The New Accountability: High Schools and High-Stakes Testing

by Martin Carnoy, Richard F. Elmore, Leslie Siskin

"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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415947049
• ISBN13: 9780415947046
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.5"