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Download full textLashway, Larry – 2001
Policymakers and educators are taking a new look at incentives as they work to improve accountability systems. This ERIC Digest examines the role of rewards and sanctions in school reform and identifies key issues in implementing incentive systems. The new accountability is based on five components: carefully designed standards, assessments…
Descriptors: Accountability, Elementary Secondary Education, Incentives, Merit Pay
Lashway, Larry – 2001
Educational standards and accountability are at the center of an ongoing national debate on school reform that began almost 20 years ago. This debate has raised fundamental questions about school effectiveness and the strategies educators should use to boost student learning. This book provides a closer look at these questions and seeks to answer…
Descriptors: Accountability, Disclosure, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
