Like many other educational reformers, advocates of account ability possess little understanding of the system they wish to re form. Consequently, they fail to see that the reforms they propose would very likely have effects that reach far beyond the limited objectives they wish to attain. (Jean Hills is Professor of Educa tion in the University of British Columbia Faculty of Education. He is currently on leave, serving as an elementary school principal in Riverton, Wyoming)
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