High-Stakes Reform Gregory Allen Smith Unlike other studies that focus

Unlike other studies that focus only on regions with well-established track records - specifically Europe and Africa - this book also looks to the other major areas of the world and poses two questions concerning them: If little or nothing has been done institutionally in a region

even as religious activism threatens to upset the balance

governments

Lewis and Neiman surveyed officials in hundreds of California cities of all sizes and socioeconomic characteristics to account for differences in local development policies

and the additional requirements which apply to the treatment and evaluation of minors or persons with mental disabilities

High-Stakes Reform Gregory Allen Smith Unlike other studies that focusPerformance accountability has been the dominant trend in education policy reform since the 1970s. State and federal policies set standards for what students should learn; require students to take "high stakes" tests to measure what they have learned; and then hold students, schools, and school districts accountable for their performance. The goal of these policies is to push public school districts to ensure that all students reach a common threshold