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Author Jennings, John F.

Title Why national standards and tests? : politics and the quest for better schools / by John F. Jennings.

Publication Info. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1998]
©1998

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 Moore Stacks  LB3060.83 .J46 1998    Available  ---
Description xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The need to improve the schools : why raising student achievement through higher standards was first proposed. -- Origins of national standards and tests : how President Bush, corporate leaders, and the governors first advanced the idea of raising standards. -- The 1992 presidential campaign and the transition to a new administration : how Bush and Clinton differed on education, but how Clinton continued the fight for higher standards which Bush began. -- Goals 2000 in the U.S. House of Representatives : how liberals expressed concerns about the fairness of standards, and how conservative opposition to the idea grew. -- Goals 2000 in the Senate and the conference committee : how the concept of raising standards triumphed, but only after liberal concerns about equity lost, and increasingly strident conservative opposition was overcome. -- The Elementary and Secondary Education Act : how other federal programs were refashioned to raise standards, and how this victory further hardened the opposition of the political far-right. -- The conservative assault on raising standards to improve the schools : how the conservative opposition tried to undo standards-based reform and failed because Clinton, the business community, and governors fought back. -- The elections of 1996 and Clinton's second term : how the conservatives were rebuffed, and Clinton revived the idea of national standards and tests.
Subject Education -- Standards -- United States.
Education -- Standards.
United States.
Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
Educational tests and measurements.
Education and state -- United States.
Education and state.
Educational change -- United States.
Educational change.
ISBN 0761914757 cloth acid-free paper