A01=Center for Education
A01=Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series
A01=Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
A01=National Research Council
Author_Center for Education
Author_Committee on State Standards in Education: A Workshop Series
Author_Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Author_National Research Council
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- ISBN 9780309125246
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 2008
- Publisher: National Academies Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Standards-based accountability has become a central feature of the public education system in each state and is a theme of national discussions about how achievement for all students can be improved and achievement gaps narrowed. Questions remain, however, about the implementation of standards and accountability systems and about whether their potential benefits have been fully realized. Each of the 50 states has adopted its own set of standards, and though there is overlap among them, there is also wide variation in the ways states have devised and implemented their systems. This variety may have both advantages and disadvantages, but it nevertheless raises a fundamental question: Is the establishment of common K-12 academic standards, which states could voluntarily adopt, the logical next step for standards-based reform? The goal of this book is not to answer the policy question of whether or not common standards would be a good idea. Rather, the book provides an objective look at the available evidence regarding the ways in which standards are currently functioning, the strategies that might be used to pursue common standards, and the issues that doing so might present.
Alexandra Beatty, Rapporteur, Committee on State Sandards in Education: A Workshop Series, National Research Council
