Accountability Swiss Cheese
This Barbara Hollingsworth column about VA’s Fairfax County is occasioning a lot of buzz but the various ways accountability systems get gamed. But it’s a much broader problem. A few years ago ES put out a primer on how No Child Left Behind’s accountability rules work (pdf). Now it’s been updated and re-released to reflect policy changes(pdf). Useful if you want to understand how this all actually works…and why for instance when a state or school tells you that a school missed the mark for “adequate yearly progress” by just one student they’re not telling you nearly the whole truth…
