Keeping accountability systems accountable

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 359-363

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^a New York Performance Standards Consortium   (United States)

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EID: 33846556058     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170708800506     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2000);
2. and Susan Ohanian, One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 1999). I am indebted to Linda Darling-Hammond and Jacqueline Ancess for their ground-breaking studies of the schools in the Julia Richman Education Complex and to Michelle Fine for her continued research on small schools.
3. S. Anne Hancock, "There's No Doubt No Child Law Works," Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4 August 2004, p. A-13.
4. Erik W. Robelen, "An ESEA Primer," Education Week, 9 January 2002, pp. 28-29.
5. Sharon L. Nichols, Gene V Glass, and David C. Berliner, "High-Stakes Testing and Student Achievement: Problems for the No Child Left Behind Act," September 2005, p. 7, available at http://edpolicylab.org.
6. Keith Gayler et al., State High School Exit Exams: A Maturing Reform (Washington, D.C.: Center on Education Policy, August 2004), p. 5, available at www.cep-dc.org.
7. K-12 Education Reform (Washington, D.C.: Business Roundtable, February 2001), pp. 8-9.
8. Brian A. Jacob, "Getting Tough? The Impact of High School Graduation Exams," Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Summer 2001, pp. 99-121;
9. Walt Haney, "The Myth of the Texas Miracle in Education," Education Policy Analysis Archives, 19 August 2000, available at http://epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v8n41;
10. and Pushing Out At-Risk Students: An Analysis of High School Discharge Figures (New York: Public Advocate of the City of New York, 21 November 2002).
11. Sam Dillon, "Education Law Gets First Test in U.S. Schools," New York Times, 20 October 2005, p. A-24.
12. Haney, op. cit.
13. Maria Sacchetti, "Colleges Question MCAS Success," Boston Globe, 26 June 2005, available at www.boston.com.
14. New York City Department of Education, "Annual School Report Cards" (2002-03) and New York State Department of Education, "New York State School Report Card Comprehensive Information Report" (2002-03). The data for consortium schools were compiled from each school's individual report card or information report. The overall New York City high schools' data are found on every New York City school report card for comparison purposes. However, because the "Annual School Report Cards" base college-bound rates on student reports of intention, which are historically unreliable, the consortium schools' college-bound rate was instead calculated from school reports on the class of 2004, prepared for the New York Performance Standards Consortium in August/September 2004.
15. Ibid. For another example of this type of high accountability, see Michelle Fine, Brett Stoudt, and Valerie Futch, The International Network for Public Schools: A Quantitative and Qualitative Cohort Analysis of Graduation and Dropout Rates -Teaching and Learning in a Transcultural Academic Environment (New York: Graduate Center, City University of New York, June 2005), available at www.internationalsnps.org.
16. The only exception is the English Language Arts Regents exam, the one state test that Commissioner Mills ruled was not exempted by the original waiver.
17. Benjamin Wachs, "Putting the Test to the Test," Brighton-Pittsford Post, 28 April 2004, p. 1.
18. As determined by Barron's Profiles of American Colleges: 25th Edition, 2003 (Hauppauge, N.Y.: Barren's Educational Series, 2002).
19. Ibid.
20. Tamar Lewin, "High School Seniors Weak in Math and Science Tests," New York Times, 20 August 2003, p. B-8.
21. Thomas Mortenson, "Freshman-to-Sophomore Persistence Rates by Institutional Control, Academic Selectivity and Degree Level, 1983 to 1998," Postsecondary Education Opportunity, research newsletter, Mortenson Research Seminar on Public Policy Analysis of Opportunity for Postsecondary Education, Oskaloosa, Ia., August 1998.