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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Help Has Arrived!: Banishing NCLB’s Narrow Paradigm | Cloaking Inequity

Help Has Arrived!: Banishing NCLB’s Narrow Paradigm | Cloaking Inequity:


Help Has Arrived!: Banishing NCLB’s Narrow Paradigm

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How can we banish NCLB’s top-down and narrow paradigm? Here is how you do it…
Accountability should foster collective community goals.
In education, there are many measures of student success from school entry through graduation and beyond.
Here are Community-Based Accountability Executive Summary and Key Features. Please forward and circulate widely. These are living documents and will be revised as feedback and comments occur.
I am giddy, are you ready for a new idea for accountability that emphasizes local control?
I have included the Key Features of Community-Based Accountability below.
Birth of Accountability
  • Texas was one of the earlier states to develop statewide testing systems during the 1980s. The state adopted