"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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Publisher

Routledge

Year

2003

ISBN

9781135938574

Edition

Topic

Education

Subtopic

Secondary Education

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Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Conditions and Characteristics of Assessment and Accountability: The Case of Four States
Chapter 2 Internal Alignment and External Pressure: High School Responses in Four State Contexts
Chapter 3 Outside the Core: Accountability in Tested and Untested Subjects
Chapter 4 Leadership and the Demands of Standards-Based Accountability
Chapter 5 Listening to Talk from and about Students on Accountability
Chapter 6 The Impact of Accountability Policies in Texas High Schools
Chapter 7 When an Irresistable Force Meets an Immovable Object: Core Lessons about High Schools and Accountability
Chapter 8 Accountability and Capacity
Index