Evans's book addressed the history of accountability-based reform against the thesis that corporate interests have played an extensive, insidious rule in directing the nature of educational policy. This review lauds Evans's careful history and documentation, as well as his sharp critique of the dangerous implications of corporate involvement for social studies education. The review questions Evans's open-mindedness in relation to the Common Core State Standards.
Media accountability is a mechanism for transparency and proximity to audiences, enhancing participation, plurality, and diversity; it is based on ethics and is complemented by standards to ensure co-regulatory models. This research employs the typology of instruments proposed in the MediaACES project to establish the perception of journalists and Ecuadorian citizens on the instruments of accountability promoted internally and externally to the media. The analysis is descriptive and relational, using qualitative and quantitative methodology by way of surveys and a virtual discussion forum. The most highly appreciated accountability instruments are the traditional ones external to the media companies in terms of self-regulation, participation and transparency; there is an intention to use those well-known mechanisms through which the media can demonstrate their good practice; there is also evidence of a strong influence of the Participation Law with respect to accountability, which is conceived as a legal duty, determined by what happened with the State Department of Communication during the government of President Rafael Correa. ; La rendición de cuentas de los medios de comunicación constituye en un mecanismo de transparencia y proximidad con las audiencias para avanzar hacia la participación, pluralidad y diversidad, se sustenta en la ética y se complementa con normas para procurar modelos de corregulación. La presente investigación toma la tipología de instrumentos propuesta en el proyecto MediaACES para establecer la percepción de los periodistas y los ciudadanos ecuatorianos sobre los instrumentos de rendición de cuentas impulsados de forma interna y externa a los medios de comunicación social. El análisis es de tipo descriptivo y relacional, se emplea metodología cualitativa y cuantitativa a través de encuestas y un foro de discusión virtual. Los instrumentos de rendición de cuentas más apreciados son los tradicionales externos a las empresas de medios tanto en autorregulación, participación y ...
In: López-Arceiz, F.J.; Bellostas, A.J. (2020). Nonprofit governance and outside corruption: The role of accountability, stakeholder participation, and management systems. Nonprofit Management and Leadership. DOI: 10.1002/NML.21417
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