The unintended consequences of the Texas accountability system

Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies, and Politics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 231-244

  McKenzie, Kathryn Bell ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905539918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203465615     Document Type: Chapter

References (26)

1. Anderson, G. (2001). Promoting educational equity in a period of growing social inequity: The silent contradictions of Texas reform discourse. Education and Urban Society 33(3), 320-32.
2. Bourdieu, P., & Passeron, J.C. (1977). Reproduction in education, society and culture. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
3. Campbell, J., Hombo, C., & Mazzeo, J. (2000). NAEP 1999 trends in academic progress:Three decades of student performance. (NCES 2000469) Washington: D.C.:National Center for Education Statistics.
4. Cardenas, J.A., Montecel, M.R., Supik, J.D., & Harris, RJ. (1992). The Coca-Cola valued youth program. Drop-out prevention strategies for at-risk students. Texas Researcher 3, 111-30.
5. Foshay, A.W. (2000). The curriculum: Purpose, substance, practice. NY: Teachers College Press.
6. Gordon, R., Paina, L. & Kelener, T. (2000, March). Suspension, expulsions, and zero tolerance policies. Oakland, CA: Applied Research Center.
7. Haney, W. (2001). The illusion of educational equity in Texas: a commentary on 'accountability for equity'. International Journal of Leadership in Education 4(3), 267-75.
8. Klein, S.P., Hamilton, L.S., McCaffey, D.F., & Stecher, B.M. (2000). What do test scores in Texas tell us? (Issue Paper 202). Santa Monica, CA: RAND.
9. Kozol, J. (1991). Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools. New York: Crown.
10. McKenzie, K.B. (2001). White teachers' perceptions about their students of color and themselves as White educators. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.
11. McNeil, L.M., (2000). Contradictions of school reform: Educational costs of standardized testing. New York: Routledge.
12. McNeil, L.M., & Valenzuela, A. (2001). The harmful impact of the TAAS system of testing in Texas: Beneath the accountability rhetoric. In G.Orfield and M.L.Kornhaber (Eds.). Raising standards or raising barriers: Inequality and highstakes testing in public education (127-50). New York: The Century Foundation.
13. Nelson, S. (2002). Dissertation. Oppression, conflict, and collusion: High-stakes accountability from the perspective of three social justice principals. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin.
14. Olson, P. (1991). Referring language minority students to special education. Washington, DC: Office of Educational Research and Improvement. (ERIC Document Reproduction Service No. ED 328 131).
15. Parker, L. (May, 2001). Statewide assessment triggers urban school reform: But how high the stakes for urban minorities? Education and Urban Society 33(3), 313-19.
16. Reglins, G. (1992). Ability grouping: A scoring instrument. Illinois Schools Journal, Fall, 43-47.
17. Robertson, P., Kushner, M., Starks, J., & Descher, C. (1994). An update of participation of culturally and linguistically diverse students in special education: The need for a research and policy agenda. The Bilingual Special Education Perspective 14(1), 3-9.
18. Scheurich, J.J., Skrla, L, & Johnson, J.F. (2000). Thinking carefully about equity and accountability. Phi Delta Kappan 82(4), 293-99.
19. Scheurich, J.J., & Skrla, L. (2001). Continuing the conversation on equity and accountability. Phi Delta Kappan 83(4), 322-26.
20. Skrla, L., Scheurich, J.J., & Johnson, J.F. (2001). Toward a new consensus on high academic achievement for all children. Education and Urban Society 33(3), 227-34.
21. Urban Teacher Collaborative. (2000, January). Urban teacher shortages most severe in areas critical to raising student performance. Belmont, MA: RNT.
22. Useem, El L. (1990). You're good, but you're not good enough: Tracking students out of advanced mathematics. American Educator 14(3), 24-27, 43-46.
23. Valencia. R. (Ed.). (1997). The evolution of deficit thinking. Washington DC: Falmer.
24. Valencia, R., Valenzuela, A., Sloan, K., & Foley, D. (2001). Let's treat the cause, not the symptoms: Equity and accountability in Texas revisited. Phi Delta Kappan 83(4), 318-21,326.
25. Valenzuela, A. (1999). Subtractive schooling: U.S.-Mexican youth and the politics of caring. Albany, NY: State University Press.
26. Vygotsky, L.S. (1989). Thought and language. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.