Educational accreditation qualifications in schools are the substantial part of education synchronous management. Synchronous management in the education unit can be based on the situation or condition of education at a certain period. This article aims to study of policy quality as the foundation of education in Indonesian’s policy quality by using the qualitative approach throught extensive literature, interviewing experts and personal experience. The situation or condition can be seen from the formation of policies and or the election of new leadership. 1) Merdeka Belajar is integrity and the result of policy, and there may be influence from the political elite as a means of fulfilling these situations and conditions. 2) In the management of basic, middle, upper and higher education units it is known as independent learning. 3) Freedom to learn is a reflection of the government in Era 4.0, which requires students to understand freedom as the actualization of human identity as a real human being, and not only freely expressing attitudes, thoughts, feelings and actions, but also free in accepting learning from all aspects of knowledge. 4) The actualization of Merdeka Belajarshould be based on student-centred learning, students as problem solvers, critical thingking, and decision maker. Keywords: Merdeka Belajar; EMQ; education management quality

This research was meant to find out the empirical evidence of the students' accomplishment in reading comprehension of narrative text by utilizing Read Examine Decide Write (REDW) Strategy at the X Grade of SMA Negeri 1 Air Joman. This research was quantitative research. The entire class of students at SMA Negeri 1 Air Joman's grade X made up the population of this study. 30 students from the experimental group (class X IPA 4) and 30 students from the control group served as the research's sample subjects (class X IPA 1). A test with multiple choices was used to obtain the data. (1) The students' achievement in reading comprehension narrative text by utilizing the Read Examine Decide Write (REDW) Strategy got the post-test with an average result after the data was analyzed. (1) The students' accomplishment in reading comprehension narrative text by utilizing the Read Examine Decide Write (REDW) Strategy got the post- test with an average result of 83 after the data was analyzed (2) The post-test showed that the students had successfully read narrative texts with comprehension using the conventional way, with an average score of 67. The value of t-observed was 8,43 and t- table was 2,009. The fact that the value of t-observed was higher than t-table indicates that the Read Examine Decide Write (REDW) Strategy had a significant impact on students' reading comprehension success.