Competency Needs of Special Educators of Crippled and Other Health-Impaired Children
(USOE), accountability has become a major force in all types and levels of educational programming. As defined by Barro (1970), accountability is the basic tenent that &dquo;school systems and schools, or more precisely, the professional educators who run them, should be held responsible for educational outcomes for what children learn&dquo; (p. 196). According to Alkin (1972), educators are responsible for not only