Sixteen states have adopted school report card accountability systems that assign A-F letter grades to schools. Other states are now engaged in deliberation about whether they, too, should adopt such systems. This paper examines A-F accountability systems with respect to three kinds of validity. First, it examines whether or not these accountability systems are valid as a measure, that is, do these systems validly measure school quality? Second, it examines whether or not they are valid as a policy instrument. or, how far do A-F accountability systems fulfill the stated aims of their proponents—empowering parents, providing “simple” and “common sense” measures of educational quality, and so on? Finally, it examines whether or not A-F system...
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Mathematics education is a critical public policy issue in the U.S. and the pressures facing student...
Federal special education and accountability policies requires that educators individualize instruct...
Using a sociological framework this article explores the emergence and possible consequences of the ...
In recent years, most U.S. states have revised policy by providing schools at least some flexibility...
Accountability pressures faced by teachers and leaders may lead well-intentioned educators to engage...
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a standards-based reform in which 45 U.S. states and t...
A educação é um sistema em permanente mutação, evoluindo, mudando, adaptando-se às características ...
By 2008, New York City’s school governing regime contained two market-creation policies. Each reshap...
Differential grading occurs when students in courses with the same content and curriculum receive in...
Following the 1983 A Nation at Risk report and culminating in No Child Left Behind (NCLB), states de...
In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote stud...
How and to what extent students learn history content is a complicated process, drawing from the ins...
As schools across the country prepare for new standards under the Common Core, states are moving tow...
Despite numerous education reform efforts, disparities between more privileged students and students...
Dissertação de Mestrado em Contabilidade e Auditoria apresentada à Universidade AbertaA Avaliação de...
Mathematics education is a critical public policy issue in the U.S. and the pressures facing student...
Federal special education and accountability policies requires that educators individualize instruct...
Using a sociological framework this article explores the emergence and possible consequences of the ...
In recent years, most U.S. states have revised policy by providing schools at least some flexibility...
Accountability pressures faced by teachers and leaders may lead well-intentioned educators to engage...
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a standards-based reform in which 45 U.S. states and t...
A educação é um sistema em permanente mutação, evoluindo, mudando, adaptando-se às características ...
By 2008, New York City’s school governing regime contained two market-creation policies. Each reshap...
Differential grading occurs when students in courses with the same content and curriculum receive in...
Following the 1983 A Nation at Risk report and culminating in No Child Left Behind (NCLB), states de...
In this article, David Conley focuses on how to assess meaningful learning in ways that promote stud...
How and to what extent students learn history content is a complicated process, drawing from the ins...
As schools across the country prepare for new standards under the Common Core, states are moving tow...
Despite numerous education reform efforts, disparities between more privileged students and students...
Dissertação de Mestrado em Contabilidade e Auditoria apresentada à Universidade AbertaA Avaliação de...
Mathematics education is a critical public policy issue in the U.S. and the pressures facing student...