Brookings papers on education policy, 2001 / Diane Ravitch, editor ; sponsored by the Brown Center on Education Policy.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2001.Description: [vi], 414 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0815773498 :
Other title:
  • Papers on education policy
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Contents:
Introduction / Diane Ravitch -- Incentives and equity under standards-based reform / Julian R. Betts and Robert M. Costrell -- Why business backs education standards / Milton Goldberg and Susan L. Traiman -- State academic standards / Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Marci Kanstoroom -- Searching for indirect evidence for the effects of statewide reforms / David Grissmer and Ann Flanagan -- The controversy over the National Assessment Governing Board standards / Mark D. Reckase -- The role of end-of-course exams and minimum competency exams in standards-based reforms / John H. Bishop, Ferran Mane, Michael Bishop, and Joan Moriarty -- A diagnostic analysis of black-white GPA disparities in Shaker Heights, Ohio / Ronald F. Ferguson.
Summary: "This year's discussion focused on the status of standards-based reforms"--[iii].
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection LB 3060.83 .B76 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98619849

Contains edited versions of the papers and comments presented at the fourth annual Brookings conference on education policy, held May 15-16, 2000.

Introduction / Diane Ravitch -- Incentives and equity under standards-based reform / Julian R. Betts and Robert M. Costrell -- Why business backs education standards / Milton Goldberg and Susan L. Traiman -- State academic standards / Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Marci Kanstoroom -- Searching for indirect evidence for the effects of statewide reforms / David Grissmer and Ann Flanagan -- The controversy over the National Assessment Governing Board standards / Mark D. Reckase -- The role of end-of-course exams and minimum competency exams in standards-based reforms / John H. Bishop, Ferran Mane, Michael Bishop, and Joan Moriarty -- A diagnostic analysis of black-white GPA disparities in Shaker Heights, Ohio / Ronald F. Ferguson.

"This year's discussion focused on the status of standards-based reforms"--[iii].

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