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Today’s school accountability systems are the primary tool education leaders use to understand the health of the education system and how well it provides all children an opportunity to learn the knowledge and skills needed to succeed in the 21st century. They accomplish this by measuring and transparently reporting students’ yearly outcomes in academics and other areas. When schools do not meet benchmarks, states require that they take action to improve. However, this system of accountability fails to include meaningful metrics that take into account the context in which students learn, their communities, and the resources made available to them. Most existing school accountability systems do not give leaders especially those at the local level a recipe to follow that leads to better outcomes for students. That is, accountability systems are too often designed without critical informa
Seventh-grader Garin Huxman cleans out his locker on May 19, 2020, at North Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Students at the District 11 school were allowed to return to school this week to clean out their lockers and collect their belongings left at the school after it was closed March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The students were escorted into the school by a staff member, no more than 10 at a time, and the building crew disinfected the lockers immediately afterward.
Christian Murdock, The Gazette file
Seventh-grader Garin Huxman cleans out his locker on May 19, 2020, at North Middle School in Colorado Springs, Colo. Students at the District 11 school were allowed to return to school this week to clean out their lockers and collect their belongings left at the school after it was closed March 13 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The students were escorted into the school by a staff member, no more than 10 at a time, and the building crew disinfected the lockers immediately afterward.
Christian Murdock, The Gazette file
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