Accountability is irrational if you are just enacting something someone told you to do, and autonomy with no feedback leads to random results. The thing that t

Accountability is irrational if you are just enacting something someone told you to do, and autonomy with no feedback leads to random results. The thing that teachers and schools need is more responsibility, more power to plan and decide how they teach, but still keeping an eye on the results. The mentality of punishing schools with low scores will however not help. Beating the weak rarely makes them stronger. Give more resources and guidance for schools that are lacking behind, and award more autonomy for schools that work properly.