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Article: TRAVELING THE BUMPY ROAD TO SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY.(Editorial)(Column)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 10, 1999
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Byline: Linda Seebach
As members of Colorado's state Board of Education take on new responsibilities for overseeing school accreditation, they should put the report Quality Counts '99 on their must-read list.
It's the third in an annual series published by the newspaper Education Week, and the theme this year is ``accountability.'' The summary of what the 50 states are doing as they ride madly off in all directions is rich with cautionary tales.
Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker of Arkansas, for example, led the campaign to establish an examination students had to pass to graduate from high school. The first time it was given, in 1996, 80 percent of ...