 The Leader’s Guide to Standards: A Blue Print for Educational Equity and Excellencereviewed by Kim Song - 2003  Title: The Leader’s Guide to Standards: A Blue Print for Educational Equity and ExcellenceAuthor(s): Douglas B. Reeves Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco ISBN: 0787964026, Pages: 358, Year: 2002 Search for book at Amazon.com The relationship between standards-based learning and student learning improvement has generated a number of issues. Many teachers have been reluctant to embrace the standards-based curriculum movement as a fundamental approach to the betterment of education; instead they regard the standards as an administrative imperative. Twenty years ago it was unthinkable that we would see a major push for national and state standards. As Reeves notes at the outset, over the past decade, many public schools in the United States, and “throughout the world, have transformed their approach to assessing student performance from the tradition of comparing students to one another to comparing students to academic standards” (p. xv). However, many educators including administrators and teachers, parents, legislators, and students have misunderstood the roles of standards in relation to the improvement of students’ learning. In his book, Reeves tries to persuade educational leaders to improve student learning and close the achievement gap by adopting standards as a guide for planning, implementing, and assessing the curriculum. The book consists of three... (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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