How Many Strikes? or Wither Accountability? #2 | AMPS

How Many Strikes? or Wither Accountability? #2 | AMPS:

Vote to be heard!

by Thomas J. Mertz

Digna Lewis, 2004. Click through here for more of this collection:

Chis Stamey and Yo la Tengo, “Vote” (click to listen or download)

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VOTE TO BE HEARD!
Thomas J. Mertz

How Many Strikes? or Wither Accountability? #2

by Thomas J. Mertz

The Isotopes – “Take Me Out To The Ball Game” (click to listen or download)

A recent post  –  Who cuts the barber’s hair? or Wither “accountability”?  — centered on some of the failings of the new Wisconsin “Accountability” system designed by team led by  Scott Walker and Tony Evers and adopted in order to gain an NCLB waiver from Arne Duncan and what we as citizens can do to hold them accountable for the bad choices they have made.  With the second iteration of the “Accountability Requirements for Achievement Gap Plan” on the agenda of the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education Student Achievement and Performance Monitoring Committee this Monday (11/5, 5:30 PM, rm 103, Doyle Blg) I thought it would be a good idea to do something similar on the “Accountability” work being done by MMSD.  This time via an extended and at times strained baseball metaphor.
Who’s at bat?
Or who should be held accountable for the accountability design work being done by MMSD? These aren’t easy questions.  Accountability is confusing, maybe not as confusing as the Abbott and Costello routine, but confusing (who should or should not be held accountable for the results of accountability measures is even more