We are not ready to assess history performance

Journal of American History

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1381-1390

  Rothstein, Richard ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*

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EID: 58849145702     PISSN: 00218723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3660358     Document Type: Review

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15. William D. Galston", Political Knowledge, Political Engagement, and Civic Education", Annual Review of Political Science, 4 (June 2001), 217-34.
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18. U. S. Department of Education, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, National Center for Education Statistics, The Civic Development of 9ththrough 12th-Grade Students in the United States, 1996 (Washington, 1999), 32-33.
19. See also James Youniss, Jeffrey A. McLellan, and Miranda Yates", What We Know about Engendering Civic Identity", American Behavioral Scientist, 40 (March-April 1997), 620-31.
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21. National Center for Education Statistics, The Nations Report Card: U. S. History 2001 (Washington, 2002), fig. 3.4, p. 27.
22. Kathryn Hoffman and Charmaine Llagas, Status and Trends in the Education of Blacks (Washington, 2003), supplemental table 6.1, p. 160.
23. Parental education is correlated with family income. See National Center for Education Statistics, Nation's Report Card, fig. 3.9, p. 37.
24. The report was cosponsored by circle, the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. The Civic Mission of Schools (New York, 2003), 6.
25. Chester E. Finn Jr.", The Civic Mission of Schools", Education Gadfly, 3 (no. 8, 2003) (Nov. 13, 2003).
26. Albert Shanker Institute, "Education for Democracy" (2003) , p. 30 (Nov. 13, 2003).
27. Ibid.; Lynne V. Cheney", Teaching for Freedom", speech, James Madison Program, Princeton University, Nov. 29, 2001 (Nov. 13, 2003).
28. Diane Ravirch and Chester E. Finn Jr., What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature (New York, 1987), 49.
29. Cheney", Teaching for Freedom." Albert Shanker Institute, "Education for Democracy", 6.
30. Albert Shanker Institute Education for Democracy", 4. Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past (Philadelphia, 2001), vii-viii.
31. Edgar Bruce Wesley, American History in Schools and Colleges: The Report of the Committee on American History in Schools and Colleges of the American Historical Association, the Mississippi Valley Historical Association, the National Council for the Social Studies (New York, 1944), table I, p. 10, table II, p. 12, and pp. 3, 8.
32. New York Times, April 4, 1943, pp. 1, 32.
33. National Center for Education Statistics, Nation's Report Card, figure 2.3, p. 21.
34. Torney-Purra et al., Citizenship and Education in Twenty-Eight Countries, fig. 3.3, p. 55.
35. U. S. General Accounting Office, Educational Achievement Standards: nagb's Approach Yields Misleading Interpretations: Report to Congressional Requesters (Washington, 1993), 57.
36. National Academy of Education Panel on the Evaluation of the naep Trial State Assessment, Setting Performance Standards for Student Achievement: A Report of the National Academy of Education Panel on the Evaluation of the NAep Trial State Assessment: An Evaluation of the 1992 Achievement Levels (Stanford, 1993), xxii, 148.
37. National Center for Education Statistics, Nation's Report Card, pp. 14-15, fig. 2.3, p. 21.
38. I calculated that in 2002, 111, 000 high school students scored 3 or higher on the Advanced Placement U. S. history exam.
39. See "School AP Grade Distributions by Total and Ethnic Group", May 2002, The College Board, http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/repository/ap02- national-summary-19132.xls> (Nov. 13, 2003).
40. I also calculated that the annual 17-year-old cohort (estimated using 15to 19-year-olds) was approximately 4.1 million. See "Table 1. Annual Resident Population Estimates of the United States by Age and Sex: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2002", U. S. Census Bureau (Nov. 13, 2003).
41. Catherine Horn, Cut Scores: Results May Vary (Chestnut Hill, Mass., 2000), 25.
42. Setting Education Standards High Enough paper presented at the Annual Assessment Conference of the Council of Chief State School Officers, Colorado Springs, Colorado, June 1997 (in Richard Rothstein's possession), table 1, p. 3.
43. Albert Shanker InstituteEducation for Democracy", 10, 16.