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Strong States, Weak Schools : the Benefits and Dilemmas of Centralized Accountability.
Why are governments pushing to centrally regulate teaching and learning at this historical moment? Do these accountability mechanisms succeed in boosting student achievement? How are teachers responding to top-down rules, incentives, and the recasting of what knowledge counts inside school? This boo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bradford :
Emerald Group Pub.,
2008.
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| Colección: | Research in Sociology of Education, 16.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Research in sociology of education; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Overview: Liberal learning in centralizing states; Chapter 2. Accountability and teaching practices: School-level actions and teacher responses; Chpater 3. District leaders eroding school coherencequest The interpretation of accountability mandates; Chapter 4. Tightening the ship or slowly sinkingquest Reshaping teachers' work conditions; Chpater 5. Raising achievement or closing gapsquest Identifying effective accountability tools.
- Chapter 6. High stakes diplomas: Organizational responses to California's high school exit examChapter 7. District capacity and accountability: professional development as reform tool; Chapter 8. Exit exams and organizational change in a vocational high school; About the authors; Subject Index.