Fulfilling the promise of educational accountability

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 702-709

  Nelson, Sarah W ^a   McGhee, Maria W ^b   Meno, Lionel R ^b   Slater, Charles L ^c  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 34249325545     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170708800916     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. Communities for Quality Education, State and Congressional Summaries, available at www.qualityednow.org/summaries.
2. Robert A. Frahm, " 'No-Child' Case Draws Nationwide Interest," Hartford Courant, 15 April 2005, p. B-1.
3. Achieve, Inc., Aiming Higher: Meeting the Challenges of Education Reform in Texas, June 2002, available at www.achieve.org/node/277.
4. Jason Spencer, "State Defies U.S. Rules on Grading Schools," Houston Chronicle, 26 February 2005.
5. National Conference of State Legislatures, "State Legislators Offer Formula for Improving No Child Left Behind," NCSL News, 23 February 2005, available at www.ncsl.org/programs/press/2005/pr050223.htm.
6. Vincent L. Ferrandino and Gerald N. Tirozzi, "Improving NCLB: A Principal's Perspective," 15 March 2004, available at www.naesp.org/ ContentLoad.do?contentId= 1215.
7. "A Collaborative Effort of the Texas Education Agency," Technical Digest for the Academic Year 2004-2005, Pearson Educational Measurement, Harcourt Educational Measurement, and Beck Evaluation and Testing Associates, Inc., 2005.
8. Keith Cruse and Jon Twing, "The History of Statewide Achievement Testing in Texas," Applied Measurement in Education, vol. 13, 2000, pp. 327-31.
9. Achieve, Inc., op. cit.
10. Ibid.
11. Linda McNeil, Contradictions of School Reform: Educational Costs of Standardized Testing (New York: Routledge, 2000).
12. Angela Valenzuela, "The Significance of the TAAS Test for Mexican Immigrants and Mexican American Adolescents: A Case Study," Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, vol. 22, 2000, pp. 524-39.
13. McNeil, p. 247.
14. Cruse and Twing, op. cit.
15. Sarah W. Nelson and Marla W. McGhee, "Time Off Task: How Test Preparation Is Siphoning Instructional Time for Students of Color and Students of Poverty," paper presented at the annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration, Kansas City, Mo., 2004.
16. See Academic Excellence Indicator System (AEIS) 2002, report for campus #227901146, available at the Texas Education Agency, www. tea.state.tx.us/ perfreport/aeis/2002/index.html.
17. See Texas Education Agency Accountability Ratings System, available at www.tea.state.tx.us/perfreport/account.
18. Linda Darling-Hammond, "Inequality and the Right to Learn: Access to Qualified Teachers in California's Public Schools," Teachers College Record, October 2004, pp. 1936-66.
19. Joshua Benton, "TAKS Push Not So Equal," Dallas Morning News, 19 September 2005, p. 1-B.
20. "Miles to Go Before We Sleep," Activity, Winter 2004, available on the ACT website at www.act.org/activity/winter2004/miles.html.