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The Public Schools Accountability Act (PSAA) was passed in California in 1999 as the first step in developing a comprehensive system to hold students, schools, and districts accountable for improving student performance. The system establishes a code of conduct for all teachers stating that their overall objective for the student is to achieve ...
A state must make annual decisions about the achievement of all public schools and local education agencies. All public schools and local education agencies will be held accountable for the achievement of all individual subgroups. A state's definition of AYP must be based primarily on the state's academic assessments.
"Accountability" derives from the late Latin accomptare (to account), a prefixed form of computare (to calculate), which in turn is derived from putare (to reckon). [6] While the word itself does not appear in English until its use in 13th century Norman England, [7] the concept of account-giving has ancient roots in record-keeping activities related to governance and money-lending systems ...
Education Week. "Living With ESSA's Changes Summit - Online Summit Takeaways" (PDF). Education Week. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 23, 2019. Skinner, Rebecca R. (April 20, 2022). The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as Amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA): A Primer (Report). Congressional Research Service
Sustained silent reading (SSR) is a form of school-based recreational reading, or free voluntary reading, where students read silently in a designated period every day, with the underlying assumption being that students learn to read by reading constantly. While classroom implementation of SSR is fairly widespread, some critics note that the ...
It is important for schools and higher education institutions to have clear academic integrity policies and procedures to address breaches of student academic conduct expectations. Six core elements of academic integrity polices have been identified as: access, approach, responsibility, detail, support, and equity.
According to a 2009 report by UNESCO, changes in the university structure in the late 20th and early 21st century have led to increasing access to or "massification" of higher education which has, in turn, resulted in both a diversification of the student population but also a general decrease in academic standards globally.
A constructivist, student-centered approach to classroom management is based on the assignment of tasks in response to student disruption that are "(1) easy for the student to perform, (2) developmentally enriching, (3) progressive, so a teacher can up the ante if needed, (4) based on students' interests, (5) designed to allow the teacher to ...