The new accountability : high schools and high-stakes testing / edited by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, and Leslie Santee Siskin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carnoy, Martin.

Elmore, Richard F.

Siskin, Leslie Santee

Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational accountability--United States--Case studies.

Educational accountability.

High schools--Standards--United States--Case studies.

High schools.

School improvement programs--United States--Case studies.

School improvement programs.

High schools--Standards.

United States.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

vi, 218 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.

Summary:

Examines the impact of high stakes testing in four different statesShows how emphasis on math and English has affected subjects not traditionally tested, such as music and art

Contents:

Conditions and characteristics of assessment and accountability : the case of four states / Diana Rhoten ... [et al.]

Internal alignment and external pressure : high school responses in four state contexts / Elizabeth DeBray, Gail Parson, and 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, and 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, and 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Ellis D. Williams, College 1865, Endowment Fund.

ISBN:

0415947049

0415947057

OCLC:

51553473