John L. Rury

An Age of Accountability

How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education. Even after very clear disappointments no other policy framework has emerged to challenge its hegemony, and many Americans continue to believe that accountability remains a vital necessity, even if educators and policy scholars disagree.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9781978832282
• ISBN-10: 1978832281
• Artikelnr.: 67611710

Autorenporträt

John L. Rury is a professor emeritus of education at the University of Kansas. He is the author of many publications, including Creating the Suburban School Advantage: Race, Localism and Inequality in an American Metropolis.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction: School Accountability and Standardized
Testing in American History 
1 The Origins of Test-Based Accountability: Assessing
Minimum Competencies in the 1970s
2 Standardized Testing and Race: Continuity and Change,
1975–2000
3 A Time of Transition: Testing Takes a Back Seat in
the 1980s
4 New Standards and Tests: Accountability on the
National Stage
5 A Millennium Dawns: The Origins and Impact
of NCLB
Conclusion: A Troubled History and Prospects
for Change
Appendix: Oral History Sources
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index