TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravitch,Diane
ED  - Brookings Institution.
TI  - Brookings papers on education policy, 2001
SN  - 0815773498 :
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - Brookings Institution Press
KW  - Education and state
KW  - United States
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Education
KW  - Standards
KW  - Educational change
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - Academic achievement
KW  - Evaluation
N1  - 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
N2  - "This year's discussion focused on the status of standards-based reforms"--[iii]
ER  -