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Search - Grading Education: Getting Accountability Right

Grading Education Getting Accountability Right
Author: Richard Rothstein, Rebecca Jacobsen, Tamara Wilder

''With NCLB down for the count, Grading Education puts forth the most comprehensive analysis and set of reform proposals to date. It should be required reading for everyone on Capitol Hill and in state capitols as well.'' — -- Jacob Ludes, III, Executive Director/CEO, New England Association of Schools and Colleges — ''If you want to understand ho... more »w policymakers, often with the best of intentions, are narrowing children's education and bollixing up school accountability -- and if you want to learn about what could be done about that -- Rothstein's well-written and timely book is a must-read.''

-- Bella Rosenberg, former Assistant to the President of the American Federation of Teachers

''A superb and provocative analysis of where we've gone wrong on accountability and what we need to do to fix it. The book is a must-read for those seeking answers for reducing our nation's tragic achievement disparities.''

-- Susan B. Neuman, University of Michigan, former Assistant Secretary of Elementary and Secondary Education (2001 2003)

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 develop the means to measure and ensure schools' success in achieving them. Grading Education describes a new kind of accountability plan for public education, one that relies on higher-quality testing, focuses on professional evaluation, and builds on capacities we already possess. This important resource:

* Describes the design of an alternative accountability system that would not corrupt education as does NCLB and its state testing systems.

* Explains the original design of NAEP in the 1960s, and shows why it should be revived.

* Defines the broad goals of education, beyond math and reading test scores, and reports on surveys to confirm public and governmental support for such goals.

* Relates these broad goals of education to the desire for accountability in education.

ISBN-13: 9780807749395
ISBN-10: 0807749397
Publication Date: 11/1/2008
Pages: 280
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Publisher: Teachers College Press & Economic Policy Inst.
Book Type: Paperback
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