School Accountability
- ISBN-10
- 0817938818
- ISBN-13
- 9780817938819
- Category
- Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Authors
- Herbert J. Walberg, Williamson M. Evers
Description
Although educators and school boards sometimes resist the idea, accountability is sorely needed in America's schools. Our students are falling behind those in other countries, yet compared to their foreign counterparts, our schools remain subject to little accountability. The U.S. school system lacks the marketplace accountability of schools competing with one another and the further accountability of large-scale examination systems, both of which are associated with high achievement. It is clear that after a quarter century of poor progress in educational productivity, the time has come for high academic standards and accountability.
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