Recorded live at the 2026 ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, this session featured John Danner, CEO at Flourish Schools; Renato Feder, Secretary of Education São Paulo at Secretaria da Educação do Estado de SP; Susana Martinez, Governor at Governor Susana Martinez; Victoria Pylvainen, Senior Vice President at LearningMate; Don Soifer, CEO at National Microschooling Center; and Michael Horn, Author of Job Moves.

In a Multiple Choice world, accountability had to become smarter—and more urgent. As learning expanded across public, private, charter, microschool, homeschool, hybrid, and AI-enabled models, this session examined a critical question: not whether accountability matters, but how to design it to actually improve outcomes for kids. Speakers addressed the reality that too many students are still leaving school without mastery in reading, math, and core subjects.