Sentence examples for school evaluations from inspiring English sources

The Regents could beef up existing accreditation procedures, making them full school evaluations, including, but not limited to, test scores.

Hold all schools to account, but consider different types of inspections such as school evaluations, and allow the data to speak for itself.

Heralded by President Bush as a centerpiece of his campaign, the legislation comes amid growing opposition to the expanding use of tests to determine promotion, graduation, merit pay and school evaluations.

While earlier studies have argued that redshirted children do better both socially and academically — citing data on school evaluations, leadership positions, and test scores — more recent analyses suggest that the opposite may well be the case: the youngest kids, who barely make the age cutoff but are enrolled anyway, ultimately end up on top — not their older classmates.

"Some programs are very popular and people don't want a serious evaluation," says Dominic Brewer, head of the education program of Rand Corp., the think tank that found itself embroiled in a controversy over its own school evaluations during the presidential campaign.

Instead, many Republicans and supposed conservatives are doubling down on testing-driven educational reform, making standardized tests the central focus for student, teacher, and school evaluations.

"I just found out my Q.R. is at the end of January," another said, using educrat-ese for the school evaluation process called a Quality Review.

The reforms focus on early childcare, supporting disadvantaged children, improving vocational education and building links with employers; other reforms are aimed at improving training and professional development for teachers, and strengthening school evaluation and assessment.

And when school systems adopt measures that track student improvement (and not just student achievement), they reward schools for teaching every student they have, a critical component of any useful school evaluation method.

At the same time, agreements that most states have made with the Department of Education will require them to institute teacher and school evaluation systems that take student test scores into account, based on year-to-year progress.

We have a new data-driven school evaluation system.