Category: Accountability
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Policymakers from Texas to California are either taking notice of Community-Based Accountability, and/or they are thinking on the same wavelength. The first positive sign that I posted on around New Years was that the High Performance Coalition of 20 districts in Texas empowered by SB 1557 were seeking to adopt a Community-Based Accountability and Assessment…
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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…
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I have discussed a Community-Based Accountability approach since September 2012 here on Cloaking Inequity. California, land of where the government micromanages everything the land of local control— wait, what?! has announced a form of Community-Based Accountability in trailer legislation and tied it to school finance (Thanks to Kevin Welner for the heads-up). For extensive description…
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On February 27 I will be in New York City to give a lecture entitled “Accountability: What Was, Is, and Could Be” at New York University in Pless Hall Rm. 634 from 3:30-5. I will discuss the birth of accountability, then a concise of mixed method research on the efficacy of the current form of…
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When you think of school choice, what comes to mind? Vouchers? Charters? Intra- and Inter- district choice? Magnet schools? Today I received a forwarded email request from a senator that was gathering information in response to pressure for “school choice” bills at the Texas Legislature. I have been pondering “school choice,” and why it is…
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