High standards for whom?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 81, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 681-687

  Gratz, Donald B ^a  

^a Community Training and Assistance Center ^*  (United States)

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References (29)

1. Marc S. Tucker and Judy B. Codding, Standards for Our Schools (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998), p. 33.
2. Marc S. Tucker and Judy B. Codding, Standards for Our Schools Ibid., pp. 33-34.
3. Matthew Gandal, "Not All Standards Are Created Equal," Educational Leadership, March 1995, p. 19.
4. Chester E. Finn, Jr., Michael J. Petrilli, and Gregg Vanourek, "The State of State Standards: Four Reasons Why Most 'Don't Cut the Mustard,'" Education Week, 11 November 1998, p. 39.
5. Tucker and Codding, p. 45; and Gandal, p. 19.
6. Christopher T. Cross, "The Standards Wars: Some Lessons Learned," Education Week, 21 October 1998, pp. 32-35.
7. American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association, and the National Council of Measurement in Education, Standards for Educational and Psychological Testing (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1999).
8. National Research Council, High Stakes (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999);
9. "Tests Alone Shouldn't Decide a Student's Fate, NRC Warns," Education Today, 9 September 1998, pp. 4-5;
10. and "NRC Criticizes High-Stakes Testing," FairTest Exanimer, Fall 1998, p. 1.
11. Lynn Olson, "Study Warns Against Reliance on Testing Data," Education Week, 25 March 1998.
12. Charles E. Lindblom, "The Science of Muddling Through," Public Administration Review, vol. 19, 1959, pp. 79-88.
13. Gerald W. Bracey, "Mass Failure on Va. Test Shakes Up Standards Drive," Education USA, 25 January 1999, p. 6.
14. Quoted in Mary Ann Zehr, "Weak Scores, Strong Economy: How Can This Be?" Education Week, 1 April 1998.
15. Quoted in Gerald W. Bracey, "The Eighth Bracey Report on the Condition of Public Education," Phi Delta Kappan, October 1998, p. 123.
16. Zehr, Phi Delta Kappan, op. cit.
17. Peter Schmidt, "Judge Sees No Bias in Tex. Test for High-School Graduation," Chronicle of Higher Education, 21 January 2000, p. A-27.
18. David Elkind, The Hurried Child (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1981), pp. 3, 53.
19. Robert C. Johnston, "Turning Up the Heat," Quality Counts (Bethesda, Md.: Editorial Projects in Education, 11 January 1999), p. 57.
20. Kathleen Kennedy Manzo, "Trickling Down," Education Week, 18 November 1998, p. 27.
21. Nicholas S. Thacher, "Truth, Statistics, and Entertainment," Education Week, 24 February 1999, p. 51.
22. Romesh Ratnesar, "The Homework Ate My Family," Time, 25 January 1999, p. 56.
23. "More Schools Are Giving Kids a Break from Recess," Education USA, 11 January 1999, p. 11.
24. Quoted in Johnston, p. 55.
25. Robert M. Hauser, "What If We Ended Social Promotion?," Education Week, 7 April 1999, p. 64.
26. Debra Viadero, "Lighting the Flame," Education Week, 10 February 1999, p. 24.
27. "Improving Low-Performing Schools," Quality Counts (Bethesda, Md.: Editorial Projects in Education, 11 January 1999), p. 95.
28. David Elkind, Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994), p. 188.
29. David Elkind, Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance Ibid., p. 202.