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.

Goff concludes:

The call to significantly improve the academic achievement of all children who attend our public schools is an ambitious goal. It is one that, until a few decades ago, was not a part of most discussions of schooling in this country.

Then the reality of the competition from abroad, educationally and economically, that was facing us as a nation made school reform not only a reality, but a necessity. Improving our schools and the academic achievement of all students has become a national priority and with it, has come the call for accountability.

The results we want to achieve for our children and schools will only be realized by putting systems into place that hold all individuals and institutions accountable for their roles and responsibilities in this most important school improvement effort.

In the proposed model [the author has] called for a more comprehensive system of accountability for educational improvement. The present accountability system, which focuses primarily on the student, the school the student attends and, in some cases, the teachers and principal of that individual building, is too narrow and limited. That system overlooks a number other players who have significant impact on the day-to-day operations of schools and those who work in them.

Each of us must be aware that we share in the responsibility for accountability, and the success or failure we have in executing our roles, both individually and collectively, will in large measure determine the success or failure of our schools.

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