TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravitch,Diane
ED  - Brookings Institution.
TI  - Debating the future of American education: do we need national standards and assessments? : report of a conference sponsored by the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution 
SN  - 0815773536
AV  - LB 3060.83 .D43 1995
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - The Institution
KW  - Education
KW  - Standards
KW  - United States
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Educational tests and measurements
KW  - Education and state
N1  - Papers from a symposium held May 18, 1994 at the Brookings Institution; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction / Diane Ravitch -- Education reform in America's public schools : the Clinton agenda / Marshall S. Smith -- Will national standards and assessments make a difference? / Theodore R. Sizer -- The Uses and misuses of opportunity-to-learn standards / Andrew C. Porter -- Explaining standards to the public / Roy Romer -- Holding onto norms in a sea of criteria / Donald M. Stewart -- Standards for education / Lauren B. Resnick & Katherine J. Nolan -- Who's afraid of the big, bad test? / Chester E. Finn, Jr. -- The case for high stakes and real consequences / Albert Shanker -- Sometimes a cigar is only a cigar, and often a test is only a test / Daniel M. Koretz
ER  -