ABSTRACT
"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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|41 pages
The Conditions and Characteristics of Assessment and Accountability
The Case of Four States
chapter 2|31 pages
Internal Alignment and External Pressure
High School Responses in Four State Contexts
chapter 7|20 pages
When an Irresistible Force Meets an Immovable Object
Core Lessons about High Schools and Accountability
