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"Standard-based accountability" has become a consistent buzzword emanating from the mouths of hopeful politicians-liberal and conservative-for almost twenty years. But does accountability work? The New Accountability explores the current wave of assessment-based school accountability reforms, which combine two traditions in American education-public accountability and student testing.
List of contents
1. Introduction, 2. Conditions and Characteristics of Assessment and Accountability: The Case of Four States, Diana Rhoten, Martin Carnoy, Melissa Chabran, and Richard Elmore, 3. Internal Alignment and External Pressure: High School Responses in Four State Contexts, Elizabeth DeBray, Gail Parson, and Salvador Avila, 4. Outside the Core: Accountability in Tested and Untested Subjects, Leslie Santee Siskin, 5. Leadership and the Demands of Standards-Based Accountability, Richard Lemons, Tom Luschei, and Leslie Santee Siskin, 6. Listening to Talk From and About Students on Accountability, Melissa Chabrán, 7. The Impact of Accountability Policies in Texas' High Schools, Martin Carnoy, Susanna Loeb, and Tiffany Smith, 8. The Challenge of High Schools, Leslie Santee Siskin, 9. Psychiatrists and Light Bulbs, Richard Elmore,
About the author
Martin Carnoy is Professor of Education and Economics at Stanford University. His work has appeared in Dollars and Sense, The American Prospect, Education Week, and Tikkun. Richard Elmore is Gregory R. Anrig Professor of Educational Leadership at Harvard University. LeslieSiskin is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities at Cambridge University.
Summary
The main point of this text is to argue that French universities experienced a quiet but important change since the 1990s, which allowed them to become pertinent and more autonomous actors within the French university system.
