When a freshman arrived late for lifting, the entire team ran sprints as punishment to teach accountability.
Even though there may be consequences for certain choices and behaviors, these families teach accountability and resilience.
The public rightly demands quality teaching and accountability but has been unwilling to acknowledge that quality comes with a price.
Teaching adds accountability since you have to explain and demonstrate what you do, it's lots of communicating which can be good for you as an artist since you have to unpack at least part of what you do and present it.
As the system's second-in-command, he will oversee teaching, learning and accountability, which is where much of his experience at the Education Department has been centered.
The answer, however, is not to wait for a top-down federal solution or simply to spend more money without changes in teaching, learning and accountability.
On Tuesday, at a meeting of an eight-member panel appointed to advise him on the decision, Dr. Steiner proposed a compromise that would involve appointing a chief academic officer to oversee teaching, learning and accountability and serve as Ms. Black's No. 2 official.
At the meeting of the advisory panel on Tuesday, Dr. Steiner offered three options: vote yes on the waiver, vote no or vote "not at this time," meaning the panel would reconsider the application if it were resubmitted with a change like the addition of a chief academic officer to oversee teaching, learning and accountability.
It also marked the emphatic establishment of an opposing camp, which rejected the proposition that poverty-related impediments drove achievement gaps, and that saw bad teaching and weak accountability as the root problem.
While there are always a wide variety of opinions on the best ways to improve education, a few consistent themes emerged from the day: a student's zip code shouldn't determine the quality of their education, parents deserve quality options for their children, we must elevate the teaching profession, and accountability should be both real and fair.
