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Could Community Based Accountability Get the Federal Government Out of Our Schools? – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher

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From Edweek Living in Dialogue:

In the past, I have shared the ideas of former Nebraska Commissioner of Education Doug Christensen, who speaks of the importance of local initiative, and also Yong Zhao, who has written about what he calls “mass localism.”

Now, Julian Vasquez Heilig, along with a long list of co-authors, has offered a comprehensiveframework he calls Community Based Accountability. Dr. Vasquez Heilig works in Texas, which pioneered the use of high stakes accountability, and was the model for No Child Left Behind. However, as he points out, the state has seen little real growth in student learning from this approach.

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Could Community Based Accountability Get the Federal Government Out of Our Schools? – Living in Dialogue – Education Week Teacher.

From Edweek Living in Dialogue: In the past, I have shared the ideas of former Nebraska Commissioner of Education Doug Christensen, who speaks of the importance of local initiative, and also Yong Zhao, who has written about what he calls “mass localism.” Now, Julian Vasquez Heilig, along with a long list of co-authors, has offered a comprehensiveframework…

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    D.C. are you listening?: A New Local, Community-Based Approach for Accountability | Cloaking Inequity

    […] EdWeek then covered the Community-Based Accountability approach in the post Could Community Based Accountability Get the Federal Government Out of Our Schools? – Living in Di… […]

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    Texas-style Community-Based Accountability? | Cloaking Inequity

    […] plan. Then, last week, Jerry Brown introduced Local Accountability as discussed here and on Edweek. Now the proposed Texas House Bill 5, the new omnibus education bill, appears to have Texas-style […]

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