public school administrators, teachers, and staff are accountable if the product of the public schools is unacceptable (Theobald & Mills, 1995). Once again, however, the contentious issues are (1) standards ù how public schools will be held accountable, and (2) processes ù how public schools will function in a cost-effective and accountable manner (Benn, 1999).
The concept of value has several distinct meanings. To many, a value seems to be synonymous with attitude; an attitude being a predisposition to act in a certain way. An attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through the process of experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence upon an individual's response to all objects and situations with which he or she is related. Perhaps more basic than an attitude, or even underlying attitude, a value is a type of belief, centrally located within one's total belief system, about how one ought or ought not to behave, or about some end-s
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