High Standards + High Stakes = High Achievement in Massachusetts

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 85, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 591-597

  Reville, S Paul ^a,b  

^a MassINC   (United States)

^b HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

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EID: 1942476636     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170408500806     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. The Massachusetts Education Reform Act, Massachusetts General Law, Chapter 71, 1993.
2. Richard J. Murnane and Frank Levy, Teaching the New Basic Skills (New York: Free Press, 1996).
3. Robert Schwartz and Marshall Smith, "Staying the Course with Standards-Based Reform: What It Will Take," in S. Paul Reville, ed., Miles to Go: Reflections on Mid-Course Corrections for Standards-Based Reform (Washington, D.C.: The Pew Forum, 2002).
4. For information on evaluating state academic standards, see Achieve, Inc., at www.achieve.org.
5. Measuring Up: A Report on Education Standards and Assessments for Massachusetts (Washington, D.C.: Achieve's Benchmarking Initiative, Achieve, Inc., 2001).
6. See, for example, comments by Amy Wilkins, principal partner at the Education Trust, in a "Frontline" interview on PBS on 25 September 2001.
7. For the current state of the reforms, see the Massachusetts Education Reform Review Commission website at www.merrc.org.
8. For state results, see the Massachusetts Department of Education website at www.doe.mass.edu.
9. "Decade of Progress," statement of Massachusetts Department of Education Commissioner David Driscoll, Summer 2002.
10. For examples of general critiques, see materials on the FairTest website at www.fairtest.org; and the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE), "Statement on the MCAS and Education Reform," May 1999, available at www.fairtest.org/arn/carestat.html.
11. For examples of general critiques, see materials on the FairTest website at www.fairtest.org; and the Coalition for Authentic Reform in Education (CARE), "Statement on the MCAS and Education Reform," May 1999, available at www.fairtest.org/arn/carestat.html.
12. Monty Neill, "I Fear for My Grandchildren's Education," September 2000, available at www.eyeoneducation.TV/about/neill.html. Neill is the executive director of FairTest, Cambridge, Mass.
13. Michelle Kurtz, "Faithful Attendance Seen as an MCAS Key," Boston Globe, 1 June 2003, p. 1.
14. Update on the Class of 2003 Enrollment (Malden: Massachusetts Department of Education Statistical Reports, 13 February 2003).
15. See Prisoners of Time: Report of the National Education Commission on Time and Learning (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1994).
16. Secretary of Education Rod Paige criticized the "soft bigotry of low expectations" in a March 2003 address to the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco.
17. William Taylor, "Standards, Tests, and Civil Rights," Education Week, 15 November 2000.