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3) State accountability rating systems: a review of school report cards as indicators of school quality
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National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A core premise of state school report cards is that publicizing information about how well schools and districts meet specified goals will incentivize school improvement. However, for report card rating systems to be potentially beneficial as a school improvement policy instrument, they must provide fair and valid indicators of school performance.
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Born a slave in Virginia in 1856, Booker T. Washington rose in prominence to become black America's foremost spokesman. This is the dramatic autobiographical account of Washington's struggle to succeed and prosper in a country that refused to acknowledge his existence. From his fight for an education to his founding of the world-renowned Tuskegee Institute, Up From Slavery is one of the most significant and defining works in American literature. A...
Author
Publisher
Education Policy Research Unit
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This policy brief explores the intersection of school choice and accountability. Based on a review of research since 1970, we first develop a typology of four distinct models of accountability: bureaucratic, performance, market and professional. We both define these and demonstrate how they are embedded in the school choice movement. Second, we examine several school choice options--vouchers and tax credits, charter schools, virtual/cyber schools,...
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Research publication volume no. 675
Publisher
Colorado Legislative Council
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Publisher
Teachers College Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Through case studies of college faculty, administrators, and student affairs professionals engaged in inquiry using the Equity Scorecard, the book clarifies the “muddled conversation” that colleges and universities are having about equity. Synthesizing equity standards based on three theories of justice―justice as fairness, justice as care, and justice as transformation―the authors provide strategies for enacting equity in practice on college...
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CDE teleconference volume . 1
Publisher
School Effectiveness Unit
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A presentation 4/11/91 on school accountability and district goals; sessions chaired by Susan Schafer.
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The U.S. test-based accountability model holds schools and teachers accountable for student outcomes with little attention to school improvement processes. Many other countries enact more school-centered accountability efforts, such as school self-evaluation followed by inspection (SSE/I) to examine school quality, as in similar systems in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands. Accountability models from other countries cannot be naively...