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Navigating Curricular Accountability in a Diverse System

As you may have read in this issue, accountability can be tricky in schools. Embarrassingly, I know a thing or two about avoiding accountability. As a beginning teacher, I thought I knew so much. I claimed to be doing what was in the “best interest” of my students by not forcing them to read from that culturally insensitive basal reader. Who is this Sco…