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institutional accountability or changing institutional behaviour; and hence, what are the standards and implications of federal vs … idea that high quality instruction, academic freedom, accountability and transparency should go hand in hand. Agreement …
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School accountability—the process of evaluating school performance on the basis of student performance measures …—is increasingly prevalent around the world. In the United States, accountability has become a centerpiece of both Democratic and … Republican federal administrations' education policies. This chapter reviews the theory of school-based accountability, describes …
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comply with the 2002 No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, students within the attendance zone of Title 1 schools that fail to …
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While electoral accountability should be stronger when responsibilities are clearly assigned to one political office … accountability. This paper investigates the impact of centralization on local electoral accountability in the context of California … Act of 2001 appears to have sharpened local electoral accountability. …
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While electoral accountability should be stronger when responsibilities are clearly assigned to one political office … accountability. This paper investigates the impact of centralization on local electoral accountability in the context of California … Behind Act of 2001 appears to have sharpened local electoral accountability. …
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Curriculum tracking, the separation of secondary school students into academic and vocational tracks, correlates positively with pretracking achievement in both British and international data. I argue that this correlation is caused by the incentives emanating from the track placement decision....
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Curriculum tracking, the separation of secondary school students into academic and vocational tracks, correlates positively with pretracking achievement in both British and international data. I argue that this correlation is caused by the incentives emanating from the track placement decision....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979271
Curriculum tracking creates incentives in the years before its start, and we should therefore expect test scores to be higher during those years. I find robust evidence for incentive effects of tracking in the UK based on the UK comprehensive school reform. Results from the Swedish comprehensive...
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Curriculum tracking creates incentives before its start, and we should expect scores in tested subjects to be higher at that point. I find evidence from both UK and international data for sizable incentive effects. Incentive effects are important from a methodological perspective because they...
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NCLB mandated the institution of Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) objectives, and schools are assigned an AYP pass …
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