This paper is meant to help designers of educational accountability systems think more critically about the questions they want to ask schools and the kinds of analyses that best answer these questions. There are two essential questions in school evaluation: how good is this school, and is it getting better? Each of these questions then can be…

In the past, different governance structures and assessment standards separated community college and K-12 systems and impaired the effectiveness of the education systems. This document examines emerging local, state, and federal policies and practices that are opening the way to successful collaborations between educational sectors. (Contains 13…