Accountability

Follow the Defense Dollars -- If You Can

Joe Newman | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Pentagon, House of Representatives, White House, Deficit, Senate, Congress, Military, Federal Budget Deficit, Plutonium, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Budget, Ndaa, Transparency, Accountability, Politics News
Joe Newman

What happens when Congress does the public's business in secret? The well-connected corporate lobbyists, fundraisers and campaign contributors are the ones who benefit the most because of their insider access.

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Being Indispensable: Willingness + Spirituality = Success

Mark Samuel | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Success, Indispensable-Experts, Indispensable, Service, Emotional Wellness, Spirtuality, Willingness, Accountability, Teamwork, Healthy Living News
Mark Samuel

When you demonstrate willingness to support another person, to support your team or to support your family, you are indispensable. And, many times, it requires stepping beyond our discomfort, resistance and embarrassment.

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Mortgage and Securitization Fraud: Where Is the Task Force?

Dean Baker | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Robo-Signing, Housing Crisis, Financial Crisis, Eric Schneiderman, Accountability, Financial Reform, Business News
Dean Baker

It was almost four years ago that Ben Bernanke, Henry Paul Paulson, and Timothy Geithner ran to Congress warning that the end of the world was near. They said the banks were drowning in bad debt and without a massive bailout they would soon be forced into bankruptcy. Congress quickly coughed up the money in the form of $700 billion in TARP loans. The Fed contributed trillions more. Undoubtedly most of the bad debt was due to stupidity, which does not seem to be in short supply on Wall Street despite the high paychecks. But there was more than just stupidity involved here. There was an epidemic of mortgage fraud that was identified by the FBI as early as 2004. And yet, in its first three years, the Obama administration did almost nothing to investigate criminal practices that contributed to the bubble and the subsequent meltdown.

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A Tale of Two Reform Stories

Carolyn Foote | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Will Richardson, School Reform, School Change, Robert Scott, Diane Laufenberg, Accountability, Education News
Carolyn Foote

How do we get those focused on accountability reform to listen to those of us having conversations about real reform? Therein lies the question. How do we get them to respect what we have to say?

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Stories of Transformation: Blue (School) Skies Ahead

Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Education, Sam Chaltain, No Child Left Behind, Blue Man Group, Elementary School, Education Reform, Accountability, Learning, Video, Education News
Sam Chaltain

What makes the Blue School's framework exciting is its commitment to explicitly link everything it does to the latest research about how the brain works, and about how people learn.

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What I Plan to Tell the For-Profit Colleges and Universities

Michelle Rhee | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Student, Transparency, Schools, President Obama, For-Profit Colleges, Accountability, Education, For-Profit Colleges and Universities, Education News
Michelle Rhee

This is the basic truth I want to tell these schools: it doesn't matter if a school is a for-profit or a non-profit, it needs to be doing a good job educating students. And if it's failing to do that, it should be shut down.

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Highlights From Global Philanthropy Forum

Naomi Mandelstein | Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Transparency, Philanthropy, Jane Wales, Global Philanthropy Forum, Accountability, Strategic Philanthropy, Gpf, Video, Impact News
Naomi Mandelstein

The legacies of Rockefeller and Carnegie-and particularly their ethos of questioning and continual learning-were alive on the final day of the Global ...

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Have You Been Accountable?

Kathy Kaehler | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Personal Social Responsibility, Taking Responsibility, Health Personal Responsibility, Personal Accountability, Personal Growth, Honesty, Gps-Soul, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Accountability, Integrity, Healthy Living News
Kathy Kaehler

Accountability is not just a mindset but a skill set that everyone can learn and should master. Choose accountability and own it. You will always come out on top.

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Being Indispensable: When Keeping Commitments Undermines Your Accountability

Mark Samuel | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Success, Responsibility, Personal Accountability, Social Accountability, Accountability Responsibility, Gps-Soul, Commitments, Success and Motivation, Accountability, Integrity, Goals, Personal Integrity, Healthy Living News
Mark Samuel

Accountability is not just keeping commitments. Accountability is taking action consistent with your desired outcome. It begins with defining the kind of results you want to achieve in your life at home and at work.

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High Stakes Testing: Who's Cheating Whom?

Dennis Van Roekel | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Testing, Atlanta Cheating Scandal, Student Achievement, National Education Association, No Child Left Behind, Teachers Unions, Standardized Testing, High-Stakes Testing, Accountability, Nclb, Education News
Dennis Van Roekel

Let's get back to the core purpose of public education -- ensuring students have access to a great education that prepares them for lifelong learning and success -- and leave the pressure cooker for pot roasts.

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What Is Karma And How Does It Work?

Judith Johnson | Posted 05.26.2012

Read More: Personal Accountability, Responsibility, Soul, Karma, Cause and Effect, God, Accountability, Spirituality, God and Karma, Consciousness, Bad Karma, Mindfulness, Good Karma, Karma Quotes, What Is Karma, Gps-Soul, Healthy Living News
Judith Johnson

If you espouse the belief that this world is somehow a classroom and we, as souls, are here to learn, then you probably appreciate the law of karma as an exquisite design to tailor our lessons to our own personal needs.

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Smith and Lesson

Denise Bowyer | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Greed, Goldman Sachs, Wall Street, Accountability, Greg Smith, Business News
Denise Bowyer

Now is the time to support companies that create a culture that honors the contract between Main Street and Wall Street.

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A Seven Day Plan to Finally Hold Wall Street Accountable

Bruce Judson | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force, Justice Department, Wall Street, National Mortgage Settlement, Robo-Signing, Accountability, Financial Regulation, Wall Street Regulations, Financial Reform, Business News
Bruce Judson

My seven day plan is based on a simple premise: When criminal laws are egregiously violated, the guilty parties should face appropriate punishment.

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Grading the nation: How accountable is your state?

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Corruption, Transparency, State Government, Accountability, Politics News
The Center for Public Integrity

By Caitlin Ginley, iWatch NewsThe tales are sadly familiar to even the most casual observer of state politics.In Georgia, more than 650 government e...

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Are Bankers Capitalists?

Bruce Judson | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Banks, Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase & Co, Bankers, Media, Dodd-Frank, Capitalism, Wall Street Bailout, Responsibility, Bank Bailout, Accountability, Business News
Bruce Judson

Wall Street, which should be the heart of American capitalism, has instead become the heart of a dysfunctional system that is destroying the nation's wealth.

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Obama Administration Called Out for Hypocrisy Over Whistleblower Prosecutions

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Hypocrisy, Whistleblowers, Jay Carney, Accountability, Whistleblower, Espionage Act, Barack Obama, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

The Obama Administration has brandished the Espionage Act in six cases to prosecute leaks of classified information to the media, compared to just three such cases in all previous administrations.

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Four Elements of Human Process, Often Overlooked

Frank A. Weil | Posted 04.07.2012

Read More: Personal Growth, Accountability, Life Lessons, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Frank A. Weil

Long observation and personal experience have taught me several lessons that apparently remain opaque to many people.

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Risk Management in Introducing High-Technologies Into High-Growth Markets

Sunil Chacko | Posted 04.01.2012

Read More: Fire Hazard, Fukushima, Laptop, Independent Safety Standard, Recall, China, Japan, Lithium-Ion Battery, Representative Tomoyuki Taira, Telecom, High-Growth Markets, Korea, Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, Former Prime Minister Dr. Yukio Hatoyama, India, Product Standard, Base-Station, Diesel, Large Capacity, System Efficiency, Energy Efficiency, Energy Management, Monitoring and Control, Mobile Phone, Accountability, Business News
Sunil Chacko

High-growth markets like India face a range of challenges, and thus present vast opportunities, especially for introducing leap-frogging technologies in the area of energy infrastructure.

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Money Must Follow the Student in Brown's School Funding Reform

John Affeldt | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: California Budget, Education, Funding Transparency, Weighted Funding, Achievement Gap, School Funding, Jerry Brown, School Reform, School Funding Disparity, School Finances, Accountability, Education News
John Affeldt

No matter what you think of its merits, you have to admire Governor Jerry Brown's new finance reform proposal for its sheer boldness.

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Want To Be Happier In 2012? Ask Yourself These 6 Questions

Gretchen Rubin | Posted 03.01.2012

Read More: Healthy-New-Year, Mindfulness, New Year Resolutions, Health, New Year's Resolution, Fitness, New Years Resolution, Groups, Happiness New Year's Resolutions, New Years Resolutions, Accountability, Goals, Healthy Living News
Gretchen Rubin

How do you resolve well? This is trickier than it sounds. Here are some tips for making your resolutions as effective as possible.

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Obama's Shameful Dodge on 60 Minutes

Dennis M. Kelleher | Posted 02.11.2012

Read More: Investigations, Crimes, Wall Street, Lawsuits, Banks, Financial Crisis, Bankers, Fundraising, Accountability, President Obama, 60 Minutes, Business News
Dennis M. Kelleher

As he has regularly done in the past with other media outlets, President Obama artfully dodged a straightforward question about lack of criminal prosecutions from Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes last night.

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Elected Lawmakers Accountable for the Laws -- Gasp!

David Schoenbrod | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Congress, Lead in Gasoline, HR 10, Accountability, Delegation, H.R. 10, Agency Regulation, Reins Act, Green News
David Schoenbrod

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this coming Wednesday on a bill that would bring the big bucks right back to Congress. H.R. 10 requires Congress to approve or disapprove major agency regulations.

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Osprey Odyssey: Rep. Jones' Ten-Year Quest to Clear the Names of Two Marine Corps Pilots

Project On Government Oversight | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Boeing, Walter Jones, Marines, Corporate Responsibility, V-22 Osprey, National Security, Accountability, Politics News
Project On Government Oversight

In 2000, an MV-22 Osprey carrying 19 Marines crashed, killing everyone on board. After the Marine Corps announced that the crash was the result of human error, the news all but disappeared. But for Rep. Walter Jones, this wasn't the end of the story.

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Higher Standards, Lower Stakes

David Bloomfield | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Los Angeles Unified School District, New York City Department of Education, Standardized Testing, Accountability, Isaiah Berlin, Education News
David Bloomfield

Teachers need to be freed from short-term accountability and evaluative calculations riddled with error. Principals should be able to make decisions without worrying about their marginal impact on meaningless distinctions between data points.

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Rebuilding Libya

Saeb El Kasm | Posted 01.21.2012

Read More: Amnesty International, Arab Spring, Asset Recovery, Accountability, Obama Libya, Libya Future, Libya Government, Libyan Rebels, Future Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, World News
Saeb El Kasm

Along with a record of overwhelming human rights abuses, Gaddafi left his people with a country rife with corruption, poverty and severe internal divisions.

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