(Repeats with text unchanged) * At least 25 states mandate kindergarten assessment * Critics worry testing 5-year-olds i...

Texas, the state that launched school accountability as an experiment, has applied to untangle itself from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind m...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. An op-ed in The New York Times on August 20th, "Testing What We Think We Know," argued tha...

Maine Gov. Paul LePage thinks school districts should be responsible for their graduates' remedial courses in college. So in a plan to improve educ...

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. A new spirit of reform pervades Quitman Street Community School in Newark, N.J. In recent ...

The correct response to the unintended consequences of accountability isn't to end accountability, but to make it work better. That could have positive consequences for many years to come.

After a presidential primary campaign so far largely devoid of debate on education, the topic could be a decisive one in 2012, according to a new surv...

Missing from the conversation about education reform has been a larger discussion of district and principal accountability.

As the tenth anniversary of No Child Left Behind approaches, the obvious question about bubble-in mania is being asked by Mark Schneider in "Has the Accountability Movement Run Its Course?"

This article comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. What if schools didn't have to work alone to improve student achievem...

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that 11 states have formally submitted requests for waivers from key provisions of No Child Left Be...

What is desperately needed is a new accountability strategy -- not one, like NCLB, that continues to demand that schools dramatically raise student achievement and then abandons them to flail on their own.

After slashing education funding and reducing teachers' collective bargaining rights earlier this year, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) announced his ...

If you factor in where students start, Bruce Randolph is doing an exceptional job. And, while Tough is right that students deserve better, Bruce Randolph appears to be part of the solution, not the problem.

In addition to deteriorating high academic standards, an obsession with accountability can have a negative impact on school culture and environment.

As Michelle Rhee takes her dog and pony show to Florida, another bastion of data-DRIVEN accountability, we should take note of the latest study of the misuse of data in the DC schools.

The rise in educational thought leaders challenging the status quo is a pivotal step toward bringing low-income schools the teachers they need.

WARNING: Severe Reality Curve! This cautionary tale may be unsuitable for the Obama Administration's Department of Education and state legislatures en...