History of IDEA
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Past Educational Opportunity Reports
Face to face: Real accountability
- 09-08-2011
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Blog by David B. Cohen/InterACT
In my last post, I was considering how ineffective it is to rely on numbers, scores, policies, sanctions, or rewards to bring about the results we want in education. At my most optimistic, I believe that education stakeholders all want the same things – though some people have a hard time articulating what they want without relying on test scores as a proxy for achievement or learning. Still, for the sake of argument, let’s leave motives out of this discussion. For many politicians and outside experts, it’s axiomatic that high standards and accountability will improve public education. They can always come up with more hoops for teachers and schools to jump through. Still, we could probably build a broader consensus around school improvement if we could reach agreement about what standards and accountability should look like. Today, I want to describe to policy makers what accounability looks like and feels like for me. (more...)
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