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Holding Accountability Accountable: What Ought to Matter in Public Education

reviewed by Susan Ohanian - 2005

Title: Holding Accountability Accountable: What Ought to Matter in Public Education
Author(s): Kenneth A. Sirotnik (Editor)
Publisher: Teachers College Press, New York
ISBN: 0807744646, Pages: 182, Year: 2004
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In this essay collection, ten well-respected educators join Kenneth A. Sirotnik to offer perspectives on �miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic� (p.6) high-stakes testing practices. That is Sirotnik�s description. Other contributors are more tempered in their language. Probably these language differences account for the fact that I found Sirotnik�s opening and closing pieces the most stimulating in the book. Living in troubling times as we do, we need language that�s passionate, language that stirs people up and moves them to action. Sirotnik devised a structure to make this collection more cohesive than most essay compilations. He sent each contributor a series of eight claims for more responsible accountability (which he includes in the introduction), asking each author or author team to unpack one of these claims. I found it disquieting that Sirotnik announced right off that �None of us . . . are against standards. None of us believe that there are no good uses for test-based assessment or evaluation strategies.� (p.9) It would have been... (preview truncated at 150 words.)

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Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 107 Number 2, 2005, p. 307-311
https://www.tcrecord.org ID Number: 11386, Date Accessed: 2/16/2020 10:37:47 PM

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