School Accountability Blogs

I have spent most of my professional career involved with research and policy relating to educational outcomes, state-level educational assessment, teacher testing, and school accountability. These issues are interrelated. During my career, teachers and school administrators have been assigned increasing "accountability" for student performance on standardized tests while their autonomy has been simultaneously restricted. In these blogs I will discuss the evolution of school accountability legislation, identify core challenges associated with prevailing ideas of school accountability, and propose some ideas for addressing these challenges.