Leadership and Accountability

Physician Leadership "Group Responsibility" as Key to Accountability in Medicine.

Responsibility and Accountability in Educational Leadership Keeping Democracy and Social Justice Central to Reform

U programs in educational leadership have been criticized for failing to prepare effective leaders for our nation’s schools. Many of these critics are demanding signifi cant changes to leadership preparation programs, however, amidst these strident calls for change there has been very little dialogue about or consensus on what we as members of a democratic society believe capable educational le...

Leadership, action, learning and accountability to deliver quality care for women, newborns and children

Leadership, action, learning and accountability to deliver quality care for women, newborns and children Abosede Adeniran, Andrew Likaka, Anneka Knutsson, Anthony Costello, Bernadette Daelmans, Blerta Maliqi, Daniel Burssa, Joseph Freer, Ian Askew, Lisa Bowen, Lily Kak, Lori McDougall, Nabila Zaka, Özge Tunçalp, Petra Tenhoope-Bender, Shamsuzzoha Babar Syed, Stefan Swartling Peterson, Thiago Lu...

Developing and Validating the Next Generation of Leadership Evaluation Tools: Formative Assessment for High-Stakes Accountability

Our proposal aims to develop and validate the next generation of on-line, formative assessment tools necessary for middle and high schools to establish the conditions for improving student learning. In today’s high-stakes accountability world, school and district leaders need guidance to design the kinds of school environments that improve student learning. Elmore (2002) explained that instruct...

Introduction to School and District Leadership in an Era of Accountability : Chapter 1

Our fourth book in the International Research on School Leadership series focuses on school leadership in an era of highstakes accountability. Fueled by sweeping federal education accountability reforms, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and Race to the Top (RttT) in the United States and Australia’s Performance Measurement and Reporting Task Force, school systems around the world are being f...