Accountability Of Education

Schools are responsible for seeking the best way to satisfy a child’s education. For example, in the article Accountability in US Education: Applying Lessons from K-12 Experience to Higher Education, the author points out, “However, the provision of education requires the system insiders to make an array of decisions and budgetary choices, about hiring, discipline and tenure, curriculum, pedagogy, pay and benefits, grading and exams, and class sizes” (Deming 37). If these responsibilities are taken seriously by the principals at every school, surely better results will come about. Effective teachers are essential to improving education, and their obligations are pointed out, in the article Teacher Job Satisfaction and Student Achievement… “More

Furthermore, the help from the community must be accessible and community members must be able to co-operate for the common good that will be reflected in every child in the future as a result of a quality education. The government, as part of the community, is responsible for finding a convenient way to ensure that every child in the country, no matter where they come from and what their social status is, can have the same opportunity to succeed in the future through education. Regarding the government, Pedro Noguera, a professor at New York University, indicates that the system that the government had implanted in education needs to be renovated by giving a new curriculum to the teachers at school that goes beyond measuring learning and accountability, a curriculum that motivates the teacher and students to move forward (Noguera 1). Noguera also highlights, “Rather than taking steps to ensure that students in failing schools are taught in enriched learning environments and exposed to creative and effective teachers and stimulating curricula, the narrow pursuit of higher test, schools has reduced the focus of education to test preparation in too many schools” (Noguera 1). The key to a flourishing education cannot be based on passing a standardized test. Noguera also points out that the government should keep what he calls “common standards” between every public school including the building maintenance and teachers (Noguera 2). Noguera also points out, “State governments should be required to ensure that no students attend schools staffed by unqualified teachers or learn in buildings that are falling apart. State governments should be required to establish minimal operating standards for public schools, and they should be held accountable for the quality of education provided to all children” (Noguera 2). As Noguera explains, if the government really