Accountability for College and Career Readiness Developing a New Paradigm

By Linda Darling-Hammond, Gene Wilhoit & Linda Pittenger
November 16, 2015

This report—due to preparation for new standards under the Common Core and states moving toward creating more aligned systems of assessment and accountability—recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and appropriate resources, so that all students regardless of background are prepared for both college and career when they graduate from high school. Drawing on practices already established in other states and on the views of policymakers and school experts, this report proposes principles for effective accountability systems and imagines what a new accountability system could look like in an imagined “51st state” in the United States. This report’s objective is to get the conversation started.

Source Organization: Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education

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