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Brian Stillings – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2024
I grew up on free school meals and now work as a school improvement adviser. In this article, I address discontinuities within my 'support and challenge' role, a role that can be constrained by educational policy enacted within a performative and panoptic culture of fear. Successive governments have concerned themselves with promoting equity…
Descriptors: Cultural Capital, Accountability, Equal Education, Working Class
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Antonia Wulff – International Review of Education, 2024
In 2015, the governments of United Nations Member States agreed on an ambitious agenda for people, planet and prosperity. Support for the unprecedentedly ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda was obtained, however, on the condition that there would not be any accompanying enforcement or accountability…
Descriptors: Government Role, Global Approach, Governance, Sustainable Development
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Jeff Strietzel; Ryan W. Erck – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
As demonstrated through the experiences of executive administrators who lost their jobs, higher education leaders experience pain when they fail. Leaders at any stage of their life and career can process the pain of failure in constructive ways using a recovery formula built on a "half-life of pain" concept. The time it takes for a…
Descriptors: Failure, Employment, Employment Experience, Job Performance
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Aydarova, Elena – Journal of Teacher Education, 2024
Intermediary organizations' (IOs) involvement in teacher education policies has grown in recent years. Apart from advocating for the introduction of alternative routes into the teaching profession, IOs have facilitated the spread of outcomes-based teacher preparation accountability. While previous studies examined the neoliberal market-based logic…
Descriptors: Accountability, Organizations (Groups), Educational Policy, Outcome Based Education
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Steph Ainsworth; Marta da Costa; Caroline Davies; Linda Hammersley-Fletcher – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2024
To afford school middle leaders meaningful opportunities to initiate change, we must provide them with the space and flexibility to engage with agentic and creative responses to policy and practice. Whilst we argue that the tensions identified in Bennett's seminal reviews persist, there may, nonetheless, be opportunities for school middle leaders…
Descriptors: Middle Management, Instructional Leadership, Schools, Foreign Countries
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Angella Namyenya; Patience B. Rwamigisa; Regina Birner – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2024
Purpose: To assess the potential of a paper diary for strengthening accountability in public agricultural extension services. Therefore a paper diary called 'Diary for Agricultural Extension Officers' was developed and tested in Uganda. Design/methodology/approach: A qualitative case study research approach was applied for the development and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Extension Agents, Rural Extension, Extension Education
Mei B. Tran – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This phenomenological study investigated the lived experiences of how primary teachers (K-2) perceive and manage accountability pressures. Accountability pressures are the consequences of high-stakes and standardized testing. This can be overtly represented by inappropriately aligned standards or a fast-paced curriculum design to match tested…
Descriptors: Accountability, Stress Variables, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes
Michael Rothman – ProQuest LLC, 2024
A growing body of research distinguishes between official systems of accountability and "felt" accountability - how people feel responsible to one another across a web of complex, intersecting relationships. Research in the behavioral sciences suggests that while such feelings have a dramatic effect on results, these have been…
Descriptors: High Schools, Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Accountability
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Erin J. Heys – Educational Policy, 2025
For decades, policymakers in the U.S. have leveraged accountability policy as a governing tool to lift school performance and close the achievement gap. Accountability become so widespread that it arguably became a "policy paradigm" with the passage of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act in 2002. Yet after just 13 years of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
Andrew Gillen – Cato Institute, 2025
The federal government is the lender for the current student loan system, but replacing it with a system that harnesses the advantages of a marketplace of private lending would save $212 billion over the next 10 years while also benefiting students by helping them avoid risky educational choices. Due to ongoing court cases and upcoming regulatory…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Federal Aid, College Students, Government Role
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Parian Haghighat; Denisa Gandara; Lulu Kang; Hadis Anahideh – Grantee Submission, 2024
Predictive analytics is widely used in various domains, including education, to inform decision-making and improve outcomes. However, many predictive models are proprietary and inaccessible for evaluation or modification by researchers and practitioners, limiting their accountability and ethical design. Moreover, predictive models are often opaque…
Descriptors: Prediction, Learning Analytics, Multivariate Analysis, Regression (Statistics)
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Ann-Marie Young; Ann MacPhail; Deborah Tannehill – Irish Educational Studies, 2024
There is a shift towards increased accountability and assessment in schools and this is echoed in an Irish context, with assessment a neglected area of study in teacher education programmes. The aim of this study is to explore teacher educators understanding of school-based assessment practices and how they prepare pre-service teachers to assess…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education Programs, Assessment Literacy, Accountability
James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, 2024
Public university governing boards exist to serve the people of their states. It should, therefore, be easy for the public to know what governing bodies are doing. University governance, however, isn't always as transparent as it should be. Often, the public is given little advance notice of when and where meetings will be held and what issues…
Descriptors: College Administration, Governance, Universities, Educational Change
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Rita Elaine Silver; Vinay Kumar; Deborah Chua Fengyi; Michael Tan Lip Thye; Johannis Auri Bin Abdul Aziz – Educational Researcher, 2024
Systematic reviews have witnessed significant growth across many fields, including education. In this article, we outline the background of this growth, highlight the tendency to focus on methodological considerations, and propose a framework to support education researchers in preparing systematic reviews with broad impact. We draw on our…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Research Methodology, Synthesis, Research Utilization
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Gregory Elacqua; Diana Hincapié; Matías Martínez – Education Finance and Policy, 2024
This paper estimates the effects of a school accountability policy on year-to-year teacher mobility in publicly and privately managed low-performing schools in Chile. As school ranking depends on the institution's relative position according to a set of variables and their corresponding thresholds, we use a multivariate regression discontinuity…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public School Teachers, Private Schools, Teachers
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