A recent article by Sandy Kress, Stephanie Zechmann, and J. Matthew Schmitten published in the Harvard Journal on Legislation provides a well-researched look at NCLB and other national experiments in consequential accountability. “The “consequential accountability” model of education reform involves creating explicit standards for students, testing against those standards, and assigning consequences to schools for Read more about When Performance Matters: The Past, the Present, and Future of Consequential Accountability in Public Education[…]