AccountabilityWorks (AW) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting educators, parents, and policymakers interested in quality assessments and other accountability systems.

AW supports well-designed and effectively executed systems that help those involved with elementary and secondary education to ensure that students achieve academic success. We emphasize careful development because poorly designed or implemented systems--however well-intentioned--can lead to results that are self-defeating, wasteful or unfair.

Most important, we believe that the most effective type of accountability is that which is self-imposed; goals, measures and interventions that are adopted directly by educators, parents and students often result in the greatest benefit.