School leaders and accountability: Performance or performativity?

Educational Performance and Charter School Authorizers: The Accountability Bind

Charter schools involve a trading of autonomy for accountability. This accountability comes through two forces—markets through the choices of parents and students, and accountability to government through the writing of contracts that must be renewed for schools to continue to operate. Charter schools are supposed to be more accountable for educational performance than traditional public school...

Improving School Accountability Systems

In this paper, we analyze the statistical properties of school test scores and explore the implications for the design of school accountability systems. Using data from North Carolina, we decompose the variance of school-level test scores into a persistent component, sampling variation and other non-persistent shocks. We find that sampling variation and other nonpersistent components of school ...

Achieving anesthesia provider accountability will boost OR performance.

School and Business It Leaders in Action

School-based health centers: accessibility and accountability.

PURPOSE To examine the current experience of school-based health centers (SBHCs) in meeting the needs of children and adolescents, changes over time in services provided and program sponsorship, and program adaptations to the changing medical marketplace. METHODS Information for the 1998-1999 Census of School-Based Health Centers was collected through a questionnaire mailed to health centers ...