Needed: Higher Standards for Accountability.

Abstract

The school reform movement, known in its beginning years as standards-based reform, was founded on the proposition that the education system needed to establish rigorous content standards, prepare teachers to teach that content, and align instructional materials and curriculum with those standards. A further proposition was that we could measure a school's performance in this effort by drawing on existing testing systems, such as norm-referenced tests, that in the past had been used largely to make decisions about individual students. NCLB puts teeth into the practice of using such tests to measure school accountability because it requires states to impose sanctions on schools whose students do not reach designated cut points for “proficient” performance on schedule. NCLB also requires schools to dis-aggregate test results by race, ethnicity, and other factors; and all subgroups of students must meet the standards.

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