The New Accountability (eBook, ePUB)

High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
Redaktion: Carnoy, Martin; Siskin, Leslie; Elmore, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135938574
• Artikelnr.: 40099978

Autorenporträt

Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Dollars and Sense, The American Prospect, Education Week, and Tikkun. Richard Elmore is Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard University. LeslieSiskin is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Conditions and Characteristics of Assessment and Accountability: The Case of Four States
Diana Rhoten
Martin Carnoy
Melissa Chabran
and Richard Elmore 3. Internal Alignment and External Pressure: High School Responses in Four State Contexts
Elizabeth DeBray
Gail Parson
and Salvador Avila 4. Outside the Core: Accountability in Tested and Untested Subjects
Leslie Santee Siskin 5. Leadership and the Demands of Standards-Based Accountability
Richard Lemons
Tom Luschei
and Leslie Santee Siskin 6. Listening to Talk From and About Students on Accountability
Melissa Chabrán 7. The Impact of Accountability Policies in Texas' High Schools
Martin Carnoy
Susanna Loeb
and Tiffany Smith 8. The Challenge of High Schools
Leslie Santee Siskin 9. Psychiatrists and Light Bulbs
Richard Elmore