Raising Standards for American Education
Title | Raising Standards for American Education PDF eBook |
Author | National Council on Education Standards and Testing (U.S.) |
Publisher | Department of Education |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Education |
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Recommendations by the National Council on Education Standards and Testing (NCEST) are provided concerning whether national standards and a system of assessments are desirable and feasible and how national standards and a system of assessments are to be developed and implemented. The NCEST found that the absence of explicit national standards keyed to world-class levels of performance severely hampers the ability to monitor the nation's progress toward the six national education goals. Without well-defined and demanding standards, American education has gravitated toward "de facto" national minimum expectations, with curricula focusing on low-level reading and arithmetic skills and on small amounts of factual material in other content areas. Most current assessment methods cannot determine if students are acquiring the skills/knowledge they need to prosper in the future. These assessments reinforce the emphasis on low-level skills and processing bits of data rather than on problem solving and critical thinking. It is concluded that high national education standards and a voluntary linked system of assessments are desirable and feasible mechanisms for raising expectations, revitalizing instruction, and rejuvenating education reform efforts for all American schools and students. The NCEST will work toward local commitment to high national expectation for achievement for all students, and toward developing Federal, state, and local policies that ensure high quality resources (instructional materials and well-prepared teachers). Acknowledgments; authorization for the NCEST; public comments; the six national education goals; and reports of the standards, assessment, implementation, English, mathematics, science, history, and geography task forces of the NCEST are appended. (RLC)
Raising Standards for American Education
Title | Raising Standards for American Education PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | DIANE Publishing |
Pages | 151 |
Release | 1993-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 156806683X |
Discusses whether national standards and a system of assessment are desirable for American education, whether it is feasible to develop them, and how they are to be developed and implemented.
National Standards in American Education
Title | National Standards in American Education PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Ravitch |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2011-05-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780815718840 |
Updating her highly acclaimed book, Diane Ravitch presents the latest information on the debate over national standards and assessments. "Ensuring a rigorous liberal education for all is asking a lot in a contentious democracy like ours. Is it possible to educate every child to the same high standards? Is it politically feasible? Will raising standards help or hinder poor minority children? Ravitch sees where these land mines are buried and her book provides an indispensable diagram for getting around them."—The Wall Street Journal "A simple message lies at the heart of Diane Ravitch's new book.... If clear and consistent goals of learning could be set for all American children, rich and poor, gifted and ordinary, then all of these children would end up better educated than they now are likely to be."—The New York Times "No one could be more qualified to write a book about national standards in education than Diane Ravitch."—The Washington Times "The ongoing debate about national education standards and assessment in the U.S. has created as much confusion as it has solutions. What has been needed is an examination of the educational, historical, political, and social issues related to the development of such standards. Ravitch provides such a foundation."—Choice
Beyond Standards
Title | Beyond Standards PDF eBook |
Author | Morgan Polikoff |
Publisher | Harvard Education Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-05-11 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781682536124 |
Beyond Standards highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide array of quantitative and qualitative data to provide a pointed critique of the US educational system. He addresses why standards have failed, whether standards-based reform can be salvaged, and what we can do to improve teaching and learning at scale across America's 13,000 school districts. Polikoff argues that no amount of tinkering can fix standards. Rather, we need to tackle the big, structural issues, such as decentralization. The author identifies curriculum reform as a high-leverage strategy for making meaningful progress at scale and emphasizes that states need to play a greater role in evaluating and recommending high-quality curriculum materials. Beyond Standards proposes a new, progressive vision that emphasizes the central role of states in challenging the antiquated, segregating structures that have thwarted educational improvement.
Raising Standards for American Education
Title | Raising Standards for American Education PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 1993-06-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781568064970 |
Discusses whether national standards and a system of assessment are desirable for American education, whether it is feasible to develop them, and how they are to be developed and implemented.
Raising Standards Or Raising Barriers?
Title | Raising Standards Or Raising Barriers? PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Orfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Education |
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More and more states require students to pass large-scale tests as a condition of promotion or graduation. What forces have pushed high-stakes testing to the forefront of educational policy? Are such tests the best way to gauge educational attainment? This book examines the economic and educational assumptions underlying the call for high-stakes tests.
An Assessment of Raising Standards in American Education: the New York State Plan
Title | An Assessment of Raising Standards in American Education: the New York State Plan PDF eBook |
Author | Charles D. Moscatello |
Publisher | |
Pages | 47 |
Release | 1999 |
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