The Myth of Accountability

What Don't We Know?

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Education & Teaching, Educational Theory, Leadership, Teaching, Teaching Methods
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Author: Eric S. Glover ISBN: 9781610487016
Publisher: R&L Education Publication: October 23, 2012
Imprint: R&L Education Language: English
Author: Eric S. Glover
ISBN: 9781610487016
Publisher: R&L Education
Publication: October 23, 2012
Imprint: R&L Education
Language: English

School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations’ increased dependence on this foundation for school reform and change has failed both students and teachers. The fact remains that people who create education policy do not understand what is best for individual students and classrooms. Their devised curriculum standards are, in actuality, curriculum limits that prevent students from creating successful personal and academic futures because they thwart any natural learning exploration. As such, these market-inspired, externally-motivated standards limit higher-level learning. Instead of treating students and teachers as subjects to be actively engaged in learning, accountability systems treat students and teachers like objects to be manipulated by training.

By presenting the lead-teach-learn triad, Eric Glover’s The Myth of Accountability discusses the pitfalls of accountability systems in schools, while also investigating how schools have somehow managed to improve in spite of their negative influences. In order to evolve school reform, Glover introduces the concept of developmental empowerment in order to frame how school participants must view themselves as perpetually changing learners and systematically update school reform. Through open inquiry, Glover encourages educators to challenge the standardization and accountability practices that limit children’s futures.

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School improvement that is reliant on accountability is a myth based upon falsehoods and wrong assumptions. Public educations’ increased dependence on this foundation for school reform and change has failed both students and teachers. The fact remains that people who create education policy do not understand what is best for individual students and classrooms. Their devised curriculum standards are, in actuality, curriculum limits that prevent students from creating successful personal and academic futures because they thwart any natural learning exploration. As such, these market-inspired, externally-motivated standards limit higher-level learning. Instead of treating students and teachers as subjects to be actively engaged in learning, accountability systems treat students and teachers like objects to be manipulated by training.

By presenting the lead-teach-learn triad, Eric Glover’s The Myth of Accountability discusses the pitfalls of accountability systems in schools, while also investigating how schools have somehow managed to improve in spite of their negative influences. In order to evolve school reform, Glover introduces the concept of developmental empowerment in order to frame how school participants must view themselves as perpetually changing learners and systematically update school reform. Through open inquiry, Glover encourages educators to challenge the standardization and accountability practices that limit children’s futures.

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