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What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers
by Sandra Stotsky. 369 pgs.

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Advance Praise for What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars

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Contributors

Preface

I: Questions of Content and Pedagogy

Chapter 1: The 1997 Mathematics Standards War in California

Chapter 2: Judging State Standards for K-12 Mathematics Education

Chapter 3: Standards-Based Mathematics Assessments Appearances May Be Deceiving

Notes

Chapter 4: National Science Standards: Where Is the Evidence Supporting Them?

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Chapter 5: The Science Standards Wars What Is the Basis for Scientific Inquiry?

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Chapter 6: How Children Learn Science Do We Now Know?

Appendix

Notes

Chapter 7: Why the Battle over History Standards?

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Chapter 8: Discipline-Based Economics Standards Opportunity and Obstacles

Chapter 9: English Language Arts in American Schools Problems and Proposals

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Chapter 10: The State of Literary Study in National and State English Language Arts Standards Why It Matters, and What Can Be Done about It

Appendix: Criteria for Judging English Language Arts and Reading Standards

Notes

Chapter 11: Toward Improved English Language Arts Standards for K-12 What a College Professor Wishes Her Students Had Read

Notes

II: The Influence of Federal Purse Strings

Chapter 12: Lessons from the Sputnik-Era Curriculum Reform Movement

Chapter 13: The National Science Foundation Systemic Initiatives How a Small Amount of Federal Money Promotes Ill-Designed Mathematics and Science Programs in K-12 and Undermines Local Control of Education

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Standards Primer
by Raymond A. Horn Jr. 149 pgs.

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Raymond A. Horn, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of Education at Penn State, Harrisburg.

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Standards Primer

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Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Foundations of Standards

Chapter Three: Technical Standards

Chapter Four: Standards of Complexity

Chapter Five: Conclusion

References and Resources
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From Standards to Success: A Guide for School Leaders
by Mark R. 0'Shea. 163 pgs.

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Figure List

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: A Visit to a Standards-Based School

Chapter 2: An Overview of Curriculum Management for Standards Achievement

Chapter 3: The Standards Achievement Planning Cycle

Chapter 4: The District's Plans for Standards Implementation

Chapter 5: The Principal's Role in a Standards-Based School

Chapter 6: Evaluation of Standards Achievement

Chapter 7: Professional Development for Standards Achievement

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Standardized Minds: The High Price of America's Testing Culture and What We Can Do to Change It
by Peter Sacks. 351 pgs.

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We've been told time and time again that standardized tests aren't perfect but that they're the best tool we have for gauging aptitude and achievement. Is this really true? What are the flaws of such testing? Why is your father's occupation a better predictor of SAT scores than virtually any other factor? And, most important, what can we do to hold one another accountable to standards at all levels of schools and in the workplace?
Standardized Minds dramatically shows how our unhealthy and enduring obsession with intelligence testing affects us all, from the day we enter kindergarten to the day we apply for that corporate job. Drawing creative solutions from the headlines and the frontlines, Sacks demonstrates proven alternatives to such testing and details a plan to make the American meritocracy legitimate and fair.

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Acknowledgments

Acronyms

Preface

Introduction

1: Meritocracy's Crooked Yardstick

2: Inventing Intelligence: the Origins of Mental Measurement

3: Babes in Test Land: the Sarting Begins

4: Crusade: Rist of the Test-Driven Accountability Machine in Our Schools

5: Crime and Punishment: How: the Accountability Machine Hurts Schoolchildren

6: The Great American Dumb-Down: How the Accountability Machine Harms Schools

7: Do No Harm: Stopping the Damage to American Schools

8: Unnaturlat Selection: Testing in the American Workplace

9: Standardized Minds: Thinkilng Styles and the Testing Game

10: The Big Business of Testing

11: Authentic Achievement: Assessing Performance in American Schools

12: Harmful Admissions: Why the Meritocracy Needs Fixing

13: Beyond the Sat: Merit That Matters

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Defending Standardized Testing
by Richard P. Phelps. 341 pgs.

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Defending Standardized Testing

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Foreword: the Rest of the Story

Introduction

1: Persistently Positive: Forty Years of Public Opinion on Standardized Testing

2: High-Stakes Testing: Contexts, Characteristics, Critiques, and Consequences

3: The Rich, Robust Research Literature on Testing's Achievement Benefits

4: Some Misconceptions About Large-Scale Educational Assessments

5: The Most Frequently Unasked Questions About Testing

6: Must High Stakes Mean Low Quality? Some Testing Program Implementation Issues

7: Whose Rules? the Relation Between the "Rules" and "Law" of Testing

8: Teaching for the Test: How and Why Test Preparation is Appropriate

9: Doesn't Everybody Know That 70% is Passing?

10: The Testing Industry, Ethnic Minorities, and Individuals with Disabilities

11: A School Accountability Case Study: California Api Awards and the Orange County Register Margin of Error Folly

12: Leave No Standardized Test Behind

Appendix A: Polls and Surveys That Have Included Items About Standardized Testing, in Reverse Chronological Order: 1954 to Present

Appendix B

Appendix B: References

Author Index

Subject Index
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Defending Public Schools, Vol. IV: The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment
by Sandra Mathison, E. Wayne Ross. 194 pgs.

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Defending Public Schools addresses the historical, current, and future context of public schools in the United States. While the essays provide an overview of education and schooling issues, the overarching concern is that public schools are under attack and deserve to be defended.

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General Editor's Introduction: Defending Public Schools, Defending Democracy

Introduction: The Nature and Limits of Standards-Based Reform and Assessment

I: History, Context, and the Future of Educational Standards and Assessment

1: A Short History of Educational Assessment and Standards-Based Educational Reform

2: Standards-Based Education: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

3: The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement

4: International Comparisons: Worth the Cost?

5: Assessment, Accountability, and the Impossible Dream

6: Authentic Accountability: an Alternative to High-Stakes Testing

7: Evaluation of Schools and Education: Bad Practice, Limited Knowledge

II: Perspectives on Standards and Assessment

8: Teachers Working with Standards and State Testing

9: “parental Involvement”: in Defense of What Kind of Vision for “public” School?

10: Leaving No Child Left Behind: Accountability Reform and Students with Disabilities

11: The Accumulation of Disadvantage: the Consequences of Testing for Poor and Minority Children

12: Educational Leaders and Assessment-Based Reform

13: The Mismeasure and Abuse of Our Children: Why School Officials Must Resist State and National Standardized Testing Reforms

Notes

Index

About the Editors

About the Contributors
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American Standards: Quality Education in a Complex World: The Texas Case
by Raymond A. Horn Jr., Joe L. Kincheloe. 402 pgs.

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Studies in the Postmodern Theory of Education

American Standards: Quality Education in a Complex World the Texas Case

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Part One: Standards in America

Chapter 1: “goin' Home to the Armadillo”: Making Sense of Texas Educational Standards

Chapter 2: Couching the Standards Debate in Historical Terms: Developing a Dialectical Understanding of the Standards Debate Through Historical Awareness

Chapter 3: The Question of Complexity: Understanding the Standards Movement in Texas

Part Two: Standards and the Texas Public Schools

Chapter 4: The Texas Accountability System Past, Present, and Future Through One Educator's Lens: a Continuing Journey Toward System Improvement

Chapter 5: Promoting Student Success Through the Mastery of the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills

Chapter 6: The Administrator's Caper

Chapter 7: An Unfair Graduation Requirement: Why Hispanics Are at a Disadvantage in Passing the Taas Test

Chapter 8: Is Texas Failing to Equitably Educate Minorities?

Part Three: Standards and the Texas Universities

Chapter 9: Understanding Standards in the Republic of Texas: Through the Looking Glass of Complexity

Chapter 10: Anatomy of an Excet

Chapter 11: Accountability System for Educator Preparation: Standards and Data Analysis

Chapter 12: The Impact of the Excet on Sfa Departments: Stories of Alignment and Curriculum

Chapter 13: Raising the Bar: How Much Should Professionals Know to Become Certified by the State?

Chapter 14: Three Perspectives on the Racial Implications of the Excet: Anglo, Hispanic, and African American

Chapter 15: When the Threat Hits the Fan

Part Four: Standards and the State of Texas—voices and Concerns

Chapter 16: Three Decades of Educational Reform in Texas: Putting the Pieces Together

Chapter 17: Kids, the Court, and the State of Texas: the Legal Challenge to the Taas

Chapter 18: Why Better Isn't Enough: a Closer Look at Taas Gains

Chapter 19: One Private School's Response to Educational Standards

Chapter 20: Examining Professional Development Standards Critically Through an Ethic of Caring

Part Five: Conclusions and Questions

Chapter 21: See Your Standards and Raise You: Standards of Complexity and the New Rigor in Education

Chapter 22: The Moral and Ethical Implications of Educational Standards: Commentary and Questions

Chapter 23: Coda: Personal Opinions in a Public Forum

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Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them
by Marc S. Tucker, Judy B. Codding. 370 pgs.

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Preface to the Paperback Edition

Acknowledgments

The Authors

Prologue: The View from the Plains

Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option

Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I?

1: Setting High Standards for Everyone

Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra Ii?

2: Teaching to the Standards

Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0

3: Leading and Managing for Success

Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted

4: Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools

Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy

5: Beyond the Comprehensive High School

Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style

6: Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability

Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff

A: The National Center on Education and the Economy

B: New Standards Performance Standards

C: New Standards Reference Examinations

D: Resources for Standards-Based Education

E: Glossary

F: Annotated Bibliography

Notes

Afterword to the Paperback Edition: The America's Choice School Design

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Succeeding with Standards: Linking Curriculum, Assessment, and Action Planning
by Judy F. Carr, Douglas E. Harris. 205 pgs.

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1: Overview of Standards Linking

2: The Curriculum and Assessment Plan

3: Defining Effective Practices for Attainment of Standards

4: The Comprehensive Assessment System

5: Action Planning

6: Reporting in Relation to Standards

7: Professional Development, Supervision, and Evaluation

8: Getting Started

Appendix A: Learning Opportunity Survey for Teachers

Appendix B: Sample School District Plan

Glossary

Selected Resources

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Authors
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Meeting Standards through Integrated Curriculum
by Susan M. Drake, Rebecca C. Burns. 183 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: What Is Integrated Curriculum?

2: Why Integrate the Curriculum in an Era of Accountability?

3: Creating the Know/Do/Be Bridge

4: Using Standards to Integrate the Curriculum

5: Aligning Assessment and Instruction with the Know/Do/Be Bridge

6: A Template for Planning Interdisciplinary Curriculum

7: Castles, Kings and Standards

8: Making Connections

9: A Mission to Transform Education

10: The Alpha Program

11: Questions and Answers

12: The Future of Integrated Curriculum

Appendix A: Interdisciplinary Curriculum Template for the Medieval Times Unit

Appendix B: Making Connections Template and Rubric

Appendix C: Alpha Program Planning Sheet, Rubric, and Individualized Self-Assessment Criteria

Additional Resources

References

Index

About the Authors
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Education on Trial: Strategies for the Future
by William J. Johnston. 356 pgs.

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Preface

Foreword

I Education on Trial

1: Introduction

2: Evidence of Decline in Educational Standards

3: Standards -- by What Criteria?

4: Educational Standards: A Public Educator's View

Ii Standards for Various Grade Levels

5: Building Effective Elementary Schools

Summary

6: Secondary Education

7: A View of Standards in Post-Secondary Education

8: Educational Standards in Private and Public Schools

Iii the California Reform Movement

9: Bill Hong California's Reform Program

10: A Preliminary Diagnosis: The California Experience

Iv the Teaching Profession: Problems and Prospects

11: Teacher Education: Rhetoric or Real Reform?

Conclusion

12: Teacher Bargaining: Teacher Quality, Student Achievement, Public Control

13: Collective Bargaining with Educational Standards

V the Impact of New Technologies and Techniques

14: Electronic Technologies and the Learning Process

Conclusions

15: George Bugliarello Educational Standards and the Technological University

Vi Special Problems

16: A Ministry of Education for the United States? the Problem of Accreditation

17: The Quest for Reason Amidst the Rhetoric of Reform: Improving Instead of Testing Our Schools

Vii Conclusions

18: America's Schools: The Mission

19: Epilogue

Appendix a Action at the Grass Roots--A National Sampling

Appendix B Per Pupil Spending and Teacher Salaries, 1984-1985 (ranking by State, Including District of Columbia)

Notes

Contributors
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Raising Standards in Literacy
by Ros Fisher, Greg Brooks, Maureen Lewis. 272 pgs.

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Series Editor's Preface

Introduction

Part I: Research into the Teaching of Literacy

1: What Does Research Tell Us About How to Develop Comprehension?

2: What Does Research Tell Us About How We Should Be Developing Written Composition?

3: As the Research Predicted?

4: What Do Effective Teachers of Literacy Know, Believe and Do?