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Accountability Mechanisms in Big City School Systems. ERIC/CUE Digest No. 71.
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Darling-Hammond, Linda; Ascher, Carol – 1991
The urgent need to improve big city schools has been a powerful incentive to adopt accountability systems. The following types of accountability systems may exist alongside each other: (1) political; (2) legal; (3) bureaucratic; (4) professional; and (5) market. Bureaucratic accountability is a "top down" system that holds teachers…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Indicators, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria