For many educators, accountability has become a dirty word... As educators we have two choices. We can rail against the system, hoping that standards and testing are a passing fad, or we can lead the way in a fundamental reformulation of education accountability.

The traditional failures in educational accountability are not borne of a lack of knowledge or will. We know what to do, yet decades of research and reform have failed to connect leadership intentions to classroom reality."

- Doug Reeves, Accountability for Learning: How Teachers and School Leaders can Take Charge