Fuel for reform: the importance of trust in changing schools. (In The News).
"At a recent conference on accountability The traceability of actions performed on a system to a specific system entity (user, process, device). For example, the use of unique user identification and authentication supports accountability; the use of shared user IDs and passwords destroys accountability. and assessment at
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, dozens of education
policymakers and scholars gathered to consider the implications of the
No Child Left Behind Act The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-110), commonly known as NCLB (IPA: /ˈnɪkəlbiː/), is a United States federal law that was passed in the House of Representatives on May 23, 2001 . During hours of discussion about the value of
standardized test A standardized test is a test administered and scored in a standard manner. The tests are designed in such a way that the "questions, conditions for administering, scoring procedures, and interpretations are consistent" [1] data, `coercive' accountability, and stakes high
and low, a pesky question kept surfacing about the wildcard See wild cards and wildcard mask. in all of
this: the people who actually go to school every day to work and
learn."--Harvard Education Letter, July/August 2002.
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