Accountable Schools

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Title I Testing and Assessment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309172868

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Testing, Teaching, and Learning by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Board on Testing and Assessment,Committee on Title I Testing and Assessment Pdf

State education departments and school districts face an important challenge in implementing a new law that requires disadvantaged students to be held to the same standards as other students. The new requirements come from provisions of the 1994 reauthorization of Title I, the largest federal effort in precollegiate education, which provides aid to "level the field" for disadvantaged students. Testing, Teaching, and Learning is written to help states and school districts comply with the new law, offering guidance for designing and implementing assessment and accountability systems. This book examines standards-based education reform and reviews the research on student assessment, focusing on the needs of disadvantaged students covered by Title I. With examples of states and districts that have track records in new systems, the committee develops a practical "decision framework" for education officials. The book explores how best to design assessment and accountability systems that support high levels of student learning and to work toward continuous improvement. Testing, Teaching, and Learning will be an important tool for all involved in educating disadvantaged studentsâ€"state and local administrators and classroom teachers.

Author : Helen Ladd
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815721218

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Holding Schools Accountable by Helen Ladd Pdf

"Perhaps the most urgent—and complex—task facing American education today is to figure out how to hold schools accountable for improved academic achievement. In this important new work, Helen Ladd and her colleagues describe the options available to policymakers, weigh their respective strengths and pitfalls, and lay out principles for creating schools where learning is the number one objective. This book should be at the top of the reading list for anyone seriously interested in transforming the quality of American schools."—Edward B. Fiske, Former Education Editor, The New York Times A central theme of current efforts to reform elementary and secondary education in the United States is a more explicit focus on the outcomes of the educational system. This volume examines efforts throughout the country to hold schools accountable for the academic performance of their students. Researchers from various disciplines—most notably, economics, educational policy and management, and political science—address a range of questions related to performance- based strategies for reforming education. The authors describe and evaluate programs that recognize and reward the most effective schools, discuss the costs of achieving high performance, summarize what is known about parental choice as an accountability mechanism, and provide new evidence on the relationship between school inputs and educational outcomes. Grounded in the actual experiences of various states and school districts, the book provides a wealth of new information and provocative insights. Contributors argue that programs to hold schools accountable for student performance must be carefully designed to assure that schools are treated fairly; that vouchers, if used, should be directed toward low-income families; that resources do indeed matter—poor school districts may well require additional funding to increase student learning. In addition to the editor, the contributors include Charles T. Clotfelter, David K. Cohen, Richard F. Elmore, Ronald F. Ferguson, Susan H. Fuhrman, Eric A. Hanushek, Caroline Minter Hoxby, Richard J. Murnane, John F. Witte, and John McHenry Yinger.

Author : Ludger Woessmann
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Academic achievement
ISBN : 1848445296

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School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World by Ludger Woessmann Pdf

Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents new evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test on whether students perform better in school systems with such institutional measures in place. It also provides a theoretical framework for considering these reforms and summarizes previous international evidence. The results confirm that various policies promoting accountability, autonomy and choice are strongly associated with higher achievement for students from both disadvantaged and advantaged backgrounds. In particular, choice through public funding for private schools is associated with both higher performance overall and higher equality of opportunity. Providing detailed and rich facets of different forms of accountability, autonomy and choice, this book is unique in its empirically based and internationally oriented treatment of this up-to-date policy topic. It will be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and practitioners, as well as students in education policy and in the economics of education.

Author : Bruce G. Barnett,Alan R. Shoho,Alex J. Bowers
Publisher : IAP
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623963842

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School and District Leadership in an Era of Accountability by Bruce G. Barnett,Alan R. Shoho,Alex J. Bowers Pdf

Our fourth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on school leadership in an era of high stakes accountability. Fueled by sweeping federal education accountability reforms, such as the United States’ No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (R2T) and Australia’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Taskforce, school systems around the world are being forced to increase academic standards, participate in high-stakes testing, and raise evaluation standards for teachers and principals. These results-driven reforms are intended to hold educators “accountable for student learning and accountable to the public” (Anderson, 2005, p. 2, emphasis in original). While policymakers and the public debate the merits of student achievement accountability measures, P-12 educational leaders do not have the luxury to wait for clear guidance and resources to improve their schools and operating systems. Instead, successful leaders must balance the need to create learning communities, manage the organizational climate, and encourage community involvement with the consequences testing has on teacher morale and public scrutiny. The chapters in this volume clearly indicate that as school leaders attend to these potentially competing forces, this affects their problem-solving strategies, ability to facilitate change, and encourage community involvement. We were delighted with the responses from colleagues around the world who were eager to share their research dealing with how leaders are functioning effectively within a high-accountability environment. The nine chapters in this volume provide empirical evidence of the strategies school leaders use to cope with problems and negotiate external demands while improving student performance. In particular, the voices and actions of principals, superintendents, and school board members are captured in a blend of quantitative and qualitative studies. The breadth of studies is impressive, ranging from case studies of individual principals to cross-district comparisons to national data from the National Center for Education Statistics. To highlight important findings, we have organized the book into five sections. The first section (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) highlights the problem-solving strategies used by principals and superintendents when pressured to turn around low-performing schools. In the second section (Chapters 5 and 6), attention is devoted to ways in which school leaders act as “buffers” by reducing the impact of external demands within their local school contexts. Next, Chapters 7 and 8 explore creative ways in which financial analyses can be used to assess the cost effectiveness of programs and services. Chapters 9 and 10 examine how principals enact their instructional leadership roles in managing curriculum reforms and evaluating teachers. Finally, in the last section (Chapter 11), Kenneth Leithwood synthesizes the major themes and ideas emerging across these chapters, paying particular attention to practical issues influencing school leaders in this era of school reform and accountability as well as promising areas for future research.

Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0215543076

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School Accountability by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Children, Schools and Families Committee Pdf

Incorporating HC 353-i to -vi, session 2008-09

Author : Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese M. Dickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780300127973

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School Choice and the Question of Accountability by Emily Van Dunk,Anneliese M. Dickman Pdf

This timely book refocuses the debate about school choice programs with a nonpartisan assessment of the nation’s largest and longest-running private school voucher program—the high profile Milwaukee experiment—and finds that the system undercuts the promise of school choice. The authors argue that the Milwaukee experiment has not resulted in the one element necessary for school choice to be effective: an accountability system in which good schools thrive and poor schools close. They show that most ingredients of a robust market are missing. Well-informed consumers (parents) are not the norm. State fiscal incentives are counterproductive, and competition among public and choice schools is difficult to discern. They conclude that school choice could succeed if certain conditions were met, and they offer guidelines to strengthen accountability and repair the voucher system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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School Accountability and Administrator Incentives in California by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jacob Easley II,Pierre Tulowitzki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317678144

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Educational Accountability by Jacob Easley II,Pierre Tulowitzki Pdf

Educational Accountability: International perspectives on challenges and possibilities for school leadership provides an opportunity to assess, reflect on, and discuss current issues surrounding accountability policies in education from around the globe and the implications they hold for school leadership. It addresses the global trend of accountability policies expanding in scope to include the education profession as well as the increasing incidence of international policy borrowing, brought on chiefly by globalisation. Specific case studies offer a contextual examination of the theory, policy and practice of accountability and an inspection of their influence on school leadership. Cases are intentionally juxtaposed to provide a broad perspective of regional and cultural similarities and departures, and are arranged to reflect the diasporic Chinese, Anglo, European, and Hispanic societies. Bringing together a number of highly regarded experts within the field, the book cultivates a global perspective on the challenges and possibilities for school leaders to foster school effectiveness and improvement. Educational Accountability should be key reading for researchers, policy makers, and current and future school leaders.

Author : Thomas J. Lasley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412987660

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Standards and Accountability in Schools by Thomas J. Lasley Pdf

This volume in the pointunterpoint Debating Issues in American Education reference series tackles the topic of standards and accountability in schools, providing readers with views on multiple sides of standards and accountability issues and pointing them toward more in-depth resources for further exploration.

Author : David Godfrey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783030481308

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School Peer Review for Educational Improvement and Accountability by David Godfrey Pdf

This book explores how peer reviews are used in school improvement, accountability and education system reform. Importantly, these issues are studied through numerous international cases and new empirical evidence. This volume also identifies and describes barriers and facilitators to the development, use, sustainability and expansion of school peer review. School peer reviews are a form of internal evaluation driven by schools themselves rather than externally imposed, such as with school inspections. Schools collaborate with other schools in networks, collect data through self-evaluation and in school review visits. They provide feedback, challenge and support to each other. Despite the increased use of school peer review in system reform and school improvement, very little research has been conducted on this model and there is a dearth of literature that looks at the phenomenon internationally. This book fills this gap and will be an invaluable source for academics in school leadership and educational evaluation and accountability, as well as those working at the level of executive leadership in school networks, NGOs and in government policy-making.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Public Policy Instit. of CA
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Improving School Accountability in California by Anonim Pdf

Author : Zehava Rosenblatt,Theo Wubbels
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351024099

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Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals by Zehava Rosenblatt,Theo Wubbels Pdf

Accountability and Culture of School Teachers and Principals studies the degree to which teachers and principals in eight countries view themselves as taking responsibility, working by clear standards, reporting transparently, and accepting feedback at work. The book focuses on cultural values that explain variation in accountability levels of school educators, drawing on data from Canada, China, Hungary, Israel, the Netherlands, Spain, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It addresses the question of whether cultural values, specifically collectivism and individualism, are related to teachers’ and principals’ external and internal accountability dispositions. It also explores the intriguing role of organizational support and key school personnel in school reforms across the world, providing a new way to understand school accountability. The book will be of great interest for academics, post-graduate students, and scholars in the field of education policy and international and comparative studies in education.

Author : Scott H. Decker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN : MINN:30000010778763

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Increasing School Safety Through Juvenile Accountability Programs by Scott H. Decker Pdf

Author : Kenneth A. Leithwood,Karen Edge,Doris Jantzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028819071

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Educational Accountability by Kenneth A. Leithwood,Karen Edge,Doris Jantzi Pdf

The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has developed a framework for accountability in response to the following five issues: who is accountable, to whom, for what, at what level, and with what consequences.

Author : Martin Carnoy,Richard Elmore,Leslie Siskin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-12-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135938574

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The New Accountability by Martin Carnoy,Richard Elmore,Leslie Siskin Pdf

"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.