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Trujillo, Tina M.; Woulfin, Sarah L. – American Educational Research Journal, 2014
Intermediary organizations increasingly provide support for schools serving marginalized students. Some attribute this trend to growing ideological support for market-based strategies to further the public good. This article investigates one intermediary that marketed equity-oriented instructional goals for schools serving high numbers of students…
Descriptors: Standards, Educational Change, Accountability, Teaching Methods
Plank, Stephen B.; Condliffe, Barbara Falk – American Educational Research Journal, 2013
High-stakes tests are the most heavily weighted measures in accountability systems developed in response to No Child Left Behind. While some studies show high-stakes accountability being related to test score gains, others suggest these policies do not improve achievement and often result in unintended consequences. To understand mechanisms…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Accountability, Educational Quality, Federal Legislation
Polikoff, Morgan S.; Porter, Andrew C.; Smithson, John – American Educational Research Journal, 2011
Coherence is the core principle underlying standards-based educational reforms. Assessments aligned with content standards are designed to guide instruction and raise achievement. The authors investigate the coherence of standards-based reform's key instruments using the Surveys of Enacted Curriculum. Analyzing 138 standards-assessment pairs…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Educational Change, High Stakes Tests, State Standards
Booher-Jennings, Jennifer – American Educational Research Journal, 2005
This article uses two dominant traditions in the organizational study of schools--the neoinstitutional and faculty workplace approaches--to explain an urban elementary school's response to the Texas Accountability System. The findings indicate that teachers, guided by an institutional logic, sought to create the appearance of test score…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Environment, Decision Making, Educational Change