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School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Equity of Student Achievement
Author: School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Equity of Student Achievement
Author: School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Equity of Student Achievement
Author: Gabriela SchutzPublisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Level of Student Achievement
Author: School Accountability, Autonomy and Choice Around the World
Author: Ludger WoessmannPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781848445291
Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Accountability, autonomy and choice are now the watchwords of education reformers around the globe. This book presents new evidence from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) test on whether students perform better in school systems with such institutional measures in place. It also provides a theoretical framework for considering these reforms and summarizes previous international evidence. The results confirm that various policies promoting accountability, autonomy and choice are strongly associated with higher achievement for students from both disadvantaged and advantaged backgrounds. In particular, choice through public funding for private schools is associated with both higher performance overall and higher equality of opportunity. Providing detailed and rich facets of different forms of accountability, autonomy and choice, this book is unique in its empirically based and internationally oriented treatment of this up-to-date policy topic. It will be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and practitioners, as well as students in education policy and in the economics of education.
School Accountability, Autonomy, Choice, and the Level of Student Achievement
Author: Ludger WoessmannPublisher:
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Category : Academic achievement
Languages : en
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Accountability for Learning
Author: Douglas B. ReevesPublisher: ASCD
ISBN: 1416600728
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Accountability. The very mention of the word strikes fear in the hearts of many teachers and school leaders, leading to confusion and panic rather than improved student achievement. Author Douglas B. Reeves explains how to transform accountability from destructive and demoralizing accounting drills into a constructive decision-making process that improves teaching, learning, and leadership. Reeves encourages educators to become proactive in developing student-centered accountability systems. These systems capture the many aspects of teaching that test scores don't reveal—they tell the stories behind the numbers. Reeves shows how educators can create accountability systems that enhance teacher motivation and lead to significant improvements in student achievement and equity, even in traditionally low-performing schools. Accountability for Learning explains how to build a student-centered accountability system by examining key indicators in teaching, leadership, curriculum, and parent and community involvement. Focusing on the classroom, it outlines how teachers can become leaders in accountability by using a four-step process of observation, reflection, synthesis, and replication of effective teaching practices. Finally, the author discusses the role of local, state, and federal policymakers and corrects the myths associated with No Child Left Behind. "As educators, we have two choices," Reeves says. "We can rail against the system, hoping that standards and testing are a passing fad, or we can lead the way in a fundamental reformulation of educational accountability." Accountability for Learning gives readers the helping hand they need to lead the way to fair and comprehensive accountability.
Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education
Author: Charles Leslie GlennPublisher: Wolf Legal Publishers
ISBN: 9789058509093
Category : Academic freedom
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Volume 4 is being issued before the revised volumes 1-3 because it includes 16 countries not in the 2005 edition together with an updated profile of russia. volume 4 also includes an importamnt essay by Martin R. West of harvard University and Ludger Woessmann of the University of Munich on what international comparative data tell us about the effects of school choice, autonomy, and accountability on student achievement and equity.
No Child Left Behind?
Author: Paul E. PetersonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 081579620X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The 2002 No Child Left Behind Act is the most important legislation in American education since the 1960s. The law requires states to put into place a set of standards together with a comprehensive testing plan designed to ensure these standards are met. Students at schools that fail to meet those standards may leave for other schools, and schools not progressing adequately become subject to reorganization. The significance of the law lies less with federal dollar contributions than with the direction it gives to federal, state, and local school spending. It helps codify the movement toward common standards and school accountability. Yet NCLB will not transform American schools overnight. The first scholarly assessment of the new legislation, No Child Left Behind? breaks new ground in the ongoing debate over accountability. Contributors examine the law's origins, the political and social forces that gave it shape, the potential issues that will surface with its implementation, and finally, the law's likely consequences for American education.
Balancing Freedom, Autonomy and Accountability in Education
Author: Charles Leslie GlennPublisher:
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Category : Academic freedom
Languages : en
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Volume 4 is being issued before the revised volumes 1-3 because it includes 16 countries not in the 2005 edition together with an updated profile of russia. volume 4 also includes an importamnt essay by Martin R. West of harvard University and Ludger Woessmann of the University of Munich on what international comparative data tell us about the effects of school choice, autonomy, and accountability on student achievement and equity.