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THE FUTURE OF SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY

Try to think of an education policy that 1) has been shown, in dozens of studies across multiple decades, to positively affect student outcomes, 2) has the overwhelming support of parents and voters, 3) reinforces many other policies and facilitates quality research, and 4) has been used widely at the district, state, and national levels for decades or more. You might be thinking that such a policy doesn’t exist, and if it did, we’d surely want to keep it around. But the truth is precisely the opposite. Such a policy does exist—it’s called school accountability—yet the powers that be seem increasingly ready to throw it out and leave education to the whims of the all-but-unregulated free market. —Morgan S. Polikoff, “Is Test-Based Accountability Dead?”1