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Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2002

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815718833
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2002 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually, Brookings Papers on Education Policy (BPEP) analyzes policies intended to improve student performance. In each volume, some of the best-informed analysts in various disciplines review the current situation in education and consider programs for reform. In this fifth annual issue of the series, prominent educators and other social scientists discuss accountability and its consequences for students. Contents include: ¡°Grade Retention and Social Promotion in Texas, 1994-99¡± A. Gary Dworkin, Jon Lorence, Laurence Toenjes, and Antwanette Hill (University of Houston) ¡°Reform, Resistance... Retreat? The Predictable Policies of Accountability in Virginia¡± Frederick Hess (University of Virginia) ¡°School Accountability in California: An Early Evaluation¡± Julian Betts (UC San Diego and Public Policy Institute of California) and Anne Danenberg (Public Policy Institute of California) ¡°Standards and Accountability in Washington State¡± (Paul Hill and Robin Lake (University of Washington) ¡°Volatility in School Test Scores: Implications for Test-Based Accountability Systems¡± Tom Kane (Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University) and Douglas O Staiger (Dartmouth College) ¡°Building a High-Quality Assessment Program: The Philadelphia Example¡± Andy Porter (Wisconsin Center for Education and Research) and Mitchell Chester (Philadelphia School System) ¡°Accountability in Chicago¡± Alfred Hess (Northwestern University)

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2003

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815706762
Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2003 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983 the seminal report issued by the National Commission on Excellence in Education, "A Nation at Risk," charged that most American high schoolers were following a general course of instruction, choosing neither the college-preparatory track nor the vocational option. This pattern, the report complained, had fostered low expectations and a curricular hodge-podge of classes that failed to prepare students for college or work. The commission called on states to implement academic requirements for all students, regardless of background, including four years of English and three years each of science, mathematics, and social studies. Students should not be sorted by their presumed future destinations, the commission reasoned, but should be offered an equal opportunity to get a high-quality education to fit them either for postsecondary education or the modern workplace. Two decades after the commission called on states to reform the high school environment and raise graduation requirements, the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution convened a a group of prominent scholars to explore the current state of America's high schools, focusing on new research about reforming these institutions that are so important in the lives of the nation's adolescents. The questions considered reflected the diversity of the participants and covered a variety of areas—historical, international, sociological, and practical. Data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education show students today are taking many more advanced courses in mathematics and the sciences, while at the same time test scores do not reflect the increases in enrollments in academic courses. In addition, large score gaps remain among students from different social groups. Reform of the high schools must take into account the elementary and middle schools that prepare students and the postsecondary institutions to which students aspire. Adolescent culture and students' views about school and academic work play important roles in student achievement, as do the family and contemporary society in shaping of adolescent behavior. No matter their background, all participants agreed that the key to a successful high school rests with the extent to which it recognizes and strengthens its commitment to the intellectual growth of its students.

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2001

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815718826
Total Pages : 426 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2001 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published annually, Brookings Papers on Education Policy (BPEP) analyzes policies intended to improve student performance. In each volume, some of the best-informed analysts in various disciplines review the current situation in education and consider programs for reform. In this fourth annual issue of the series, prominent educators and other social scientists discuss standards in education. Contents include: "Incentives and Equity under Standards-Based Reform" Julian R. Betts and Robert M. Costrell "Why Business Backs Education Standards" Milton Goldberg and Susan Traiman "State Academic Standards" Chester Finn Jr. and Marci Kanstoroom "Searching for Indirect Evidence for the Effects of Statewide Reforms" David Grissmer and Ann Flanagan "The Controversy over the National Assessment Governing Board Standards" Mark Reckase "The Role of End-of-Course Exams and Minimum Competency Exams in Standards-Based Reforms" John H. Bishop, Ferran Mane, Michael Bishop, and Joan Moriarty "A Diagnostic Analysis of Black-White GPA Disparities in Shaker Heights, Ohio" Ronald F. Ferguson

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2000

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815718819
Total Pages : 412 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2000 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third annual issue of the series, prominent economists, educators, and other social scientists analyze the importance of standards in education and review some of the major controversies that have arisen in the past decade on the problems of shaping and implementing standards. Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, Brookings Papers on Education Policy is an indispensable guide to understanding education trends and emerging issues. The year 2000 issue is scheduled to include essays by Gary Chapman of the University of Texas, George Farkas and L. Shane Hall of the University of Texas at Dallas, Paul Hill of the University of Washington, Christine Rossell of Boston University, Robert Schwartz and Marian Robinson of ACHIEVE and Harvard Graduate School of Education, Larry Sherman of the University of Maryland, and Maris Vinovskis of the University of Michigan.

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1999

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815791669
Total Pages : 474 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1999 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second annual issue of the series focuses on the state of urban education in America. It provides in-depth, jargon-free analysis of the most important issues in education today—from some of the country's leading experts. Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, Brookings Papers on Education Policy is an indispensable guide to understanding education trends and emerging issues. Contents include: "History of Urban Education in this Century" by Jeffrey Mirel, Emory University "School Reform in Chicago" by Anthony Bryk, University of Chicago "Lessons from Houston" by Donald McAdams, Houston Independent School Board "Problems of Managing a Big-City School System" by Stanley Litow, IBM Corporation "Single-Sex Schooling: Law, Policy, and Research" by Rosemary C. Salomone, St. John's University School of Law "How Litigation Has Undermined Schools" by Abigail Thernstrom, Manhattan Institute/Massachusetts Board of Education "Creating Successful Urban Schools" by James Comer, Yale Child Study Center "Voucher Experiments" by Paul Peterson, Harvard University "Proposed Reforms of Governance" by Paul Hill, University of Washington

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2005

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815719434
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2005 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: •Test-Based Accountability: The Promise and the Perils Tom Loveless (Brookings) • Can the Federal Government Improve Education Research? Brian Jacob (Harvard University) and Jens Ludwig (Georgetown University ) •Realizing the Promise of Brand-Name Schools Steven F.Wilson (Harvard University) • School Choice: How an Abstract Idea Became a Political Reality Joseph P. Viteritti (Hunter College, CUNY) • Education Reform and Content: The Long View E.D. Hirsch Jr. (Core Knowledge Foundation) • Evidence-Based Reading Policy in the United States: How Scientific Research Informs Instructional Practices Reid Lyon and Vinita Chhabra (National Institutes of Health) and Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A. Shaywitz (Yale University)

Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2000

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Brookings Papers on Education
ISBN 13 : 9780815773573
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy 2000 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Papers on Education. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains papers presented at a conference on education policy convened by the Brookings Institution.

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1998

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780815711834
Total Pages : 396 pages
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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1998 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the state of education in America today? And where is it headed? What is the real state of education in America today? And where is it headed? The Brookings Institution, long noted for its pathbreaking work on education policy, introduces a series of annual volumes that provide the inside story on education's most important issues. In each annual edition, leading experts offer jargon-free, in-depth analyses of a wide range of topics in education, along with fresh ideas, thought-provoking opinions, and invaluable insight. They offer unprecedented access to the policies, decisions, and viewpoints that are shaping our current education system and our plans for the 21st century. Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, Brookings Papers on Education Policy is an indispensable guide to understanding education trends and emerging issues. Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1998 includes: An Examination of American Student Achievement from an International Perspective by Harold Stevenson, University of Michigan An Assessment of the Scholarly Debate about Achievement by Lawrence Stedman, State University of New York Upgrading High School Mathematics and Science by Andrew Porter, University of Wisconsin, Madison Uncompetitive American Schools: Causes and Cures by Herbert Walberg, University of Illinois Radical Constructivism, Mathematics Education, and Cognitive Psychology by John Anderson, Lynne Reder, and Herb Simon, Carnegie Mellon University The Uses and Misuses of Education Research by Policymakers at State and Local Levels by Tom Loveless, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Standards Outside the Classroom by Lawrence Steinberg, Temple University The Extent and Cost of Remediation in Higher Education by David W. Breneman, University of Virginia School of Education

Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2004

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815773696
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 2004 written by Diane Ravitch and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2004-02-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does the United States not have the teachers it needs? The media typically focus on a looming teacher shortage, but this volume of the Brookings Papers on Education Policy goes beyond the question of quantity to examine why American schools must scramble to find enough well-prepared and effective teachers. There are perennial teacher shortages in certain fields, especially mathematics and the sciences. Many teachers are assigned to subjects in which they have neither a major nor a minor. Which is more important in training teachers: pedagogical knowledge or content knowledge? Furthermore, a disproportionate number of teachers who are uncertified and inexperienced are assigned to urban and poor schools. Is there anything states and districts can do to change this bleak picture? These and many other issues related to teacher education, teacher preparation, teacher assignment, and teacher compensation are explored here. The controversies studied have been raging in policy circles for many years. While the contributors do not issue any ringing policy manifestos their clear and cool analysis sheds enough light on these dilemmas to help guide the way to better approaches to teacher training, compensation, and retention.

The American Dream and the Public Schools

Author : Jennifer L. Hochschild
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199839689
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The American Dream and the Public Schools written by Jennifer L. Hochschild and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and often conflict with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. They propose a framework that builds on our nation's rapidly changing population in order to help Americans get past acrimonious debates about schooling. Their goal is to make public education work better so that all children can succeed.

Common Sense School Reform

Author : Frederick M. Hess
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250086396
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Common Sense School Reform written by Frederick M. Hess and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forget everything you think you know about school reform. Cutting through the cant, sentiment, and obfuscation characterizing the current school reform debate, Frederick M. Hess lacerates the conventional "status quo" reform efforts and exposes the naivete underlying reform strategies that rest on solutions like class size reduction, small schools, and enhanced professional development. He explains that real improvement requires a bracing regime of common sense reforms that create a culture of competence by rewarding excellence, punishing failure, and giving educators the freedom and flexibility to do their work. He documents the scope of the challenges we face and then provides concrete recommendations for addressing them through reforms to promote accountability, competition, a 21st-century workforce, effective school leadership, and sensible reinvention. Engagingly written and drawing on real world experiences and examples, Common Sense School Reform will generate debate and help set the agenda for the future.

Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education

Author : Susan Fuhrman
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807744253
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book Redesigning Accountability Systems for Education written by Susan Fuhrman and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2004-01-17 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, policymakers face a number of difficult and technical questions in the design and implementation of new accountability approaches. This book gathers the emerging knowledge and lessons learned offered by leading scholars in the field.

The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education

Author : P. Stevens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137317809
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Race and Ethnic Inequalities in Education written by P. Stevens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-01-22 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference work provides the first systematic review to date of how sociologists have studied the relationship between race/ethnicity and educational inequality over the last thirty years in eighteen different national contexts.

No Child Left Behind?

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815796206
Total Pages : 364 pages
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Download or read book No Child Left Behind? written by Paul E. Peterson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-11-18 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and school accountability. Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education.

Unequal By Design

Author : Wayne Au
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135853746
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book Unequal By Design written by Wayne Au and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-26 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unequal By Design critically examines high-stakes standardized testing in order to illuminate what is really at stake for students, teachers, and communities negatively affected by such testing. This thoughtful analysis traces standardized testing’s origins in the Eugenics and Social Efficiency movements of the late 19th and early 20th century through its current use as the central tool for national educational reform via No Child Left Behind. By exploring historical, social, economic, and educational aspects of testing, author Wayne Au demonstrates that these tests are not only premised on the creation of inequality, but that their structures are inextricably intertwined with social inequalities that exist outside of schools.

The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability

Author : Katherine Ryan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135590885
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Test-Based Educational Accountability written by Katherine Ryan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades testing has become a much more visible and high-stakes accountability mechanism that is now seen as a powerful tool that can be used to drive school improvement. The purpose of this book is to identify and analyze the key issues associated with test-based educational accountability and to chart the future of educational accountability research. Chapter contributions are intended to be forward looking rather than a compendium of what has happened in the past. The book provides an accessible discussion of issues such as validity, test equating, growth modeling, fairness for special populations, causal inferences, and misuses of accountability data.

Contemporary School Choice Research Pje V81#1

Author : Camilla Benbow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136506381
Total Pages : 215 pages
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Download or read book Contemporary School Choice Research Pje V81#1 written by Camilla Benbow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2006. This is a special edition of the Peabody Journal of Education that focuses on Contemporary School Choice Research in 2006. It includes ten articles that cover topics such as voucher gins in Washington DC, Florida's McKay Scholarship Program, Cyber and Home School Charter Schools, an analysis of private school mission statements, and switching schools, amongst others.