Can We Measure What Matters Most?: Why Educational Accountability Metrics Lower Student Learning and Demoralize Teachers

by J M Beach and J.M. Beach

Book Overview

This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools don't work? What if educational accountability tools don't actually measure what they're supposed to? What if accountability data isn't valid,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1475862288
• ISBN13: 9781475862287
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"