A deeper look at school performance - Star Tribune analysis of 2006 MCA scores.

Accountability - Minnesota Department of Education.

Atlas of Minnesota: Education - Center for Rural Policy and Development.

It's the Law: Minnesota - Recent state policies/activities in Minnesota, Education Commission of the States.

Minnesota Accountability Data - SchoolMatters.com.

Minnesota Consolidated State Application Accountability Workbook - U.S. Department of Education.

Minnesota public schools data  - MCA scores 2003-2006 and other tools from the Pioneer Press.

Standards, Assessment, and Accountability - Data on state education reform activities, National Center for Education Statistics.

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June 2008 - Charter Schools Evaluation Report - Accountability and oversight for charter schools and their sponsors should be strengthened, Minnesota Office of the Legislative Auditor.

September 2002 - Blueprint: Building the Future of Public Education in Minnesota, Education Minnesota.

National

February 2007 - Concerning Accountability of Humanitarian Action - Asks whether initiatives designed to improve accountability really are the solution to the problems humanitarianism faces today. It does not aim to dismiss accountability; rather, it seeks to show that accountability is a procedural phenomenon, not a moral one. Imposing it in the absence of a more specific understanding of what it means is dangerous, and subject to instrumentalisation and manipulation, Overseas Development Institute (see review, Accountability - is it a good idea?, May 2007).

July 2005 - Examining the Meaning of Accountability: Reframing the Construct - A study into the meaning of “accountability”—from the perspectives of parents and other community members, Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning (McREL).

"Members of the Spanish-speaking focus groups provided an interesting way to frame these two facets of accountability when they distinguished between education accountability and school accountability. For them, school accountability is centered on shared responsibility; for a school to be successful, all stakeholders need to work together. On the other hand, education accountability is about teachers and schools being responsible for the education of their children and being responsive to student and parent needs."

Spring/Summer 2004 - Public education: An American imperative - History tells us that America succeeded not in spite of public education, but because of it, National School Boards Association Center for Public Education.

July 2003 - Overview and Inventory of State Education Reforms: 1990 to 2000, National Center for Education Statistics.