Analysis: As Some Dallas Schools See Gains Through Program Pairing Top Educator Talent With Data-Based Instruction, Could Other Districts Benefit From Similar Strategy?
The Power of a Principal: How Dallas’s ACE Program Pairs Effective Teachers With ‘High Growth’ School Leaders to Help Students Progress
A School Data Breakthrough in Dallas: How an Innovative School Model Is Proving That Data Can Help Teachers Shape Individualized Instruction — and Achieve Impressive Student Growth
Accelerating Excellence in Texas Schools: How the ‘ACE’ Initiative Is Changing the Way Dallas Evaluates Its Teachers and Empowers Students with Data-Driven Instruction
Education Accountability: 5 State Leaders on Why It Matters for the Students They Serve — The ‘A’ Word
Steve Canavero: There’s an Aspect of Accountability Missing at the District Level — The ‘A’ Word
Pedro Rivera: When Not Used the Right Way, Accountability Is Just Medicine That Is Masking the Root of the Problem — The ‘A’ Word
Bill Haslam: Obama and Bush Both Took ‘Huge Steps’ of Political Courage on Educational Accountability, and Paid Huge Dividends — The ‘A’ Word
John White: ‘Exaggerated Accountability Response in Combination With Exaggerated Chaos Will Produce Distrust’ — The ‘A’ Word
Jamie Woodson: Education Success Isn’t the Responsibility of Any One Sector. We Are All Accountable — The ‘A’ Word
Wicks: Americans’ Commitment to Democracy Is Strong — and Civics Education Is the People’s Choice for Making Our Democracy Even Stronger
Wicks: To Prepare Kids for an Unpredictable Future, Schools Need Two Things — a Strong Principal and Strong Accountability
Lessons From Public Schools Succeeding in Helping Immigrant Students Become Americans
Analysis: 5 Ways to Keep School Accountability Simple Under the Every Student Succeeds Act
Turning the Page on No Child Left Behind: Why America’s Next Chapter Needs Understandable Data That Lead to Better Results
The ‘A’ Word: Tom Boasberg — ‘Accountability Is Not About Punishment’
The ‘A’ Word: Diane Tavenner — ‘What I Really Want to Know Are Yes-or-No Answers to 3 Things’
The ‘A’ Word: Daniel King — ‘Everything’s at Stake If We Don’t Improve Social Mobility’
The ‘A’ Word: Wicks & McKenzie — The 4 Things That Accountability Should Do Well
The ‘A’ Word: Dustin Marshall — ‘It’s Shocking, Appalling, That There Are Arguments Made in Education That Data Is Bad’
The ‘A’ Word: Gerard Robinson — ‘We Have Got to Get Rid of the Term “Accountability.” It’s Simply Too Toxic.’
The ‘A’ Word: Kevin Huffman — ‘Parents Don’t Dislike Testing as Much as People Think They Do. They Hate Test Prep’
The ‘A’ Word: Felicia Cumings Smith — ‘You Have to Lean Into the Messiness and Have Honest Conversations’
The ‘A’ Word: Hanna Skandera — ‘I Am Not Anti-Union Until They Don’t Put Kids First’
The ‘A’ Word: John King — ‘In Too Many Places, Underperformance Is Not Only Tolerated, but Assumed’
The ‘A’ Word: Accountability — The Dirty Word of Today’s Education Reform
The ‘A’ Word: Lizzette Reynolds — ‘Accountability Shouldn’t Be Considered a Way of Limiting a Child’s Progress’
The ‘A’ Word: Margaret Spellings — ‘You Can’t Solve a Problem That You Don’t Diagnose Correctly, Fairly, Accurately, and Comparably’