How to fix educational accountability
It is worth noting that in both the medical and legal fields states play a role in which they regulate, via compliance with a set of requirements, who can enter the profession and who cannot, but they do not attempt to regulate the quality of practice. In some instances, they may address complaints against individuals and in some cases against institutions, but the effectiveness of professional day-to-day practice is outside their purview. It is also worth noting that in almost every case the agencies assigned to oversee the actions that determine who can and cannot practice are led by seasoned practitioners. Entry into the profession of education is similarly governed from within state education agencies that grant teacher and administrator certificates to those who have complied with the requirements. But that is where the similarity ends. Given the importance of education in a child's life, both the federal government and state agencies have felt it necessary to undertake proces...