Download or read book Accountability and Flexibility in Public Schools written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Charter schools are publicly funded but operate outside the regulatory framework and collective bargaining agreements characteristic of traditional public schools. In return for this freedom, charter schools are subject to heightened accountability. This paper estimates the impact of charter school attendance on student achievement using data from Boston, where charter schools enroll a growing share of students. We also evaluate an alternative to the charter model, Boston's pilot schools. These schools have some of the independence of charter schools, but operate within the school district, face little risk of closure, and are covered by many of same collective bargaining provisions as traditional public schools. Estimates using student assignment lotteries show large and significant test score gains for charter lottery winners in middle and high school. In contrast, lottery-based estimates for pilot schools are small and mostly insignificant. The large positive lottery-based estimates for charter schools are similar to estimates constructed using statistical controls in the same sample, but larger than those using statistical controls in a wider sample of schools. The latter are still substantial, however. The estimates for pilot schools are smaller and more variable than those for charters, with some significant negative effects"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Download or read book School Flexibility and Accountability written by Benjamin Paul Scafidi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic Achievement for All written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce was held May 20, 1999. The hearing lists statements by educators, elected officials, and the Colorado Commissioner of Education on the Academic Achievement for All proposal, the Straight A's proposal. This proposal gives states a choice: they can either continue operating federal education programs as before, or, at their option, they can combine certain K-12 federal education funds in exchange for strict academic accountability. Straight A's does not eliminate any K-12 programs and, in many respects, is modeled after Texas' successful state accountability system where performance and results are central. Appendices list written statements by the participants. (DFR)
Download or read book Testing Teaching and Learning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-10-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students. Testing, Teaching, and Learning is written to help states and school districts comply with the new law, offering guidance for designing and implementing assessment and accountability systems. This book examines standards-based education reform and reviews the research on student assessment, focusing on the needs of disadvantaged students covered by Title I. With examples of states and districts that have track records in new systems, the committee develops a practical "decision framework" for education officials. The book explores how best to design assessment and accountability systems that support high levels of student learning and to work toward continuous improvement. Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged studentsâ€"state and local administrators and classroom teachers.
Download or read book Efforts in School Reform written by Sherrie Reed and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to a public perception that schools in the U.S. are failing to provide equal opportunities for all students and to ensure student attainment will meet the demands of the U.S. workforce, "reform of America's public schools" has dominated education rhetoric and policy over the last three decades. Efforts to reform America's schools are abundant and diverse. The three papers included in this dissertation explore three specific reform efforts: accountability, school climate and fiscal flexibility. The first paper in this dissertation examines charter school accountability in California. In 2011, the California Charter Schools Association launched an annual publication of Academic Accountability Report Cards for each charter school in the state and a public call for the closure of charter schools not meeting criteria outlined on the report cards. In examining the CCSA accountability framework, I find merit in critics' claims. The CCSA framework does not identify low-performing charter schools not already identified under existing accountability systems and potentially identifies charter schools serving primarily disadvantaged students. Overwhelming evidence indicating the positive relationship between school climate and students' mental and physical health, social-emotional well-being and academic performance has led to the inclusion of school climate reform efforts in a range of school improvement initiatives, including New Tech Network. The second paper in this dissertation examines perceptions of school climate for more than 10,000 students enrolled in 72 New Tech Network schools. Although students' perceptions differ across NTN schools, size of student body, year of implementation, type of model implementation, and diversity of the school explain little of the variation in students' perceptions. In fact, students' perceptions of school climate vary more among individual students within a school than between students in different schools. In NTN schools, male students have more positive perceptions of their relationships with peers than female students. Further, Asian and Hispanic students report more positive perceptions of connectedness to school, fair and enforced discipline and peer relationships than African American, white and multi-racial students. The third paper in this dissertation, also published in the Journal of School Choice: International Research and Reform in August 2015, investigates resource allocation practices, including savings, of charter schools in California using nine years of data. Findings indicate charter schools spend less on instruction and pupil support services than traditional public schools. The lower spending on instruction and pupil support is offset, not by administrative costs, but by higher spending on operations, consultant services and a greater rate of savings. Further, analysis indicates that the differences in resource allocation patterns between charter schools and traditional public schools is not completely explained by the characteristics of students served.
Download or read book No Child Left Behind written by United States House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Child Left Behind: improving academic achievement through flexibility & accountability for schools: field hearing before the Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session, April 15, 2004 in Augusta, Georgia.
Download or read book The New ABC s of Public Education written by North Carolina. State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluation of Flexibility Under No Child Left Behind Volume IV written by Gayle S. Christensen and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexibility and accountability are two levers for change that occupy an increasingly prominent place among federal strategies for educational improvement. In return for introducing higher academic standards and performance-based accountability systems, states and districts have been granted increasing flexibility over how they may use the funding they receive from federal sources, based on the premise that local educators and administrators are in the best position to identify student needs and that these needs can best be met if local actors are given greater flexibility over the use of federal resources, while meeting high standards for academic performance. This report is based on interviews conducted with various stakeholders involved in Seattle Public Schools' implementation of Local Flex, including representatives from the Seattle Public Schools and the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Reported findings include: (1) By focusing on five major themes through Local Flex, Seattle Public Schools better targeted federal funds to meet student needs; (2) Local Flex ushered in improved collaboration within the district office and reduced administrative burdens, although the district had not yet taken full advantage of the potential program benefits; (3) Seattle Public Schools' relationship with the state remained similar while the district's interaction with public and private schools improved since implementing the program; and (4) Respondents indicated that the district had been able to balance flexibility with the intent of federal programs. Interview Instruments are appended. (Contains 9 footnotes and 3 exhibits.).
Download or read book Flexibility Accountability and Quality Education written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holding Accountability Accountable written by Kenneth A. Sirotnik and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenneth Sirotnik asserts that however well-intentioned, past and current accountability practices in public education are "miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic." In this provocative book, well-respected educators join Sirotnik to provide critical analyses and sophisticated perspectives on prevailing high-stakes accountability practices. They offer both conceptual and practical foundations for rethinking what it means to act responsibly when it comes to calling our schools, school systems, educators, and students into account.
Download or read book Empowering Success written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Education Reform and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book No Child Left Behind written by Paul E. Peterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and school accountability. Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education.
Download or read book Putting Performance First written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academic Accountability written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bending Without Breaking written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Risky Business written by Craig E. Richards and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Sense of Test Based Accountability in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was written in response to school policymaking's growing emphasis on testing. During the 1990s, a number of states implemented educational accountability systems that assigned consequences for students, teachers, or schools on the basis of student test scores. The 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (the "No Child Left Behind NCLB act of 2001") makes such test-based accountability a requirement for all 50 states. The goal of the law is ". . . to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high-quality education and reach, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging state academic achievement standards and state academic assessments." The purpose of this book is to help educators and educational policymakers understand test-based accountability so they can use it effectively in the service of this goal. States have considerable flexibility in developing their accountability systems, so long as those systems have at their core an appropriate feedback mechanism. Data on student achievement are collected annually and compared with a specific target. Failure to attain the target leads to successively harsher sanctions for schools, including ultimately reconstitution; success leads to recognition and financial rewards. when combined with greater flexibility from federal regulations and parental options to obtain supplemental educational services or move students from less-successful schools, these test-based incentives are supposed to lead to improvement for all schools.
