Chester Finn comments on “a fascinating tidbit” from Arne Duncan’s new Race To The Top heat, which is directed at individual school districts rather than states.
“Just to be eligible, districts by the 2014-15 school year will have to promise to implement evaluation systems that take student outcomes into account—not just for teacher and principal performance, but for district superintendents and school boards. That’s a big departure from the state-level Race to the Top competitions, which just looked at educators who actually work in schools, not district-level leaders.” [Emphasis added]
How very refreshing, even exhilarating, the inclusion of superintendents and boards in a results-based accountability system, rather than the customary focus only on schools and their principals and teachers (and sometimes the kids themselves). Will the NSBA and AASA react angrily to this goring of their own members’ oxen? Or will they—as they should—welcome this logical and potentially powerful widening of the theory and practice of accountability?
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Can we expand the scope of the evaluation to include governors, state legislatures and education dilettantes like Bill Gates, Eli Broad and the Hedgies?