The forum on teacher support I attended on Nov. 5 raised some interesting ideas about how to improve teaching quality. In this post I’m going to attempt to make a little bit of sense of them. A ...
As another school year wound down in June 2023, the Oregon Legislature tasked the state Department of Education with overhauling what’s known as its accountability framework. For nearly a year, the ...
Federal agencies are still reluctant to honor personnel security clearances granted by other agencies or organizations, six years after the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (IRTPA) put ...
Trying to sustain an intimate relationship with a narcissist often becomes an exhausting, one-sided experience that quietly erodes your sense of stability over time. No matter how much care, patience, ...
The weekend of the tornado in 2011, I bought a home on Pearl Street, circa 1900. This was my office until September 2021 when criminal homeless people made it unsafe to do business there. The city is ...
In NBC’s The Good Place, the entire system of the afterlife is thrown into chaos because of one central flaw: The way data about people’s lives is collected and used is completely opaque. Characters ...
With the latest round of feedback from the U.S. Department of Education to states that have submitted their ESSA education plans during the second round, new approaches for accountability are ...
State policymakers should use the flexibility in the Every Student Succeeds Act to “transform accountability,” and move to more sophisticated models that emphasize competency-based learning and ...
Dialogic accountability represents an evolving paradigm in which organisations transcend traditional, one‐way reporting to engage in continuous, reciprocal dialogue with stakeholders on social and ...