Educational Equity and Accountability

Download or read book Educational Equity and Accountability written by Linda Skrla and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-02 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability, on standardized testing, and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing, the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these issues and has, instead, been carried out in a dualistic, good versus evil, fashion. In contrast, the scholarship collected in this important new volume is designed to move beyond the prevailing dualism and to push the discourse about accountability, testing, and educational equity in public schools usefully forward, and to provide a much-needed resource for researchers, policy makers, and practitioners.