Democracia e accountability: violência policial e práticas de controle sobre a Polícia Militar do Estado de São Paulo

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

TV Legislativa: TV Câmara de Ribeirão Preto e accountability

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Bad Medicine: Homework or Headache? Responsibility and Accountability for Middle Level Mathematics Students

In this action research study of my 5th grade mathematics class, I investigated the issue of homework and its relationship with students and parents. I made some interesting observations and discovered that the majority of students and parents felt that the math homework that was given was fairly easy, yet issues of incomplete assignments and failing homework quizzes were notorious for some individuals. Comments were also made to make homework even easier and have shortened assignments despite the already indicated ease of the work. As a result of this research, I plan to look more closely at the history and development of homework, as well as the psychological implications and “hereditary” issues involving homework, which I believe are passed from one generation of learners to the next. My intent is to continue to study this phenomenon in future school years, trying to develop methods of instilling successful, intrinsic motivational skills to aid students in their homework endeavors. Finally, I will take a close inventory of my own beliefs and understandings toward homework: What is the purpose of having students do work away from the classroom, and how can homework serve as a proactive service for all who are involved?

The Politics of Accountability and Teacher Preparation: A Case Study from Pennsylvania

In an effort to understand some of the ways that accountability-based reform efforts have influenced teacher education, this article details the politics of accountability in Pennsylvania that motivated sweeping changes in the policies governing teacher preparation in 2006. This case study provides a poignant example of the kind of complex accountability systems now being constructed across the United States in an effort to change teacher preparation. By analyzing primary documents including the legal statutes governing teacher preparation in Pennsylvania, correspondence from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, related newsletters, memos, reports, transcripts of meetings, and testimony before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the complex nature of the conflicts underlying the development and implementation of teacher education reform is brought into focus. The study's findings suggest that a deep and uncritical acceptance of accountability-based teacher education reform on the part of educational policy makers is likely to do more harm than good. The article concludes by outlining a framework for developing more intelligent measures of accountability that might preserve professional autonomy and judgment.

The Politics of Accountability and Teacher Preparation

In an effort to understand some of the ways that accountability-based reform efforts have influenced teacher education, this article details the politics of accountability in Pennsylvania that motivated sweeping changes in the policies governing teacher preparation in 2006. This case study provides a poignant example of the kind of complex accountability systems now being constructed across the United States in an effort to change teacher preparation. By analyzing primary documents including the legal statutes governing teacher preparation in Pennsylvania, correspondence from the Pennsylvania Department of Education, related newsletters, memos, reports, transcripts of meetings, and testimony before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the complex nature of the conflicts underlying the development and implementation of teacher education reform is brought into focus. The study's findings suggest that a deep and uncritical acceptance of accountability-based teacher education reform on the part of educational policy makers is likely to do more harm than good. The article concludes by outlining a framework for developing more intelligent measures of accountability that might preserve professional autonomy and judgment.

Knuckling Under? School Superintendents and Accountability-Based Educational Reform

The goal of this article is to explore the various ways that superintendents have responded to accountability-based educational reform efforts such as No Child Left Behind, the factors that have influenced their responses, and the implications of these responses for current and future educational leaders. With respect to the first issue, empirical data from a number of nationai studies (T. E. Glass & Franceschini, 2007; Johnson, Arumi, & Ott, 2006; Johnstone, Dilkkers, & Luedeke, 2009; Stecher et al., 2008) make clear that while there have been a variety of responses from superintendents to accountability-based reform efforts, superintendents have mostly played a supportive role. Examining the situation more fully suggests that the driving factors behind superintendent support for accountability-based educational reform are complex and are often deeply embedded within the "DNA" of the role of superintendent. This article examines the structure of this DNA by looking at the factors that influence superintendents' views of accountability-based educational reform from historical, political, and institutional perspectives. This muitifaceted approach provides new insights into the complex relationship that exists between the structure of the role of superintendent and the agency of the individuals who inhabit that role.

Between Equity and Empathy: Social Professions and the New Accountability

This article explores the practical and ethical implications of the ‘new accountability’ (working to procedures, targets and standards) based on interviews with British social professionals. Although similar tendencies are present in other European countries, in Britain the rule-bound nature of social work is more intense. Practitioners who regard the ‘new accountability’ positively justify their views with reference to utilitarian and rights-based arguments relating to the promotion of good outcomes, the achievement of equity, respecting the consumer rights of service users and the rights of other stakeholders to information and value for money. Those practitioners who view the new accountability requirements negatively seem to speak in a different ‘moral voice’, which can be linked to more personal and situated approaches to ethics, stressing the importance of particular relationships in context, trust, sensitivity and a sense of ‘vocation’. Both ‘voices’ are part of professional practice, but the new accountability stresses the former at the expense of the latter. For social work to play the critical role identified by Walter Lorenz, maintaining a creative balance between equity and empathy will be important.

The Deprofessionalisation Thesis, Accountability and Professional Character

It is said that the deprofessionalisation of social work and other welfare occupations reduces workers' professional discretion and autonomy, and thus their capacity to act in the best interests of their client. Without necessarily regarding the deprofessionalisation thesis as conclusive, this paper will ask how the state's control of the role and task of social workers impacts on their role-implicated obligations as professionals. If workers are reduced (as claimed) to the status of mere functionaries in systems they neither approve of nor control, does this exonerate them from bad outcomes or service failures? How should we view the dramatic increase in formal regulation now seen in the UK - as professionalisation or deprofessionalisation? The paper will argue that whatever the drift of policy, workers remain in some measure personally accountable. Service failures imply faults of practical reason that are partly attributable to the moral and intellectual character of professionals as individuals. It is therefore up to professionals, and their organisations, to attend to the improvement of professional character.

Accountability em educação : Políticas educativas e regulação da qualidade

O trabalho tem por objetivo discutir questoes atinentes à accountability em educaçao, considerando a emergência de políticas de responsabilizaçao e prestaçao de contas como mecanismo de regulaçao da qualidade no setor. Com base na revisao de literatura e por meio do recurso da análise de conteúdo, aborda aspectos conceituais do tema, realçando o caráter ambíguo e plural do termo no momento em que novas agendas políticas nacionais adotam a accountability como recurso de gestao pública. Segue discutindo sua recente entrada no campo da educaçao, nomeadamente na América Latina, onde ganha força o debate da responsabilizaçao. Por fim, destaca confluências e especificidades da accountability na educaçao básica brasileira, para o que revisita publicaçoes nacionais que enfocam o tema na sua especificidade, e questiona opçoes políticas de sistemas formais de accountability que se esgotam na recolha e publicitaçao de resultados educacionais, baseados em testes estandardizados. De forma conclusiva, alude que a visao de regulaçao da qualidade, predominante em vários países, confina a accountability a formatos que atribuem preponderantemente à escola a responsabilizaçao pelos resultados oficiais que produz

Accountability em educação : Políticas educativas e regulação da qualidade

O trabalho tem por objetivo discutir questoes atinentes à accountability em educaçao, considerando a emergência de políticas de responsabilizaçao e prestaçao de contas como mecanismo de regulaçao da qualidade no setor. Com base na revisao de literatura e por meio do recurso da análise de conteúdo, aborda aspectos conceituais do tema, realçando o caráter ambíguo e plural do termo no momento em que novas agendas políticas nacionais adotam a accountability como recurso de gestao pública. Segue discutindo sua recente entrada no campo da educaçao, nomeadamente na América Latina, onde ganha força o debate da responsabilizaçao. Por fim, destaca confluências e especificidades da accountability na educaçao básica brasileira, para o que revisita publicaçoes nacionais que enfocam o tema na sua especificidade, e questiona opçoes políticas de sistemas formais de accountability que se esgotam na recolha e publicitaçao de resultados educacionais, baseados em testes estandardizados. De forma conclusiva, alude que a visao de regulaçao da qualidade, predominante em vários países, confina a accountability a formatos que atribuem preponderantemente à escola a responsabilizaçao pelos resultados oficiais que produz