Parents, educators and government officials need to examine educational accountability and be aware of its ramifications.
For years, federal education policy has focused on testing and educational accountability: worthy goals, yes.
He said if reforms continue to be implemented without sufficient information on students' skills, "it will lead to greater and greater disillusionment". Bennett said he appointed the 22-member panel, headed by former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, a Republican, as part of his effort to enhance educational accountability by providing better information to legislators, educators and parents.
Then, with [the federal] No Child Left Behind [law] and a wide range of state educational accountability measures that came before it the focus of improving education shifted to output: better test scores, higher graduation rates, etc.
Educational accountability > Social aspects.
The Confusing World of Educational Accountability.
The Forum on Educational Accountability has drafted such a plan.
See also the Webinar on Performance Assessment, sponsored by the Forum on Educational Accountability.
But efforts to improve educational accountability have a long history, thoughtfully analyzed in a new book, "High-Stakes Reform: the Politics of Educational Accountability," by my University of Massachusetts colleague Kathryn McDermott.
Monty Neill Boston, March 25 , 2010The writer is interim executive director of FairTest and chairman of the Forum on Educational Accountability.
Above all, he plans to be an evangelist for educational accountability.The message has gone down reasonably well with voters.
