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Costrell, Robert M.; Betts, Julian R. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2001
Standards-based reform is a strategy that includes specifying what is to be learned, devising tests to measure learning, and establishing consequences of performance for students and schools. Popular support remains strong for standards-based reform, according to national polling data as well as local data in the states implementing this strategy.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Public Education, Educational Change, Incentives