Holding schools accountable: Is it working?

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 67-72

  Elmore, Richard F ^a   Fuhrman, Susan H ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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EID: 0013004981     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170108300114     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Carolyn Kelley, Anthony Milanowski, and Herbert Heneman III, "Compensation and Accountability Programs," unpublished paper, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1998.
2. Charles Abelmann and Richard F. Elmore, with Johanna Even, Susan Kenyon, and Joanne Marshall, When Accountability Knocks, Will Anyone Answer? (Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1999), pp. 1-51;
3. Elizabeth DeBray, Gail Parson, and Katrina Woodworth, "Patterns of Response in Four High Schools Under State Accountability Policies in Vermont and New York," in Susan H. Fuhrman, ed., From the Capital to the Classroom: Standards-Based Reform in the States (Chicago: National Society for the Study of Education, University of Chicago Press, 2001), pp. 170-92;
4. Diana Rhoten, Martin Carnoy, Melissa Chabran, and Richard F. Elmore, "The Conditions and Characteristics of Assessment and Accountability: The Case of Four States," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 2000; and
5. Consortium for Policy Research in Education, "Working Paper of the CPRE Accountability Group," paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, 1998.
6. Jennifer A. O'Day, "Accountability and Low-Performing Schools: Issues for Policymakers and Administrators," unpublished paper, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, 1999;
7. and Jennifer A. O'Day, with Betheny Gross, One System or Two? Title I Accountability in the Context of High Stakes for Schools in Local " Districts ana States (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Education, 1999).
8. Margaret E. Goertz, "Local Accountability: The Role of the District and School in Monitoring Policy, Practice, and Achievement," paper i presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, 2000.
9. Margaret E. Goertz and Mark Dufiy, with Kerstin Carlson LeFloch, Assessment and Accountability Systems in the 50 States: 1999-2000 (Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2001).
10. See,forexampIe,DonaldW.Dorr-BremmeandJoanL. Herman.-Afsessing Student Achievement: A Profile of Classroom Practices (Los Angeles: Center for Evaluation Study, University of California, 1986);
11. and Linda M. McNeil, Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing (New York: Routledge, 2000).
12. Suzanne M. Wilson and Robert E. Floden, "Hedging Bets: Standards- i Based Reform in Classrooms," in Fuhrman, pp. 193-216.
13. DeBray, Parson, and Woodworth, in Fuhrman, op. cit.
14. DeBray, Parson, and Woodworth, in Fuhrman, Ibid.
15. Abelmann and Elmore, with Even, Kenyon, and Marshall, in Fuhrman, op. cit.
16. Jennifer A. O'Day, "Selecting Out Failure: Reconstitution as a Remedy for Failed Schools," unpublished paper, Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, 2000.
17. Diane Massell, State Strategies for Building Capacity: Addressing the Needs of Standards-Based Reform (Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, CPRE Policy Briefs, No. RB-25, July 1998).
18. Diane Massell, The District Role in Building Capacity: Four Strategies (Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education, University of Pennsylvania, CPRE Policy Briefs, No. RB-32, September 2000).
19. Margaret E. Goertz, "Standards-Based Accountability: Horse Trade or Horse Whip?," in Fuhrman, pp. 39-59. K