Need, equity, and accountability

Need for Professional Accountability

Being at the doorstep of the 21st century it is imperative to take stock of prevailing psychiatric practices so that the profession is adequately prepared to face the challanges ahead. Psychiatry has advanced rapidly during the last few decades and today our armamentarium includes an array of effective pharmacological and psychological methods to modify behaviour. Since more powerful the tool g...

Articulating the need for innovation and accountability.

Equity and Accountability: The Impact of State Accountability Systems on School Finance

Using an 11-year panel data set containing information on revenues, expenditures, and demographics for every school district in the United States, we examine the effects of state-adopted school accountability systems on the adequacy and equity of school resources. We find little relationship between state implementation of accountability systems and changes in school finance equity, though we d...

The Impact of Accountability on Racial and Socioeconomic Equity: Considering Both School Resources and Achievement Outcomes

This article examines whetherperformance-driven educational accountability policy enhances or hinders equity. Combining data from state policy surveys, F-33, SASS, and NAEP, the article shows that during the 1990s, the states did not address racial and socioeconomic disparities in school resources and failed to narrow the achievement gaps among racial and socioeconomic groups. The distributions...

Free market capitalism, social accountability and equity in early human (child) development.

839 The following manuscript is written by Dr Fraser Mustard, a scientist who for more than 10 years has promoted early child development for all children nationally and internationally. He outlines the complex socioeconomic and political factors our society faces to create more equity in child development, noting that the recently released World Health Organization report on the social determi...