Those pillars were: accountability, choice, flexibility, and what works.
She credits them with bringing the insistence on accountability, choice, and incentives "out of academics' heads and into the public sphere" on the state level.
"A lot of the traditional techniques, education, transparency, accountability, choice, are absolutely great beginnings, but they're not enough.
They conclude by showing the method in action, offering detailed accounts of how it might be applied in school finance, accountability, and choice.
Accountability undermines choice.
The dilemma is accountability versus choice.
For years, Ravitch supported many reform goals — accountability, school choice, charters.
Now some dissenters even doubt the reform movement's guiding principles of accountability and choice.
"Without the ability to exercise real accountability, real choice, this testing is nonsense".
Multi-party systems, however fraught, are more usual; the notion of political accountability and choice is more widely accepted.
When legislators in Congress and elsewhere wake up to the tradeoff between accountability and choice, they will face unpleasant options.
