edited by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, and Leslie Santee Siskin.
New York :
RoutledgeFalmer,
2003.
1 online resource (vi, 218 pages) :
illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
When it comes to the issue of US education reform, hopeful politicians, liberal and conservative alike, have long touted the promises of 'standards-based accountability'. But do accountability-based reforms actually work? What happens when they encounter the formidable challenge of the comprehensive high school?The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based accountability reforms at the high school level in the United States.
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New accountability.
Educational accountability-- United States, Case studies.
High schools-- Standards-- United States, Case studies.
School improvement programs-- United States, Case studies.