Accountability

Getting to 2014 (and Beyond): The Choices and Challenges Ahead

This series of essays explores the challenges of implementing so many education reforms—such as new Common Core standards, new assessments, new accountability systems, new teacher evaluations, new data systems, and for some states, Race to the Top—all at once, provides a framework for policymakers to think about the choices ahead, as well as strategies and solutions to unexpected conflicts.

False Fronts? Behind Higher Education’s Voluntary Accountability Systems

This report offers an analysis of current, voluntary accountability systems which exist in higher education, and suggests that in order to improve consumer choice and exert meaningful pressure on schools to improve, new accountability systems need to be more complete, comparison-friendly, and designed to highlight institutional differences.

College- and Career-Ready: Using Outcomes Data to Hold High Schools Accountable for Student Success

This report examines the need for improving high school accountability for preparing students for college and careers. The report also provides examples of how states use outcomes data to track student success beyond high school and how that data is used to hold schools accountable. 

Making it Real: How High Schools Can Be Held Accountable for Developing Students' Career Readiness

This brief explores measures states can use to hold high schools accountable for developing students' career readiness. The brief focuses on implementing one specific indicator: obtaining a satisfactory performance rating by a supervisor in a job, internship, school-based enterprise or other experience that demonstrates a student's career-related transferable skills. In addition to this indicator, other indicators are also recommended by the author. 

State College and Career Readiness Initiative: Statewide Transitional Courses for College Readiness

This report provides a progress update on the work the Southern Regional Education Board and its partner states completed on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation funded grant project, Strengthening Statewide College/Career Readiness Initiative (SSCRI). The grant focused on strengthening the college- and career-readiness initiatives in five states: Florida, Kentucky, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia. This report focuses on the progress these states have made in regards to the design and implementation of transitional courses in reading, writing, and mathematics.

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