Educational Equity and Accountability: Paradigms, Policies and PoliticsJames 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 |
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