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Presents a model of accountability and a procedure for its implementation to protect rights of groups within a school. Components of the model; Conditions that need to be satisfied to implement a social system model of accountability; Suggestions for a 13-point plan to arrive at mutual accountability; Application of the plan in defining mutual accountability in a teacher education program.

Examines the ideology of accountability in education in the United States. Argument for accountability; Equal educational opportunity; Possibility of an accountable socio-educational system.

Discusses attributes of accountability as applied to education and the teaching of English in two-year colleges. Prerequisites of accountability; Distinction between the need for accountability in two-year colleges and at other levels of an educational enterprise; Problems related to the English Departments of two-year colleges.