Recent blogs and papers related to creating a new way of thinking about accountability:

• Moving Beyond Single Rating Systems: Alternative State Accountability Frameworks to Promote Continuous Improvement (iNACOL)
  

• Accountability for College and Career Readiness:Developing a New Paradigm by Darling-Hammond, Wilhoit and Pittenger
  
• Tackling Accountability as Continuous Improvement in Policy: Next Generation Accountability Models (iNACOL)
• Accountability Models Designed for Continuous Improvement in Student-Centered Learning Systems(iNACOL)
• Understanding How U.S. K-12 Accountability and Assessments are Too Often Conflated: What Policymakers Need to Know to Advance Student-Centered Learning Policies (iNACOL)

Recommended Reading

from Scott Marion, Center for Assessment (provided 2/14)

• Data-Driven Improvement and Accountability, Hargreaves and Braun (2013)
• Choosing the Wrong Drivers for Whole System Reform, Fullan (2011) 
• Redesigning Accountability Systems of Education, Furman and Elmore (2004)
• Validity Issues for Accountability Systems, Baker and Linn (2002)
• Focusing State Educational Accountability Systems:  Four Methods of Judging School Quality and Progress, Carlson
• Standards for Educational Accountability Systems, CRESST, (2002)

Designing Next Generation Accountability Systems

• Center for Assessment's Next Generation Assessment and Accountability Systems Conference Materials including Next Generation Accountability Systems presentation, Baker (2009)
• The Principles for State Leadership on Next-Generation Accountability Systems, Council of Chief State School Officers 
• Including Performance Assessments in Accountability Systems: A Review of Scale-up Efforts, Center for Collaborative Education, 2010