1st Edition

The New Accountability High Schools and High-Stakes Testing

Edited By Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, Leslie Siskin Copyright 2004
    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    224 Pages
    by Routledge

    "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.

    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 Chabrán, 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,

    Biography

    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. Leslie Siskin is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University.