educational accountability

Offers a comprehensive overview of educational accountability, explaining what it is, how it impacts educators and students, and what the most practical implementation strategies are.

Diane Ravitch, a one-time supporter of the No Child Left Behind Act, discusses the failures of the system, lowered testing standards, and her concerns for the education system in the United States.

Examines the 2002 Federal "No Child Left Behind" law and explains how this law actually damages both the schools and its students including the "dumbing down" of standardized tests rather than setting higher standards of achievement.

Examines the successes and failures of the controversial No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, and presents suggestions for reform.

Examines the process of data analysis in education, discussing how data impacts teachers and school leaders, decision-making, evaluation, and teaching.

In this follow-up to her previous book It's Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, which profiled 15 successful schools, Chenoweth, an education writer who works for The Education Trust, explains how schools with high-poverty and high-minority student populations have improved student achievement and lowered achievement gaps. The volume provides specific information on how eight schools across the country (as well as the school system in Massachusetts) are succeeding, including public and charter elementary, junior, and high schools. Chapters share what educators have done in these schools and give advice to teachers and administrators on how to bring about academic success. All schools discussed have won the Dispelling the Myth award from The Education Trust. There is no bibliography. Annotation ?2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Describes a process by which U.S. schools can design standards-based systems of education.

Draws on eyewitness accounts, governmental views, scientific analysis, newspaper accounts, and other resources to present opposing viewpoints about the debate over whether or not the No Child Left Behind Act has succeeded in improving the American education system.