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Booher-Jennings, Jennifer – Phi Delta Kappan, 2006
Test-based accountability systems aim to direct the behavior of educators toward the improvement of student achievement. The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act codified accountability as the national educational blueprint, requiring schools to increase test scores incrementally so that all students are proficient in reading and math by 2014. Yet,…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, High Stakes Tests, Ethnography, Accountability