The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing - Softcover

 
9780415947053: The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing
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ISBN 10: 0415947057 ISBN 13: 9780415947053
Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

"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.

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About the Author

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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2003
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415947057
ISBN 13 
9780415947053
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224
Editor
Carnoy Martin, Elmore Richard, Siskin Leslie

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