He noted that a lengthy Detroit Free Press investigation published recently
found little accountability for the $ 1 billion per year going to charter schools and largely equal performance compared to traditional schools.
Not exact matches
But we
find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based
accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.
Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based
accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid
findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively
little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).
Suggested individual or study team activity: Research conducted by Wiliam (2010), Amrein & Berliner (2002), and Cizek (2005) has
found that use of
accountability tests has
little effect on student achievement.
It also
found that it paid millions of dollars to a third party non-profit, Accord, for educational services with
little accountability.
It also
found that it paid millions of dollars to Accord, for educational services with
little accountability.
This
finding prompted him to conclude that «despite its increasing popularity within education, there is
little empirical evidence on test - based
accountability» (p. 4).
Instead, we
found that despite Massachusetts» detailed system of standards and
accountability measures, most new teachers we interviewed received
little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it.
[xvii] Indeed, the Government
Accountability Office (GAO)
finds that many eligible borrowers are not aware of PSLF and the enrollment growth comes despite
little effort from the Department of Education to promote the program or further simplify the verification process.
From personal experience I have
found that there is very
little accountability in our «profession».