Why national standards and tests?
Subtitle: politics and the quest for better schools
By: by John F. Jennings.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Education -- Standards -- United States.; Educational tests and measurements -- United States.; Education and state -- United States.; Educational change -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The need to improve the schools : why raising student achievement through higher standards was first proposed.; title: Origins of national standards and tests : how President Bush, corporate leaders, and the governors first advanced the idea of raising standards.; title: The 1992 presidential campaign and the transition to a new administration : how Bush and Clinton differed on education, but how Clinton continued the fight for higher standards which Bush began.; title: Goals 2000 in the U.S. House of Representatives : how liberals expressed concerns about the fairness of standards, and how conservative opposition to the idea grew.; title: Goals 2000 in the Senate and the conference committee : how the concept of raising standards triumphed, but only after liberal concerns about equity lost, and increasingly strident conservative opposition was overcome.; title: The Elementary and Secondary Education Act : how other federal programs were re-fashioned to raise standards, and how this victory further hardened the opposition of the political far-right.; title: The conservative assault on raising standards to improve the schools : how the conservative opposition tried to undo standards-based reform and failed because Clinton, the business community, and governors fought back.; title: The elections of 1996 and Clinton's second term : how the conservatives were rebuffed, and Clinton revived the idea of national standards and tests.