Standards for Our Schools How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them

by Tucker, Marc S.; Codding, Judy B.

• ISBN13: 9780787964283
• ISBN10: 078796428X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-08-16
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

"A must read for those seeking high standards for all students. With unusual insight, the authors address the major issues, offering inspirational examples of schools that succeed." --Jerome T. Murphy, professor and dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education This timely, tough-minded book shows how American public schools can be saved by instituting high standards for academic achievement. It explains not just what the standards movement is about and why it is important, but also what it will take to bring every student up to high standards, no matter where that student starts. Tucker and Codding focus on empowering both students and adults by giving students the gift of high expectations and by giving school professionals the information, skills, authority and resources needed to do the job. They advocate building a standards-based instructional system, creating a results-oriented culture devoted to continuous improvement, and making the institution and the people in it accountable for reaching the goals set by the standards.

Author Biography

Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and codirector of the New Standards Project, the nation's largest effort to create a system of performance standards for our schools. The creator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and co-author of America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, he also coauthored the prize-winning Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
The Authors	p. xvii
Prologue: The View from the Plains	p. 1
Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option	p. 17
Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I?	p. 25
Setting High Standards for Everyone	p. 31
Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II?	p. 65
Teaching to the Standards	p. 73
Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0	p. 101
Leading and Managing for Success	p. 107
Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted	p. 133
Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools	p. 139
Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy	p. 169
Beyond the Comprehensive High School	p. 175
Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style	p. 209
Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability	p. 217
Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff	p. 245
Resources
The National Center on Education and the Economy	p. 251
New Standards Performance Standards	p. 255
New Standards Reference Examinations	p. 291
Resources for Standards-Based Education	p. 301
Glossary	p. 313
Annotated Bibliography	p. 323
Notes	p. 331
Afterword to the Paperback Edition: The America's Choice School Design	p. 335
Index	p. 351
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