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School Accountability

author: Sherman Dorn
description: Bibliography taken from "The Political Legacy of School Accountability Systems", by Sherman Dorn, Educational Policy Analysis Archives, January 1998.
published in: Educational Policy Analysis Archives
published: 04/01/1998
posted to site: 04/23/1998
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Berliner, David C., and Bruce J. Biddle. 1996. Making molehills out of molehills: Reply to Lawrence Stedman's review of The manufactured crisis.Educational Policy Analysis Archives 4 (February 26). Retrieved September 27, 1997, from the World Wide Web:
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Bernauer, James A., and Katherine Cress. 1997. How school communities can help redefine accountability assessment. Phi Delta Kappan 79(September): 71-75.

Bock, R. Darrell, and Richard Wolfe. 1996. Audit and review of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System (TVAAS): Final report. Nashville, Tenn.: Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.

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Bracey, Gerald W. 1991. Why can't they be like we were? Phi Delta Kappan 73: 104-17.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1992. The second Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 74: 104-8, 110-17.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1993. The third Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 75: 104-12, 114-18.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1994. The fourth Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 76: 115-27.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1995a. The fifth Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 77: 149-60.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1995b. Final exam: A study of the perpetual scrutiny of American education.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1996. The sixth Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 78: 127-38.

Bracey, Gerald W. 1997. The seventh Bracey report on the condition of public education. Phi Delta Kappan 79: 120-36. Calhoun, Daniel Hovey. 1973. The intelligence of a people.Prince ton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Cannell, John Jacob. 1989. How public educators cheat on standardized achievement tests: The "Lake Wobegon" report. ERIC Reproduction Document No. ED 314 454.

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Darling-Hammond, Linda. 1988. The futures of teaching. Educational Leadership 46 (November): 4-10.

Darling-Hammond, Linda. 1992. Educational indicators and enlightened policy.Educational Policy 6 (September): 235-65.

Darling-Hammond, Linda, and Carol Ascher. 1991. Creating accountability in the big city school systems. Urban Diversity Series No.102. New York: National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching. ERIC Reproduction Document No. ED 334 339.

Darling-Hammond, Linda, Arthur E. Wise, and Stephen P. Klein. 1995. A license to teach: Building a profession for 21st-century schools. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. Delpit, Lisa. 1995. Other people's children: Cultural conflict in the classroom. New York: The New Press.

Diegmueller, Karen, and Millicent Lawton. 1996. The road not taken. Education Week (April 24). Retrieved September 27, 1997, from the World Wide Web:
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Fine, Michelle. 1991. Framing dropouts: Notes on the politics of an urban public high school. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press.

Finn, Michael. 1997. State school systems bill passes Senate. Chattanooga Free Press (May 31).

Fisher, Thomas H. 1996. A review and analysis of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System: Part II. Nashville, Tenn.: Comptroller of the Treasury.

Fliegel, Sy. 1993. Miracle in East Harlem: The fight for choice in public education. New York: Times Books.

Friedson, Eliot. 1984. Are professions necessary? In The authority of experts, edited by Thomas L. Haskell (pp. 3-27). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. Fuchs, Douglas, and Lynn S. Fuchs. 1995. Special education can work. In Issues in educational placement: Students with emotional and behavioral disorders (pp. 363-77), edited by James M. Kauffman, John W. Lloyd, Daniel P. Hallahan, and Terry A. Astuto. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

Furstenberg, Frank. 1991. As the pendulum swings: Teenage childbearing and social concern. Family Relations 40: 127-38.

Galambos, Louis. 1970. The emerging organizational synthesis in modern American history. Business History Review 44: 279-290.

Ginsburg, Alan L, Jay Noell, and Valene White Plisko. 1988. Lessons from the wall chart. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis 10(Spring): 1-12.

Glass, Gene V 1990. Using student test scores to evaluate teachers. In The new handbook of teacherevaluation (pp. 229-40), edited by Jason Millman and Linda Darling-Hammond. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications.

Haefele, Donald L. 1992. Evaluating teachers: An alternative model. Journal of Personnel Evaluation in Education 5: 335-45.

Hess, G. Alfred. 1991. School restructuring, Chicago style.Newbury Park, Calif.: Corwin Press.

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Johnston, Robert C. 1997. Just saying no. Education Week(April 9). Retrieved September 27, 1997, from the World Wide Web:
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Jones, Ken, and Betty Lou Whitford. 1997. Kentucky's conflicting reform principles: High-stakes school accountability and student performance assessment. Phi Delta Kappan 79: 276-81.

Jones, Lyle V. 1996. A history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress and some questions about its future. Educational Researcher25 (October): 15-22.

Justiz, Manuel J., and Marilyn C. Kameen. 1988. Increasing the representation of minorities in the teaching profession. Peabody Journal of Education 66 (Fall): 91-100.

Kaestle, Carl F. 1973. Joseph Lancaster and the monitorial school system: A documentary history. New York: Teachers College Press. Katz, Michael B. 1992. Chicago school reform as history. Teachers College Record 94: 56-72.

Katznelson, Ira, and Margaret Weir. 1985. Schooling for all: Class, race, and the decline of the democratic ideal. New York: Basic Books.

Kirst, Michael W., and Christopher Mazzeo. 1996. The rise, fall, and rise of state assessment in California, 1993-1996. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. ERIC Reproduction DocumentNumber ED 397 133.

Klausnitzer, Dorris. 1996. Pupils need practice on that first "R."Nashville Tennessean (November 15): 1A, 8A-10A. The Tennessean'sstatistical analysis retrieved September 27, 1997 from the World Wide Web: http://www.tennessean.com/schools/ (defunct link)

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Koretz, Daniel. 1992b. What happened to test scores, and why? Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice 11 (Winter): 7-11.

Koretz, Daniel, and Edward Diebert. 1993. Interpretations of National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) anchor points and achievement levels by the print media in 1991. Santa Monica, Calif.: The RAND Corporation.ERIC Document Reproduction No. ED 367 683.

Kozol, Jonathan. 1991. Savage inequalities: Children in America's schools. New York: Crown Publishers.

Kyle, Charles, and Edward Kantowicz. 1991. Bogus statistics. Latino Studies Journal 2 (May): 34-52.

Labaree, David F. 1988. The making of an American high school: The credentials market and the Central High School of Philadelphia, 1838-1939. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press.

Labaree, David F. 1992. Power, knowledge, and the rationalization of teaching: A genealogy of the movement to professionalize teaching. Harvard Educational Review 62: 123-54.

Lawton, Millicent. 1997. Riley delays national tests' development. Education Week (October 1). Retrieved October 2, 1997, from the WorldWide Web:
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Madaus, George F. 1991. The effects of important tests on students. Phi Delta Kappan 73: 226-31.

Maeroff, Gene. 1976. Aptitude test lag is puzzling experts. New YorkTimes (September 12): 17.

McDonnell, Lorraine M. 1997. The politics of state testing: Implementing new student assessments. National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards,and Student Testing (CRESST) Technical Report 424. Los Angeles, Calif.: CRESST. Retrieved November 14, 1997, from the World Wide Web:
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McGrew, Kevin S., Mike L. Vanderwood, Martha L. Thurlow, and James E. Ysseldyke. 1995. Why we can't say much about the statusof students with disabilities during education reform. NCEO Synthesis Report 21. Minneapolis, Minn.: National Center on Educational Outcomes.ERIC Reproduction Document Number ED 396 475.

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