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Teaching to the Test
  1. A Primer on School Accountability- By Jeanne Allen, President, Center for Education Reform.
  2. Accountability: Teachers- How are they accountable now, in what ways, and to whom?
  3. Improving Teacher Accountability and Incentives- New ways to improve teacher quality.
  4. NWREL's Assessment and Evaluation Program- Provides research and development assistance to education, government, community agencies, business and labor.
  5. School-Based Accountability- Discusses the current trends of the issue.
  6. Teacher Accountability in Charter Schools- They have no tenure, work under year-to-year contracts and risk dismissal if they fail to contribute to student achievement as judged by the school. In return, however, they usually have more teaching flexibility, less paperwork and participate more fully in decision making.
  7. TeacherRatings.com- Remember when you were in college and wanted to know which professor was the best for a certain course. The Internet strikes again! Go here and view the ratings of your professors or even rate your professors.
  8. The Political Legacy of School Accountability Systems- From the Education Policy Analysis Archives.

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