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| Hess, Frederick M. | 1 |
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| Elementary Secondary Education | 1 |
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| Virginia | 1 |
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Direct linkHess, Frederick M. – Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 2002
In the 1990s, Virginia launched one of the nation's most ambitious standards-based reform efforts. Encouraged by a budding national accountability movement and motivated by conservative distrust of the public school establishment, state officials sought to clarify what students needed to know and to hold students and educators accountable for…
Descriptors: State Officials, Program Effectiveness, Accountability, Educational Change
