard Anker and Ms. Martha Anker.

Navitas is B Corps certified, operating in accordance with rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.

«With massive foodborne illness outbreaks grabbing headlines around the world and a growing public mandate for accountability, the conditions are right to establish a global standard for food safety manager certification,» Lynch added.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) and USDA have also cited significant challenges under updated standards with student acceptance, participation, food waste and availability of foods that meet the rules.

«And four: as someone appointed to head NEITI, an organisation saddled with the weighty responsibility of promoting transparency and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others And four: as someone appointed to head NEITI, an organisation saddled with the weighty responsibility of promoting transparency and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others and accountability in our extractive sector, I and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others and my colleagues need to demonstrate that we are not protected from the searchlight that we beam on others, that we are not excused from the standards that we hold others to.

According to her: «Digital technology can, at its best, ensure quality and standards of care are improved and maintained the ability to track, trigger actions and provide accountability empowers midwives and other health workers to lead the way with quality care, adapting to their own situational awareness.

And while affirming the Great Repeal Bill and a desire for the «widest possible consensus», we heard nothing to guarantee that the sweeping powers ministers want to do away with laws out of sight of MPs will be accompanied by the very highest standards of accountabiliAnd while affirming the Great Repeal Bill and a desire for the «widest possible consensus», we heard nothing to guarantee that the sweeping powers ministers want to do away with laws out of sight of MPs will be accompanied by the very highest standards of accountabiliand a desire for the «widest possible consensus», we heard nothing to guarantee that the sweeping powers ministers want to do away with laws out of sight of MPs will be accompanied by the very highest standards of accountability.

«SERAP and indeed Nigerians reserve the right to pursue justice through appropriate national and international accountability mechanisms to ensure that everyone involved in this heinous crime is brought to justice in accordance with international standards of fairness.

After twelve years, the model that Labour has demonstrated it is most comfortable with involves inconsistently applied standards and virtually no accountability.

It's long past time that New York State and local governments comply with the highest standards of openness and public accountability.

The code requires members to act in the public interest and in accordance with the seven general principles of conduct identified by the committee on standards in public life: selflessness, integrity, objectivity, accountability, openness, honesty and leadership.

The 100 activists and candidates signing the pledge promised to «subscribe to high standards of accountability and prudence with public money».

Under a Thompson Administration, we will have zero tolerance for violating the public trust and we will enforce that with the highest levels of accountability standards.»

The legislature is tasked with ensuring that its policies and programs are implemented and adhere to a high standard of fiscally responsibility and accountability.

The inspector general's role is to ensure state government, its employees and those who do business with the state meet the highest standards of honesty, accountability and efficiency.

Test - based accountability is turning teachers against the Common Core (and presumably against other efforts to raise standards) at the same time as politics is turning the broader public against the Common Core in part by associating it with mindless standardized testing.

His work in the Review of Economics and Statistics analyzes the budgetary impact of education aid, and his recent paper (with Scott Imberman and Adam Perdue) analyzes how state accountability standards have influenced education budgets.

But support for standards and accountability systems should not be equated with support for high - stakes tests.

Dr. Gee was more pessimistic, suggesting that «standards mixed with punitive accountability are toxic and will undermine those standards.»

Standards and Accountability: The foundation of any school accountability system rests on solid academic standards, and assessments aligned with thAccountability: The foundation of any school accountability system rests on solid academic standards, and assessments aligned with thaccountability system rests on solid academic standards, and assessments aligned with those standards.

(It escapes me why he then urges that states be placed in sole charge of school standards and accountability with no federal involvement at all.)

To get traction in classrooms, states that adopt these standards (and all but four say they're doing so) must take pains with curriculum, teacher preparation, assessment, accountability and more.

Chief among these were common standards and the assessments to go with them, and increased teacher accountability through new evaluation systems that included student test scores.

When Chester took up his role as commission of elementary and secondary education in 2008, he may have seemed like somewhat of an «outsider» in Massachusetts, coming from Ohio, with an impressive track record, where he worked as senior associate state superintendent for the Department of Education and oversaw standards, assessments, accountability, policy development, and strategic planning for the state.

The most recent revision, completed in the fall of 2000, was promoted by NCATE as having aligned its standards with the broader movement toward accountability and outcome standards.

To date, we can count a multitude of policy wins — better data, stronger accountability systems, and a move toward more rigorous academic standards — along with a universal acceptance that we must aim to close gaps in achievement and opportunity.

The release in January of the Teaching Commission's report, «Teaching at Risk: A Call to Action,» presents us with an opportunity to reconsider the importance of teacher quality as a critical variable in the current effort to implement standards - based reform and high - stakes accountability.

The state's landmark 1993 Education Reform Act introduced not only high academic standards, accountability, and enhanced school choice, but curriculum frameworks with a subject - by - subject outline of the material intended to form the basis of local curricula statewide.

A new study of Massachusetts teachers from researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education showed that even in a state with a highly developed system of standards and accountability, new teachers were not provided with the curricula they needed to teach to standards.

Will an election year come when Republican and Democratic candidates try to outbid one another with proposals for expanding charters, setting high standards, formulating tough accountability regimes, and curbing union power?

A: Despite establishing standards, assessments, and accountability mechanisms, the distribution of educational achievement still shows substantial gaps that correlate with socioeconomic status.

Education Week developed a comprehensive grading across grade - specific standards, testing, and the accountability that goes with them in each state.

First, misaligned assessments undermine the critical link between what is reported in accountability systems (test - score and teacher - evaluation data) and what districts purport to value (Common Core — aligned instruction, student success with the new standards).

At some point the prevailing standards and accountability approach to education reform will be replaced with new designs that are more productive, or at least different.

The states that made the most progress after allowing for other factors — Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Kentucky, and Georgia, to name the top five — have taken steps, in various ways, to raise academic standards and back them up with rigorous assessments, implement tough but thoughtful accountability systems, and strengthen human capital practices to attract, develop, and retain educators who can deliver on high standards.

At another level, you have an alliance between some of those who have historically always opposed testing and accountability, who see with the onset of these standards and the assessments associated with them an opportunity to beat back a movement in education toward accountability that they never supported in the first place.

States labored for decades to put such standards in place, prodded in 1994 by the federal Goals 2000 Act, then in 2002 by the No Child Left Behind Act, with its insistence on annual testing and consequential accountability.

At the same time, he argues that high standards and accountability are no longer enough to address the issues some of our students — too often, students of color and children from low - income families — bring with them to the classroom.»

According to a White House background report, the Education Accountability Act is «designed to hold students, teachers and schools to high standards, and to ensure that school districts and states provide students with a high quality education.»

Proponents of technology's ability to enhance and expand teacher's well - crafted lessons contend that the advent of ed tech suffered a mediocre debut due poor timing — coinciding with a politically tense push for standards and accountability reform.

Unfortunately, the performance of digital technology in the classroom proved disappointing early on, because its rapid influx into schools coincided with another dominant trend in U.S. public education: the national push for standards and accountability.

Such reforms, with their focus on testing and higher academic standards, are the precursors of today's controversial accountability movement.

For the past decade and a half, the fight to improve America's schools has been fought largely on two fronts: academic standards as one battleground, and accountability the other, with the issue of mandatory testing adding heat to a very public — and increasingly...

This paper foreshadows the larger research project we have launched in New York City Schools that examines in depth teacher perceptions of their work environment and how conducive school climate is to learning behaviors (e.g., experimenting with new teaching practices) and, at the same time, to retaining high standards for accountability.

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With an agenda that echoes our decade of investments — charter schools, performance pay for teachers, accountability, expanded learning time and national standards — the Obama administration is poised to cultivate and bring to fruition the seeds we and other reformers have planted.»