Holding Accountability Accountable: What Ought to Matter in Public Education

By Kenneth A. Sirotnik

Kenneth Sirotnik asserts that however well-intentioned, past and current accountability practices in public education are "miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic." In this provocative book, well-respected educators join Sirotnik to provide critical analyses and sophisticated perspectives on prevailing high-stakes testing practices. They offer both conceptual and practical foundations for rethinking what it means to act responsibly when it comes to calling our schools, school systems, educators, and students into account.

Features:

A timely critique of high-stakes accountability systems that are arguably failing their stated intentions to improve teaching and learning.A unique collection of the viewpoints of historians, philosophers, and policy analysts who have not only studied but also lived through several failed rounds of major educational reform movements.Eight ethical and knowledge-based claims regarding high-stakes accountability, with implications for alternative, and more responsible, accountability concepts and practices.A challenge to our political leaders to provide the necessary conditions and support to truly leave no child behind.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807744646
• ISBN13: 9780807744642
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"