Accountability: Do high-stakes systems raise student achievement? - Access related research titles from the ECS Research Studies Database. Links embedded in titles will take you to each study's major findings and recommendations....

Best in Class: Raising Student Achievement: Case Study MS Word - Pennsylvania was one of the first states to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, the learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of the Tyrone area schools in Pennsylvania. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

Building Trust and Improving Performance: Case Study MS Word - Michigan was the first state to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of Colon community schools in Michigan. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

District Leaders Use Data To Garner State Resources: Case Study MS Word - Pennsylvania was one of the first states to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, the learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of the Reading school district in Pennsylvania. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

Raising Expectations by Benchmarking Better Performers: Case Study MS Word - Michigan was the first state to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of Midland schools in Michigan. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

Strengthening Education in Rural Communities: Case Study MS Word - Pennsylvania was one of the first states to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, the learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of the Pennsylvania Legislature. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

Using Data for Educational, Employment and Community Decisions: Case Study MS Word - Michigan was the first state to adopt the Standard & Poor’s School Evaluation Services (SES). This service provides over 100 measures of school and district performance covering such areas as student results, spending, return on resources, learning environment, revenue and demographics. This case study follows the progress of Clio area schools in Michigan. (Education Commission of the States, July 2004)...

Don't Count Us Out: How An Overreliance on Accountability Could Undermine the Public's Confidence in Schools, Business, Government, and More - This report describes a potentially corrosive gap between the way leaders in government, business, education, health care and other sectors define accountability and the way typical Americans think about it. (Kettering Foundation and Public Agenda, August 2011)...

Getting Value Out of Value-Added: Report of a Workshop - Value-added methods refer to efforts to estimate the relative contributions of specific teachers, schools or programs to student test performance. The National Research Council and the National Academy of Education held a workshop, summarized in this volume, to help identify areas of emerging consensus and areas of disagreement regarding appropriate uses of value-added methods, in an effort to provide research-based guidance to policy makers who are facing decisions about whether to proceed in this direction. (National Academy of Sciences, January 2010)...

Mining the Opportunities in "Differentiated Accountability": Lessons From the No Child Left Behind Pilots in Four States - This report is based on CEP's review of differentiated accountability documents and interviews with a selection of state, district and school officials in Georgia, Maryland, New York and Ohio. The report notes the key findings which emerged, the common themes across the states, and describes the detail the differentiated accountability systems in the four states. (Center on Education Policy, August 2009)...