scholarly journals Toward a Framework for Public Accountability in Education Reform

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 503-511
Author(s):  
Ethan Hutt ◽  
Morgan S. Polikoff
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
School Performance ◽  
Information Disclosure ◽  
Court Case ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Accountability In Education ◽  
Democratic Engagement

Public accountability through information disclosure is a pillar of modern education reform efforts. Despite the ubiquity of this approach, we argue that public accountability in education is undertheorized and often predictably unlikely to achieve its intended policy goals. Drawing on examples from an equity-oriented court case in California and the literatures on democratic engagement and parent use of school performance data, we propose a framework for thinking about the design of public accountability systems in education. The framework could provide guidance for policymakers considering new efforts at improving schools through the production and dissemination of educational data.

Design Philanthropy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Evolution of Philanthropic Giving

2021 ◽  
pp. 089590482110494
Author(s):  
Melissa Arnold Lyon ◽  
Shani S. Bretas ◽  
Douglas D. Ready
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Venture Philanthropy ◽  
Policy Borrowing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Instructional Core ◽  
Democratic Engagement

Over the past several decades large philanthropies have adopted aggressive approaches to education reform that scholars have labeled venture philanthropy. These efforts focused on broad changes to schooling and education policy, borrowing techniques from the venture capital world. But many foundations have recently become convinced that market forces and macro-level policymaking alone cannot drive educational improvement, particularly in areas related to classroom teaching and learning. In response, foundations have begun to design their own instructional innovations and identify providers to implement them. This paper interprets these recent efforts as early evidence of a distinct adaptation in the evolving role of philanthropies, which we dub design philanthropy. Although this approach represents an attempt by foundations to simultaneously increase democratic engagement, directly influence the instructional core, and spur educational innovation, it poses new risks for coherence, scalability, and sustainability in education policymaking.

Putting the public back into public accountability

2018 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-32
Author(s):  
Derek Gottlieb ◽  
Jack Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Related Problem ◽  
System State ◽  
Public Accountability ◽  
District Leaders ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
The Public

Although current accountability systems have received a great deal of criticism for being too narrow and too focused on sanctions, relatively little concern has been directed at a related problem: the failure of accountability systems to meaningfully engage the public. Derek Gottlieb and Jack Schneider suggest that a better system would consider the plural and often non-instrumental standards by which communities evaluate their schools. In such a system, state officials, district leaders, teachers, parents, students, and other stakeholders would come together to determine how schools will be evaluated and how to respond to the results of those evaluations.

The Relationship Between Education and Absence Rates for Both Sexes in Canada

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Kunxin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Opportunity Cost ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Family Responsibility ◽  
Occupational Classification ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
The Relationship

Does education have an influence on absence rates of full-time employees? The absence rates include the illness or disability, personal or family responsibility. The purpose of this report is to give an overview of the change in absence rates of full-time employees for both males and females in Canada from 1993 to 2013, and then research why higher education is correlated with less absence rates. To research why higher education is correlated with less absence rates, the authors used the data from CANSIM, the change by average earnings of individuals for both males and females by National Occupational Classification for Statistics. This article also considers the type of job difference, the opportunity cost and the nature of job to research the relationship between the education and absence rates. Improvement of modern education and QoL through the education reform and technological advancement will be helpful to overcome current challenges.

Betsy DeVos’s Education Reform Agenda: What Principals—and Their Publics—Need to Know

2018 ◽  
Vol 102 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leslie S. Kaplan ◽  
William A. Owings
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Choice ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Charter School ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
American Education ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Track Record ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
Education Leaders

Betsy DeVos, the new U.S. Secretary of Education, has a reform agenda to advance school choice. Her track record includes enabling charter school growth in Michigan at taxpayers’ expense with little oversight or accountability. Although an effective advocate, DeVos represents a broader policy movement to privatize American education, much of it happening beneath public awareness. Understanding Ms. DeVos’s policy goals, how the President and Congress are supporting these, and how privatization is occurring in states can help principals and education leaders recognize the stakes, learn what to watch for, and take appropriate actions to preserve and strengthen America’s public schools.

Accountability Mechanisms for State Education Reform: Some Organizational Alternatives

1991 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla Wohlstetter
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
State Accountability ◽  
State Education ◽  
Accountability In Education ◽  
State Governance ◽  
Accountability Mechanism ◽  
Design Characteristics ◽  
High Level

A major challenge facing state policy makers who are demanding a high level of accountability in education is to design an accountability mechanism to track the progress of education reform. This article examines the structure and uses of eight exemplary approaches to accountability to find out what makes each mechanism work. Emerging from the analysis is a common set of design characteristics for state accountability mechanisms that form the beginnings of a new theory about state governance in education.

scholarly journals Responding to the education reform agenda: A study of school superintendents' instructional leadership.

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul V. Bredeson ◽  
Brad W. Kose
Keyword(s):  
Instructional Leadership ◽  
Education Reform ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Curriculum And Instruction ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
School Superintendents ◽  
Reform Initiatives ◽  
Accountability Systems ◽  
Reform Agenda

Education reforms have affected schools and the educators who work in them. Using state-wide survey data from 1993 and 2003, this study examines how the work of school superintendents has been affected over a ten-year period by these reform initiatives, especially increased demands for accountability. The general message from our data is that superintendents are interested in curriculum and instruction and believe these are important tasks, but the daily realities of their work often subvert even the most committed professional. Further, the data indicate that superintendents may be able to use external accountability mechanisms as levers to move the internal accountability systems to support improved teaching and learning.

Backlash weakens US education reform push

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Federal Intervention ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Us ◽  
Key Policy ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Local Budget ◽  
Standardised Testing

Subject Political backlash against testing in US education policy. Significance Standardised testing as part of the US education reform regime is a politically controversial issue, given its salience among parents, ties to funding raised by state and local taxation, and the involvement of well-funded NGOs and political interest groups. The backlash against testing has hindered one of the key policy goals of the Obama administration and other education 'reformists' -- a common metric for comparing student learning in order to drive federal intervention and funding in schools. Impacts Relocation of households to better-performing school districts will exacerbate income inequality and limit social mobility. The federal government may increase investment in internet infrastructure to make up for state and local budget shortfalls. Local shortages of skilled labour will hinder the US manufacturing sector.

On Multimedia Teaching of Hydraulic Transmission

2013 ◽  
Vol 411-414 ◽  
pp. 2786-2789
Author(s):  
Huan Yun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Multimedia Technology ◽  
Modern Education ◽  
Multimedia Teaching ◽  
Important Means

As an important means of modern education reform, multimedia teaching has obvious advantages. It is used widely in teaching and has improved the teaching effect and quality to a certain extent. However, with the development and popularization of multimedia technology, there are many problems to be solved. In this paper, how to combine multimedia teaching with classroom teaching organically in hydraulic transmission teaching to maximize the interest of students in learning and initiative is discussed.

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