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A Student-Centered Approach to Accountability
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No Child Left Behind puts the school at the center of focus in accountability. 

A student-centered approach acknowledges the roles and responsibilities of all parties in increasing student achievement, and provides a circle of support for students.

Introduction

Roles & Responsibilities of the INNER CIRCLE

March 28, 2007 - NCLB Reauthorization: Effective Strategies for Engaging Parents and Communities in Schools - Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.

Roles & Responsibilities of the OUTER CIRCLE

The key role that parents and the public play is one of accountability, holding not only the public schools accountable for performance but also themselves accountable for the civic roles they must play in ensuring a quality education for children. This is not just a matter of test scores, but of building community and civic ownership.

Winter 2006 - Getting Ruby a Quality Public Education: Forty-Two Years of Building the Demand for Quality Public Schools through Parental and Public Involvement, Public Education Network.


Who's For Public Education?
Elected officials at every level have a responsibility to ensure that all children have quality public schools. In turn, individuals have a powerful role when it comes to electing candidates and passing measures that support quality public education.

Give Kids Good Schools


 

The framework and much of the information provided on these pages is unabashedly swiped from Goff, John, A More Comprehensive Accountability Model, Council for Basic Education, November 16, 2000, in an effort to make the model more accessible to parents.