Holding Accountability Accountable

by Sirotnik, Kenneth A.

• ISBN13: 9780807744642
• ISBN10: 0807744646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Kenneth Sirotnik asserts that however well-intentioned, past and current accountability practices in public education are "miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic." In this provocative book, well-respected educators join Sirotnik to provide critical analyses and sophisticated perspectives on prevailing high-stakes accountability practices. They offer both conceptual and practical foundations for rethinking what it means to act responsibly when it comes to calling our schools, school systems, educators, and students into account.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	IX
Introduction: Critical Concerns About Accountability Concepts and Practices	1	(17)
Kenneth A. Sirotnik
1 Looking Through the Rearview Mirror at School Accountability	18	(17)
Larry Cuban
2 Moral Errors and Strategic Mistakes: Lessons From the History of Student Accountability	35	(16)
Nancy Beadie
3 What Ought to Matter in Public Schooling: Judgment, Standards, and Responsible Accountability	51	(15)
Harvey Siegel
4 Standards for What? Accountability for Whom? Rethinking Standards-Based Reform in Public Education	66	(16)
Pedro A. Noguera
5 Accountability for Adequate and Equitable Opportunities to Learn	82	(18)
Jeannie Oakes, Gary Blasi, and John Rogers
6 The Double Bind of Civic Education Assessment and Accountability	100	(16)
Roger Soder
7 Strange, Yet Familiar: Assessment-Driven Education	116	(19)
Linda Mabry
8 Responsible Accountability and Teacher Learning	135	(13)
Patricia A. Wasley
Conclusion Holding Accountability Accountable - Hope for the Future?	148	(23)
Kenneth A. Sirotnik
About the Editor and the Contributors	171	(4)
Index	175