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Index
ABC's of Public Education
accountability plan ( North
Carolina), 98, 100, 121
and assessment of achievement,
231 -245
and incentives for test scores,
118 -120, 122
Abilities of Man, The, 17, 21
Ability grouping, 47, 48
Abstract problem solving ability
(APSA), 59 -60, 61
Abt Associates, 141, 144, 145 -146,
150
Accountability, positive aspects of,
255 -256
Accountability machine
damage of, 154 -158
and harmfulness to
schoolchildren, 95 -116
and harmfulness to schools,
117 -151
and myth of greater
achievement, 87 -93
non-sustainability of, 284 -289
and Texas, 107 -116
Accountability movement
beginnings with Mann, 70 -71
myths of, 82 -94
nation's swoon over, 3
and performance assessment,
252 -255
test-driven, 68 -93
Achievement
actual, and test results, 138 -140
assessment of, 231 -257
Achievement tests, 49 -50
ACORN. See Association of
Community Organizations for
Reform
ACT college admissions test, 228,
265
predictive ability of, 267 -268,
272
ACT Incorporated, 228
Adkins, Karen and Roy Dale,
245 -247
Admissions process, 259 -289
Affirmative action, 265, 282 -284
demise of, 284 -289, 293
and Hopwood v. State of Texas
and SAT admissions tests, 11
Alliger, George, 275, 277
Alternative means to evaluate
students, 9 -10, 63, 253

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