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Title The new accountability : high schools and high stakes testing / edited by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, and Leslie Santee Siskin
Published New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) : illustrations
Contents Conditions and characteristics of assessment and accountability : the case of four states / Diana Rhoten [and others] -- Internal alignment and external pressure : high school responses in four state contexts / Elizabeth DeBray, Gail Parson, Salvador Avila -- Outside the core : accountability in tested and untested subjects / Leslie Santee Siskin -- Leadership and the demands of standards-based accountability / Richard Lemons, Thomas F. Luschei, Leslie Santee Siskin -- Listening to talk from and about students on accountability / Melissa Chabrán -- The impact of accountability policies in Texas high schools / Martin Carnoy, Susanna Loeb, Tiffany L. Smith -- When an irresistible force meets an immovable object : core lessons about high schools and accountability / Leslie Santee Siskin -- Accountability and capacity / Richard Elmore
Summary When it comes to the issue of US education reform, hopeful politicians, liberal and conservative alike, have long touted the promises of 'standards-based accountability'. But do accountability-based reforms actually work? What happens when they encounter the formidable challenge of the comprehensive high school?The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based accountability reforms at the high school level in the United States
Analysis Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Educational accountability -- United States -- Case studies
High schools -- Standards -- United States -- Case studies
School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies
EDUCATION -- Finance.
Educational accountability
High schools -- Standards
School improvement programs
Fallstudiensammlung
High school
Schulleistungsmessung
Política educacional -- Estados unidos.
Ensino médio -- Estados unidos.
Responsabilidade (educação) -- Estados unidos.
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Carnoy, Martin
Elmore, Richard F
Siskin, Leslie Santee
LC no. 2003001504
ISBN 0203465636
9780203465639
9781135938581
113593858X
9780203475270
0203475275
9786610050048
661005004X
9781135938536
1135938539
9781135938574
1135938571
9781280050046
1280050047