What accountability looks like in NY
After all these years of NCLB, it’s you’ll understand if I’ve come to equate “accountability” with “punitive authoritarian soul-sucking.”
But it doesn’t have to be that way, and oddly, New York City (which has done plenty of punitive authoritarian soul sucking) has some surprising cutting-edge practices that show what accountability could look like.
I found this out looking up the New York Harbor School, a public high school that uses hands-on learning at the New York Harbor as a unifying instructional theme. The school was recently profiled in the New York Times. Kids get to go on sailing excursions, build boats, and do lots of water testing and other environmental science.
Well, that sounds pretty good, I thought, but are the kids getting enough of a general education to be prepared for college? What’s it like to go there? Is the instruction focused and content-rich?
It turns out the district Office of Accountability has quite a lot of information for me on the web. Most interesting to me was the Quality Review Report.
In this report, live human reviewers go to each school, and actually observe and talk to people there. That’s exciting to me, because it’s always seemed to me that all the test score data and survey data is a muddy way of expressing what you can tell within 5 minutes of walking into a school. But these people clearly spend more than 5 minutes, and they have a format for covering various aspects of instruction and school management.
If I were thinking about sending my child to the Harbor School, I think this report would be extremely helpful. Not only that, it’s possible that it was also helpful to the school staff.
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