This article explores the contributions of professionalism to school accountability in the context of a new phenomenon in American education: the professional development school. (IAH)

Policy research appropriate for decisions on the university research system is explained. The system's operating environment over the next decade is described and six policy issues are enumerated: finance, access to new facilities and equipment, competition and specialization, concentration of federal resources, faculty research productivity, and…

An occupational health survey conducted by union members in collaboration with an epidemiologist found that stress is a major occupational hazard. Conflict over dissemination of the results raised issues about who controls the research process and its outcomes, to whom are researchers accountable, and whether the scientific method can be used to…

The effectiveness of value-added programs can be enhanced by employing appropriate methods of faculty judgments to support content-related and instruction-related evidence for validity by adapting standard-setting techniques to judge gains observed and by using appropriate caution and research designs when making causal inferences. (Author/MLW)

The deregulation of education is examined as a potential solution to the need for educational reform in the United States. One potential solution is conditional deregulation, a radical and unique reform measure that offers schools less regulation in return for more public accountability. (SI)

The major changes mandated by Australia for its higher education system and the apparent reasons for the changes are outlined, and the strategies adopted for change are critiqued. Changes relate primarily to administrative organization, governance, resource allocation, and accountability. (MSE)

The London Education Authority (LEA) stresses the importance of developing the interface between quantitative models of assessment and qualitative assessments, describing an interdisciplinary approach to the development of models of educational accountability, recommends an alternative method, data envelopment analysis, and compares it to the…

A broad description and critique of assessment activities in colleges and universities is presented. The ideals of assessment are discussed along with organizational realities that temper and restrain them. Suggested strategies for practicing assessment that reduces perils and enhances contributions are provided. (MLW)

Defines "quality" in terms of community college mission and discusses approaches to institutional assessment. Reports on a study of two-year college publications on quality, indicating that key variables in the colleges' definitions of quality included accessibility, faculty, curriculum, student support services, transferability of credit, and job…

Examines the transition from hierarchical to collegial teacher-administrator relationships in a central New York school district. The district's new supervision model requires teachers to assume responsibility for their individual professional growth and administrators to help teachers become self-directed and self-evaluating. Discusses…

Presents recommendations of a national panel of teachers, parents, principals, and community partners for policy changes in the following areas: family-school-community collaboration, partnership development, leadership development, standards and assessments, school accountability, school-to-work transitions, and welfare-to-work transitions. (SK)

Provides an example of how to evaluate an elementary school counseling program. The example described here is not all inclusive--such an evaluation would have been unmanageable. Evaluations become manageable when they are viewed as a continuous process and when specific services are isolated for scrutiny at different times. (RJM)

Explores both the characteristics of, and relations between, two broad purposes of literacy assessment. Examines the tensions resulting from these characteristics and relations, and looks at new ways to think about these tensions, so that the educational community can build assessment systems that further the literacy education and achievement of…

Describes a study of the culture of collaboration in the accounting industry. Topics include previous research on collaboration in organic organizational contexts, information gathering collaboration, knowledge giving and getting, accountability sharing, trust sharing, transboundary communication, information technology, and implications for…

Describes a program in California that funded school restructuring efforts. Highlights include creating a learning community; the role of principals; authentic accountability; quality indicators, including examples of hard logic and fuzzy logic; The Protocol, a total quality management (TQM) feedback tool; and how collaboration and TQM helped…