"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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"'These careful, thorough studies of what actually happens when the standards-and-assessment juggernaut hits the complex American comprehensive high school deserve careful pondering by the policy community. They compellingly suggest that a second, honest look at contemporary reform strategy is needed for the schools serving America's teenagers.' Theodore R. Sizer, Professor Emeritus, Brown University, USA"
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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. Leslie Siskin is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University.
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This review is from: The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing (Paperback)
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Education Review Reviewed by Sharon L. Nichols Arizona State University, Tempe In the book The new accountability: High schools and high-stakes testing, editors Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, and Leslie Santee Siskin present a series of essays that describe the impact of contemporary education reform efforts on high school operations and outcomes. Chapter authors describe qualitative and quantitative data drawn from fifteen high schools in four states that explore how schools' internal accountability operations meet the demands of externally imposed accountability requirements.
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This book is about the encounter between an established but troubled institution-the American high school-and a deep-seated impulse in our society to make things better. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
orthogonal schools, state accountability policies, internal accountability structures, internal accountability system, math chair, twelfth grade enrollment, grade survival rate, external accountability systems, preexisting story, high stakes for students, poor urban schools, grade retention rate, new accountability systems, state accountability systems, target schools, exit test, accountability policy, student attainment, accountability reforms, standardization approach, internal alignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ricki Lee, African Americans, Glen Lake, Education Week, Byrd High School, Board of Regents, English Regents, Salvador Avila, American Educational Research Association, Leslie Santee Siskin, Miramar High, Standard Error, Year Figure, Kentucky Department of Education, Major City, Ross Perot, West City, Falmer Press, Martin Carnoy, Prichard Committee, Richard Elmore, River City, Texas Education Agency, Three-Year Rolling Averages New!
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orthogonal schools, state accountability policies, internal accountability structures, internal accountability system, math chair, twelfth grade enrollment, grade survival rate, external accountability systems, preexisting story, high stakes for students, poor urban schools, grade retention rate, new accountability systems, state accountability systems, target schools, exit test, accountability policy, student attainment, accountability reforms, standardization approach, internal alignment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Ricki Lee, African Americans, Glen Lake, Education Week, Byrd High School, Board of Regents, English Regents, Salvador Avila, American Educational Research Association, Leslie Santee Siskin, Miramar High, Standard Error, Year Figure, Kentucky Department of Education, Major City, Ross Perot, West City, Falmer Press, Martin Carnoy, Prichard Committee, Richard Elmore, River City, Texas Education Agency, Three-Year Rolling Averages New!
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- School Accountability (HOOVER INST PRESS PUBLICATION) by Williamson M. Evers on page 45, and page 122
- Handbook of Research on Educational Administration by Joseph Murphy on page 192
- Reinventing Public Education by Paul T. Hill on page 50
- How Many? (Slide and See Books) by Rh Value Publishing on page 195
- All Else Equal: Are Public and Private Schools Different? by Luis Benveniste on page 209
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- Making Our Schools More Effective: What Matters and What Works by Martin Patchen on page 224, and page 225
- Education Policy for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Standards-Based Reform by Lawrence B. Joseph on page 165, and page 203
- California's K-12 Public Schools: How are They Doing? by Stephen J. Carroll in Back Matter
- School Inspection & Self-Evaluation: Working with the New Relationship by John Macbeath in Back Matter
- Unfinished Business: Closing the Racial Achievement Gap in Our Schools (Jossey-Bass Education) by Pedro A. Noguera in Back Matter
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