There is a growing knowledge and technical assistance base that makes the transition to a
new type of accountability less a risk and more of a reward.
As for the MP's expenses scandal, most of the people elected to the next Parliament will be new and subject to a totally different,
stricter type of accountability.
This strategy relies on the assertion that pre-NCLB school - accountability policies were comparable to NCLB — that is, that the two
types of accountability regimes are similar in the most relevant respects.
Researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond used fourth - and eighth - grade NAEP math data to compare student performance growth across states
by type of accountability system (none, report card, or consequential).
In this 60 - second video produced by AEI, Andy Smarick explains how
this type of accountability works for charter schools and why it could be good for traditional public schools too.
However, already having
some type of accountability structure in place could turn out to be a mixed blessing.
For this reason, different exams often lead to different inferences about student mastery, regardless of whether
any type of accountability policy is in place.
This is usually in exchange for
some type of accountability for producing certain results, which are set forth in each school's charter.
«I'm shocked that the program has continued to be expanded without
the type of accountability that really needs to be there,» said Burke.
«But without
some type of accountability, then any private school can say they are doing the best job, and we would have no idea if that's true without data.
The future of teachers and their organizations may well depend on their ability to synthesize
both types of accountability.
Class size violations: with the proliferation of oversized classes we need
some type of accountability for DOE / principals for every day that a class sizes are over contractual limts.
Lehman argued that both «inputs,» or what goes into a child's education, and «outputs,» or that child's performance, are
the types of accountability taxpayers expect.
Although reports of students reaching the various proficiency levels are more informative than reports of inputs alone, neither
type of accountability is a sufficient basis for identifying effective schools.
But private schools aren't subject to
this type of accountability.
Achievement gains for students below the proficiency cut point emerge in response to
both types of accountability systems.
But so what, it's not like they perform any sophisticated analysis or practice
any type of accountability anyway... Their very reporting appears to be simply based on the notion that the US is in a superior place to Europe.
Two
types of accountability that may help sustain a school community partnership are:
More realistic may be to take
the type of accountability found in the educational system for grant money and apply it the family court system.