Category: Community-Based Accountability

• I am giddy!!: Community-Based Accountability

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  January 4, 2013

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability, High-Stakes Testing

  I am giddy!! I had writer’s block all summer. I owed Professor Rich Milner and two co-authors (Dr. Muhummed Khalifa and Dr. Linda Tillman) my portion of a chapter for the upcoming Handbook of Urban Education to be published by Routledge. We were asked to write on a “direction for future work (and needs) in the field of…

  

• Accountability: Are you ready for a new idea?

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  October 17, 2012

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  Accountability, Community-Based Accountability, High-Stakes Testing, Higher Education Access

  ***Edit: 12.4.15: This is the first post where I publicly introduced the idea of bottom-up Local Accountability multiple-measure (dashboard) plans*** NEPC recently released a report entitled  Democracy Left Behind: How Recent Education Reforms Undermine Local School Governance and Democratic Education.  The press release states: “Local control” has been a bedrock principle of public schooling in America…