id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
epaa-192	Lyons, Robert	The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on Kentucky's Public School Accountability System:Does Poverty Impact School Effectiveness?	2004	32	.pdf	application/pdf	11348	483	47	The ability of standardized measures to accurately capture student achievement, as well as the manner in which these measures have been applied to a system of rewards and sanctions, have become the focal point of the debate concerning school accountability (Hanushek & Raymond, 2001; Ladd, 2001; Pearson, Vyas, Sensale, & Kim, 2001). Purpose and Components of Accountability Models Since public opinion regarding the quality of individual schools has been shaped by the specific measures referenced by accountability systems (e.g., test scores, student attendance rates, student dropout rates) and reported to the public through school reports cards or other media, the measures used to characterize school performance and the structure of the accountability systems in general have been key issues in the debate over school accountability (Hanushek & Raymond, 2001; Ladd, 2001; Pearson, et al., 2001).	cache/epaa-192.pdf	txt/epaa-192.txt