Locally Tailored Accountability: Building on Your State System in the Era of NCLB

By: Eric W. Crane, Stanley N. Rabinowitz, Joy Zimmerman

This Knowledge Brief provides a rationale for developing a local education accountability system that complements the state's federally prescribed effort under No Child Left Behind. The brief identifies the key decisions that must be made in creating a local system and identifies resources that can inform and help guide the process.