Educational Equity and Accountability

Despite the intense political attention that has been focused on accountability on standardized testing and on the equity effects of both accountability and testing the great majority of recent debate in education policy circles has failed to attend to either the dynamism or complexity of these issues and has instead been carried out in a dualistic good versus evil fashion. In contrast the scholarship collected in this important new volume is designed to move beyond the prevailing dualism and to push the discourse about accountability testing and educational equity in public schools usefully forward and to provide a much-needed resource for researchers policy makers and practitioners.