Rethinking Accountability: Session 2—Meaningful Learning
The Meaningful Learning panel at the Rethinking Accountability conference in Washington, D.C. asks the question of why accountability matters and to what end.
Policymakers; school and district leaders; business, teacher, parent, and civil rights organizations; education foundations; and members of the media gathered June 11 for a conference on Rethinking Accountability: Putting Students and Learning First. The conference discussed how schools, districts, and communities across the nation are charting new paths to student- and learning-focused accountability, and how new approaches are making a difference in improving education.
The conference was hosted by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education and sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the Sandler Family Foundation.
Barbara Chow, the Education Program director with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, hosts a panel with U.S. Rep. Mark Takano; Paul Leather, deputy commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education; Gemma Venuti, student at the New York Performance Standards Consortium; and S. Dallas Dance, superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools.