Debating the future of American education
Subtitle: do we need national standards and assessments? : report of a conference sponsored by the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution
By: edited by Diane Ravitch.
Contributors: Ravitch, Diane.; Brookings Institution. Brown Center on Education Policy.
Series: Brookings dialogues on public policy
Publisher: The Institution
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Education -- Standards -- United States -- Congresses.; Education -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses.; Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Evaluation -- Congresses.; Education and state -- United States -- Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Papers from a symposium held May 18, 1994 at the Brookings Institution.
Table of contents: value: Introduction / Diane Ravitch; value: Education reform in America's public schools : the Clinton agenda / Marshall S. Smith; value: Will national standards and assessments make a difference? / Theodore R. Sizer; value: The Uses and misuses of opportunity-to-learn standards / Andrew C. Porter; value: Explaining standards to the public / Roy Romer; value: Holding onto norms in a sea of criteria / Donald M. Stewart; value: Standards for education / Lauren B. Resnick & Katherine J. Nolan; value: Who's afraid of the big, bad test? / Chester E. Finn, Jr.; value: The case for high stakes and real consequences / Albert Shanker; value: Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, and often a test is only a test / Daniel M. Koretz.