Grading Education Getting Accountability Right

Name: Grading Education Getting Accountability Right
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ISBN: 9780807749395

ISBN-10: 0807749397

ISBN-13: 9780807749395

Edition: 2009

Authors: Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, Tamara Wilder, Marilou Hyson

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Yes, we should hold public schools accountable for effectively spending the vast funds with which they have been entrusted. But accountability policies like No Child Left Behind, based exclusively on math and reading test scores, have narrowed the curriculum, misidentified both failing and successful schools, and established irresponsible expectations for what schools can accomplish. Instead of just grading progress in one or two narrow subjects, we should hold schools accountable for the broad outcomes we expect from public education -basic knowledge and skills, critical thinking, an appreciation of the arts, physical and emotional health, and preparation for skilled employment -and then…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 12/14/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.03" long x 0.77" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Rothstein is a research associate at the Economic Policy Institute.




The outcome goals of American public education



Weighting the goals of public education



Goal distortion



Perverse accountability



Accountability by the numbers



Early NAEP



School boards, accreditation, and Her Majesty's Inspectors



An accountability system for schools and other institutions of youth development



Schools as scapegoats



A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education



Goals survey methodology



Teacher accounts of goal distortion


Endnotes


Bibliography


Index


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