| Author(s): | Johnson, J., Rochkind, J., and DuPont, S. |
| Title: | Don't count us out: How an overreliance on accountability could undermine the public's confidence in schools, business, government and more |
| Source: | http://www.publicagenda.org/files/pdf/dont-coun... |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Organization: | Public Agenda |
| Short Description: | This report describes a potentially corrosive gap between the way leaders in government, business, education, health care, and other sectors define accountability and the way typical Americans think about it. |
| Annotation: | This report describes a potentially corrosive gap between the way leaders in government, business, education, health care, and other sectors define accountability and the way typical Americans think about it. Leaders and the public generally agree that the country’s major institutions—its schools, businesses, and government, for example— can and should improve. Both groups see rebuilding public confidence as a vital goal. But leaders and the public typically come at the issue of issue of accountability from vastly different starting points. Their assumptions, definitions, and expectations are often worlds apart. The
upshot is that the strategies many leaders rely on to persuade the American public that they are being “accountable” are almost certain to disappoint. |
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