The New Accountability
High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
Published on 17. September 2003
Book
Hardback
224 pages
978-0-415-94704-6 (ISBN)
Description
"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 NewAccountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.
Reviews / Votes
"'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"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-94704-6 (9780415947046)
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Martin Carnoy | Richard Elmore | Leslie Siskin
The New Accountability
High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
E-Book
12/2003
1st Edition
Routledge
€72.49
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Martin Carnoy | Richard Elmore | Leslie Siskin
The New Accountability
High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
E-Book
12/2003
1st Edition
Routledge
€72.49
Available for download
Martin Carnoy | Richard Elmore | Leslie Siskin
The New Accountability
High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
Book
09/2003
Routledge
€78.40
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Persons
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.
Content
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 Chabran 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