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标题：When Accountability Comes Knocking, How Do Charter Schools Respond?
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作者：Marytza A. Gawlik
期刊名称：JEP : eJournal of Education Policy
电子版ISSN：2158-9232
出版年度：2009
出版社：Northern Arizona University
摘要：Across the nation and particularly in Michigan, accountability has had a great impact on public school policies and school practice, gaining wide support among policymakers in response to concerns about failing public schools. Charter schools are at the heart of the debate around accountability because they are one of the least understood phenomenons in American education (Hill, Lake & Celio, 2002). Do charter schools let educators teach in any way they like regardless of whether children learn, or do they make educators strictly accountable for performance (Wells et al., 1999)? The root of the disagreement around charter schools is accountability. Some charter advocates think that those who run charter schools are responsible only to maintain professional standards and a clientele of satisfied parents. Others think that those who run charter schools are responsible to show government and the general public that their children are learning what they need to become responsible, productive citizens (Hill et al., 2002).