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ERIC Number: EJ160491
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1977
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Responsibility, Culpability, and the Cult of Accountability in Education
Cox, C. Benjamin
Phi Delta Kappan, 58, 10, 761-766, Jun 77
Deprecates accountability because it is unfair to hold teachers accountable for outcomes they cannot control, the application of the concept tends to escalate teachers' concern for easily measured outcomes, and continuation of the trend is likely to narrow and harden the school's responses to the society. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Accountability, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Characteristics, Teacher Behavior, Teacher Responsibility
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