Holding Schools Accountable: Performance-Based Reform in Education.

摘要: "Perhaps the most urgentand complextask facing American education today is to figure out how hold schools accountable for improved academic achievement. In this important new work, Helen Ladd and her colleagues describe options available policymakers, weigh their respective strengths pitfalls, lay principles creating where learning number one objective. This book should be at top of reading list anyone seriously interested in transforming quality schools."Edward B. Fiske, Former Education Editor, The New York Times A central theme current efforts reform elementary secondary United States a more explicit focus on outcomes educational system. volume examines throughout country performance students. Researchers from various disciplinesmost notably, economics, policy management, political scienceaddress range questions related performance- based strategies reforming education. authors evaluate programs that recognize reward effective schools, discuss costs achieving high performance, summarize what known about parental choice as an accountability mechanism, provide evidence relationship between school inputs outcomes. Grounded actual experiences states districts, provides wealth information provocative insights. Contributors argue student must carefully designed assure are treated fairly; vouchers, if used, directed toward low-income families; resources do indeed matterpoor districts may well require additional funding increase learning. addition editor, contributors include Charles T. Clotfelter, David K. Cohen, Richard F. Elmore, Ronald Ferguson, Susan H. Fuhrman, Eric A. Hanushek, Caroline Minter Hoxby, J. Murnane, John Witte, McHenry Yinger."