The buzz word in education today is accountability.
In her new book, Vivian Gussin Paley decries this rapid disappearance of.
Even for very young children, unstructured creative time in the classroom is waning as teachers and administrators are under growing pressures to measure school readiness through rote learning and increased homework.
But the federal mandate of "no child left behind" has come to mean curriculums driven by preparation for standardized tests and quantifiable learning results.
The buzz word in education today is accountability