An Age of Accountability : : How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education / / John L. Rury.
An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education from 1970 to 2020. For more than half a century, the quest to hold schools and educators accountable for academic achievement has relied almost exclusively on standardized assessment...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2023] 2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in the History of Education
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (246 p.) :; 0 illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- About the Author