List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Patricia A. Wasley
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Betty Lou Whitford and Ken Jones
Part I. Overview
1. Kentucky Lesson: How High Stakes School Accountability Undermines a Performance-Based Curriculum Vision
Betty Lou Whitford and Ken Jones
Part II. Inside Schools and Classrooms
2. Constructs from the Classroom: A Perspective on Reform
Terry I. Brooks
3. A Multi-Age/Mult-Ability Primary Classroom in Action
Christy D. McGee
4. "The More Mathematics You Know, the Better Your Life Is Going to Be"
Ken Jones and Betty Lou Whitford
5. Teacher Community and Commitment: A Case Study of a High School Social Studies Department
Letitia Hochstrasser Fickel
6. The Tortuous Journey toward School Reform: A Middle School's Efforts within the Context of a State-Mandated, High-Stakes Accountability System
Jan Calvert, Donna Gaus, and Gordon Ruscoe
7. Teacher Responses to Rewards and Sactions: Effects of and Reactions to Kentucky's High-Stakes Accountability Program
Patricia J. Kannapel, Pamelia Coe, Lola Aagaard, Beverly D. Moore, and Cynthia A. Reeves
Part III. Alternative Approaches to Accountability
8. A Teacher Appraisal Invention Process: Developing Commitment to Accountability
Linda Shelor
9. The View from Maine: Developing Learner-Centered Accountability in a Local Control State
David Ruf, Debra Smith, and Lynne Miller
10. A New Look at School Accountability
Anne Wheelock
Part IV. Reactions
11. State and School Level Accountability Dilemmas
Jon Snyder
12. Success Needs Time to Grow
A. Richardson Love Jr.
13.The Need to Broaden Accountability in Order to Foster Leadership
Marilyn Hohmann
14. Reaching All Students: The Real Challenge of Reform
Dick Corbett
Part V. Summary and Conclusions
15. The Next Generation of School Accountability
Ken Jones and Betty Lou Whitford
About the Authors
Name Index
Subject Index