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High-Stakes Accountability in Urban Elementary Schools: Challenging or Reproducing Inequality? by John B. Diamond & James Spillane � 2004In this article 1 , the authors use data from interviews and observations in four urban elementary schoolstwo high-performing and two probation schoolsto examine how schools respond to high-stakes accountability policies. The authors show that school responses to high-stakes accountability depend on the schools' accountability status. In probation schools, responses focus narrowly on complying with policy demands, focusing on improving the performance of certain students, within benchmark grades, and in certain subject areas. In contrast, higher performing schools emphasize enhancing the performance of all students regardless of grade level and across all subject areas. Given the concentration of poor students and students of color in the lowest performing schools, the authors conclude that issues of educational equity need to be given greater consideration in the implementation of high stakes accountability policies.To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- John Diamond
Northwestern University
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JOHN B. DIAMOND is an assistant professor of education at the University of
Wisconsin–Milwaukee where he teaches in the Department of Educational
Policy and Community Studies. His fields of interest include the sociology of
education; stratification; race and class stratification; parent involvement; and
leadership and organizational change. He served as research director of the
Distributed Leadership Project (http://www.letus.org/dls), a program of
research investigating the practice of school leadership in urban elementary
schools, from 1999–2002. Recent publications can be found in Sociology of
Education, Education Researcher, The Journal of Curriculum Studies, Educational
Policy, Anthropology and Education Quarterly ,and The Berkeley Journal of Sociology.
- James Spillane
Northwestern University
E-mail Author
JAMES P. SPILLANE is associate professor of education and social policy,
and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern
University, where he teaches in both the Learning Sciences, and Human
Development and Social Policy graduate programs. His research explores
the policy implementation process at the state, school district, school, and
classroom levels, focusing on intergovernmental relations and policy-practice
relations. Spillane is principal investigator of the Distributed
Leadership Project (http://www.letus.org/dls), a program of research
investigating the practice of school leadership in urban elementary schools.
He is associate editor of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. Recent
publications can be found in Cognition and Instruction, Education Researcher,
Journal of Curriculum Studies, Teachers College Record, Educational Policy, and
Sociology of Education.
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