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Holding Accountability Accountable: What Ought to Matter in Public Educationreviewed 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 Search for book at Amazon.com 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.)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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