The new accountability
Subtitle: high schools and high-stakes testing
By: edited by Martin Carnoy, Richard Elmore, and Leslie Santee Siskin
Contributors: Carnoy, Martin; Elmore, Richard F; Siskin, Leslie Santee
Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Educational accountability -- United States -- Case studies; High schools -- Standards -- United States -- Case studies; School improvement programs -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Conditions and characteristics of assessment and accountability : the case of four states / Diana Rhoten ... [et al.]; title: Internal alignment and external pressure : high school responses in four state contexts / Elizabeth DeBray, Gail Parson, and Salvador Avila; title: Outside the core : accountability in tested and untested subjects / Leslie Santee Siskin; title: Leadership and the demands of standards-based accountability / Richard Lemons, Thomas F. Luschei, and Leslie Santee Siskin; title: Listening to talk from and about students on accountability / Melissa Chabrán; title: The impact of accountability policies in Texas high schools / Martin Carnoy, Susanna Loeb, and Tiffany L. Smith; title: When an irresistable force meets an immovable object : core lessons about high schools and accountability / Leslie Santee Siskin; title: Accountability and capacity / Richard Elmore