An Age of Accountability: How Standardized Testing Came to Dominate American Schools and Compromise Education

by John L. Rury

An Age of Accountability highlights the role of test-based accountability as a policy framework in American education from 1970 to 2020. For more than half a century, the quest to hold schools and educators accountable for academic achievement has relied almost exclusively on standardized assessment. The theory of change embedded in almost all test-based accountability programs held that assessment with stipulated consequences could lead to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1978832281
• ISBN13: 9781978832282
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 246 Pages