High stakes accountability : implications for resources and capacity

• Other Authors: Rice, Jennifer King (Editor), Roellke, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, [2009]
• Series: Research in education fiscal policy and practice.
• Subjects: United States. > No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.; Educational accountability > United States.; Federal aid to education > United States.; Education > Educational Policy & Reform > Federal Legislation.; Educational strategies and policy.; Central, national, federal government policies.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806618873
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-60752-876-0
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 261 pages) : illustrations, maps

In this third volume of Research in Education Fiscal Policy and Practice, editors Jennifer King Rice and Christopher Roellke have assembled a diversity of research studies focused on the current policy environment of high stakes accountability and how this context has impacted educators and students...

Table of Contents:

• About the contributors. Introduction and overview: Leveraging student performance through high-stakes reform / Jennifer King Rice and Christopher Roellke
• Part I. Capacity for implementing high-stakes accountability policies
• Chapter 1. A framework for assessing the impact of education reforms on school capacity: Insights from studies of high-stakes accountability initiatives / Betty Malen and Jennifer King Rice
• Chapter 2. No child left behind reforms and the state administrative response / Gail Sunderman and Gary Orfield
• Chapter 3. The road to supplemental services: Challenges to implementation / Christine Padilla
• Part II. Teachers and high stakes accountability
• Chapter 4. Are we there yet? The distribution of highly qualified teachers post-nclb / Tammy Kolbe and Jennifer King Rice
• Chapter 5. Bolstering capacity for heightened state and federal standards? An exploration of national, state, and school district staffing trends, 1986-2003 / John Sipple
• Chapter 6. Struggling to improve teacher quality in difficult-to-staff schools: Nclb and teacher policy / Jennifer King Rice and Christopher Roellke
• Part III. Accountability tension across the system: Balancing federal, state and local interests
• Chapter 7. Federal curriculum policy in the states / Dalia Hochman
• Chapter 8. After five years: Revisiting the cost of no child left behind / William Mathis
• Chapter 9. Federal educational control in no child left behind: Implications of two court challenges / Deborah Temkin and Christopher Roellke. Conclusion.