The New Accountability High Schools and High-Stakes Testing [Hardcover]

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 NewAccountabilityexplores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.Martin Carnoyis Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Dollars and Sense, The American Prospect, Education Week, and Tikkun. Richard Elmoreis Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard University. LeslieSiskinis currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University.