Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies and Politics

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James Joseph Scheurich, Linda Skrla
Psychology Press, 2004 - 291 pages
Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these issues and has, instead, been carried out in a dualistic, good versus evil, fashion. In contrast, the scholarship collected in this important new volume is designed to move beyond the prevailing dualism and to push the discourse about accountability, testing, and educational equity in public schools usefully forward, and to provide a much-needed resource for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.
 

Contents

The Equity and Accountability Conversation
5
Thinking Carefully about Equity and Accountability
13
Equity and
29
The Effect of Accountability Policy on Educational Equity
49
Response to Skrla et al The Illusion of Educational Equity
79
Is There a Connection between
91
Complex and Contested Constructions of Accountability
99
EquityFocused Research and Responses on Accountability
107
Accountability and Educational Equity in the
155
Using an Aligned System to Make Real Progress
175
Promoting Educational Equity in a Period of Growing
189
Polar Positions on the Texas Assessment of Academic
201
Critiques and Commentaries
213
The Unintended Consequences of the Texas
235
Complexity
251
Contributors
285

Can State Accountability Systems Drive Improvements
133

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