Category: Latina/os

• At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability

  1–2 minutes

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  July 29, 2012

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  Accountability, African Americans, High-Stakes Testing, Latina/os

  Vasquez Heilig, J., Young, M. & Williams, A. (2012). At-risk student averse: Risk management and accountability. Journal of Educational Administration, 50(5). The prevailing theory of action underlying accountability is that holding schools and students accountable will increase educational output. While accountability’s theory of action intuitively seemed plausible, at the point of No Child Left Behind’s national implementation, little empirical…