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Direct linkFinn, Chester E., Jr. – Phi Delta Kappan, 2022
Results-based school accountability has been the linchpin of education reform in the United States for at least two decades. But the COVID-19 pandemic led many schools, states, and districts to put their testing and accountability programs on hold. Chester E. Finn, Jr., argues that it is time for the accountability holiday to end and makes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Program Effectiveness, Standards, School Responsibility
To Dream the Impossible Dream: Four Approaches to National Standards and Tests for America's Schools
Download full textFinn, Chester E., Jr.; Julian, Liam; Petrilli, Michael J. – Thomas B. Fordham Foundation & Institute, 2006
Education policy leaders from across the political spectrum identified and evaluated four models that national standards and testing could take. These models are: (1) "The Whole Enchilada," the most direct and aggressive approach in which the federal government creates and enforces national standards and assessments, replacing the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, State Standards, National Standards, Federal Government
