Table of Contents: Grading education :

Main Author:	Rothstein, Richard
Other Authors:	Jacobsen, Rebecca., Wilder, Tamara,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : New York, NY : Economic Policy Institute ; Teachers College Press, c2008.
Subjects:	Educational accountability

Table of Contents:

1. The outcome goals of American public education
2. Weighting the goals of public education
3. Goal distortion
4. Perverse accountability
5. Accountability by the numbers
6. Early NAEP
7. School boards, accreditation, and Her Majesty's inspectors
8. An accountability system for schools and other institutions of youth development
Appendix 1. Schools as scapegoats
Appendix 2. A broader, bolder approach to education
Appendix 3. Goals survey methodology
Appendix 4. Teacher accounts of goal distortion.