Standards for our schools [electronic resource] : how to set them, measure them, and reach them / Marc S. Tucker, Judy B. Codding.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Prologue: The View from the Plains -- Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option -- Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I? -- Setting High Standards for Everyone -- Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II? -- Teaching to the Standards -- Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0 -- Leading and Managing for Success -- Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted -- Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools -- Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy -- Beyond the Comprehensive High School -- Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style -- Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability -- Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff -- The National Center on Education and the Economy -- New Standards Performance Standards -- New Standards Reference Examinations -- Resources for Standards-Based Education -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition: The America's Choice School Design.

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