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Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider …
Organizational Improvement and Accountability
Describes accountability models in the manufacturing, job training, legal, and health care sectors; summarizes their effectiveness; and draws specific lessons for educators. …
Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Implementation
To improve the U.S. education system through more-effective classroom teaching, in school year 2009 2010, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced its Intensive Partnerships …
Incorporating Student Performance Measures into Teacher Evaluation Systems
Pain and Gain
The Implementing Standards-Based Accountability (ISBA) study was designed to examine the strategies that states, districts, and schools are using to implement standards-based …
Reauthorizing No Child Left Behind: Facts and Recommendations
Studies suggest that the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001's goal of 100 percent of U.S. students proficient in reading and mathematics by 2014 will not be met. The authors …
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing …
Toward a Culture of Consequences
Performance-based accountability systems (PBASs) link incentives to measured performance to improve services to the public. Research suggests that PBASs influence provider …
Measuring Hard-to-Measure Student Competencies
Interpersonal and intrapersonal competencies, such as communication and resilience, are important predictors of success and civic engagement after high school. This report provides …
Improving Teaching Effectiveness
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, along with researchers from RAND and the American Institutes for Research, speculated that there were lessons to be learned from variation …
Teaching Practices and Student Achievement
In our increasingly technological society, improving student performance in mathematics and science has become a challenge. This study investigates the relationship between student …
Competency-Based Education in Three Pilot Programs
Competency-based education meets students where they are academically, provides students with opportunities for choice, and awards credit for evidence of learning, not for the time …