An age of accountability : how standardized testing came to dominate American schools and compromise education / John L. Rury.

"An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education. For more than half a century, the quest to hold schools and educators accountable for academic achievement has relied almost exclusively on standardized assessment and has held tha...

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Uniform Title:New directions in the history of education.
Main Author: Rury, John L., 1951- (Author)
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2024]
Series:New directions in the history of education.
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Physical Description:x, 231 pages ; 23 cm.
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505 0 |a Introduction : school accountability and standardized testing in American history -- The origins of test-based accountability : assessing minimum competencies in the 1970s -- Standardized testing and race : continuity and change, 1975-2000 -- A time of transition : testing takes a back seat in the 1980s -- New standards and tests : accountability on the national stage -- A millennium dawns : the origins and impact of NCLB -- Conclusion : a troubled history and prospects for change -- Appendix. Oral history sources. 
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