Accountability
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts by governments, officials, and advocates to hold schools accountable for success or improvement.
- Accountability States Fall Short on School Data Transparency, Advocacy Group SaysAfter reviewing states’ school report cards, the Data Quality Campaign says dozens of states are failing to offer a clear window into the data they’re required to collect under ESSA.Accountability A Heavy Lift to Make School Data Transparent—And Easy to UseStates and districts are scrambling to meet the Every Student Succeeds Act’s demand for broad and readily searchable information about schools.Accountability The Ball Is in Betsy DeVos' Court as States Seek to Revise ESSA PlansWill the education department let a state go in an entirely new direction, as long as what it is proposing to do is still kosher under the law?Accountability Opinion Want to Scrap the 'Factory Model' Classroom? Mind These Common PitfallsTraditional and innovative schools suffer from opposing problems, writes David Nurenberg. Here's how they can meet in the middle.Accountability Opinion Use Caution When Measuring School QualityIn the rush to provide parents with information about school performance, we should make sure we're measuring what matters.Accountability Rollout of ESSA Report Cards Frustrates School LeadersTensions flare between state policymakers, K-12 practitioners, and parents over how to best define and report school success under redesigned accountability systems.Accountability How Do You Go About Calculating Student Success? It's ComplicatedWhen it comes to gauging the quality of the nation’s education system, academic achievement and a wide range of non-school factors that affect the opportunity for lifelong success all form part of the picture.Accountability When It Comes to Setting Students Up for Success, Nation Earns a 'C'State scores come from an Education Week Research Center analysis of education-related opportunities, as well as social and economic conditions.Accountability Did the Charter Takeover Improve New Orleans' Schools?The performance of schools in post-Katrina New Orleans has been a well-scrutinized experiment, with champions and critics of charter schools closely monitoring the results.Accountability Q&A Education Data for Improvement, Not Accountability: Q&A With Paul LeMahieuSchools should use data to determine how to make improvement strategies work “across contexts,” says the senior vice president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Accountability Alternative High Schools: A Call for Better AccountabilityStates must figure out new, fairer ways of holding alternative high schools accountable for graduation, a new study argues.Accountability Opinion Rediscovering School Quality ReviewsResurrecting an old idea about assessing school quality could allow schools to examine a broad range of data on performance and practices and lead to improvement.Accountability Opinion Working to Broaden the Definition of SuccessA charter school network seeks to transform education by encouraging development of a broad set of competencies, not just those measured in accountability systems.Accountability Photos Inside Classrooms in Three States: Quality Counts 2018The 22nd edition of Quality Counts 2018: Report and Rankings focuses on state-by state assessment of public education.Accountability Opinion The Elusive Goldilocks Model of School AccountabilityAdam Edgerton recently shared with me a thoughtful take on practical challenges states confront when it comes to accountability. In particular, he flags the challenge of striking a Goldilocks balance of being more "supportive" without simply being squishy.